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Surah Luqman (Luqman ) 31 : 7

وَإِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا وَلَّىٰ مُسْتَكْبِرًا كَأَن لَّمْ يَسْمَعْهَا كَأَنَّ فِىٓ أُذُنَيْهِ وَقْرًا ۖ فَبَشِّرْهُ بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
And when our verses are recited to him, he turns away arrogantly as if he had not heard them, as if there was in his ears deafness. So give him tidings of a painful punishment.

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Word Arabic word
(31:7:1)
wa-idhā
And when
(31:7:2)
tut'lā
are recited
(31:7:3)
(31:7:4)
āyātunā
Our Verses
(31:7:5)
wallā
he turns away
(31:7:6)
mus'takbiran
arrogantly
(31:7:7)
(31:7:8)
(31:7:9)
yasmaʿhā
he (had) heard them
(31:7:10)
(31:7:11)
(31:7:12)
udhunayhi
his ears
(31:7:13)
waqran
(is) deafness
(31:7:14)
fabashir'hu
So give him tidings
(31:7:15)
biʿadhābin
of a punishment
(31:7:16)
alīmin
painful

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Explanatory Note

Painting the image of this other party is then resumed: “When Our revelations are conveyed to such a person, he turns away in his arrogance as though he had not heard them.” The image here is full of movement, showing this person as arrogant, turning away in pride. He is, therefore, decorated with shame and this makes us look at him with contempt: “as though there were heaviness in his ears.” It is this heaviness that stops him from listening to God’s verses. No person listens to these divine verses and then turns away so arrogantly. This description is completed with further ridicule: “Give him, then, the news of painful suffering.” As explained in the Prologue, the verse uses here the term bashshir, which connotes the giving of happy news. Its usage adds further ridicule.

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An examination of the subject matter shows that it was sent down in the period when persecution to suppress and thwart the invitation to Islam had begun. Every sort of plotting had started being employed for this purpose. This is borne out by v.14 in which the young reverts to Islam have been told that although the rights of the parents are the uppermost after God they should not listen to them if they prevented them from accepting Islam or compelled them to revert to the creed of polytheism (Shirk). The same thing has been said in Surah 29: al-‘Ankabut (The Spider) which indicates that both these Surahs were sent down in the same period. A study of the style and subject matter of the two Surahs on the whole however shows that Surah Luqman was sent down earlier for one does not see any sign of the antagonism in its background, though contrary to this while studying Surah 29: al-‘Ankabut (The Spider) one can clearly feel that the Muslims were being severely persecuted during the period of its revelation.

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