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Verse's Information
Suraal-Isra' (Qur'an 17)
Verse37
Juz'15
Content Information
Place of
Revelation		Mecca
TopicProhibition of Arrogance
Related VersesVerses 23 to 39 of Surah al-Isra' • Qur'an 25:63 • Qur'an 31:18


Qur'an 17:37 prohibits arrogance[1] and enjoins humility.[2] According to verse 39 of this same surah, this prohibition is among the precepts of divine wisdom revealed to the Prophet (s).[3] 'Allama Tabataba'i posits that this prohibition is founded on rational argumentation; he argues that self-aggrandizement is a vain illusion, given that there exist beings in the world far greater and more powerful than humans.[4] Commentators have regarded this argument as metaphorical,[5] implying that an arrogant individual can neither rend the earth with a heavy tread nor rival the mountains in stature through haughty bearing.[6]

According to exegetes, Qur'an 17:37 demonstrates that humility arises when one perceives oneself as a minute and insignificant entity.[7] The verse further admonishes that wealth, honor, and power are, in truth, illusory constructs void of external reality.[8] Citing Qur'an 25:63 and Qur'an 31:18,[9] some scholars have interpreted the manner of walking upon the earth as a manifestation of either humility or arrogance.[10] Furthermore, in certain traditions, traversing the path of divine obedience is cited as an instance of humble walking.[11]

Notes

  1. ↑ Ṭabarsī, Majmaʿ al-bayān, 1372 Sh, vol. 6, p. 641; Ṭabāṭabāʾī, al-Mīzān, 1393 AH, vol. 13, p. 96; Makārim Shīrāzī, Tafsīr-i nimūna, 1374 Sh, vol. 12, p. 121.
  2. ↑ Mughniyya, al-Tafsīr al-kāshif, 1424 AH, vol. 5, p. 45.
  3. ↑ Faḍl Allāh, Min waḥy al-Qurʾān, 1419 AH, vol. 14, p. 124.
  4. ↑ Ṭabāṭabāʾī, al-Mīzān, 1393 AH, vol. 13, p. 97.
  5. ↑ Ṭabāṭabāʾī, al-Mīzān, 1393 AH, vol. 13, p. 97; Mughniyya, al-Tafsīr al-kāshif, 1424 AH, vol. 5, p. 45.
  6. ↑ Abū l-Futūḥ Rāzī, Rawḍ al-jinān, 1408 AH, vol. 12, p. 199; Ṭabāṭabāʾī, al-Mīzān, 1393 AH, vol. 13, p. 97.
  7. ↑ Ṭabāṭabāʾī, al-Mīzān, 1393 AH, vol. 13, p. 97.
  8. ↑ Ṭabāṭabāʾī, al-Mīzān, 1393 AH, vol. 13, p. 97.
  9. ↑ For example, see: Makārim Shīrāzī, Vālātarīn bandigān, 1383 Sh, pp. 57-58.
  10. ↑ Makārim Shīrāzī, Vālātarīn bandigān, 1383 Sh, p. 56; Subḥānī, Sīmā-yi insān-i kāmil dar Qurʾān, 1377 Sh, p. 243.
  11. ↑ Fayḍ Kāshānī, al-Tafsīr al-ṣāfī, 1415 AH, vol. 3, p. 193.

References

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  • Faḍl Allāh, Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn, Min waḥy al-Qurʾān, Beirut, Dār al-Malāk, 1419 AH.
  • Fayḍ Kāshānī, Muḥammad b. Shāh-Murtaḍā, al-Tafsīr al-ṣāfī, Tehran, Maktabat al-Ṣadr, 1415 AH/1373 Sh.
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  • Makārim Shīrāzī, Nāṣir, Vālātarīn bandigān, compiled by J. Farāzmand, Qom, Intishārāt-i Nasl-i Javān, 1383 Sh.
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  • Subḥānī, Jaʿfar, Sīmā-yi insān-i kāmil dar Qurʾān (tafsīr-i sūra-yi Furqān), Qom, Markaz-i Intishārāt-i Daftar-i Tablīghāt-i Islāmī, 1377 Sh.
  • Ṭabāṭabāʾī, Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn, al-Mīzān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān, Beirut, Muʾassasat al-Aʿlamī li-l-Maṭbūʿāt, 1392 AH.
  • Ṭabarsī, Faḍl b. Ḥasan, Majmaʿ al-bayān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān, edited by Sayyid Hāshim Rasūlī Maḥallātī and Sayyid Faḍl Allāh Yazdī Ṭabāṭabāʾī, Tehran, Intishārāt-i Nāṣir Khusraw, 1372 Sh.
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