Surah Fatir ayat 36 Tafsir Quran 35:36

﴿وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَهُمْ نَارُ جَهَنَّمَ لَا يُقْضَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ فَيَمُوتُوا وَلَا يُخَفَّفُ عَنْهُم مِّنْ عَذَابِهَا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِي كُلَّ كَفُورٍ﴾
[ فاطر: 36]

35:36 And for those who disbelieve will be the fire of Hell. [Death] is not decreed for them so they may die, nor will its torment be lightened for them. Thus do we recompense every ungrateful one.

And as for those who disbelieve there will be for them the fire of Hell they will neither be done away with through death so that they may die and find rest nor will any aspect of its chastisement be lightened for them not even for a single moment. In this way in the way that We requite these We requite every ingrate every disbeliever read yujzā kullu kafūrin ‘every ingrate is so requited’; or najzī kulla kafūrin ‘so We requite every ingrate’.

But those -infidels- who deny Him shall have to suffer for it. Hell shall assert them as her own and therein they will have passed through nature to eternal suffering. Never shall they perish in the wreck of time or suffer death nor shall their torment be mitigated, for thus do We requite the ungrateful who display no gratitude

The Punishment of the Disbeliever and what Their State will be in Hell Having told us how the blessed will be ( in Paradise ), Allah now starts to tell us what the state of doomed will be.
He says: وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لَهُمْ نَارُ جَهَنَّمَ لاَ يُقْضَى عَلَيْهِمْ فَيَمُوتُواْ ( But those who disbelieve, for them will be the fire of Hell.
Neither will it have a complete killing effect on them so that they die ) This is like the Ayah: لاَ يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلاَ يَحْيَى ( Wherein he will neither die nor live ) ( 20:74 ).
It was reported in Sahih Muslim that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
«أَمَّا أَهْلُ النَّارِ الَّذِينَ هُمْ أَهْلُهَا، فَلَا يَمُوتُونَ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَوْن»
( As for the people of Hell who will dwell therein, they will neither live nor die there.
) And Allah says: وَنَادَوْاْ يمَـلِكُ لِيَقْضِ عَلَيْنَا رَبُّكَ قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ مَّـكِثُونَ ( And they will cry (to the keeper of Hell ): "O Malik! Let your Lord make an end of us." He will say: "Verily, you shall abide forever.") ( 43:77 ).
When they are in this state, they will think that if only they could die, it would be a time of rest for them, but that can never happen to them.
Allah says: لاَ يُقْضَى عَلَيْهِمْ فَيَمُوتُواْ وَلاَ يُخَفَّفُ عَنْهُمْ مِّنْ عَذَابِهَا ( Neither will it have a complete killing effect on them so that they die nor shall its torment be lightened for them.
) This is like the Ayat: إِنَّ الْمُجْرِمِينَ فِى عَذَابِ جَهَنَّمَ خَـلِدُونَ - لاَ يُفَتَّرُ عَنْهُمْ وَهُمْ فِيهِ مُبْلِسُونَ ( Verily, the criminals will be in the torment of Hell to abide therein forever.
(That ) will not be lightened for them, and they will be plunged into destruction with deep regrets, sorrows and in despair therein.) ( 43:74-75 ). كُلَّمَا خَبَتْ زِدْنَاهُمْ سَعِيرًا ( whenever it abates, We shall increase for them the fierceness of the Fire ) ( 17:97 ), and فَذُوقُواْ فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلاَّ عَذَاباً ( So taste you.
No increase shall We give you, except in torment. ) ( 78:30 ).
Then Allah says: كَذَلِكَ نَجْزِى كُلَّ كَفُورٍ ( Thus do We requite every disbeliever! ) meaning, this is the recompense of everyone who disbelieved in his Lord and denied the truth. وَهُمْ يَصْطَرِخُونَ فِيهَا ( Therein they will cry ) means, they will call out in the Fire, beseeching Allah with their voices: رَبَّنَآ أَخْرِجْنَا نَعْمَلْ صَـلِحاً غَيْرَ الَّذِى كُـنَّا نَعْمَلُ ( "Our Lord! Bring us out, we shall do righteous good deeds, not that we used to do." ) which means, they will ask to go back to the worldly life so that they can do something different to the first deeds they did.
But Allah, may He be glorified, knows that if He sent them back to this world, they would go back to what they had been forbidden to do, and He knows that they are lying, so He will not respond to their plea.
This is like the Ayah where Allah tells us that they will say: فَهَلْ إِلَى خُرُوجٍ مِّن سَبِيلٍذَلِكُم بِأَنَّهُ إِذَا دُعِىَ اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ كَـفَرْتُمْ وَإِن يُشْرَكْ بِهِ تُؤْمِنُواْ ( Then is there any way to get out (of the Fire ).
( It will be said ): "This is because, when Allah Alone was invoked you disbelieved ( denied ), but when partners were joined to Him, you believed!) ( 40:11,12 ) i.e., `there will be no response for you because you were like that; if you were to return to this world, you would just go back to that which you had been forbidden to do.' Allah says here: أَوَلَمْ نُعَمِّرْكُمْ مَّا يَتَذَكَّرُ فِيهِ مَن تَذَكَّرَ وَجَآءَكُمُ النَّذِيرُ ( Did We not give you lives long enough, so that whosoever would receive admonition could receive it And the warner came to you. ) meaning, `did you not live for long enough in the world that if you were to be among those who would benefit from the truth, you would have benefited from it during your lifetimes' Imam Ahmad recorded that Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, said that the Prophet said:
«لَقَدْ أَعْذَرَ اللهُ تَعَالَى إِلَى عَبْدٍ أَحْيَاهُ حَتْى بَلَغَ سِتِّينَ أَوْ سَبْعِينَ سَنَةً، لَقَدْ أَعْذَرَ اللهُ تَعَالَى إِلَيْهِ، لَقَدْ أَعْذَرَ اللهُ تَعَالَى إِلَيْه»
( Allah has left no excuse for the person who lives to be sixty or seventy years old; Allah has left no excuse for him; Allah has left no excuse for him. ) Imam Al-Bukhari also recorded, in the Book of Riqaq in his Sahih, that Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
«أَعْذَرَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِلَى امْرِىءٍ أَخَّرَ عُمْرَهُ حَتْى بَلَغَ سِتِّينَ سَنَة»
( Allah has left no excuse for a man who reaches the age of sixty. )" Ibn Jarir recorded that Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
«مَنْ عَمَّرَهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى سِتِّينَ سَنَةً فَقَدْ أَعْذَرَ إِلَيْهِ فِي الْعُمْر»
( Whoever is granted a long life until the age of sixty, Allah has left no excuse for him. )" This was also recorded by Imam Ahmad and An-Nasa'i in Ar-Riqaq.
Because this is the age at which Allah removes any excuse from His servants, this is the usual age of people in this Ummah, as was reported in the Hadith of Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, who said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
«أَعْمَارُ أُمَّتِي مَا بَيْنَ السِّتِّينَ إِلَى السَّبْعِينَ، وَأَقَلُّهُمْ مَنْ يَجُوزُ ذَلِك»
( The usual life span in my Ummah is between sixty and seventy years, and only a few pass this age. )" This was also recorded by At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah in the Book of Zuhd of his Sunan. وَجَآءَكُمُ النَّذِيرُ ( And the warner came to you.
) It was reported that Ibn `Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, `Ikrimah, Abu Ja`far Al-Baqir, may Allah be pleased with him, Qatadah and Sufyan bin `Uyaynah said, "This means grey hair." As-Suddi and `Abdur-Rahman bin Zayd bin Aslam said, "This means the Messenger of Allah ﷺ " and Ibn Zayd recited, هَـذَا نَذِيرٌ مِّنَ النُّذُرِ الاٍّوْلَى ( This is a warner of the (series of ) warners of old.) ( 53:56 ).
This is the correct view according to Shayban who narrated that Qatadah said, "Proof will be established against them by the fact that they lived long enough and that Messengers came to them." This is also the view favored by Ibn Jarir, and it is the apparent meaning of the Ayah: وَنَادَوْاْ يمَـلِكُ لِيَقْضِ عَلَيْنَا رَبُّكَ قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ مَّـكِثُونَ - لَقَدْ جِئْنَـكُم بِالْحَقِّ وَلَـكِنَّ أَكْثَرَكُمْ لِلْحَقِّ كَـرِهُونَ ( And they will cry (to the keeper of Hell ): "O Malik! Let your Lord make an end of us." He will say: "Verily, you shall abide forever." Indeed We have brought the truth to you, but most of you have a hatred for the truth.)( 43:77-78 ) meaning: `We showed you the truth clearly through the Messengers, but you rejected it and opposed it.' And Allah says: وَمَا كُنَّا مُعَذِّبِينَ حَتَّى نَبْعَثَ رَسُولاً ( And We never punish until We have sent a Messenger ) ( 17:15 ). تَكَادُ تَمَيَّزُ مِنَ الغَيْظِ كُلَّمَا أُلْقِىَ فِيهَا فَوْجٌ سَأَلَهُمْ خَزَنَتُهَآ أَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ نَذِيرٌ - قَالُواْ بَلَى قَدْ جَآءَنَا نَذِيرٌ فَكَذَّبْنَا وَقُلْنَا مَا نَزَّلَ اللَّهُ مِن شَىْءٍ إِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلاَّ فِى ضَلَـلٍ كَبِيرٍ ( Every time a group is cast therein, its keepers will ask: "Did no warner come to you" They will say: "Yes, indeed a warner did come to us, but we denied him and said: `Allah never sent down anything; you are only in great error'." ) ( 67:8-9 ). فَذُوقُواْ فَمَا لِلظَّـلِمِينَ مِن نَّصِيرٍ ( So taste you.
For the wrongdoers there is no helper. ) means, `taste the punishment of the Fire, as a recompense for your going against the Prophets in all your deeds, for today you will have no helper to save you from your fate of punishment and chains.' إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَـلِمُ غَيْبِ السَّمَـوَتِ وَالاٌّرْضِ إِنَّهُ عَلِيمٌ بِذَاتِ الصُّدُورِ

(35:36) As for those who disbelieved,  *62the Fire of Hell awaits them. There they shall not be finished off and die; nor will the torment (of Hell) be lightened for them. Thus do We requite every thankless being.

And for those who disbelieve will be meaning

*62) " Who have disbelieved ": Who have refused to believe in the Book which Allah has sent down on Muhammad ( upon whom be His peace and blessings ).

 

The Punishment of the Disbeliever and what Their State will be in Hell Having told us how the blessed will be ( in Paradise ), Allah now starts to tell us what the state of doomed will be.
He says: وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لَهُمْ نَارُ جَهَنَّمَ لاَ يُقْضَى عَلَيْهِمْ فَيَمُوتُواْ ( But those who disbelieve, for them will be the fire of Hell.
Neither will it have a complete killing effect on them so that they die ) This is like the Ayah: لاَ يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلاَ يَحْيَى ( Wherein he will neither die nor live ) ( 20:74 ).
It was reported in Sahih Muslim that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: «أَمَّا أَهْلُ النَّارِ الَّذِينَ هُمْ أَهْلُهَا، فَلَا يَمُوتُونَ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَوْن» ( As for the people of Hell who will dwell therein, they will neither live nor die there.
) And Allah says: وَنَادَوْاْ يمَـلِكُ لِيَقْضِ عَلَيْنَا رَبُّكَ قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ مَّـكِثُونَ ( And they will cry (to the keeper of Hell ): "O Malik! Let your Lord make an end of us." He will say: "Verily, you shall abide forever.") ( 43:77 ).
When they are in this state, they will think that if only they could die, it would be a time of rest for them, but that can never happen to them.
Allah says: لاَ يُقْضَى عَلَيْهِمْ فَيَمُوتُواْ وَلاَ يُخَفَّفُ عَنْهُمْ مِّنْ عَذَابِهَا ( Neither will it have a complete killing effect on them so that they die nor shall its torment be lightened for them.
) This is like the Ayat: إِنَّ الْمُجْرِمِينَ فِى عَذَابِ جَهَنَّمَ خَـلِدُونَ - لاَ يُفَتَّرُ عَنْهُمْ وَهُمْ فِيهِ مُبْلِسُونَ ( Verily, the criminals will be in the torment of Hell to abide therein forever.
(That ) will not be lightened for them, and they will be plunged into destruction with deep regrets, sorrows and in despair therein.) ( 43:74-75 ). كُلَّمَا خَبَتْ زِدْنَاهُمْ سَعِيرًا ( whenever it abates, We shall increase for them the fierceness of the Fire ) ( 17:97 ), and فَذُوقُواْ فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلاَّ عَذَاباً ( So taste you.
No increase shall We give you, except in torment. ) ( 78:30 ).
Then Allah says: كَذَلِكَ نَجْزِى كُلَّ كَفُورٍ ( Thus do We requite every disbeliever! ) meaning, this is the recompense of everyone who disbelieved in his Lord and denied the truth. وَهُمْ يَصْطَرِخُونَ فِيهَا ( Therein they will cry ) means, they will call out in the Fire, beseeching Allah with their voices: رَبَّنَآ أَخْرِجْنَا نَعْمَلْ صَـلِحاً غَيْرَ الَّذِى كُـنَّا نَعْمَلُ ( "Our Lord! Bring us out, we shall do righteous good deeds, not that we used to do." ) which means, they will ask to go back to the worldly life so that they can do something different to the first deeds they did.
But Allah, may He be glorified, knows that if He sent them back to this world, they would go back to what they had been forbidden to do, and He knows that they are lying, so He will not respond to their plea.
This is like the Ayah where Allah tells us that they will say: فَهَلْ إِلَى خُرُوجٍ مِّن سَبِيلٍذَلِكُم بِأَنَّهُ إِذَا دُعِىَ اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ كَـفَرْتُمْ وَإِن يُشْرَكْ بِهِ تُؤْمِنُواْ ( Then is there any way to get out (of the Fire ).
( It will be said ): "This is because, when Allah Alone was invoked you disbelieved ( denied ), but when partners were joined to Him, you believed!) ( 40:11,12 ) i.e., `there will be no response for you because you were like that; if you were to return to this world, you would just go back to that which you had been forbidden to do.' Allah says here: أَوَلَمْ نُعَمِّرْكُمْ مَّا يَتَذَكَّرُ فِيهِ مَن تَذَكَّرَ وَجَآءَكُمُ النَّذِيرُ ( Did We not give you lives long enough, so that whosoever would receive admonition could receive it And the warner came to you. ) meaning, `did you not live for long enough in the world that if you were to be among those who would benefit from the truth, you would have benefited from it during your lifetimes' Imam Ahmad recorded that Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, said that the Prophet said: «لَقَدْ أَعْذَرَ اللهُ تَعَالَى إِلَى عَبْدٍ أَحْيَاهُ حَتْى بَلَغَ سِتِّينَ أَوْ سَبْعِينَ سَنَةً، لَقَدْ أَعْذَرَ اللهُ تَعَالَى إِلَيْهِ، لَقَدْ أَعْذَرَ اللهُ تَعَالَى إِلَيْه» ( Allah has left no excuse for the person who lives to be sixty or seventy years old; Allah has left no excuse for him; Allah has left no excuse for him. ) Imam Al-Bukhari also recorded, in the Book of Riqaq in his Sahih, that Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: «أَعْذَرَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِلَى امْرِىءٍ أَخَّرَ عُمْرَهُ حَتْى بَلَغَ سِتِّينَ سَنَة» ( Allah has left no excuse for a man who reaches the age of sixty. )" Ibn Jarir recorded that Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: «مَنْ عَمَّرَهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى سِتِّينَ سَنَةً فَقَدْ أَعْذَرَ إِلَيْهِ فِي الْعُمْر» ( Whoever is granted a long life until the age of sixty, Allah has left no excuse for him. )" This was also recorded by Imam Ahmad and An-Nasa'i in Ar-Riqaq.
Because this is the age at which Allah removes any excuse from His servants, this is the usual age of people in this Ummah, as was reported in the Hadith of Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, who said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: «أَعْمَارُ أُمَّتِي مَا بَيْنَ السِّتِّينَ إِلَى السَّبْعِينَ، وَأَقَلُّهُمْ مَنْ يَجُوزُ ذَلِك» ( The usual life span in my Ummah is between sixty and seventy years, and only a few pass this age. )" This was also recorded by At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah in the Book of Zuhd of his Sunan. وَجَآءَكُمُ النَّذِيرُ ( And the warner came to you.
) It was reported that Ibn `Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, `Ikrimah, Abu Ja`far Al-Baqir, may Allah be pleased with him, Qatadah and Sufyan bin `Uyaynah said, "This means grey hair." As-Suddi and `Abdur-Rahman bin Zayd bin Aslam said, "This means the Messenger of Allah ﷺ " and Ibn Zayd recited, هَـذَا نَذِيرٌ مِّنَ النُّذُرِ الاٍّوْلَى ( This is a warner of the (series of ) warners of old.) ( 53:56 ).
This is the correct view according to Shayban who narrated that Qatadah said, "Proof will be established against them by the fact that they lived long enough and that Messengers came to them." This is also the view favored by Ibn Jarir, and it is the apparent meaning of the Ayah: وَنَادَوْاْ يمَـلِكُ لِيَقْضِ عَلَيْنَا رَبُّكَ قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ مَّـكِثُونَ - لَقَدْ جِئْنَـكُم بِالْحَقِّ وَلَـكِنَّ أَكْثَرَكُمْ لِلْحَقِّ كَـرِهُونَ ( And they will cry (to the keeper of Hell ): "O Malik! Let your Lord make an end of us." He will say: "Verily, you shall abide forever." Indeed We have brought the truth to you, but most of you have a hatred for the truth.)( 43:77-78 ) meaning: `We showed you the truth clearly through the Messengers, but you rejected it and opposed it.' And Allah says: وَمَا كُنَّا مُعَذِّبِينَ حَتَّى نَبْعَثَ رَسُولاً ( And We never punish until We have sent a Messenger ) ( 17:15 ). تَكَادُ تَمَيَّزُ مِنَ الغَيْظِ كُلَّمَا أُلْقِىَ فِيهَا فَوْجٌ سَأَلَهُمْ خَزَنَتُهَآ أَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ نَذِيرٌ - قَالُواْ بَلَى قَدْ جَآءَنَا نَذِيرٌ فَكَذَّبْنَا وَقُلْنَا مَا نَزَّلَ اللَّهُ مِن شَىْءٍ إِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلاَّ فِى ضَلَـلٍ كَبِيرٍ ( Every time a group is cast therein, its keepers will ask: "Did no warner come to you" They will say: "Yes, indeed a warner did come to us, but we denied him and said: `Allah never sent down anything; you are only in great error'." ) ( 67:8-9 ). فَذُوقُواْ فَمَا لِلظَّـلِمِينَ مِن نَّصِيرٍ ( So taste you.
For the wrongdoers there is no helper. ) means, `taste the punishment of the Fire, as a recompense for your going against the Prophets in all your deeds, for today you will have no helper to save you from your fate of punishment and chains.' إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَـلِمُ غَيْبِ السَّمَـوَتِ وَالاٌّرْضِ إِنَّهُ عَلِيمٌ بِذَاتِ الصُّدُورِ

( But as for those who disbelieve ) in Muhammad ( pbuh ) and in the Qur’an, i.e. Abu Jahl and his host, ( for them is fire of hell ) in the Hereafter; ( it taketh not complete effect upon them ) they are not sentenced to death ( so that they can die ) and find rest, ( nor is its torment lightened for them ) not even for a twinkle of an eye. ( Thus We punish ) in the Hereafter ( every ingrate ) every disbeliever in Allah who is ungrateful for His bounties.

But those who disbelieve, (in the Oneness of Allah - Islamic Monotheism) for them will be the Fire of Hell. Neither it will have a complete killing effect on them so that they die, nor shall its torment be lightened for them. Thus do We requite every disbeliever!

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