Traducción de significados Versículo 97 Capítulo Sura Al-Nisaa - La traducción al inglés- Dr. Walid Blihech Al Umari - Enciclopedia del Sagrado Corán

Versículo: 97

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ تَوَفَّىٰهُمُ ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ ظَالِمِيٓ أَنفُسِهِمۡ قَالُواْ فِيمَ كُنتُمۡۖ قَالُواْ كُنَّا مُسۡتَضۡعَفِينَ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِۚ قَالُوٓاْ أَلَمۡ تَكُنۡ أَرۡضُ ٱللَّهِ وَٰسِعَةٗ فَتُهَاجِرُواْ فِيهَاۚ فَأُوْلَٰٓئِكَ مَأۡوَىٰهُمۡ جَهَنَّمُۖ وَسَآءَتۡ مَصِيرًا

(97) ^[957]Those who wronged themselves, as the angels take their souls, they say ˹to them˺: “What was this ˹misery that˺ you were in!” They reply: “We were victimized in the land!” They ˹the angels˺ say: “Was not Allah’s land wide enough for you to migrate in?”^[958] The ˹final˺ resort of these is Hellfire—awful indeed is the destination!

[957] ʿAbdullāh Ibn ʿAbbās (رضي الله عنهما) explains the reason behind this aya’s revelation as: “Some Muslims were among the Associators increasing their multitudes against the Messenger of Allah in battle. An arrow comes and hits one of them and he dies, or he gets hit by a sword and perishes. Upon this Allah sent down: “Those who wronged themselves, as the angels take their souls…” (al-Bukhārī: 7085). Such people ‘wronged themselves’ by doing what was not in their best interests, nor in the best interests of the then emerging community of Believers. Staying in the midst of the Deniers, they helped increase the Deniers’ numbers at a time when the Believers needed to bolster their numbers in readiness for battle in that very defining juncture in Islam’s history. Additionally, not having a really valid excuse to remain in the land of the ungodly, they were naturally unable to declare their Faith and practise it openly. Indeed, they might have had to pay lip service to the Deniers. In order to justify their lack of positive action, they concocted lame excuses (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī).
[958] “My Believing servants! My land is indeed vast, so worship Me ˹and Me alone˺.” (29: 56)