Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Ash-Shura, Ayah 42
إِنَّمَا ٱلسَّبِيلُ عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ يَظْلِمُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ وَيَبْغُونَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ ٱلْحَقِّ ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۭ
The cause is only against the ones who wrong the people and tyrannize upon the earth without right. Those will have a painful punishment.
Common Words
15 total15 unique0 repeated
إنما1x
ٱلسبيل1x
على1x
ٱلذين1x
يظلمون1x
ٱلناس1x
ويبغون1x
فى1x
ٱلأرض1x
بغير1x
ٱلحق1x
أولئك1x
لهم1x
عذاب1x
أليم1x
Other Scholars on This Ayah
Tafsir
Scholars offer complementary perspectives
(The way (of blame)) sin (is only against those who oppress mankind) i.e. who initiate wrong in the first place, (and wrongfully rebel in the earth. For such there is a painful doom.
Related Hadiths
Sahih Muslim#6494Sahih
What is this? It was said: They are being punished for (not paying) the Kharaj (the government revenue). Thereupon he said: Allah would punish those who torment people in this world (without any genui...
Narrated by 'Urwa reported on the authority of his father that Hisham b. Hakim b. Hizam happened to pass by some people in Syria who had been made to stand in the sun and olive-oil was being poured upon their heads. He said:
Sunan Abu Dawud#3046Sahih
‘Urwa bin Al Zubair said “Hisham bin Halim bin Hizam found a man who was the governor of Hims making some Copts stand in the sun for the payment of jizyah. He said “What is this?” I heard the Apostle ...
Sahih Muslim#2039Sahih
The dead is punished because of the lamentation of the living.
Narrated by 'Abdullah b. 'Umar reported that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
A course of action is only open against those who wrong people and seek to commit who commit in the earth what is not right what are acts of disobedience. For such there will be a painful chastisement.