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Surah 81 · Makkah · 29 āyāt
Phase 01 · Ḥirāʾ and the first call(c. 13–11 BH) — view in timelineAt-TakwīrThe Overthrowing / The Folding Up
التكوير
One of the earliest Makkan surahs, painting the Day of Judgement as cosmic unmaking — the sun folded up, the stars falling, mountains set in motion, seas set ablaze. It then turns to a scene of moral reckoning: the buried infant girl asking for what crime she was killed. The surah closes by defending the Messenger ﷺ and the angel Jibrīl who brought him the revelation, and ends with the balance between human will and Allah's overriding will.
Why it was revealed
Revealed while Quraysh still doubted the very possibility of resurrection and mocked the Prophet ﷺ as one who merely repeated a madman's or a poet's words. At-Takwīr answers by depicting the Hour with vivid intensity, and by defending both the sanity of the Messenger ﷺ and the truthfulness of Jibrīl عليه السلام who conveyed the revelation to him.
Drawn fromJāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī 3333; Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī; Musnad Aḥmad; Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 4926; al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr on 81:23; Ibn Kathīr on 81:8–9; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm on 81:22–25; Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr
The Prophet ﷺ said: 'Whoever wishes to look at the Day of Resurrection as if he is seeing it with his own eyes, let him read: Idhā al-shamsu kuwwirat (at-Takwīr), Idhā al-samāʾu infaṭarat (al-Infiṭār), and Idhā al-samāʾu inshaqqat (al-Inshiqāq).'
Cited toJāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī 3333; Musnad Aḥmad
In the Prophet's ﷺ life
Quraysh's mockery of the Hour
The Makkan disbelievers dismissed resurrection as impossible, and accused the Prophet ﷺ of madness or of composing poetry rather than receiving revelation.
Recalled in āyah 22, 25
وَمَا صَاحِبُكُم بِمَجْنُونٍ
And your companion [i.e., Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ) ] is not [at all] mad.
وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَيْطَـٰنٍ رَّجِيمٍ
And it [i.e., the Qur’ān] is not the word of a devil, expelled [from the heavens].
- Madd — 2 vowels
- Madd — 2, 4 or 6 vowels
- Madd — 6 vowels (lāzim)
- Madd — 4 or 5 vowels (wājib)
- Ghunnah — 2 vowels
- Qalqalah
- Ikhfāʾ
- Ikhfāʾ shafawī
- Idghām shafawī
- Idghām with ghunnah
- Idghām without ghunnah
- Idghām mutajānisayn
- Idghām mutaqāribayn
- Iqlāb
- Hamzat al-waṣl
- Lām shamsiyyah
- Silent letter
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When the sky and sun are undone
A rapid sequence of twelve 'when' clauses dismantles the entire familiar order — sun, stars, mountains, oceans, even the record of every soul's deeds — before the fourteenth verse delivers the result: every soul will know what it has brought.
Drawn fromAl-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
إِذَا ٱلشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ
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When the sun is wrapped up [in darkness]
وَإِذَا ٱلنُّجُومُ ٱنكَدَرَتْ
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And when the stars fall, dispersing,
وَإِذَا ٱلْجِبَالُ سُيِّرَتْ
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And when the mountains are removed
وَإِذَا ٱلْعِشَارُ عُطِّلَتْ
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And when full-term she-camels are neglected
وَإِذَا ٱلْوُحُوشُ حُشِرَتْ
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And when the wild beasts are gathered
وَإِذَا ٱلْبِحَارُ سُجِّرَتْ
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And when the seas are filled with flame
وَإِذَا ٱلنُّفُوسُ زُوِّجَتْ
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And when the souls are paired
وَإِذَا ٱلْمَوْءُۥدَةُ سُئِلَتْ
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And when the girl [who was] buried alive is asked
بِأَىِّ ذَنۢبٍ قُتِلَتْ
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For what sin she was killed
وَإِذَا ٱلصُّحُفُ نُشِرَتْ
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And when the pages are spread [i.e., made public]
وَإِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ كُشِطَتْ
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And when the sky is stripped away
وَإِذَا ٱلْجَحِيمُ سُعِّرَتْ
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And when Hellfire is set ablaze
وَإِذَا ٱلْجَنَّةُ أُزْلِفَتْ
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And when Paradise is brought near,
عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌ مَّآ أَحْضَرَتْ
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A soul will [then] know what it has brought [with it].
From the tafsīr
Kuwwirat means the sun is wrapped up and its light extinguished, as a turban is wound and removed — the greatest source of light in creation is folded away entirely.
Cited toIbn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
Al-Ṭabarī explains that these twelve conditional clauses (idhā...idhā...) all lead grammatically to āyah 14 — 'a soul will know what it has brought' — the unmaking of the cosmos is the introduction to the reckoning, not the point itself.
Cited toAl-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān
The scrolls of deeds being spread open (v.10) shows that nothing a person did is lost — every action is preserved for exactly this moment.
Cited toAl-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān
Key takeaways
- Everything we take as permanent — sun, sky, sea, mountains — is contingent and will be undone by its Creator.
Drawn fromAl-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- The scale of cosmic collapse is deliberately matched to the seriousness of personal accountability that follows it.
Drawn fromAl-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- Nothing done in this life is forgotten; the record (v.10) is kept precisely so it can be presented.
Drawn fromAl-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- The structure of the passage trains the reader to read grand imagery as leading to a very personal conclusion: 'a soul will know what it has brought.'
Drawn fromAl-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
Reflect
If you knew your own scroll of deeds would be spread open today, what would you want to add before then?
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What image does the word kuwwirat convey about the sun in āyah 1?
Question 2 of 2
According to al-Ṭabarī, where does the long chain of 'when' clauses resolve?
The buried girl who will be asked
Among the events of the Day, the female infant buried alive (al-mawʾūdah) will be asked for what sin she was killed. The question is addressed to her, not her killer — a devastating rhetorical move that centers the victim and exposes the horror of the crime without needing to name the murderer.
Drawn fromAl-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
وَإِذَا ٱلْمَوْءُۥدَةُ سُئِلَتْ
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And when the girl [who was] buried alive is asked
بِأَىِّ ذَنۢبٍ قُتِلَتْ
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For what sin she was killed
From the tafsīr
This refers to the pre-Islamic practice of some Arabs burying their infant daughters alive out of poverty or the shame associated with having daughters; Islam came to abolish this utterly.
Cited toIbn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
That the question is put to the murdered child — not to her killer — is itself the strongest condemnation: she had committed no sin at all, so what could she possibly be asked to answer for except to expose the injustice done to her?
Cited toAl-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān
Key takeaways
- Islam's earliest revelation already condemns female infanticide in the strongest possible terms.
Drawn fromAl-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- The victim's voice, not the perpetrator's excuse, is centered on the Day of Judgement.
Drawn fromAl-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- No sin ever justifies harming an innocent, and no 'reason' offered by a killer will be asked for at all — only the innocent one's account of what was done to her.
Drawn fromAl-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- This āyah reframes the value of the vulnerable — infants, daughters, the powerless — as accounted for by Allah even when society devalues them.
Drawn fromAl-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
Reflect
Who around you today is treated as if their existence needs justifying? How does this āyah reshape how you see them?
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Whom does Allah address with the question about the reason for the killing?
A trustworthy Messenger and a trustworthy angel
Allah swears by the retreating, sweeping stars and by the night and dawn to affirm that the Qurʾān is truly the word conveyed by a noble, honoured, obeyed and trustworthy messenger-angel (Jibrīl), and that the Prophet ﷺ actually saw him on the clear horizon — refuting the charges of madness and satanic influence.
Drawn fromAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلْخُنَّسِ
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So I swear by the retreating stars -
ٱلْجَوَارِ ٱلْكُنَّسِ
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Those that run [their courses] and disappear [i.e., set]
وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا عَسْعَسَ
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And by the night as it closes in
وَٱلصُّبْحِ إِذَا تَنَفَّسَ
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And by the dawn when it breathes [i.e., stirs]
إِنَّهُۥ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ
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[That] indeed, it [i.e., the Qur’ān] is a word [conveyed by] a noble messenger [i.e., Gabriel]
ذِى قُوَّةٍ عِندَ ذِى ٱلْعَرْشِ مَكِينٍ
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[Who is] possessed of power and with the Owner of the Throne, secure [in position],
مُّطَاعٍ ثَمَّ أَمِينٍ
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Obeyed there [in the heavens] and trustworthy.
وَمَا صَاحِبُكُم بِمَجْنُونٍ
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And your companion [i.e., Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ) ] is not [at all] mad.
وَلَقَدْ رَءَاهُ بِٱلْأُفُقِ ٱلْمُبِينِ
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And he has already seen him [i.e., Gabriel] in the clear horizon.
وَمَا هُوَ عَلَى ٱلْغَيْبِ بِضَنِينٍ
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And he [i.e., Muḥammad (ﷺ)] is not a withholder of [knowledge of] the unseen.
وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَيْطَـٰنٍ رَّجِيمٍ
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And it [i.e., the Qur’ān] is not the word of a devil, expelled [from the heavens].
From the tafsīr
'A noble messenger' (v.19) refers to Jibrīl عليه السلام, described as possessing strength, a firm standing with the Lord of the Throne, obeyed among the angels, and trustworthy (amīn) — the same qualities the Prophet ﷺ himself bore among men.
Cited toIbn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
Āyah 22, 'your companion is not mad,' directly answers the Makkan accusation of majnūn; āyah 23 affirms he truly saw Jibrīl in his real form on the clear horizon, not a hallucination.
Cited toAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān
Āyah 24, 'he does not withhold [knowledge of] the unseen,' affirms the Prophet's ﷺ full honesty in conveying revelation without concealment or alteration.
Cited toAl-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān
Key takeaways
- The chain of transmission — Allah, Jibrīl, the Prophet ﷺ — is defended at every link against slander.
Drawn fromAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- Sound character (trustworthiness, obedience, nobility) is Allah's own criterion for choosing a conveyer of revelation.
Drawn fromAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- Madness and revelation are shown to be incompatible: the very charge of majnūn is directly refuted by the text itself.
Drawn fromAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- This passage is why al-Bukhārī records that the Prophet ﷺ was asked about seeing Jibrīl, and confirmed seeing him in his true form only twice.
Drawn fromAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
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What does it mean that Allah chose to defend His Messenger's ﷺ character rather than simply silence the mockers by force?
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What accusation does āyah 22, 'your companion is not mad,' respond to?
Question 2 of 2
In āyah 19, whose qualities of nobility and trustworthiness are being described?
Whoever wills — within what Allah wills
The surah closes by declaring the Qurʾān a reminder for all the worlds — for whoever among you wills to walk straight — and then immediately qualifies human will: you do not will except that Allah, Lord of the worlds, wills. Human choice is real, but it exists entirely within the encompassing will of Allah.
Drawn fromAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
فَأَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ
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So where are you going?
إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِّلْعَـٰلَمِينَ
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It is not except a reminder to the worlds
لِمَن شَآءَ مِنكُمْ أَن يَسْتَقِيمَ
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For whoever wills among you to take a right course.
وَمَا تَشَآءُونَ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ رَبُّ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ
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And you do not will except that Allāh wills - Lord of the worlds.
From the tafsīr
Āyah 28 affirms that guidance is genuinely offered to whoever chooses to seek it (li-man shāʾa minkum an yastaqīm), establishing real human responsibility.
Cited toIbn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
Āyah 29 was revealed, per several early commentators, to correct any notion that human will operates independently of Allah's will — it does not negate the human choice of v.28 but places it within Allah's overriding decree, as Ahl al-Sunnah understand both together.
Cited toAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān
The two āyāt together are the balanced Qurʾānic formula: a servant truly chooses and is accountable, yet nothing he chooses occurs outside what Allah has willed to permit.
Cited toAl-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān
Key takeaways
- The Qurʾān is described as dhikr — a reminder for all the worlds, not a private message.
Drawn fromAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- Human free will and Allah's overarching will are affirmed together, not set against each other.
Drawn fromAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- Wanting to 'walk straight' (an yastaqīm) is presented as an available, genuine choice — not a false door.
Drawn fromAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- The surah that opened with cosmic collapse ends by pointing directly at the individual's own will and choice.
Drawn fromAl-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
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How do āyāt 28 and 29 change how you think about your own responsibility for the choices you make today?
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ك و ر
āyāt 1to wrap, coil, or fold something over on itself
- كُوِّرَتْit was wrapped/folded up
- تَكْوِيرthe folding/overthrowing
- كُرَةa ball, sphere
ن ش ر
āyāt 10to spread out, unfold, publish
- نُشِرَتْwere spread open
- نَشْرspreading, publishing
- مُنْتَشِرwidespread
و أ د
āyāt 8to bury alive, to suppress
- ٱلْمَوْءُودَةthe girl buried alive
- وَأَدَhe buried [her] alive
ذ ك ر
āyāt 27to remember, mention, remind
- ذِكْرreminder, remembrance
- ذَاكِرone who remembers
- تَذَكَّرَhe took heed, remembered
ش ا ء
āyāt 28, 29to will, wish, want
- شَآءَhe willed
- مَشِيئَةwill, volition
- شَىْءa thing
أ م ن
āyāt 21to be secure, trustworthy, safe
- أَمِينtrustworthy
- أَمَانsafety, security
- إِيمَانfaith
ن ف س
āyāt 7, 14, 18soul, self, breath
- نَفْسsoul, self
- تَنَفَّسَit breathed
- أَنْفَاسbreaths
ق و ل
āyāt 19, 25to say, speak, utter
- قَوْلword, speech
- قَالَhe said
- مَقُولspoken
Carry this with you
- Nothing in creation — sun, sea, or mountain — is too grand to be undone by its Creator.
- The record of your deeds is never lost; it is kept precisely so it can be opened before you.
- The murdered innocent will be heard on the Day of Judgement, even when no one heard her in this life.
- The chain of revelation — Allah, Jibrīl, the Messenger ﷺ — is honest and defended against every slander.
- Seeing Jibrīl on the clear horizon was real; the Prophet ﷺ was neither mad nor mistaken.
- The Qurʾān is a reminder offered to all the worlds, not a private possession of one people.
- You are given a genuine choice to walk straight — and that very choice exists within Allah's all-encompassing will.
- Cosmic collapse and personal accountability are two sides of the same warning: everything ends, and everyone answers.
Where this surah connects
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Tafsīr15
- Al-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān
- Al-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān on 81:22
- Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān
- Al-Saʿdī, Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān on 81:28–29
- al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān
- Al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān
- Al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān on 81:1–14
- Al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān on 81:8–9
- Ibn Kathīr on 81:23
- Ibn Kathīr on 81:8–9
- Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm on 81:1
- Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm on 81:19
- Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm on 81:22–25
- Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr
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At-Takwīr · Whoever wills — within what Allah wills
What is the relationship between 'whoever wills to walk straight' (28) and 'you do not will except that Allah wills' (29)?
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