Surah Al-Mutaffifin (Defrauding — المطففين) (Ayah 18)

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83 Al-Mutaffifin(المطففين), Ayah 18

كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْأَبْرَارِ لَفِي عِلِّيِّينَ 18 ١٨

No! Indeed, the record of the righteous is in 'illiyyun. (18)

Tafsir

كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْأَبْرَارِ لَفِي عِلِّيِّينَ (No! The record of deeds of the righteous is in ` illiyyun....Al-Mutaffifin 83:18 ). According to some authorities, ` illiyyun is the plural of ` uluww and it signifies the 'highest point'. According to Farra', this is the name of a place. It is not a plural, but on the measure of plural. When analysing the word sijjin in the foregoing paragraphs, the traceable Tradition of Sayyidna Bath' Ibn ` Azib ؓ was cited to prove that ` illiyyin is a place on the seventh heaven beneath the Divine Throne where the souls of the believers and their registers of deeds are kept. The phrase: كِتَابٌ مَّرْقُومٌ (A register inscribed...Al-Mutaffifin 83:20 ) is not the interpretation of illiyyin, but rather an explication their records of deeds, as in the verse that precedes it:

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