Surah 69. Al-Haqqa, Ayah 37
| لَا يَأْكُلُهُ إِلَّا الْخَاطِئُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | laa ya'kul -hu 'illaa al- khaat.i'on |
| Pickthall | : | Which none but sinners eat. |
| Asad | : | which none but the sinners eat!"20 |
| Malik | : | which none but the wrongdoers eat." |
| Yusuf Ali | : | "Which none do eat but those in sin." |
Note - 20The noun ghislin, which appears in the Qur'an only in
this one instance, has been variously - and very
contradictorily - explained by the early commentators.
Ibn 'Abbas, when asked about it, frankly answered, "I do
not know what grisly denotes" (Razi). The term "filth"
used by me contains an allusion to the "devouring" of all
that is abominable in the spiritual sense: cf. its
characterisation in the next verse as "[that] which none
but the sinners eat" - i.e., (metaphorically) in this
world and, consequently, in the hereafter as well.
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The noun ghislin, which appears in the Qur'an only in this one instance, has been variously - and very contradictorily - explained by the early commentators. Ibn 'Abbas, when asked about it, frankly answered, "I do not know what grisly denotes" (Razi). The term "filth" used by me contains an allusion to the "devouring" of all that is abominable in the spiritual sense: cf. its characterisation in the next verse as "[that] which none but the sinners eat" - i.e., (metaphorically) in this world and, consequently, in the hereafter as well. |
