Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Muhammad, Ayah 24

Muhammad · Ayah 24 · View Ayah

أَفَلَا يَتَدَبَّرُونَ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ أَمْ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبٍ أَقْفَالُهَآ

Then do they not reflect upon the Qur'an, or are there locks upon [their] hearts?

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

Do they not contemplate the Qur’ān? and so recognise the truth. Or am here is like bal ‘nay but’ is it that there are locks on their hearts? so they are unable to comprehend it.

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(Will they then not meditate on the Qur'an) regarding that which has been revealed about them, (or are there locks on the hearts) or are there locks on the hearts of the hypocrites such that they do not understand what is revealed about them?

Related Hadiths

Sunan Ibn Majah#3930Sahih

“Lest they become as those who received the Scripture before, and the term was prolonged for them and so their hearts were hardened? And many of them were rebellious.”

Narrated by ‘Amir bin ‘Abdullah bin Zubair narrated that his father told him that there was no more than four years between their becoming Muslim and the revelation of this Verse, by which Allah reprimanded them: