Transliteration:( Wallazeenah tadaw zaadahum hudanw wa aataahum taqwaahum )
"But those who have been guided, Allah adds to their guidance and bestows upon them piety [47]."
This verse refers to the true believers—those who have accepted guidance with sincerity. Allah further enhances their guidance by granting them deeper understanding, increased piety, and spiritual maturity.
This is achieved through the blessed sermons of the Prophet ﷺ and the noble effect of his company. The same sermon that is useless or harmful to hypocrites becomes a means of elevation for sincere believers.
Just as sunlight benefits all but harms the bat, so too the light of revelation benefits the spiritually receptive while exposing the darkness in hypocrites.
Importantly, the “increase” in guidance and taqwa mentioned here is qualitative—referring to depth of conviction, clarity, and sincerity, not numerical increase, since faith is not measured in quantity, but in firmness and awareness.
The tafsir of Surah Muhammad verse 17 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Muhammad ayat 16 which provides the complete commentary from verse 16 through 19.
(47:17) As for those who were led to the Guidance,[27] Allah increases them in their guidance and causes them to grow in God-fearing.[28]
27. That is, the same revelations about which the disbelievers and hypocrites ask: What was the Prophet (peace be upon him) saying just now? become a cause of further guidance for the rightly guided people, and from the same assembly from which these unfortunate people rise without gaining anything, the fortunate ones return with a new treasure of knowledge and insight.
28. That is, Allah grants them the grace to develop in themselves the kind of piety taqwa that they have the capability to develop.
[1500]- Taqwā, meaning piety, consciousness and fear of Allāh, and care to avoid His displeasure.
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