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Quran-9:32 Surah At-tawbah English Translation,Transliteration and Tafsir(Tafseer).

يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطۡفِـُٔواْ نُورَ ٱللَّهِ بِأَفۡوَٰهِهِمۡ وَيَأۡبَى ٱللَّهُ إِلَّآ أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُۥ وَلَوۡ كَرِهَ ٱلۡكَٰفِرُونَ,

Transliteration:( Yureedoona ai yutfi'oo nooral laahi bi'afwaahihim wa ya'ballaahu illaaa ai yutimma noorahoo wa law karihal kaafiroon )

32. They desire to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths and Allah will not agree, but to perfect His Light, although the infidels may dislike it (79).

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Surah At-Tawbah Ayat 32 Tafsir (Commentry)



  • Tafseer-e-Naeemi (Ahmad Yaar Khan)
  • Ibn Kathir
  • Ala-Madudi

79. Here Light could mean our Holy Prophet because the verse that  follows discusses the Holy Prophet and is a commentary of this verse. Hazrat Mulla Alli Qari (May Allah be pleased with him) states at the end of his book "Mauzooat e Kabir"

Wherever light is mentioned in the QUR'AAN it always signifies In this the Holy Prophet verse extinguishing the light means destroying the Religion of the Holy Prophet or preventing the printing of the Holy QUR'AAN صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم, or stopping the remembrance and discussion of the Holy Prophet  and become offended at hearing the praiseworthy qualities though the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم of their offence makes no difference to the dignity and honour of the Messenger of Allah.

Ibn-Kathir

32. They want to extinguish Allah’s Light with their mouths, but Allah will not allow except that His Light should be perfected even though the disbelievers hate (it). 33. It is He Who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, to make it superior over all religions even though the idolators hate (it).

People of the Scriptures try to extinguish the Light of Islam

Allah says, the disbelieving idolators and People of the Scriptures want to,

﴿أَن يُطْفِئُواْ نُورَ اللَّهِ﴾

(extinguish the Light of Allah). They try through argument and lies to extinguish the guidance and religion of truth that the Messenger of Allah was sent with. Their example is the example of he who wants to extinguish the light of the sun or the moon by blowing at them! Indeed, such a person will never accomplish what he sought. Likewise, the light of what the Messenger was sent with will certainly shine and spread. Allah replied to the idolators’ desire and hope,

﴿وَيَأْبَى اللَّهُ إِلاَّ أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَـفِرُونَ﴾

(but Allah will not allow except that His Light should be perfected even though the disbelievers (Kafirun) hate (it)) ï´¿9:32ï´¾. ï´¿Linguistincallyï´¾ a Kafir is the person who covers something. For instance, night is called Kafiran ï´¿coveringï´¾ because it covers things ï´¿with darknessï´¾. The farmer is called Kafiran, because he covers seeds in the ground. Allah said in an Ayah,

﴿أَعْجَبَ الْكُفَّارَ نَبَاتُهُ﴾

(thereof the growth is pleasing to the ï´¿Kuffarï´¾ tillers)ï´¿57:20ï´¾.

Islam is the Religion That will dominate over all Other Religions

Allah said next,

﴿هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ﴾

(It is He Who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth.) `Guidance’ refers to the true narrations, beneficial faith and true religion that the Messenger came with. `religion of truth’ refers to the righteous, legal deeds that bring about benefit in this life and the Hereafter.

﴿لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ﴾

(to make it (Islam) superior over all religions) It is recorded in the Sahih that the Messenger of Allah said,

«إِنَّ اللهَ زَوَى لِي الْأَرْضَ مَشَارِقَهَا وَمَغَارِبَهَا، وَسَيَبْلُغُ مُلْكُ أُمَّتِي مَا زُوِيَ لِييِمنْهَا»

(Allah made the eastern and western parts of the earth draw near for me ﴿to see﴾, and the rule of my Ummah will extend as far as I saw.) Imam Ahmad recorded from Tamim Ad-Dari that he said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah saying,

«لَيَبْلُغَنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ مَا بَلَغَ اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ، وَلَا يَتْرُكُ اللهُ بَيْتَ مَدَرٍ وَلَا وَبَرٍ إِلَّا أَدْخَلَهُ هَذَا الدِّينَ، يُعِزُّ عَزِيزًا وَيُذِلُّ ذَلِيلًا، عِزًّا يُعِزُّ اللهُ بِهِ الْإِسْلَامَ وَذُلًّا يُذِلُّ اللهُ بِهِ الْكُفْر»

(This matter (Islam) will keep spreading as far as the night and day reach, until Allah will not leave a house made of mud or hair, but will make this religion enter it, while bringing might to a mighty person (a Muslim) and humiliation to a disgraced person (who rejects Islam). Might with which Allah elevates Islam (and its people) and disgrace with which Allah humiliates disbelief (and its people).) Tamim Ad-Dari ﴿who was a Christian before Islam﴾ used to say, “I have come to know the meaning of this Hadith in my own people. Those who became Muslims among them acquired goodness, honor and might. Disgrace, humiliation and Jizyah befell those who remained disbelievers.”

(9:32) They seek to extinguish the light of Allah by blowing through their mouths; but Allah refuses everything except that He will perfect His light howsoever the unbelievers might abhor it.

There is no commentary by Abul Maududi available for this verse.

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