أَفَبِهَٰذَا ٱلۡحَدِيثِ أَنتُم مُّدۡهِنُونَ

Is it such a talk (this Quran) that you (disbelievers) deny?


وَتَجۡعَلُونَ رِزۡقَكُمۡ أَنَّكُمۡ تُكَذِّبُونَ

And instead (of thanking Allah) for the provision He gives you, on the contrary, you deny Him (by disbelief)!


فَلَوۡلَآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلۡحُلۡقُومَ

Then why do you not (intervene) when (the soul of a dying person) reaches the throat?


وَأَنتُمۡ حِينَئِذٖ تَنظُرُونَ

And you at the moment are looking on,


وَنَحۡنُ أَقۡرَبُ إِلَيۡهِ مِنكُمۡ وَلَٰكِن لَّا تُبۡصِرُونَ

But We (i.e. Our angels who take the soul) are nearer to him than you, but you see not, [Tafsir At-Tabari, Vol. 27, Page 209]


فَلَوۡلَآ إِن كُنتُمۡ غَيۡرَ مَدِينِينَ

Then why do you not, if you are exempt from the reckoning and recompense (punishment, etc.)


تَرۡجِعُونَهَآ إِن كُنتُمۡ صَٰدِقِينَ

Bring back the soul (to its body), if you are truthful?


فَأَمَّآ إِن كَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُقَرَّبِينَ

Then, if he (the dying person) be of the Muqarrabun (those brought near to Allah),



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