Al-Qur'an Surah 'Abasa Verse 17

Perish man!, accursed be the disbeliever! What has made him ungrateful? (an interrogative statement meant as a rebuke) -- what has driven him to disbelief?

The Refutation against Whoever denies Life after Death

Allah rebukes those who deny the Resurrection and the Final Gathering.

قُتِلَ الاِْنسَانُ مَا أَكْفَرَهُ

Qutila mankind! How ungrateful he is!

Ad-Dahhak reported from Ibn Abbas that he said, (
قُتِلَ

الاِْنسَانُ
Qutila mankind!)

"May man be cursed."

Abu Malik also made a similar statement. He said,

"This refers to the rejecting type of man, due to his abundant denial without any supporting argument. Rather he denies simply because he thinks it is farfetched and because he lacks knowledge of it."

Ibn Jurayj said,
مَأ أَكْفَرَهُ
How ungrateful he is!

"This means none is worse in disbelief than he is."

Qatadah said,
مَأ أَكْفَرَهُ
How ungrateful he is!

"This means none is more cursed than he is."

Then Allah explains how He created him from something despised and that He is able to bring him back to life just as He created him initially.

Allah says,

مِنْ أَيِّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقَهُ

Al-Qur'an Surah 'Abasa Verse 17

'Abasa [80]: 17 ~ English Qur'an Word By Word and Multi Tafseer

Transliteration:

English / Sahih Translation:

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Ruwwad Translation Center

A. J. Arberry

Abdul Haleem

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Abul Ala Maududi

Ahmed Ali

Ahmed Raza Khan

Ali Quli Qarai

Ali Ünal

Amatul Rahman Omar

English Literal

Faridul Haque

Hamid S. Aziz

Hilali & Khan

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Mohammad Habib Shakir

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Muhammad Sarwar

Qaribullah & Darwish

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Wahiduddin Khan

Talal Itani

Tafsir jalalayn

Tafseer Ibn Kathir