Surah Tur ayat 32 Tafsir Quran 52:32

﴿أَمْ تَأْمُرُهُمْ أَحْلَامُهُم بِهَٰذَا ۚ أَمْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ طَاغُونَ﴾
[ الطور: 32]

52:32 Or do their minds command them to [say] this, or are they a transgressing people?

Or do their faculties of understanding prompt them to say this? their saying to him you are either a sorcerer a poet a soothsayer or a madman in other words they do not in reality prompt them to say this. Or am in effect means bal ‘rather’ are they a rebellious lot? because of their obstinacy.

Or is it the hope they found on a basis of a mental concept of what is not true, or on what they see in a dream or a vision steering their feeble minds to an unwarranted course of action, or is it on a basis of obstinacy and transgression

Absolving the Prophet of the False Accusations the Idolators made against Him Allah the Exalted commands His Messenger to convey His Message to His servants and remind them of His revelation that has been sent down to him.
Next, Allah refutes the false accusations that the liars and sinners accused the Prophet of, فَذَكِّرْ فَمَآ أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِكَـهِنٍ وَلاَ مَجْنُونٍ ( Therefore, remind.
By the grace of Allah, you are neither a Kahin nor a madman. ) Allah says, `by the grace of Allah, you, O Muhammad, are not a Kahin, as the ignorant Quraysh idolators claim.' A Kahin is the soothsayer who receives information from the Jinns that the Jinns are able to eavesdrop on news from heaven, وَلاَ مَجْنُونٍ ( nor a madman ) whom Shaytan has possessed with insanity.
Allah the Exalted said, while chastising the pagans for uttering false statements about the Prophet , أَمْ يَقُولُونَ شَاعِرٌ نَّتَرَبَّصُ بِهِ رَيْبَ الْمَنُونِ ( Or do they say: "A poet! We await for him some calamity by time!" ) They said, `We await a disaster to strike him, for example, death.
We will be patient with him until death comes to him and we, thus, get rid of his bother and from his Message.' Allah the Exalted said, قُلْ تَرَبَّصُواْ فَإِنِّى مَعَكُمْ مِّنَ الْمُتَرَبِّصِينَ ( Say: "Wait! I am with you among those who wait!" ) `wait and I too will wait with you, and you will come to know to whom the good end and triumph shall be granted in this life and the Hereafter.' Muhammad bin Ishaq reported that `Abdullah bin Abi Najih said that Mujahid said that Ibn `Abbas said, "When the Quraysh gathered in the Dar An-Nadwah ( their meeting place ) to discuss the matter of the Prophet, one of them said, `Jail him in chains.
Then we will wait and in time, a calamity will strike him; he will die just as the poets before him died, such as Zuhayr and An-Nabighah, for he is a poet just like them.' Allah the Exalted said in response to their statement, أَمْ يَقُولُونَ شَاعِرٌ نَّتَرَبَّصُ بِهِ رَيْبَ الْمَنُونِ ( Or do they say: "A poet! We await for him some calamity by time!" )" Allah the Exalted said, أَمْ تَأْمُرُهُمْ أَحْلَـمُهُمْ بِهَـذَآ ( Or do their minds command them this ), `do their minds command them to tell these lies against you ( O Muhammad ), even though they know in their hearts that they are untrue and false,' أَمْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ طَاغُونَ ( or are they people transgressing all bounds ) `surely, they are misguided, stubborn and unjust people, and this is why they say what they say about you ( O Muhammad ).
' Allah the Exalted said, أَمْ يَقُولُونَ تَقَوَّلَهُ ( Or do they say: "He has forged it" ) They said, `he has forged this Qur'an and brought it from his own.' Allah the Exalted responded to them, بَل لاَّ يُؤْمِنُونَ ( Nay! They believe not! ), meaning, their disbelief drives them to utter these statements, فَلْيَأْتُواْ بِحَدِيثٍ مِّثْلِهِ إِن كَانُواْ صَـدِقِينَ ( Let them then produce a recitation like unto it if they are truthful. ) meaning, if they are truthful in their statement that Muhammad ﷺ has forged this Qur'an and brought it of his own, then let them produce something similar to what he has brought forth, as in this Qur'an! And even if they combine their strength to that of the people of the earth, Jinns and mankind alike, they will never produce something like the Qur'an, or ten Surahs like it, or even one Surah!

(52:32) Do their minds prompt them to say such things, or are they a people immersed in transgression?' *25

Or do their minds command them to meaning

*25) In these two sentences, the opponents' entire propaganda has been nailed, and they have been completely exposed.
The reasoning briefly is this: These Qaraish chiefs and elders pose as very wise people, but does their intellect tell them that they should call a person a poet when he is not a poet, and call him a madman when he is well-known for his wisdom among the people, and dub him a sorcerer when he has not the remotest association with sorcery ? Then, if you are passing these judgments only on the basis of intellect and reason, you should have passed one judgment, and not so many contradictory judgments simultaneously.
After all, how can one and the same man be a poet and a madman and a sorcerer at one and the same time ? If he is mad, he can then neither be a sorcerer nor a poet.
If he is a sorcerer, he cannot be a poet, and if he is a poet, he cannot be a sorcerer, for the language and diction and themes of poetry are quite different from the language and themes of sorcery.
The one who knows the distinctions between poetry and sorcery cannot possibly call and regard the same discourse both as poetry and as sorcery at one and the same time.
Therefore, it is evident that these contradictory things are being said against the Prophet Muhammad ( upon whom be Allah's peace ) not on the basis of intellect and reason but only due to obduracy and stubbornness, and the big chiefs of the nation blinded by their prejudice and enmity are levelling absurd charges which no serious person can regard as worthy of any attention.
(For further explanation, see E.N.
104 of AlA'raf, E.N.
3 of Surah Yunus, E.N.'s 53, 54, of Bani Isra'il, E.N.'s 130, 131, 140, 14_2-144 of Ash-Shu'ara'.

 

Absolving the Prophet of the False Accusations the Idolators made against Him Allah the Exalted commands His Messenger to convey His Message to His servants and remind them of His revelation that has been sent down to him.
Next, Allah refutes the false accusations that the liars and sinners accused the Prophet of, فَذَكِّرْ فَمَآ أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِكَـهِنٍ وَلاَ مَجْنُونٍ ( Therefore, remind.
By the grace of Allah, you are neither a Kahin nor a madman. ) Allah says, `by the grace of Allah, you, O Muhammad, are not a Kahin, as the ignorant Quraysh idolators claim.' A Kahin is the soothsayer who receives information from the Jinns that the Jinns are able to eavesdrop on news from heaven, وَلاَ مَجْنُونٍ ( nor a madman ) whom Shaytan has possessed with insanity.
Allah the Exalted said, while chastising the pagans for uttering false statements about the Prophet , أَمْ يَقُولُونَ شَاعِرٌ نَّتَرَبَّصُ بِهِ رَيْبَ الْمَنُونِ ( Or do they say: "A poet! We await for him some calamity by time!" ) They said, `We await a disaster to strike him, for example, death.
We will be patient with him until death comes to him and we, thus, get rid of his bother and from his Message.' Allah the Exalted said, قُلْ تَرَبَّصُواْ فَإِنِّى مَعَكُمْ مِّنَ الْمُتَرَبِّصِينَ ( Say: "Wait! I am with you among those who wait!" ) `wait and I too will wait with you, and you will come to know to whom the good end and triumph shall be granted in this life and the Hereafter.' Muhammad bin Ishaq reported that `Abdullah bin Abi Najih said that Mujahid said that Ibn `Abbas said, "When the Quraysh gathered in the Dar An-Nadwah ( their meeting place ) to discuss the matter of the Prophet, one of them said, `Jail him in chains.
Then we will wait and in time, a calamity will strike him; he will die just as the poets before him died, such as Zuhayr and An-Nabighah, for he is a poet just like them.' Allah the Exalted said in response to their statement, أَمْ يَقُولُونَ شَاعِرٌ نَّتَرَبَّصُ بِهِ رَيْبَ الْمَنُونِ ( Or do they say: "A poet! We await for him some calamity by time!" )" Allah the Exalted said, أَمْ تَأْمُرُهُمْ أَحْلَـمُهُمْ بِهَـذَآ ( Or do their minds command them this ), `do their minds command them to tell these lies against you ( O Muhammad ), even though they know in their hearts that they are untrue and false,' أَمْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ طَاغُونَ ( or are they people transgressing all bounds ) `surely, they are misguided, stubborn and unjust people, and this is why they say what they say about you ( O Muhammad ).
' Allah the Exalted said, أَمْ يَقُولُونَ تَقَوَّلَهُ ( Or do they say: "He has forged it" ) They said, `he has forged this Qur'an and brought it from his own.' Allah the Exalted responded to them, بَل لاَّ يُؤْمِنُونَ ( Nay! They believe not! ), meaning, their disbelief drives them to utter these statements, فَلْيَأْتُواْ بِحَدِيثٍ مِّثْلِهِ إِن كَانُواْ صَـدِقِينَ ( Let them then produce a recitation like unto it if they are truthful. ) meaning, if they are truthful in their statement that Muhammad ﷺ has forged this Qur'an and brought it of his own, then let them produce something similar to what he has brought forth, as in this Qur'an! And even if they combine their strength to that of the people of the earth, Jinns and mankind alike, they will never produce something like the Qur'an, or ten Surahs like it, or even one Surah!

( Do their minds command them to do this ) denial, abuse and harm of Muhammad ( pbuh ). This was said as an attack against them, ( or are they ) they are indeed ( an outrageous folk ) disbelievers and arrogant folk with regard to transgressing against Allah?

Do their minds command them this [i.e. to tell a lie against you (Muhammad SAW)] or are they people exceeding the bounds (i.e. from Belief in Allah to disbelief).

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