Tabari (1 passage)

1. Full Dutch translation of Tabari's text

   Discussion of the explanation of the words of the Exalted: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قَدْ جَاءَتْكُمْ مَوْعِظَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَشِفَاءٌ لِمَا فِي الصُّدُورِ وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ (57)

   (O mankind, there has come to you an admonition from your Lord, and a healing for what is in the breasts, and guidance and mercy for the believers.)

   Abū Jaʿfar said: The Exalted — blessed be His praise — says to His creation: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قَدْ جَاءَتْكُمْ مَوْعِظَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ — that is to say: a reminder (dhikrā) that reminds you of the punishment (ʿadhāb) of Allah and makes you fear the threat of His punishment — مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ — that is to say: coming from your Lord. The Prophet ﷺ did not himself invent it, and no one has falsified it, such that you might say: "We are not certain that it is reliable." What the Exalted — blessed be His praise — means by it is the Qurʾān; and that is the admonition of Allah.

   And as for His words: وَشِفَاءٌ لِمَا فِي الصُّدُورِ — that is to say: a remedy for what is in the breasts of ignorance. By it Allah heals the ignorance of the ignorant: through it He cures their ailment, and through it He guides whom He wishes among His creation to guide. وَهُدًى — that is to say: and it is an exposition of what Allah has permitted and what He has forbidden, and a proof for what is obedience and what is disobedience. وَرَحْمَةٌ — by which He is merciful toward whom He wills among His creation: through it He saves him from misguidance unto guidance, and through it He delivers him from ruin and destruction. And He — blessed and Exalted — has made it a mercy for the believers in it, and not for the unbelievers in it — for whoever disbelieves in it, to his sight it is a blindness, and his recompense in the Hereafter for disbelief in it is the everlasting abode in the blazing Fire (laẓā).

   Notes:

   See the explanation of "the admonition" (al-mawʿiẓa) in the foregoing, volume 8: 528, note 3, with the references mentioned therein.

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   القول في تأويل قوله تعالى : يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قَدْ جَاءَتْكُمْ مَوْعِظَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَشِفَاءٌ لِمَا فِي الصُّدُورِ وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ (57) قال أبو جعفر: يقول تعالى ذكره لخلقه: (يا أيها الناس قد جاءتكم موعظة من ربكم) ، يعني : ذكرى تذكركم عقابَ الله وتخوّفكم وعيده (4) ، (من ربكم)، يقول: من عند ربكم ، لم يختلقها محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ، ولم يفتعلها أحد، فتقولوا: لا نأمن أن تكون لا صحةَ لها. وإنما يعني بذلك جلّ ثناؤه القرآن، وهو الموعظة من الله. وقوله: (وشفاء لما في الصدور)، يقول: ودواءٌ لما في الصدور من الجهل، يشفي به الله جهلَ الجهال، فيبرئ به داءهم ، ويهدي به من خلقه من أراد هدايته به ، (وهدى)، يقول: وهو بيان لحلال الله وحرامه، ودليلٌ على طاعته ومعصيته ، (ورحمة)، يرحم بها من شاء من خلقه، فينقذه به من الضلالة إلى الهدى، وينجيه به من الهلاك والردى. وجعله تبارك وتعالى رحمة للمؤمنين به دون الكافرين به، لأن من كفر به فهو عليه عمًى، وفي الآخرة جزاؤه على الكفر به الخلودُ في لظًى. ---------------------- الهوامش : (4) انظر تفسير " الموعظة " فيما سلف 8 : 528 ، تعليق : 3 ، والمراجع هناك .