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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Al-Isra 17:18

Word by word

مَّن كَانَ يُرِيدُ ٱلْعَاجِلَةَ عَجَّلْنَا لَهُۥ فِيهَا مَا نَشَآءُ لِمَن نُّرِيدُ ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَا لَهُۥ جَهَنَّمَ يَصْلَىٰهَا مَذْمُومًا مَّدْحُورًا

Whoever should desire the immediate - We hasten for him from it what We will to whom We intend. Then We have made for him Hell, which he will [enter to] burn, censured and banished.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

من كان طلبه الدنيا العاجلة، وسعى لها وحدها، ولم يصدِّق بالآخرة، ولم يعمل لها، عجَّل الله له فيها ما يشاؤه الله ويريده مما كتبه له في اللوح المحفوظ، ثم يجعل الله له في الآخرة جهنم، يدخلها ملومًا مطرودًا من رحمته عز وجل؛ وذلك بسبب إرادته الدنيا وسعيه لها دون الآخرة.

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