Transliteration:( Wa qeelihee yaa Rabbi inna haaa'ulaaa'i qawmul laa yu'minoon )
"And by the saying of the Messenger: 'O my Lord, these are the people who do not believe.'”
This verse reveals that even the complaint of the Holy Prophet ﷺ has been made an oath-worthy statement by Allah Almighty. It reflects how deeply beloved the Holy Prophet ﷺ is to Allah, such that his every action, speech, and emotion holds great significance.
From this we learn that when Allah takes an oath in the Qur’an—whether of the Prophet’s city, age, speech, or anything associated with him—it is not to reassure like human oaths, but to highlight the status and honour of what is mentioned.
This verse further underscores the pain and concern of the Prophet ﷺ for the guidance of the disbelievers, and how their rejection deeply affected him.
The tafsir of Surah Zukhruf verse 88 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Zukhruf ayat 81 which provides the complete commentary from verse 81 through 89.
(43:88) We call to witness the cry of the Messenger: “O Lord, these are a people not wont to believe!”[70]
70. This is one of the most difficult verses of the Quran as it involves the complicated syntactic question of the kind of waw that has been used in wa qili-hi. From the translation of Shah Abdul Qadir it appears that the waw here is not conjunctive but for taking oath, and is related to fa-anna yu-fakun, and the pronoun in qili-hi turns to the Prophet (peace be upon him) of Allah. Therefore, the verse means this: By this saying of the Messenger: O my Lord, these are a people who would not believe. They are so utterly deluded that although they themselves admit that Allah alone is their Creator and Creator of their gods, yet they abandon the Creator and persist in worshiping His creatures.
The object of swearing by this saying of the Messenger is that the conduct of the people clearly shows that they are, in fact, stubborn, for the foolishness of their attitude is apparent from their own admission, and such an irrational attitude can be adopted only by such a person, who is resolved not to believe. In other words, the oath implies: The Messenger has rightly said so: indeed these people would not believe.
[1455]- i.e., the complaint of Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ) about his people.
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