تفسير الجلالين

Al-Jalālayn (English)

المحلي والسيوطي (ت ٨٦٤/٩١١ هـ)

The classic short gloss, woven into the verse, in Feras Hamza’s translation.

Al-Baqarah 2:142 Juzʾ 2 Page 22

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Read in the muṣḥaf

تفسير الجلالين Al-Jalālayn (English)

The fools, the ignorant, among the people, that is, the Jews and the idolaters, will say, ‘What, matter, has turned them, the Prophet (s) and the believers, from the direction they were facing in their prayers formerly?’, this being the Holy House (bayt al-maqdis, sc. Jerusalem); the sīn [of sa-yaqūlu, ‘they will say’] denotes the future tense and informs of the Unseen. Say: ‘To God belong the East and the West, that is, all directions. Thus He commands that they face whichever direction He wills, and there can be no objection. He guides whomever He will, His guidance being, to a straight path’, that is, the religion of Islam, and you are among these [guided ones].