Transliteration:( Takaadus samaawaatu yatafattarna min fawqihinn; walmalaaa'ikatu yusabbihoona bihamdi Rabbihim wa yastaghfiroona liman fil ard; alaaa innal laaha huwal Ghafoorur Raheem )
5. This means that the awe and grandeur of Allah Almighty are supreme, so much so that a great creation like the sky is sometimes on the verge of splitting out of fear and awe of Allah.
6. This means all the angels, whether those who are near to Him or those who are executors of the commands of Allah, are engaged in reciting the verses of Allah Almighty. This tells us that those who perform Salaah are as great as the angels.
7. This means for the sake of the believers:
- The existence of the angels is a certainty.
- The angels have already received permission for intercession. Today, they pray for the forgiveness of the believers. Then, what delay is there in the intercession of the Holy Prophet?
- When Allah Almighty decides to grant a person something, He bestows it through the prayer of His beloved servants. Observe that since Allah Almighty desires to forgive believers, He has instructed the angels to pray for forgiveness for them. The Holy Prophet is praying for his Ummah. We should make it our duty to remain well-wishers of the Noble Companions and household members of those.
8. It is for this reason that Allah Almighty has made the angels your well-wishers.
The tafsir of Surah Shura verse 5 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Shura ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 6.
(42:5) The heavens may well nigh rend asunder from above[3] while the angels proclaim the praise of their Lord and ask forgiveness for those on earth.[4] Lo, it is Allah, and He alone, Who is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.[5]
3. That is, it is not a trivial matter that a creature should be joined in lineage with Allah and regarded as His son or daughter. Another regarded as fulfiller of the needs and the answerer of the petitions so that the people should start invoking him for help. Yet another taken as the maintainer of the entire world, and his devotees should start proclaiming that their holy saint heard the prayer of everyone at all places at all times and came to his help and answers his petition. Another invested with the authority to enjoin and prohibit things and declare them as lawful and unlawful, and the people should start obeying his commands, instead of the commands of God, as if he alone was their God. This boldness against God is such that they may well cause the heavens to break asunder. This same theme has also been presented in (Surah Maryam, Ayat 88-91).
4. It means: the angels shudder with disgust when they hear such nonsense being uttered by the people in respect of their Lord, and they regard it as a rebellion against Him. They say: Glorified be Allah! No one can have the position that he should become an associate with Allah, Lord of the worlds, in divinity and command; there is none beside Him who may be our and all other servants benefactor so that hymns be sung in his praise and he be thanked. So they feel that it is a grave crime being committed in the world, and it may provoke Allah Almighty’s wrath any moment. Therefore, they implore Allah for mercy again and again for the dwellers of the earth who have forgotten themselves and their God, and pray that they may yet be spared from the torment and given more respite to mend their ways.
5. That is, it is only Allah’s clemency, mercifulness and forgiveness that the people who have touched the extreme limits in disbelief, polytheism, atheism, sinfulness and tyranny, have been receiving respite after respite for years and years, even for centuries; yet they not only go on receiving their sustenance but are also acclaimed as the great people of the world and they are provided with such adornments of the worldly life as cause the ignorant people the misunderstanding that this world perhaps has no God.
[1407]- i.e., from the grandeur of Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) above them.
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