Tafseer of Mutual Disillusion · At-Taghaabun · 64:2
It is He who created you, and among you is the disbeliever, and among you is the believer. And Allah, of what you do, is Seeing.
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The Exalted, whose remembrance is exalted, says: Allah is the One who created you, O mankind — and this is a mention of the name of Allah — and among you is a disbeliever (kāfir) and among you is a believer (muʾmin). He says: among you is one who disbelieves in his Creator and in the fact that He created him; and among you is a believer, that is to say: among you is one who affirms it and knows with certainty that He is his Creator or his Originator. And Allah is Seeing of what you do means: and Allah, who created you, is Seeing of your deeds, knowing of them; nothing of that remains hidden from Him, and He will requite you for it. So fear Him, lest you oppose Him in His command or His prohibition, so that He would act against you with force.
Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Ṭūsī related to us, saying: Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Ashyab related to us, saying: Ibn Lahīʿa related to us, saying: Bakr ibn Sawāda related to us, on the authority of Abū Tamīm al-Jayshānī, on the authority of Abū Dharr: "Verily, when the seed remains in the womb for forty nights, the angel of the souls comes, who ascends with it to the Almighty in His palm, and says: O my Lord, this servant of Yours — is he male or female? Then Allah decrees for him what He decrees. Then he says: O my Lord, is he wretched or blessed? Then what will befall him is written down." He said: And Abū Dharr recited the opening of [Sūra] al-Taghābun, five verses.
