Surah An Nisa Ayat 72-73 Translation Tafseer

Para 5 - وَ الْمُحْصَنٰتُ

سورة النساء

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بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ

4.72-73

وَ اِنَّ مِنْكُمْ لَمَنْ لَّیُبَطِّئَنَّۚ-فَاِنْ اَصَابَتْكُمْ مُّصِیْبَةٌ قَالَ قَدْ اَنْعَمَ اللّٰهُ عَلَیَّ اِذْ لَمْ اَكُنْ مَّعَهُمْ شَهِیْدًا(72) وَ لَىٕنْ اَصَابَكُمْ فَضْلٌ مِّنَ اللّٰهِ لَیَقُوْلَنَّ كَاَنْ لَّمْ تَكُنْۢ بَیْنَكُمْ وَ بَیْنَهٗ مَوَدَّةٌ یّٰلَیْتَنِیْ كُنْتُ مَعَهُمْ فَاَفُوْزَ فَوْزًا عَظِیْمًا(73)

Kanz-ul-Irfan

And indeed, there are some among you who will certainly delay. So if a calamity befalls you, he (the loitering one) will say: “Indeed Allah has bestowed favour upon me as I was not present with them.” And if you receive the grace of Allah, he will certainly say—as if there had been no friendship between you and him—“Oh, would that I had been with them ˹too˺, I would have attained great success.”[1]

Commentary

[1]

This verse expresses how selfishness, opportunism, and greed of wealth are traits of the hypocrites. One who does not help another in a time of need but is at the forefront for personal gain never succeeds in life. A selfish opportunist may conceal his hypocrisy for a while but after that, humiliation is his fate.