Tafseer of The Cleaving · Al-Infitaar · 82:8
In whatever form He willed has He assembled you.
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And His statement: الَّذِي خَلَقَكَ فَسَوَّاكَ ("Who created you, then fashioned you in due proportion") (82:7). He says: Who created you, O man, and then made your creation balanced, فَعَدَلَكَ ("and gave you a right proportion").
The reciters differed concerning the recitation of this. The majority of the reciters of Medina, Mecca, Syria, and Basra recited it as (faʿaddalaka) with doubling (tashdīd) of the dāl, while the majority of the reciters of Kūfa recited it with lightening (takhfīf) of it. Whoever recited it with doubling evidently directed the meaning of the word toward: He made you balanced, in right proportion of creation and well-formed. And whoever recited it with lightening evidently directed the meaning of the word toward: He turned you and inclined you toward whatever form He willed, whether toward a beautiful form, or toward an ugly form, or toward the form of one of his relatives.
The most correct of these statements, in my judgment, is that one says: these are two well-known recitations in the recitation of the regions, both correct in meaning, so with whichever of the two the reciter recites, he has hit upon what is correct. Nevertheless, the more agreeable of them to me is that I recite with the recitation of the one who recited this with doubling, because the insertion of "fī" (in) with taʿdīl (bringing into right proportion) in Arabic is more elegant than its insertion with ʿadl (turning away). Do you not see that you say: "ʿaddaltuka fī kadhā" (I brought you into right proportion with respect to such-and-such) and "ṣaraftuka ilayhi" (I turned you toward it), while you scarcely say: "ʿadaltuka ilā kadhā" (I turned you away toward such-and-such) and "ṣaraftuka fīhi" (I turned you in it)? Therefore I have preferred the doubling.
And in accordance with what we have said concerning this and what we mentioned that the reciters of it explained, the report of the exegetes has come, that they said it.
Mention of the report concerning that:
