35. Sūrat Fāṭir

٣٥۔ سُورَةُ فَاطِر

35.6 The living and the dead are not alike. You cannot make those who are buried in the grave hear you.

٣٥۔٦ مقطع في سُورَةُ فَاطِر

quran:35:19

Not equal are the blind and the seeing,  

Nor are the blind and the seer equal, that is, the disbeliever and the believer ˹are not equal˺,
القرآن:٣٥:١٩

وَمَا يَسْتَوِي الْأَعْمَىٰ وَالْبَصِيرُ  

{وما يستوي الأعمى والبصير} الكافر والمؤمن.
quran:35:20

Nor are the darknesses and the light,  

nor darkness — disbelief — and light — faith;
القرآن:٣٥:٢٠

وَلَا الظُّلُمَاتُ وَلَا النُّورُ  

{ولا الظلمات} الكفر {ولا النور} الإيمان.
quran:35:21

Nor are the shade and the heat,  

nor shade and torrid heat, namely, Paradise and the Fire;
القرآن:٣٥:٢١

وَلَا الظِّلُّ وَلَا الْحَرُورُ  

{ولا الظل ولا الحرور} الجنة والنار.
quran:35:22

And not equal are the living and the dead. Indeed, Allah causes to hear whom He wills, but you cannot make hear those in the graves.  

nor are the living equal to the dead, the believers and the disbelievers ˹respectively˺ (the addition of the particle lā, ‘nor’, in all three instances is for emphasis). Indeed God makes to hear whomever He will, to be guided, so that such ˹a person˺ then responds to Him by embracing faith. But you cannot make those who are in the graves to hear, namely, the disbelievers — whom He has likened to the dead — ˹to hear˺ and so respond.
القرآن:٣٥:٢٢

وَمَا يَسْتَوِي الْأَحْيَاءُ وَلَا الْأَمْوَاتُ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُسْمِعُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ ۖ وَمَا أَنْتَ بِمُسْمِعٍ مَنْ فِي الْقُبُورِ  

{وما يستوي الأحياء ولا الأموات} المؤمنون ولا الكفار، وزيادة لا في الثلاثة تأكيد {إن الله يسمع من يشاء} هدايته فيجيبه بالإيمان {وما أنت بمسمع من في القبور} أي الكفار شبههم بالموتى فيجيبون.
quran:35:23

You, ˹O Muhammad˺, are not but a warner.  

You are but a warner, to them.
القرآن:٣٥:٢٣

إِنْ أَنْتَ إِلَّا نَذِيرٌ  

{إن} ما {أنت إلا نذير} منذر لهم.
quran:35:24

Indeed, We have sent you with the truth as a bringer of good tidings and a warner. And there was no nation but that there had passed within it a warner.  

Truly We have sent you with the truth, with ˹right˺ guidance, as a bearer of good tidings, to him who responds to it, and a warner, to him who does not respond to it. And there is not a community but there has passed, there has been, in it a warner, a prophet to warn it.
القرآن:٣٥:٢٤

إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ بِالْحَقِّ بَشِيرًا وَنَذِيرًا ۚ وَإِنْ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ إِلَّا خَلَا فِيهَا نَذِيرٌ  

{إنا أرسلناك بالحق} بالهدى {بشيرا} من أجاب إليه {ونذيرا} من لم يجب إليه {وإن} ما {من أمة إلا خلا} سلف {فيها نذير} نبي ينذرها.
quran:35:25

And if they deny you - then already have those before them denied. Their messengers came to them with clear proofs and written ordinances and with the enlightening Scripture.  

And if they, that is, the people of Meccans, deny you, those before them also denied: their messengers brought them manifest signs, miracles, and with scriptures, such as the scrolls of Abraham, and with the illuminating Book, namely, the Torah and the Gospel, so endure ˹patiently˺ as they endured.
القرآن:٣٥:٢٥

وَإِنْ يُكَذِّبُوكَ فَقَدْ كَذَّبَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ جَاءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُمْ بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ وَبِالزُّبُرِ وَبِالْكِتَابِ الْمُنِيرِ  

{وإن يكذبوك} أي أهل مكة {فقد كذب الذين من قبلهم جاءتهم رسلهم بالبينات} المعجزات {وبالزبر} كصحف إبراهيم {وبالكتاب المنير} هو التوراة والإنجيل، فاصبر كما صبروا.
quran:35:26

Then I seized the ones who disbelieved, and how ˹terrible˺ was My reproach.  

Then I seized those who disbelieved, for their denial, and how was My abhorrence!, ˹how was˺ My rebuttal against them by way of punishment and destruction, in other words, it was appropriate.
القرآن:٣٥:٢٦

ثُمَّ أَخَذْتُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا ۖ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ نَكِيرِ  

{ثم أخذت الذين كفروا} بتكذيبهم {فكيف كان نكير} إنكاري عليهم بالعقوبة والإهلاك، أي هو واقع موقعه.