Transliteration:( Maa lakum kaifa tahkumoon )
38. Reason for its Revelation:
The infidels of Makkah were saying if after dying you and us were to wake up, we would be better off than you because in the world we were among the wealthy and you were among the poor. These verses have been revealed in their refutation in which it has been said that do not keep in supposition in the world of the Hereafter. In the land grain and chaff seems at one place but after trashing the place of the chaff is different to that of the grain.
The tafsir of Surah Qalam verse 36 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Qalam ayat 34 which provides the complete commentary from verse 34 through 41.
(68:36) What is the matter with you? How ill do you judge![20]
20. That is, it is against reason that God should not differentiate between the obedient servant and the guilty. How do you regard this as reasonable that the Creator of the universe should, like a blind ruler, not judge which people in the world obeyed His commands and refrained from evildoing, and which people committed every sin and crime and perpetrated every cruelty fearless of His punishment? You have seen the adversity of the believers and your own prosperity, but you have not appreciated the distinction between their good morals and your own evildoing, and have given your judgment without the thought that these obedient people will be treated like culprits by God and the guilty like you will be granted Paradise.
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