Al-Ma’arij 70:19
The Ascending Stairways · Meccan · Juz 29 · Page 569
Anxious by Nature
۞إِنَّ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا ١٩
Lo! man was created anxious.
Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall
Meaning
Indeed, man was created anxious.
Insight
Elmalılı explains “halu‘” as an impatience containing haste, lying between intolerance on one side and fierceness and greed on the other.
Reflect
Notice your impatience today and calm down.
This short note is based on Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır’s Turkish commentary and has not yet been reviewed by a scholar.
Elmalılı’s commentary
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