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Surah Al-Isra (The Night Journey ) 17 : 83

وَإِذَآ أَنْعَمْنَا عَلَى ٱلْإِنسَٰنِ أَعْرَضَ وَنَـَٔا بِجَانِبِهِۦ ۖ وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلشَّرُّ كَانَ يَـُٔوسًا

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
And when We bestow favour upon the human being, he turns away and distances himself; and when evil touches him, he is ever despairing.

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Word Arabic word
(17:83:1)
wa-idhā
And when
(17:83:2)
anʿamnā
We bestow favor
(17:83:3)
(17:83:4)
l-insāni
man
(17:83:5)
aʿraḍa
he turns away
(17:83:6)
wanaā
and becomes remote
(17:83:7)
bijānibihi
on his side
(17:83:8)
wa-idhā
And when
(17:83:9)
massahu
touches him
(17:83:10)
l-sharu
the evil
(17:83:11)
kāna
he is
(17:83:12)
yaūsan
(in) despair

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Explanatory Note

When man is left to his own devices, without the cure and blessing of the Qur’ān, and without consistent restraint of his whims and desires, he moves between two extremes: when he enjoys good fortune, he is arrogant and ungrateful, and when he experiences hardship he is given to despair. “Yet when We bestow Our blessings on man, he turns his back and draws arrogantly aside, and when he is afflicted by evil he gives himself up to despair.” (Verse 83)

Blessings and good fortune lead to arrogance unless one remembers where they come from and give thanks to God who bestowed them. On the other hand, when someone is afflicted by difficulty and hardship, he is easily lost in despair unless he trusts to God and hopes to receive His grace. It is when one truly relies on God that one feels that hardship will give way to what is better. This makes it clear that faith ensures God’s grace in situations of ease and difficulty alike.

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7. Period of Revelation

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The very first verse indicates that this Surah was revealed on the occasion of the ascension (Mi’raj). According to the narrations (hadith) on the life of the Prophet, this event happened one year before migration (Hijrah). Thus this Surah was revealed in the last stage of Prophethood in Makkah.

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The Prophet had been propagating Monotheism (Tawhid) for twelve years now. In spite of all the opposition, Islam had spread to every corner of Arabia and there was hardly a clan which had not been influenced by the invitation. In Makkah itself, the true Believers had formed themselves into a small community.  A large number of the people from the Aws and Khazraj tribes (two influential clans of Madinah) had also now accepted Islam. Thus the time had come for the Muslims to emigrate from Makkah to Madinah, at behest of the Aws and Khazraj to establish an Islamic state.

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