Surah Sajdah ayat 12 Tafsir Quran 32:12

﴿وَلَوْ تَرَىٰ إِذِ الْمُجْرِمُونَ نَاكِسُو رُءُوسِهِمْ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ رَبَّنَا أَبْصَرْنَا وَسَمِعْنَا فَارْجِعْنَا نَعْمَلْ صَالِحًا إِنَّا مُوقِنُونَ﴾
[ السجدة: 12]

32:12 If you could but see when the criminals are hanging their heads before their Lord, [saying], "Our Lord, we have seen and heard, so return us [to the world]; we will work righteousness. Indeed, we are [now] certain."

And if could you but see the guilty the disbelievers hanging their heads low before their Lord lowering them in shame saying ‘Our Lord! We have seen the resurrection that we denied and heard from You the confirmation of the truth of the messengers concerning that in which we used to call them liars. So send us back to the world so that we may act righteously therein for indeed we are convinced’ now. But none of this is of any use to them and they will not be sent back the response to the conditional clause beginning with law ‘if’ is an implicit ‘you would see a terrible thing’.

And if only you Muhammad could envisage the wicked when they are up standing before Allah in Day of Judgement drooping their heads, incensed with multiple wrongs and humiliations, imploring His mercy and expressing their thoughts in words: Now O Allah, our Creator, we can see what our minds eyes failed to see and we hear what our hearts ears failed to hear Would You send us back to make up for what we neglected and to imprint our deeds with wisdom and piety. We are now convinced that what the Messengers presented to us was indeed the truth

The Bad State in which the Idolators will be on the Day of Resurrection Allah tells us the state of the idolators on the Day of Resurrection and what they will say when they see the Resurrection and are standing before Allah -- may He be glorified -- humiliated and brought low, with their heads bowed, i.e., in shame.
They will say: رَبَّنَآ أَبْصَرْنَا وَسَمِعْنَا ( Our Lord! We have now seen and heard, ) meaning, `now we hear what You say and we will obey You.' This is like the Ayah, أَسْمِعْ بِهِمْ وَأَبْصِرْ يَوْمَ يَأْتُونَنَا ( How clearly will they see and hear, the Day when they will appear before Us! ) ( 19:38 ).
And they will blame themselves when they enter the Fire, and will say: لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَوْ نَعْقِلُ مَا كُنَّا فِى أَصْحَـبِ السَّعِيرِ ( "Had we but listened or used our intelligence, we would not have been among the dwellers of the blazing Fire!" ) 67:10 Similarly, here they are described as saying: رَبَّنَآ أَبْصَرْنَا وَسَمِعْنَا فَارْجِعْنَا ( Our Lord! We have now seen and heard, so send us back ) to the world, نَعْمَلْ صَـلِحاً إِنَّا مُوقِنُونَ ( that we will do righteous good deeds.
Verily, we now believe with certainty. ) means, `now we are sure and we believe that Your promise is true and that the meeting with You is true.' But the Lord, may He be exalted, knows that if He were to send them back to this world, they would behave as they did previously, and they would reject and disbelieve in the signs of Allah and would go against His Messengers, as He says: وَلَوْ تَرَى إِذْ وُقِفُواْ عَلَى النَّارِ فَقَالُواْ يلَيْتَنَا نُرَدُّ وَلاَ نُكَذِّبَ بِـَايَـتِ رَبِّنَا ( If you could but see when they will be held over the (Hell ) Fire! They will say: "Would that we were but sent back! Then we would not deny the Ayat of our Lord,") ( 6: 27 ) And Allah says here: وَلَوْ شِئْنَا لاّتَيْنَا كُلَّ نَفْسٍ هُدَاهَا ( And if We had willed, surely We would have given every person his guidance, ) This is like the Ayah, وَلَوْ شَآءَ رَبُّكَ لآمَنَ مَن فِى الاٌّرْضِ كُلُّهُمْ جَمِيعًا ( And had your Lord willed, those on earth would have believed, all of them together ) ( 10:99 ). وَلَـكِنْ حَقَّ الْقَوْلُ مِنْى لاّمْلأَنَّ جَهَنَّمَ مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ ( but the Word from Me took effect, that I will fill Hell with Jinn and mankind together. ) i.e., from both classes, so their abode will be Hell and they will have no escape from it and no way out.
We seek refuge with Allah and in His perfect Words from that. فَذُوقُواْ بِمَا نَسِيتُمْ لِقَآءَ يَوْمِكُمْ هَـذَآ ( Then taste because of your forgetting the meeting of this Day of yours. ) means, it will be said to the people of Hell by way of rebuke: `taste this punishment because you denied it and believed that it would never happen; you tried to forget about it and acted as if you had forgotten it.' إِنَّا نَسِينَـكُمْ ( Surely, We too will forget you, ) means, `We will deal with you as if We have forgotten you,' but nothing escapes Allah's attention, and He makes the punishment fit the crime, as He says: الْيَوْمَ نَنسَاكُمْ كَمَا نَسِيتُمْ لِقَآءَ يَوْمِكُمْ هَـذَا ( This Day We will forget you as you forgot the meeting of this Day of yours ) ( 45:34 ). وَذُوقُـواْ عَذَابَ الْخُلْدِ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ ( so taste you the abiding torment for what you used to do. ) i.e., because of your disbelief and rejection, as Allah says in another Ayah: لاَّ يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْداً وَلاَ شَرَاباً - إِلاَّ حَمِيماً وَغَسَّاقاً ( Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink.
Except Hamim, and Ghassaq ) until: فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلاَّ عَذَاباً ( No increase shall We give you, except in torment ) ( 78:24-30 ).

(32:12) Would *22 that you could see the guilty standing before their Lord with their heads downcast, (saying to Him): 'Our Lord, we have now seen and heard, so send us back (to the world) that we might act righteously. For now we have come to have firm faith.'

If you could but see when the meaning

*22) This will be the scene when after returning to its Lord the human 'ego' will be standing before Him to render an account of its deeds.

 

The Bad State in which the Idolators will be on the Day of Resurrection Allah tells us the state of the idolators on the Day of Resurrection and what they will say when they see the Resurrection and are standing before Allah -- may He be glorified -- humiliated and brought low, with their heads bowed, i.e., in shame.
They will say: رَبَّنَآ أَبْصَرْنَا وَسَمِعْنَا ( Our Lord! We have now seen and heard, ) meaning, `now we hear what You say and we will obey You.' This is like the Ayah, أَسْمِعْ بِهِمْ وَأَبْصِرْ يَوْمَ يَأْتُونَنَا ( How clearly will they see and hear, the Day when they will appear before Us! ) ( 19:38 ).
And they will blame themselves when they enter the Fire, and will say: لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَوْ نَعْقِلُ مَا كُنَّا فِى أَصْحَـبِ السَّعِيرِ ( "Had we but listened or used our intelligence, we would not have been among the dwellers of the blazing Fire!" ) 67:10 Similarly, here they are described as saying: رَبَّنَآ أَبْصَرْنَا وَسَمِعْنَا فَارْجِعْنَا ( Our Lord! We have now seen and heard, so send us back ) to the world, نَعْمَلْ صَـلِحاً إِنَّا مُوقِنُونَ ( that we will do righteous good deeds.
Verily, we now believe with certainty. ) means, `now we are sure and we believe that Your promise is true and that the meeting with You is true.' But the Lord, may He be exalted, knows that if He were to send them back to this world, they would behave as they did previously, and they would reject and disbelieve in the signs of Allah and would go against His Messengers, as He says: وَلَوْ تَرَى إِذْ وُقِفُواْ عَلَى النَّارِ فَقَالُواْ يلَيْتَنَا نُرَدُّ وَلاَ نُكَذِّبَ بِـَايَـتِ رَبِّنَا ( If you could but see when they will be held over the (Hell ) Fire! They will say: "Would that we were but sent back! Then we would not deny the Ayat of our Lord,") ( 6: 27 ) And Allah says here: وَلَوْ شِئْنَا لاّتَيْنَا كُلَّ نَفْسٍ هُدَاهَا ( And if We had willed, surely We would have given every person his guidance, ) This is like the Ayah, وَلَوْ شَآءَ رَبُّكَ لآمَنَ مَن فِى الاٌّرْضِ كُلُّهُمْ جَمِيعًا ( And had your Lord willed, those on earth would have believed, all of them together ) ( 10:99 ). وَلَـكِنْ حَقَّ الْقَوْلُ مِنْى لاّمْلأَنَّ جَهَنَّمَ مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ ( but the Word from Me took effect, that I will fill Hell with Jinn and mankind together. ) i.e., from both classes, so their abode will be Hell and they will have no escape from it and no way out.
We seek refuge with Allah and in His perfect Words from that. فَذُوقُواْ بِمَا نَسِيتُمْ لِقَآءَ يَوْمِكُمْ هَـذَآ ( Then taste because of your forgetting the meeting of this Day of yours. ) means, it will be said to the people of Hell by way of rebuke: `taste this punishment because you denied it and believed that it would never happen; you tried to forget about it and acted as if you had forgotten it.' إِنَّا نَسِينَـكُمْ ( Surely, We too will forget you, ) means, `We will deal with you as if We have forgotten you,' but nothing escapes Allah's attention, and He makes the punishment fit the crime, as He says: الْيَوْمَ نَنسَاكُمْ كَمَا نَسِيتُمْ لِقَآءَ يَوْمِكُمْ هَـذَا ( This Day We will forget you as you forgot the meeting of this Day of yours ) ( 45:34 ). وَذُوقُـواْ عَذَابَ الْخُلْدِ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ ( so taste you the abiding torment for what you used to do. ) i.e., because of your disbelief and rejection, as Allah says in another Ayah: لاَّ يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْداً وَلاَ شَرَاباً - إِلاَّ حَمِيماً وَغَسَّاقاً ( Nothing cool shall they taste therein, nor any drink.
Except Hamim, and Ghassaq ) until: فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلاَّ عَذَاباً ( No increase shall We give you, except in torment ) ( 78:24-30 ).

( Couldst thou but see when the guilty ) the idolaters ( hang their heads ) lower down their heads ( before their Lord ) on the Day of Judgement, ( (and say ): Our Lord!) O our Lord! ( We have now seen ) we know now that which we did not ( and heard ) and become certain about that which we were not certain of, ( so send us back ) so that we believe in You; ( we will do right ) sincerely to You, ( now we are sure ) we believe in You, in Your Book, Messenger and in resurrection after death.

And if you only could see when the Mujrimun (criminals, disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, etc.) shall hang their heads before their Lord (saying): "Our Lord! We have now seen and heard, so send us back (to the world), we will do righteous good deeds. Verily! We now believe with certainty."

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