Tafsir of Al-Qiyamah 75:39

Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:39

ﲝ ﲞ ﲟ ﲠ ﲡ

And made of him two mates, the male and the female.

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Al-Qiyamah: (39) "And made of him the two mates..."

"And made of him"—meaning, of man; and it has been said: of the semen—"the two mates," meaning the two categories: the male and the female. [The male and female] are a substitution for "the two mates," and the hermaphrodite does not transcend these two. Zayd ibn Ali recited it as al-zawjan (with an alif), according to the dialect of the Banu al-Harith ibn Ka'b and those of the Arabs who agree with them, in that the dual is [inflected] with an alif in all of its states.