Al-Mukhtasar · Tafsir · in English
المطففين
Al-Mutaffifin
The Defrauding · Meccan · 36 ayahs
Destruction and loss be for those who give short measure.
83:2Page 587
ٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا ٱكۡتَالُواْ عَلَى ٱلنَّاسِ يَسۡتَوۡفُونَ ٢
Who, when they take a measure from people, take in full.
They are the ones who, when they measure for themselves from others, they take their full right without any reduction.
83:3Page 587
وَإِذَا كَالُوهُمۡ أَو وَّزَنُوهُمۡ يُخۡسِرُونَ ٣
But if they give by measure or by weight to them, they cause loss.
But when they measure or weigh for people they reduce the measurement and weight. This was the practice of the people of Madinah at the time the Prophet (peace be on him) migrated to them.
83:4Page 587
أَلَا يَظُنُّ أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ أَنَّهُم مَّبۡعُوثُونَ ٤
Do they not think that they will be resurrected
Do these people who do this evil act not know that they will resurrected before Allah?!
For the reckoning and recompense on a day that is great because of the trials and horrors it contains.
83:6Page 587
يَوۡمَ يَقُومُ ٱلنَّاسُ لِرَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ٦
The Day when mankind will stand before the Lord of the worlds?
The day when people will stand before the Lord of all creation, for the reckoning.
83:7Page 588
كـَلَّآ إِنَّ كِتَٰبَ ٱلۡفُجَّارِ لَفِي سِجِّينٖ ٧
No! Indeed, the record of the wicked is in sijjeen.
The matter is not as you thought - that there is no resurrection after death. The book of the people of iniquity from amongst the disbelievers and hypocrites will be in loss in the lower earth.
O Messenger! What will tell you what Sijjin is?!
Their book is written and will not vanish. Nor will there be any increase or decrease in it.
Destruction and loss on that day will be for those who deny.
Those who deny the day of recompense in which Allah will give His servants the recompense of the actions they did in the world.
83:12Page 588
وَمَا يُكَذِّبُ بِهِۦٓ إِلَّا كُلُّ مُعۡتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ ١٢
And none deny it except every sinful transgressor.
None denies that day except every person who transgresses Allah’s limits and commits abundant sins.
83:13Page 588
إِذَا تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ ١٣
When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples."
When My verses revealed to My messenger are recited to him, he says: These are stories of the earlier nations and are not from Allah.
83:14Page 588
كـَلَّاۖ بَلۡۜ رَانَ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِم مَّا كَانُواْ يَكۡسِبُونَ ١٤
No! Rather, the stain has covered their hearts of that which they were earning.1
The matter is not as these deniers thought. Instead, the sins they used to commit has dominated and covered their minds and they therefore have not seen the truth with their hearts.
83:15Page 588
كـَلَّآ إِنَّهُمۡ عَن رَّبِّهِمۡ يَوۡمَئِذٖ لَّمَحۡجُوبُونَ ١٥
No! Indeed, from their Lord, that Day, they will be partitioned.1
Indeed, they will be prevented from seeing their Lord on the day of judgment.
83:16Page 588
ثُمَّ إِنَّهُمۡ لَصَالُواْ ٱلۡجَحِيمِ ١٦
Then indeed, they will [enter and] burn in Hellfire.
Then they will enter the Fire, to suffer from its heat.
83:17Page 588
ثُمَّ يُقَالُ هَٰذَا ٱلَّذِي كُنتُم بِهِۦ تُكَذِّبُونَ ١٧
Then it will be said [to them], "This is what you used to deny."
Then on the Day of Judgement it will be said to them in rebuke and censure: This punishment that you received is what you used to deny in the world when your messenger told you about it.
83:18Page 588
كـَلَّآ إِنَّ كِتَٰبَ ٱلۡأَبۡرَارِ لَفِي عِلِّيِّينَ ١٨
No! Indeed, the record of the righteous is in ʿilliyyūn.
The matter is not as you thought - that there will be no reckoning or recompense. The book of the people of obedience will be in Illiyyun.
O Messenger! What will tell you what Illiyyun is?!
Their book is written and will not vanish. Nor will there be any increase or decrease in it.
This book is witnessed by the angels brought near in every heaven.
Those who do an abundance of good deeds will be in everlasting bliss on the day of judgment.
On decorated couches looking at their Lord, and at everything delightful and pleasing to their souls.
83:24Page 588
تَعۡرِفُ فِي وُجُوهِهِمۡ نَضۡرَةَ ٱلنَّعِيمِ ٢٤
You will recognize in their faces the radiance of pleasure.
If you see them, you will see in their faces the effect of luxury; in their beauty and splendour.
83:25Page 588
يُسۡقَوۡنَ مِن رَّحِيقٖ مَّخۡتُومٍ ٢٥
They will be given to drink [pure] wine1 [which was] sealed.
Their servants will give them wine from sealed containers to drink.
83:26Page 588
خِتَٰمُهُۥ مِسۡكٞۚ وَفِي ذَٰلِكَ فَلۡيَتَنَافَسِ ٱلۡمُتَنَٰفِسُونَ ٢٦
The last of it1 is musk. So for this let the competitors compete.
It will give off the fragrance of musk until its very end. For this noble reward the competitors must compete, by doing what pleases Allah and leaving what angers Him.
This sealed drink will be mixed from the spring of Tasnim.
83:28Page 588
عَيۡنٗا يَشۡرَبُ بِهَا ٱلۡمُقَرَّبُونَ ٢٨
A spring from which those near [to Allāh] drink.
This is a spring in the highest part of Paradise, from which those brought near will drink purely and the rest of the believers will drink from it mixed with other drinks.
83:29Page 588
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ أَجۡرَمُواْ كَانُواْ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ يَضۡحَكُونَ ٢٩
Indeed, those who committed crimes used to laugh at those who believed.
Those who committed wrong by the disbelief they held used to mockingly laugh at those who had faith.
83:30Page 588
وَإِذَا مَرُّواْ بِهِمۡ يَتَغَامَزُونَ ٣٠
And when they passed by them, they would exchange derisive glances.
When they passed by the believers they would wink at one another in ridicule and amusement.
83:31Page 588
وَإِذَا ٱنقَلَبُوٓاْ إِلَىٰٓ أَهۡلِهِمُ ٱنقَلَبُواْ فَكِهِينَ ٣١
And when they returned to their people, they would return jesting.
When they returned to their families they would go back happy with their acts of disbelief and ridicule of the believers.
83:32Page 588
وَإِذَا رَأَوۡهُمۡ قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ لَضَآلُّونَ ٣٢
And when they saw them, they would say, "Indeed, those are truly lost."
When they saw the Muslims, they would say: These people are astray from the path of truth, as they abandoned the religion of their forefathers.
83:33Page 588
وَمَآ أُرۡسِلُواْ عَلَيۡهِمۡ حَٰفِظِينَ ٣٣
But they had not been sent as guardians over them.
Allah did not appoint them to guard their deeds so that they could make this statement of theirs.
83:34Page 588
فَٱلۡيَوۡمَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ مِنَ ٱلۡكُفَّارِ يَضۡحَكُونَ ٣٤
So Today1 those who believed are laughing at the disbelievers,
On the Day of Judgment, those who have faith in Allah will laugh at the disbelievers just as the disbelievers used to laugh at them in the world.
On decorated couches they will look at the everlasting bliss that Allah prepared for them.
83:36Page 589
هَلۡ ثُوِّبَ ٱلۡكُفَّارُ مَا كَانُواْ يَفۡعَلُونَ ٣٦
Have the disbelievers [not] been rewarded [this Day] for what they used to do?
The disbelievers have been given the humiliating punishment as recompense of the actions they did in the world.
Text: Quranic Universal Library (Tarteel), via spa5k/tafsir_api (MIT), at a fixed version. The ayahs: Quran Foundation. Sources and licences