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Meccan · Surah 16 of 114

An-Nahl 16:111

The Bee · ayah 111 of 128

۞ يَوْمَ تَأْتِى كُلُّ نَفْسٍۢ تُجَٰدِلُ عَن نَّفْسِهَا وَتُوَفَّىٰ كُلُّ نَفْسٍۢ مَّا عَمِلَتْ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ

Yawma ta/tee kullu nafsin tujadiluAAan nafsiha watuwaffa kullu nafsin maAAamilat wahum la yuthlamoon

"On the Day when every soul will come disputing [i.e., pleading] for itself, and every soul will be fully compensated for what it did, and they will not be wronged [i.e., treated unjustly]."

Saheeh International translation

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Other English translations

Abdel Haleem (Oxford)+

"On the Day when every soul will come pleading for itself, every soul will be paid in full for all its actions- they will not be wronged."

Pickthall (classic)+

"On the Day when every soul will come pleading for itself, and every soul will be repaid what it did, and they will not be wronged."

Yusuf Ali (classic)+

"One Day every soul will come up struggling for itself, and every soul will be recompensed (fully) for all its actions, and none will be unjustly dealt with."

Tafsīr · classical commentary

Ibn Kathir

Abridged English, public domain

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The One who is forced to renounce Islam will be forgiven if He does Righteous Deeds afterwards

This refers to another group of people who were oppressed in Makkah and whose position with their own people was weak, so they went along with them when they were tried by them. Then they managed to escape by emigrating, leaving their homeland, families and wealth behind, seeking the pleasure and forgiveness of Allah. They joined the believers and fought with them against the disbelievers, bearing hardship with patience. Allah tells them that after this, meaning after their giving in when put to the test, He will forgive them and show mercy to them when they are resurrected.

يَوْمَ تَأْتِى كُلُّ نَفْسٍ تُجَـدِلُ

((Remember) the Day when every person will come pleading) meaning making a case in his own defence.

عَن نَّفْسِهَا

(for himself.) means, no one else will plead on his behalf; not his father, not his son, nor his brother, nor his wife.

وَتُوَفَّى كُلُّ نَفْسٍ مَّا عَمِلَتْ

(and every one will be paid in full for what he did,) meaning whatever he did, good or evil.

وَهُمْ لاَ يُظْلَمُونَ

(and they will not be dealt with unjustly.) meaning there will be no decrease in the reward for good, and no increase in the punishment for evil. They will not be dealt with unjustly in the slightest way.

Tafsir Saʿdi

English translation, public domain

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В этот день каждого человека будет беспокоить только его собственная судьба, и все остальные люди вообще не будут интересовать его. В этот день человек ощутит острую нужду даже в самом маленьком благодеянии, потому что каждая душа сполна получит воздаяние за свои добрые и злые поступки. Аллах не станет поступать с людьми несправедливо, приумножая совершенные ими злодеяния и уменьшая совершенные ими праведные поступки. Вот почему кораническое откровение гласит: «Сегодня ни одной душе не будет причинено никакой несправедливости, и вам воздастся только за то, что вы совершали» (36:54).
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Maʿārif al-Qur'ān

Mufti Shafi Usmani, English

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Sequence of Verses

Warnings of punishment against disbelief (kufr) - whether original or apostacy (irtidad) - appeared in previous verses. After that, in the first (106) of the initial three verses cited above, it has been pointed clearly that 'Iman or the declaration of faith is a wealth that could work wonders for a kafir (disbeliever) or murtadd (apostate) who - if he were to come up with an honest and true 'Iman - all his past sins would stand forgiven.

In the second verse (107), the last day of Qiyamah was mentioned for the reason that all this phenomena of reward and punishment has to occur after that. In the third verse (108), it was said that the real punishment of disbelief and sin will, though come after the Qiyamah, yet there are some sins the punishment of which is faced in a certain degree within the present world.

Tafsīr sourced from quran.com's open API. These are classical commentaries; for personal rulings consult a qualified scholar.

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