Surah 28. Al-Qasas, Ayah 42
| وَأَتْبَعْنَاهُمْ فِي هَٰذِهِ الدُّنْيَا لَعْنَةً ۖ وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ هُمْ مِنَ الْمَقْبُوحِينَ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- atbacnaa -hum fe haadhihi ad- dunyaa lacnah wa- yawm al- qiyaamah hum min al- maqboh.en |
| Pickthall | : | And We made a curse to follow them in this world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be among the hateful. |
| Asad | : | We have caused a curse to follow them in this world as well;41 and on Resurrection Day they will find themselves among those who are bereft of all good.42 |
| Malik | : | We laid a curse on them in this world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be of the despised. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | In this world We made a Curse to follow them: and on the Day of Judgment they will be among the loathed (and despised). 3374 |
Note - 41I.e., in the pejorative connotation universally given to
the adjective "pharaonic". It is to be noted that the
term la'nah, here rendered as "curse", primarily denotes
"estrangement" (ib'ad), i.e., from all that is good and,
hence, really desirable.
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Note - 42I.e., among those who by their own actions will have
removed themselves from God's grace: a meaning given to
the term maqbuh, in this context, by most of the
classical commentators and philologists (cf. Lisan
al-'Arab, Taj al-'Arus, etc.).
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Note - 3374Power and patronage may be lauded by sycophants and
selfish place-hunters; but when they are misused, and
when their exposure causes their fall, they suffer
ignominy even in this life. If they manage to escape
exposure while alive, it often happens that they are
found out after their death, and the curses of many
generations follow those whose oppressions and
wrong-doing spoiled the fair face of Allah's earth. But
even this is nothing to the true Punishment that will
come in the Hereafter. There, true values will be
restored, and some of the highest and mightiest will be
in the lowest depths of degradation.
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I.e., in the pejorative connotation universally given to the adjective "pharaonic". It is to be noted that the term la'nah, here rendered as "curse", primarily denotes "estrangement" (ib'ad), i.e., from all that is good and, hence, really desirable. |
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Power and patronage may be lauded by sycophants and selfish place-hunters; but when they are misused, and when their exposure causes their fall, they suffer ignominy even in this life. If they manage to escape exposure while alive, it often happens that they are found out after their death, and the curses of many generations follow those whose oppressions and wrong-doing spoiled the fair face of Allah's earth. But even this is nothing to the true Punishment that will come in the Hereafter. There, true values will be restored, and some of the highest and mightiest will be in the lowest depths of degradation. |
