Tafseer of The Believers · Al-Muminoon · 23:63
But their hearts are covered with confusion over this, and they have [evil] deeds besides disbelief which they are doing,
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Allah, exalted be His remembrance, says: The matter is not as these polytheists (mushrikīn) suppose — that Our granting them wealth and sons is a favor by which We show them grace and a sign of Our satisfaction with them. No, but rather their hearts are immersed in blindness toward this Qurʾān. By "the immersion" (ghamra) He means: that which has flooded over their hearts and covered them, so that they do not comprehend the admonitions, lessons, and proofs that Allah has set down in His Book. By His words مِنْ هَذَا (of this) He means: of the Qurʾān.
In the spirit of what we have said the exegetes also spoke.
Mention of those who said this:
Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to me, saying: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, saying: ʿĪsā related to us; and al-Ḥārith related to me, saying: al-Ḥasan related to us, saying: Warqāʾ related to us — both on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning the words: فِي غَمْرَةٍ مِنْ هَذَا (in an immersion of this): he said: "In blindness toward this Qurʾān."
Al-Qāsim related to us, saying: al-Ḥusayn related to us, saying: Ḥajjāj related to me, on the authority of Ibn Jurayj, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning the words: فِي غَمْرَةٍ مِنْ هَذَا (in an immersion of this): he said: "Of the Qurʾān."
Concerning His words: وَلَهُمْ أَعْمَالٌ مِنْ دُونِ ذَلِكَ هُمْ لَهَا عَامِلُونَ (And they have deeds other than that, which they will perform): Allah, exalted be His remembrance, says: These unbelievers (kuffār) have deeds that are not pleasing to Allah — sins. مِنْ دُونِ ذَلِكَ (besides that): besides the deeds of those who believe in Allah and those who harbor fear and awe of Him.
In the spirit of what we have said the exegetes also spoke.
Mention of those who said this:
Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Ḥakkām related to us, on the authority of ʿAnbasa, on the authority of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, on the authority of al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bazza, on the authority of Mujāhid: وَلَهُمْ أَعْمَالٌ مِنْ دُونِ ذَلِكَ هُمْ لَهَا عَامِلُونَ — he said: "Sins."
Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to me, saying: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, saying: ʿĪsā related to us; and al-Ḥārith related to me, saying: al-Ḥasan related to us, saying: Warqāʾ related to us — both on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning the words: وَلَهُمْ أَعْمَالٌ مِنْ دُونِ ذَلِكَ — he said: "The truth."
ʿAlī ibn Sahl related to us, saying: Ḥajjāj related to us, on the authority of Ibn Jurayj, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning the words: وَلَهُمْ أَعْمَالٌ مِنْ دُونِ ذَلِكَ — he said: "Sins besides that truth."
He said: Ḥajjāj related to us, on the authority of Abū Jaʿfar, on the authority of al-Rabīʿ ibn Anas, on the authority of Abū al-ʿĀliya, concerning the words: وَلَهُمْ أَعْمَالٌ مِنْ دُونِ ذَلِكَ — the whole verse — he said: "Deeds besides the truth."
Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, saying: Ibn Thawr related to us, on the authority of Maʿmar, on the authority of Qatāda: he said: "Allah mentioned those who tremble from the fear of their Lord, and those who give what they give while their hearts tremble with fear. Then He said concerning the unbelievers: بَلْ قُلُوبُهُمْ فِي غَمْرَةٍ مِنْ هَذَا وَلَهُمْ أَعْمَالٌ مِنْ دُونِ ذَلِكَ هُمْ لَهَا عَامِلُونَ — he said: Besides the deeds that are spoken of: those who tremble from the fear of their Lord, and those who... and those who..."
Al-Qāsim related to us, saying: al-Ḥusayn related to us, saying: ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus related to us, on the authority of al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm, on the authority of Mujāhid: he said: "Deeds which they must inevitably perform."
ʿAlī ibn Sahl related to us, saying: Zayd ibn Abī al-Zarqāʾ related to us, on the authority of Ḥammād ibn Salama, on the authority of Ḥumayd: he said: "I asked al-Ḥasan about the word of Allah: وَلَهُمْ أَعْمَالٌ مِنْ دُونِ ذَلِكَ هُمْ لَهَا عَامِلُونَ — he said: Deeds that they have not yet performed but which they will perform."
Yūnus related to me, saying: Ibn Wahb informed us, saying: Ibn Zayd said concerning the words: وَلَهُمْ أَعْمَالٌ مِنْ دُونِ ذَلِكَ هُمْ لَهَا عَامِلُونَ — he said: "He inevitably had to complete the rest of his deeds and be cast into the Fire for them."
Al-Ḥasan related to us, saying: ʿAbd al-Razzāq informed us, on the authority of al-Thawrī, on the authority of al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning the words: وَلَهُمْ أَعْمَالٌ مِنْ دُونِ ذَلِكَ هُمْ لَهَا عَامِلُونَ — he said: "Deeds which they must inevitably perform."
ʿAmr related to us, saying: Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya related to us, on the authority of al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning the word of Allah, blessed and exalted be He: وَلَهُمْ أَعْمَالٌ مِنْ دُونِ ذَلِكَ — he said: "Deeds which they must inevitably perform."