Tabari (1 passage)

1. Full Dutch translation of Tabari's text

   And as for His statement: "That is because of what your hands have sent forth before" — that is to say: our statement to them on the Day of Resurrection, "Taste the punishment of the burning," because of what your hands have sent forth before and earned during the days of your life in this world; and because Allah is just and does no wrong, so that He would not punish a servant of His without that servant having deserved that punishment, but rather He requites every soul according to what it has earned, and gives every doer the full recompense of what he has done. Thus did He requite those to whom He said [that] on the Day of Resurrection — among the Jews whose condition He described, and concerning whom He reported that they said: إِنَّ اللَّهَ فَقِيرٌ وَنَحْنُ أَغْنِيَاءُ (Indeed, Allah is poor and we are rich), and who killed the prophets without right — with that wherewith He requited them, namely the punishment of the burning, because of the sins they had earned, the evil deeds they committed, and the lies they invented about Allah after no excuse remained for them once the warning had reached them. Thus was He — exalted be His mention — with that wherewith He punished them, namely that He made them taste the punishment of the burning, no wrongdoer, nor one who lays His punishment upon whoever does not deserve it. Thus is He — magnificent is His praise — unjust to none of His creatures, but rather He is the Just among them, and the Bestower of grace upon all of them with what He wills of His favors and benefactions.

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   وأما قوله: " ذلك بما قدمت أيديكم "، أي: قولنا لهم يوم القيامة،" ذوقوا عذاب الحريق "، بما أسلفت أيديكم واكتسبتها أيام حياتكم في الدنيا، (10) وبأن الله عَدْل لا يجورُ فيعاقب عبدًا له بغير استحقاق منه العقوبةَ، ولكنه يجازي كل نفس بما كسبت، ويوفّي كل عامل جزاء ما عمل، فجازى الذين قال لهم [ذلك] يوم القيامة (11) = من اليهود الذين وصف صفتهم، فأخبر عنهم أنهم قالوا: إِنَّ اللَّهَ فَقِيرٌ وَنَحْنُ أَغْنِيَاءُ ، وقتلوا الأنبياء بغير حق = بما جازاهم به من عذاب الحريق، بما اكتسبوا من الآثام، واجترحوا من السيئات، وكذبوا على الله بعد الإعذار إليهم بالإنذار. فلم يكن تعالى ذكره بما عاقبهم به من إذاقتهم عذاب الحريق ظالمًا، ولا واضعًا عقوبته في غير أهلها. وكذلك هو جل ثناؤه، غيرُ ظلام أحدًا من خلقه، ولكنه العادل بينهم، والمتفضل على جميعهم بما أحبّ من فَوَاضله ونِعمه. ---------------------- الهوامش: (10) انظر تفسير"بما قدمت أيديهم" فيما سلف 2: 367 ، 368. (11) الزيادة بين القوسين لا بد منها لاستقامة الكلام ، ويعني بقوله: "الذي قال لهم ذلك" ، أي قال لهم: "ذوقوا عذاب الحريق". وسياق العبارة: "فجازى الذين قال لهم ذلك يوم القيامة. . . بما جازاهم به من عذاب الحريق".