ʿĪsā عليه السلام · praying for people who have gone wrong and are not yours to judge

They are Your servants

Source: Sūrat Al-Maaida
5:118
Text: Uthmani, verified by checksum

إِن تُعَذِّبْهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ عِبَادُكَ وَإِن تَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ فَإِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ

ʾin tuʿadhdhibhum fa-ʾinnahum ʿibāduka wa-ʾin taghfir lahum fa-ʾinnaka ʾanta al-ʿazīzu al-ḥakīmu

English · Marmaduke Pickthall If Thou punish them, lo! they are Thy slaves, and if Thou forgive them (lo! they are Thy slaves). Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Mighty, the Wise.

Türkçe · Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır "Eğer onlara azab edersen, onlar senin kullarındır, eğer onları bağışlarsan, şüphesiz sen daima üstünsün, hikmet sahibisin".

When and why it was said

From Sūrat Al-Maaida, 5:118. The occasion of this supplication has not yet been written with a tafsīr citation.

Qurʾān 5:118

Commentary — Tafsīr al-Jalālayn

If you chastise them that is those among them who are fixed upon disbelief verily they are Your servants and You are their Master disposing of them as You will there can be no objection to what You do; and if You forgive them that is those of them who are believers You only You are the Mighty in His affair the Wise’ in His actions.

Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, al-Maḥallī and al-Suyūṭī. Translated by Feras Hamza. altafsir.com

Said when: praying for people who have gone wrong and are not yours to judge
Themes: When you think of the end When you have done wrong

They are Your servants

When and why it was said

Commentary — Tafsīr al-Jalālayn

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