

saying that "We are the Ahl al-Bayt (kinsfolk) and this applies to such persons from us exclusively.

But you understand not their glorification (17:44)Īli,the cousin of Muhammad, narrates about the following verse: (59:7) Whatever God grants to His Messenger (out of the property) of the people of the towns, belongs to God, the Messenger, the kinsfolk, the orphans, the destitute. Allah states that everything that exists in the heavens and on the earth praises, glorifies, reveres and prays to Him and affirms His Oneness." Further, Allah said in another Ayah: The seven heavens and the earth and all that is therein, glorify Him and there is not a thing but glorifies His praise. He wrote: “Everything glorifies Allah in its own way. In Tafsir ibn kathir, Al-Hafiz ibn Kathir explained the significance of the Ayah.

Surah Al-Hashr opens with Allah proclaiming: (59:1) Whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on the earth glorifies Allah. Verse 6 may be related to the controversies of the land of Fadak. The surah features 15 attributes of God in the last three verses. The chapter is named al-hashr because the word hashr, meaning 'exile' or 'banishment', appears in verse 2, describing the expulsion of Jewish Banu Nadir tribe from their settlements. Al-Hashr (Arabic: الحشر, "The Exile") is the 59th chapter (sūrah) of the Qur'an and has 24 verses.
