Tafsir LabMethodGitHubTürkçe

al-Anʿām 6:104-107

The Qurʾān · Sūra 6: al-Anʿām · verses 104-107

This commentary was written by Claude (Anthropic); it carries no religious authority and should be checked against the classical sources.

6/104-107

قَدْ جَآءَكُم بَصَآئِرُ مِن رَّبِّكُمْ فَمَنْ أَبْصَرَ فَلِنَفْسِهِۦ وَمَنْ عَمِىَ فَعَلَيْهَا وَمَآ أَنَا۠ عَلَيْكُم بِحَفِيظٍ

"Clear insights have come to you from your Lord. Whoever sees, it is for himself; whoever is blind, it is against himself. And I am not a keeper over you."

بَصَآئِر — the plural of baṣīra: sight, insight. The word was treated at al-Jāthiya 45/20 (hādhā baṣāʾiru li'l-nās); I rely on that treatment.

And the symmetry of the sentence must be recorded: fa-man abṣara fa-li-nafsih wa man ʿamiya fa-ʿalayhā. Two opposite outcomes in the same verbal field, in the same pattern.

وَمَآ أَنَا۠ عَلَيْكُم بِحَفِيظٍthe limit of responsibility. A table of this limit covering seven sūras was set up at al-Qaṣaṣ 28/56; al-Anʿām adds one more link: ḥafīẓ (keeper).

وَكَذَٰلِكَ نُصَرِّفُ ٱلْـَٔايَٰتِ وَلِيَقُولُوا۟ دَرَسْتَ (105) — taṣrīf (turning a thing about and about in the telling) was treated at al-Aḥqāf 46/27 and al-Jāthiya 45/5. And variant readings of darasta (you have studied / you have been taught) are transmitted; I record this without giving the name of an imam.

وَلَوْ شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ مَآ أَشْرَكُوا۟ وَمَا جَعَلْنَٰكَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَفِيظًا (107) — and the same word (ḥafīẓ) occurs a second time three verses later. This is a repetition that can be verified within the sūra.


The whole of Sūrat al-Anʿām