Tabari (1 passage)

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   The discussion of the interpretation of the word of the Exalted: لَا جَرَمَ أَنَّهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ هُمُ الْأَخْسَرُونَ (22)

   Abū Jaʿfar said: The Exalted — praised be His remembrance — says: "Truly, these are the people whose nature has been described in the foregoing; they are in the Hereafter the greatest losers — those who have exchanged their dwelling-places in the Gardens for the dwelling-places that the people of the Garden would have had in the Fire. And that is the manifest loss."

   We have already explained in the foregoing that the meaning of the word "jaramtu" is: I have earned the sin, and "jaramtuhu" — that is to say: I have committed it; and that the Arabs frequently used the word in places of oaths, and in places of "lā budda" (there is no escape from it), as in their expression: "lā jarama annaka dhāhibun" — with the meaning of "there is no avoiding it"; until they then went on to use it also in places of emphasis and corroboration, and said: "lā jarama la-taqūmanna" — with the meaning of: "truly, you shall surely arise." The meaning of the expression is therefore: there is no holding back from the fact that they, and no averting of the fact that they [are the greatest losers].

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   Footnotes:

   (7) See what preceded, volume 9: 483–485 / volume 10: 95. In the printed edition it read: "jaramtu", "ajramtuhu" — with a hamza —, but the correct reading is what is in the manuscript, and that agrees with what is in the Maʿānī al-Qurʾān.

   (8) See what preceded, volume 9: 483. However, I have not found there this further distinction that he makes hereafter, and I do not think that anything of it has been passed over — unless I missed it when transcribing. I fear that it is an error on the part of Abū Jaʿfar.

   (9) See the Maʿānī al-Qurʾān of al-Farrāʾ in his explanation of this verse; this is a portion of his words.

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   القول في تأويل قوله تعالى : لا جَرَمَ أَنَّهُمْ فِي الآخِرَةِ هُمُ الأَخْسَرُونَ (22) قال أبو جعفر: يقول تعالى ذكره: حقا أن هؤلاء القوم الذين هذه صفتهم في الدنيا وفي الآخرة هم الأخسرون الذين قد باعوا منازلهم من الجنان بمنازل أهل الجنة من النار ; وذلك هو الخسران المبين. * * * وقد بينا فيما مضى أن معنى قولهم: " جَرمتُ"، كسبت الذنب و " جرمته " ، (7) وأن العرب كثر استعمالها إياه في مواضع الأيمان، (8) وفي مواضع " لا بد " كقولهم: " لا جرم أنك ذاهب " ، بمعنى: " لا بد "، حتى استعملوا ذلك في مواضع التحقيق ، فقالوا: " لا جَرَم لتقومن "، بمعنى: حَقًّا لتقومن. (9) فمعنى الكلام: لا منع عن أنهم، ولا صدّ عن أنهم. ------------------ الهوامش : (7) انظر ما سلف 9 : 483 - 485 / 10 : 95 ، وكان في المطبوعة : " جرمت " ، " أجرمته " بالألف ، والصواب ما في المخطوطة ، وهو مطابق لما في معاني القرآن . (8) انظر ما سلف 9 : 483 ، ولكني لم أجد هناك هذا التفصيل الذي ذكره بعد ، ولا أظنه مر شيء منه ، إلا أن يكون فاتني تقييده . وأخشى أن يكون سهوًا من أبي جعفر . (9) انظر معاني القرآن للفراء في تفسير هذه الآية ، وهذا بعض كلامه .