55.36. Which is it, of the favors of your Lord, that ye deny? (Pickthall)
55.36. Und welche der Wohltaten eures Herrn leugnet ihr beiden? (Ahmad v. Denffer)
55.36. Welche der Wohltaten eures Herrn wollt ihr beide denn leugnen? (Bubenheim)
55.36. Welche der Wohltaten eures Herrn wollt ihr beide da leugnen? (Azhar)
55.36. Also welche von den Wohltaten eures HERRN leugnet ihr beide ab?! (Zaidan)
55.36. Welche von den Wohltaten eures Herrn wollt ihr denn leugnen? (Paret)
55.36. Welche der Wohltaten eures Herrn wollt ihr beide da leugnen? (Rasul)
Tafsir von Maududi für die Ayaat 31 bis 36
O you burdens of the earth, ( 29 ) We shall soon be free to call you to account. ( 30 ) (Then We shall see) which of your Lord's favours you deny. ( 31 ) O company of jinn and men! If you have the power to escape across the bounds of the earth and the heavens, then escape ! You shall not escape, for it requires great power. ( 32 ) So, O jinn and men, which of your Lord's powers will you deny? (If you try to escape) a flame of fire and smoke ( 33 ) shall be let loose upon you, which you will not be able to withstand. O jinn and men, which of your Lord's powers will you deny?
Desc No: 29 Thaqalan is derived from thiql which means a burden, and thaqal is the burden loaded on a conveyance. Thaqalan (dual) therefore would mean: "two loaded burdens". Here this word refers to the jinn and then; who are both loaded on the earth. As the addressees here are those jinn and men who have turned away from the service and obedience of their Lord and Sustainer, they have been addressed as: "0 burdens of the earth," In other words, the Creator is warning these two unworthy groups of His creation, saying; "« you who have become a burden for My earth, I am soon going to take you to task,"
Desc No: 30 This dces not mean that Allah at this time is too busy to call the disobedient servants to account, but it means that Allah has arranged a special time-table according to which He will first bring into existence generation after generation of the jinn and men in the world till an appointed time, and will provide theist with an opportunity to work in this examination centre of the world; then at a specific Hour the examination will be suddenly brought to a close, and all the jinn and men living at that time will be given death simultaneously. Then at another time which is preordained with Allah for calling the jinn and men to account, all the former and the latter generations of both the species will be resurrected and mustered at one and the same time. In view of this time-table the two species have been warned, as if to say: `We are yet busy with the work of the first period, and the time for the second period has not yet come, not to speak of embarking on the work of the third period. But you may rest assured. The time is fast approaching when We shall be free to take you to task." This lack of leisure does not mean that Allah is too occupied with one kind of work to attend to another kind of work. But its nature is analogous to the occupation of a person who has set a time-table for different sorts of the works and in respect of a work whose time has not yet arrived according to the time-table, he may say that he at the moment is not free for it.
Desc No: 31 Here, alaa' can also be taken in the meaning of powers. In view of the context, each meaning seems to be appropriate in its own way. According to the first meaning, it would mean: "Today you are being ungrateful for Our blessings and are being treacherous and disloyal by adopting the different attitudes of disbelief, polytheism, atheism, sin and disobedience, but tomorrow when the time comes for accountability, We shall sec which of Our blessings you prove to be the result of a mere accident, or the fruit of your own ability, or manifestation of the kindness of a god or goddess or saint." In the second case, the meaning would be: `Today you are mocking the doctrine of Resurrection and the gathering together of all mankind and jinn on the Day of Judgement and the accountability and the Heaven and Hell, and are harbouring the misunderstanding that such things arc not at all possible, but when We gather you together for accountability and all that you deny today will appear before you, then We shall see which of Our powers you deny."
Desc No: 32 'The earth and the heavens": the Universe or the Kingdom of God. The verse means to impress this: `It is not in your power to escape Allah's grasp. When the time for the accountability of which you are being foretold comes, you will be seized and brought before God in any case wherever you may be. To go out of God's reach you will have to flee from the Universe of God for which you do trot have the required power. If you feel that you have the power, then you may use that power if you so will. "
Desc No: 33 The word shuwaz, as used in the original, means the pure, smokeless dame, and nuhas is the gross smoke without a flame. These two things, one after the other, will be Iet loose upon the men and jinn, when they try to escape the accountability of Allah. "
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