Comments on: Al-Hakumu At-Takathur …

By: Abir

Abir — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:29:41 +0000

The picture has a grave with a cross?

By: yusuf issack

yusuf issack — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:03:37 +0000

mashaalah good job

By: Amatullah

Amatullah — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:33:15 +0000

wa iyyakum, alhamdulillah.

By: Abu Abdullah

Abu Abdullah — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:40:50 +0000

Assalam alaikum wa rahmatullahi,

Jazakumullah khairan Amatullah!!

Same here, Ilm seeker, in “alhakum”, “Al” threw me off, thought it was definite particle, now i understand, alha is a verb, kum is a mansub/accusative form of Anta/You…

So alha-”he diverts/to divert” and kum – “you”, thus Diverts You at-Takathur…Bingo… : )

By: Ilm Seeker

Ilm Seeker — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:28:27 +0000

@Amatullah, jazakumullahu khayran katheera, that’s awesomeness. The alif-lam in al-haakum threw me off, but I see now how it’s a fi’l.

By: Amatullah

Amatullah — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:06:29 +0000

Abu Abdullah: I looked it up in “Word for Word meaning of the Qur’an” by shaykh Mohar Ali that I have, and here is what he states:

أَلْهَاكُمُ التَّكَاثُرُ
alhaakum: “There beguiles you” – alhaa= he or it beguiled, diverted, distracted, deflected. 3rd person verb, masculine, singular past tense in the form afa’ala of lahaa.
at-takaathur: “the vying for more”, takaathur = to compete for more, vying for more/in quantity, to outnumber. Verbal Noun (masdar), structure of tafaa’ul.

حَتَّى زُرْتُمُ الْمَقَابِرَ
hataa zurtum: “till you meet” zurtum = you visited, you met. Verb, second person, masculine plural past tense of zaara (ziyaarah).

al-maqaabir: “the graves” plural of maqbarah, none of place from qabara, to bury.

I hope this is what you were looking for, Allahu ta’ala a’lam.

By: Ilm Seeker

Ilm Seeker — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:34:42 +0000

@Abu Abdullah, sorry, I don’t have any deeper knowledge of the meaning beyond what I already said. Insha’Allah I will ask around.

As for grammatical inversion–whether it’s “you are diverted” or “it diverts you,” inversion and passive sentences have entirely different meanings and purposes in different languages; so we can’t do a straight-up word-for-word translation.

For example, if I said “qaala rasulullah,” it means “the Prophet of Allah said.” But if I said “rasulullah qaala,” that inversion, as we said in Surah Takweer, makes it stronger and shows emphasis.

But is that the same as if I said “he, the Prophet of Allah, said”? No, because it then has redundancy and an interrupted sentence in the middle. Not the same at all.

So Allahu ‘alam.

By: Abu Abdullah

Abu Abdullah — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:04:12 +0000

Jazakumullah.

Could you please do, grammatical analysis of أَلْهَاكُمُ التَّكَاثُرُ
حَتَّى زُرْتُمُ الْمَقَابِرَ ?

Al-Hakum for example what it means, this sounds like a noun not a verb…so to literally translate, does this mean “Diverted are you” instead of “Diverts you”

So full sentence, if one to translate literally to english, “Diverted are you (by) mutual rivalry”?

Jazakumullah.

By: Argentyne

Argentyne — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:04:39 +0000

Jazakallah, for this post. May Allah bless us all and save us from the Hellfire.

By: Ilm Seeker

Ilm Seeker — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:37:21 +0000

@Ikram jazakumullahu khayran. I missed out on that part of al-haa from lahu (entertainment); lahuw also means something unimportant that distracts you from something important (source: Bayyinah).

As for zurtum, Allahu ‘alam, the meaning of death is supported by the following ayaat after that one.