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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-Insān 76:1 Juzʾ 29 Page 578

‏‏ ‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏

Read in the muṣḥaf
تفسير الجلالين Al-Jalālayn (English)

Has there [ever] been — there has indeed [been] — for man, Adam, a period of time, forty years, in which he was a thing unmentioned? — he was during this [period] a fashioned in clay and not mentioned; alternatively what is meant by insān, ‘man’, is the generic noun and by hīn, ‘a period of time’, the period of gestation.