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Surah Ghafir (The Forgiver) 40 : 55

فَٱصْبِرْ إِنَّ وَعْدَ ٱللَّهِ حَقٌّ وَٱسْتَغْفِرْ لِذَنۢبِكَ وَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ بِٱلْعَشِىِّ وَٱلْإِبْكَٰرِ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
So be patient, [O Muhammad]. Indeed, the promise of Allāh is true. And ask forgiveness for your sin and exalt [Allāh] with praise of your Lord in the evening and the morning.

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(40:55:1)
fa-iṣ'bir
So be patient
(40:55:2)
(40:55:3)
waʿda
(the) Promise of Allah
(40:55:4)
l-lahi
(the) Promise of Allah
(40:55:5)
ḥaqqun
(is) true
(40:55:6)
wa-is'taghfir
And ask forgiveness
(40:55:7)
lidhanbika
for your sin
(40:55:8)
wasabbiḥ
and glorify
(40:55:9)
biḥamdi
(the) praise
(40:55:10)
rabbika
(of) your Lord
(40:55:11)
bil-ʿashiyi
in the evening
(40:55:12)
wal-ib'kāri
and the morning

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Explanatory Note

The final note in this part of the sarah is given in the form of a directive to the Prophet and the believers facing much hardship in Makkah, and to all future generations of believers who face such hardship: "Therefore, remain patient in adversity, for God's promise always comes true. Ask forgiveness for your sins, and extol your Lord's glory and praise evening and morning."  Remain patient in adversity, whether this adversity takes the form of rejection of the message, denying its truth, or the infliction of physical harm. Remain patient when you are unable to check falsehood that appears to enjoy wealth and power for a period of time. Bear with patience what you have to face of people's rough attitudes and behaviour. Check your own desire to achieve a quick victory. Remain patient as you may have to face many difficulties caused by friends, if not by enemies.

"Remain patient in adversity, for God's promise always comes true." It may appear slow coming; matters may become complicated; prospects may become gloomy; yet it is the promise of the One who can fulfil it, and whose will it has been to make the promise. As you go along your way, take the necessary equipment: "Ask forgiveness for your sins, and extol your Lord's glory and praise evening and morning." This is what is of most benefit along the hard way of patience; seeking forgiveness of one's sins and extolling God's praise and glory. While this serves to refine our hearts and feelings, it also ensures a positive response. Indeed, it is through such seeking of forgiveness and extolling of God's praise and glory that victory is achieved within our selves, to be followed by victory in life.

The evening and morning are specified either as a reference to all time, since these are the two ends of the day, or because these are times when hearts are calm and reflective. They can, thus, appreciate God's greatness better.  Such is the way, then, that God has chosen to provide the necessary equipment for achieving victory.

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There are clear indications in the subject matter of this Surah to the conditions in which it was revealed. The disbelievers of Makkah at that time were engaged in two kinds of the activities against the Prophet. First, they were creating suspicion and misgiving in the minds of the people about the teaching of the Qur’an and the message of Islam and about the Prophet himself by starting many disputes and discussions, raising irrelevant objections and bringing ever new accusations so that the Prophet and the believers were sick of trying to answer them. Secondly, they were preparing the ground for putting an end to the Prophet himself. They were devising one plot after another, and on one occasion had even taken the practical steps to execute a plot. There is a hadith on the authority of Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As, saying that, one day when the Prophet was offering his prayers in the precincts of the Ka’bah, suddenly ‘Uqbah bin Abi Mu’ait, rushed forward and putting a piece of cloth round his neck started twisting it so as to strangle him to death. Abu Bakr, who happened to go there in time, pushed him away. Abdullah says that when Abu Bakr was struggling with the man, he was saying words to the effect: “Would you kill a man only because he says: God is my Lord?”

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