Verse. 709

٥ - ٱلْمَائِدَة

5 - Al-Ma'ida

اَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ اَنَّ اللہَ لَہٗ مُلْكُ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَالْاَرْضِ۝۰ۭ يُعَذِّبُ مَنْ يَّشَاۗءُ وَيَغْفِرُ لِمَنْ يَّشَاۗءُ۝۰ۭ وَاللہُ عَلٰي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيْرٌ۝۴۰
Alam taAAlam anna Allaha lahu mulku alssamawati waalardi yuAAaththibu man yashao wayaghfiru liman yashao waAllahu AAala kulli shayin qadeerun

English

Ahmed Ali

Do you not know that God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth? He punishes whom He will, and pardons whom He please, for God has the power over all things.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (knowest thou not) have you not been informed, o muhammad, in the qur'an (that unto allah belongeth the sovereignty) the stores (of the heavens and the earth? he punisheth whom he will) whoever deserves to be punished, (and forgiveth whom he will) whoever deserves to be punished. (allah is able to do all things): forgiving sins and other things.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : do you not know (the interrogative here is meant as an affirmative) that to god belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth? he chastises, him for, whom he wills, chastisement for, and forgives, him for, whom he wills, forgiveness, and god has power over all things, including chastising and forgiving.