al-Mīzān⌕
Sūrah 7
ٱلْأَعْرَاف

Al-Araf (The Heights)

Tafsīr al-Mīzān by ʿAllāmah Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabāʾī (English translation). Source: vol 15 pp 17–35, vol 15 pp 36–108, vol 15 pp 109–172, vol 15 pp 173–230, vol 15 pp 231–274, vol 15 pp 275–280, vol 15 pp 281–288, vol 15 pp 289–294, vol 15 pp 295–298, vol 15 pp 299–312, vol 16 pp 17–40, vol 16 pp 41–59, vol 16 pp 60–76, vol 16 pp 77–135, vol 16 pp 136–172, vol 16 pp 173–194, vol 16 pp 195–233, vol 16 pp 234–248, vol 16 pp 249–295, vol 16 pp 296–301, vol 16 pp 302–311, vol 16 pp 312–325

  1. Verses 1–9Alif-Lām-Mīm-Ṣād.Introduction · Commentary · Examining Narrations
  2. Verses 10–25Said He, “What prevented you from prostrating, when I commanded you?” “I am better than him,” he said. “You created me from fire and You created him from clay.”Introduction · Commentary · Iblīs and his Function · Clarifying the Problem · Back to Iblīs · Summary · The Objections of Satan against the Angels: A Qur’anic and Rational Discussion · Detailed Response to Satan’s Objections · God cannot be Questioned about His Actions · Two Forms of Human Knowledge · The Validity of Human Reason · Examining Narrations
  3. Verses 26–36O Children of Adam! Do not let Satan tempt you, like he expelled your parents from paradise, stripping them of their garments to expose to them their shameful pIntroduction · Commentary · Examining Narrations · Felicity and Wretchedness: A Discussion of Narrations and More · I. Succinct Narrations in Broad Terms · II. Narrations about ṭīnah (Clay, Substance) · A Deeper Layer of Meaning · III. Narrations about Potable and Briny Waters · IV. Narrations about Creation from Light and Darkness · V. Narrations about Merging the Deeds of Good-doers and Evil-doers · God’s Actions are not Open to Question
  4. Verses 37–53And the first of them will say to the last of them, “You have no advantage over us! So taste the punishment because of what you used to earn.”Introduction · Commentary · The People on the Aʿrāf · Views of other Exegetes · Assessing the View of Tafsīr al-manār · The meaning of Aʿrāf (Elevations) in the Qur’an · Examining Narrations · Imam ʿAlī as the Caller
  5. Verses 54–58Supplicate your Lord, beseechingly and secretly. Indeed He does not like the transgressors.Introduction · Commentary · The Meaning of Creation (Khalq) and Command (Amr) · Discussion on the Meaning of God’s Throne · Examining Narrations
  6. Verses 59–64The elite of his people said, “Indeed we surely see you in manifest error.”Introduction · Commentary
  7. Verses 65–72The elite of his people who were faithless said, “Indeed we see you to be in folly, and indeed we consider you to be a liar.”Commentary
  8. Verses 73–79Remember when He made you successors after [the people of] ʿĀd, and settled you in the land: you build palaces in its plains, and hew houses out of the mountainCommentary
  9. Verses 80–84Indeed you come to men with lust instead of women! Rather, you are a profligate lot.”Commentary
  10. Verses 85–93If a group of you have believed in what I have been sent with, and a group have not believed, be patient until Allah judges between us, and He is the best of juCommentary
  11. Verses 94–102Then We changed the evil for good until they multiplied [in numbers] and said, “Hardship and ease befell our fathers [too].” Then We seized them suddenly while Introduction · Commentary · Examining Narrations
  12. Verses 103–126And Moses said, “O Pharaoh, I am indeed a messenger from theIntroduction · Commentary · Examining Narrations
  13. Verses 127–137Moses said to his people, “Turn to Allah for help and be patient. The earth indeed belongs to Allah, and He gives its inheritance to whomever He wills of His seIntroduction · Commentary · Examining Narrations
  14. Verses 138–154What they are [engaged] in is indeed bound to perish, and what they have been doing shall come to naught.”Introduction · Commentary · What is Meant by Seeing · Examining Narrations · A Discussion of Narrations on the Vision of the Heart · God is Always Known to Everyone · Dissecting the Hadith
  15. Verses 155–160And prescribe goodness for us in this world and the Hereafter, for indeed we have come back to You.” Said He, “I visit My punishment on whomever I will, but My Introduction · Commentary · Other Views on the Verse · Review of the above Interpretations · Examining Narrations
  16. Verses 161–171But the wrongdoers changed the saying with other than what they had been told. So We sent against them a plague from the sky because of the wrongs they used to Introduction · Commentary · Examining Narrations
  17. Verses 172–174or lest you should say, “Our fathers ascribed partners [to Allah] before [us] and we were descendants after them. Will You then destroy us because of what the fIntroduction · Commentary · The View of the Opponents of the World of Pre-Existence · The Response of the Proponents · Examining the View of the Proponents · Examining the View of the Opponents · Our View · Examining Narrations
  18. Verses 175–179Had We willed, We would have surely raised him by their means, but he clung to the earth and followed his [base] desires. So his parable is that of a dog: if yoIntroduction · Commentary · Examining Narrations
  19. Verses 180–186Among those We have created are a nation who guide by the truth and do justice thereby.Introduction · Commentary · Discussion on the Excellent Names of God · 1. What is Meant by the Divine Names and How Can We Know Them? · 2. Defining the Divine Names and Attributes · 3. The Classifications of the Divine Names and Attributes · 4. The Relation of the Divine Names and Attributes to Us and to Themselves · 5. The Greatest Name of God (al-Ism al-Aʿẕam) · 6. The Number of the Excellent Names · 7. Are the Divine Names Reserved? · Examining Narrations
  20. Verses 187–188Say, “I have no control over any benefit for myself nor [over] any harm except what Allah may will. Had I known the Unseen, I would have acquired much good, andIntroduction · Commentary · Examining Narrations
  21. Verses 189–198Do they ascribe [to Him] partners that create nothing and have been created themselves,Introduction · Commentary · Examining Narrations
  22. Verses 199–206Should a temptation from Satan disturb you, invoke the protection of Allah; indeed He is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.Introduction · Commentary · Examining Narrations