10:91

 Salaam all

10:91

 آلآنَ وَقَدْ عَصَيْتَ قَبْلُ وَكُنتَ مِنَ ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ

āl`āna waqad ʿaṣayta qablu wakunta mina l-muf`sidīna

 

The Aya says:

Now, While you disobeyed before and were one of the bad doers?!

 

My personal note:

There is a time when it is too late.  Qur’anically speaking, it is when the person is seeing the end clearly.  In this case he only repented when the drowning took hold of him and he knew he will die in a few minutes.  That was too late.

 

Translation of the transliterated words:

 

āl`āna: now?!

Waqad: While

ʿaṣayta: you (singular) disobeyed

Note:  AAaSAYTA is derived from the root Ain-Sad-Y and it means to go against order/to resist an order, for the verb and the action for the noun. The concrete word is Stick and Staff. The relationship to the above abstract meaning is the fact that the Stick is rigid and unbending, as well as the fact the Stick got detached from the tree. AAaSAYTA is an action that is completed. It means: the action of disobeying the object (not declared but points to Allah indirectly) happened by the subject (second person singular). 

 

Qablu: before

Note: the root Qaf-B-L and it means front. This is then carried in time or space or any plain of thought. If it is in time, then front means before, while place would be in front. It is used to mean acceptance and reception since we receive and accept using our fronts. QABLU here is front in time and that is before.

 

Wakunta: and you were/ you happened to be

Note: WA here for starting a connected statement.  KUNTA is derived from the root K-W-N and it means being.  KUNTA is an action that is completed that is derived from the root. It means: the action of being happened by the subject (second personal singular). 

Mina: amongst/ of

l-muf`sidīna: the perpetrators of corruption/ harm/ mischief

Note: ALMUFSIDEENA is derived from the root MUFSIDEEN, the root F-S-D and it means becoming damaged for the action and damage for nouns. It is used for damage or harm or lack of benefit. MUFSIDEENA means causing damage or harm or lack of benefit.

 Salaam all and have a great day

Hussein