Surah Fussilat

Quran 41:22

Read Quran 41:22 from Surah Fussilat (Explained in Detail) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.

Quran verse

Qur'an 41:22

وَمَا كُنْتُمْ تَسْتَتِرُونَ أَنْ يَشْهَدَ عَلَيْكُمْ سَمْعُكُمْ وَلَا أَبْصَارُكُمْ وَلَا جُلُودُكُمْ وَلَٰكِنْ ظَنَنْتُمْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَعْلَمُ كَثِيرًا مِمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ٢٢

Ye did not hide yourselves lest your ears and your eyes and your skins should testify against you, but ye deemed that Allah knew not much of what ye did.

English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.

Surah
41. Fussilat (Explained in Detail)
Ayah
22 of 54
Revelation
Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
Reference
41:22

Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 41:22

Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.

{ وَمَا كُنْتُمْ تَسْتَتِرُونَ أَنْ يَشْهَدَ عَلَيْكُمْ سَمْعُكُمْ وَلَا أَبْصَارُكُمْ وَلَا جُلُودُكُمْ } أي: وما كنتم تختفون عن شهادة أعضائكم عليكم، ولا تحاذرون من ذلك. { وَلَكِنْ ظَنَنْتُمْ } بإقدامكم على المعاصي { أَنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَعْلَمُ كَثِيرًا مِمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ } فلذلك صدر منكم ما صدر، وهذا الظن، صار سبب هلاكهم وشقائهم .