Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī and Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (d. 864 AH / 1459 CE and 911 AH / 1505 CE). The two Jalāls’ gloss, a sentence or two to a verse, which became the handbook commentary of the Muslim world.
The complete commentary on Compassion, mercy and monasticism (57:27), covering 57:27.
On 57:27
Then We sent following in their footsteps Our messengers, and We sent following Jesus son of Mary, and gave him the Gospel, and placed in the hearts of those who followed him compassion and mercy, and monasticism (57:27) – this is the renouncing of women and the taking up of hermit-cells – which they innovated, of their own accord; We did not prescribe it for them, We did not command them with it, except – but they did it – seeking the good pleasure, the approval, of God; but they did not observe it with its due observance, since many of them abandoned it and disbelieved in the religion of Jesus and entered into the religion of their king; while many of them remained upon the religion of Jesus and believed in our Prophet. So We gave those of them who believed, in him, their reward; but many of them are transgressors.
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This is a complete English rendering of Tafsīr al-Jalālayn on these verses, prepared for this website from the public-domain Arabic text (tafsir.app, src=jalalayn). Nothing is abridged: every opinion, every report with its chain of transmission, every verse of poetry and every grammatical note is translated. Qur’anic quotations are in bold; the translator’s own notes are confined to the numbered footnotes and identify names, terms and variant readings only. A second translator has not checked the rendering, and the Arabic is linked so that any passage can be compared. The modern editors’ apparatus is not part of the classical text and is not translated.
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