Surah Al-Mulk 67:8
سُورَةُ المُلۡكِ · Meccan · Verse 8 of 30
تَكَادُ تَمَيَّزُ مِنَ ٱلْغَيْظِ ۖ كُلَّمَآ أُلْقِىَ فِيهَا فَوْجٌۭ سَأَلَهُمْ خَزَنَتُهَآ أَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ نَذِيرٌۭ
Translation
almost bursting with rage. Its keepers will ask every group that is thrown in, ‘Did no one come to warn you?’
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'Every time a crowd is flung in, its keepers ask them: Did no warner come to you?' al-Biqa'i notes the fire itself 'almost bursts apart from fury', and then the question. It is not asked to learn the answer, Ibn Ashur observes, but to expose the tragedy: the ruin was not from ignorance. Ibn Kathir ties it to Allah's justice, He punishes no one until a warner has come. Ask yourself: the damning fact is that a warning had arrived and was waved away. What warnings have already reached me, a verse, a jolt, a quiet unease, that I keep treating as background noise? The keepers' question is really being asked of me now, while the answer can still change.
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Biqa'i, Ibn Ashur, Ibn Kathir.
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