Surah 28 Al-Qasas — Ayah 43
وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَى ٱلْكِتَٰبَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ مَآ أَهْلَكْنَا ٱلْقُرُونَ ٱلْأُولَىٰ بَصَآئِرَ لِلنَّاسِ وَهُدًۭى وَرَحْمَةًۭ لَّعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ
Dopo aver distrutto le generazioni precedenti, invero abbiamo dato il Libro a Mosè, richiamo alla corretta visione per gli uomini, guida e misericordia. Se ne ricorderanno?
walaqad ātaynā mūsā l-kitāba min baʿdi mā ahlaknā l-qurūna l-ūlā baṣāira lilnnāsi wahudan waraḥmatan laʿallahum yatadhakkarūna
Word by word
- وَلَقَدْ walaqad And verily
- ءَاتَيْنَا ātaynā We gave
- مُوسَى mūsā Musa
- ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ l-kitāba the Scripture
- مِنۢ min after [what]
- بَعْدِ baʿdi after [what]
- مَآ mā after [what]
- أَهْلَكْنَا ahlaknā We had destroyed
- ٱلْقُرُونَ l-qurūna the generations
- ٱلْأُولَىٰ l-ūlā former
- بَصَآئِرَ baṣāira (as) an enlightenment
- لِلنَّاسِ lilnnāsi for the mankind
- وَهُدًۭى wahudan and a guidance
- وَرَحْمَةًۭ waraḥmatan and mercy
- لَّعَلَّهُمْ laʿallahum that they may
- يَتَذَكَّرُونَ yatadhakkarūna remember
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
The Blessings which Allah bestowed upon Musa
Allah tells us about the blessings which He gave His servant and Messenger Musa, the speaker, may the best of peace and blessings from his Lord be upon him, He revealed the Tawrah to him after He destroyed Fir`awn and his chiefs.
(after We had destroyed the generations of old) After the revelation of the Tawrah, no nation would again be punished with an overwhelming calamity; instead the believers were now commanded to fight the enemies of Allah among the idolators, as Allah says:
(And Fir`awn, and those before him, and the cities overthrown committed sin. And they disobeyed their Lord's Messenger, so He seized them with a strong punishment) (69:9-10).
(as an enlightenment for mankind, and a guidance and a mercy,) guidance from blindness and error. A guidance to the truth and a mercy means, to show the way towards doing righteous deeds.
(that they might remember.) means, that the people might be reminded and guided by it.