Verse. 6007

٨٩ - ٱلْفَجْر

89 - Al-Fajr

اِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِالْمِرْصَادِ۝۱۴ۭ
Inna rabbaka labialmirsadi

English

Ahmed Ali

Your Lord is certainly in wait.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (lo! thy lord) o muhammad (is ever watchful) he says: they, as well as all created beings, will have to go through him; it is also said that this means: the angels of your lord will be on the bridge over hell stopping people at seven different stopping positions at which they will ask them about seven traits.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : assuredly your lord is ever on the watch, watching over the deeds of servants, nothing of which escapes him, that he may then requite them for these [deeds].

Sahl al-Tustari

تفسير : assuredly your lord is ever watchful.this means: the path of every person leads to him. he will then reward them for their deeds and they will either be saved or otherwise. and he [elsewhere] says that he will position a patrol (raṣad) of angels with ⸢hooks (kalālīb) and⸣ pikes (ḥasak) on the traverse over hell (jisr jahannam), who will question people concerning the religious obligations (farāʾiḍ).