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

Az-Zumar 39:22

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أَفَمَن شَرَحَ ٱللَّهُ صَدْرَهُۥ لِلْإِسْلَـٰمِ فَهُوَ عَلَىٰ نُورٍ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦ ۚ فَوَيْلٌ لِّلْقَـٰسِيَةِ قُلُوبُهُم مِّن ذِكْرِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ فِى ضَلَـٰلٍ مُّبِينٍ

So is one whose breast Allāh has expanded to [accept] Islām and he is upon [i.e., guided by] a light from his Lord [like one whose heart rejects it]? Then woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the remembrance of Allāh. Those are in manifest error.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

أفمن وسَّع الله صدره، فسعد بقبول الإسلام والانقياد له والإيمان به، فهو على بصيرة من أمره وهدى من ربه، كمن ليس كذلك؟ لا يستوون. فويل وهلاك للذين قَسَتْ قلوبهم، وأعرضت عن ذكر الله، أولئك في ضلال بيِّن عن الحق.

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