يَوْمَئِذٍ يُوَفِّيهِمُ ٱللَّهُ دِينَهُمُ ٱلْحَقَّ وَيَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلْحَقُّ ٱلْمُبِينُ
Root: و-ف-ي. Its concrete sense is to fulfil a thing completely, without any lack. Wafāʾ — to keep one's word in full. Awfā — he measured in full. Tawfiya — payment without deficiency.
And the word is the opposite of the root treated in al-Muṭaffifīn: taṭfīf is short measure; tawfiya is full measure.
دِين — root د-ي-ن. In Arabic the word has three fields of sense, and all three issue from this root:
| Sense | Example |
|---|---|
| A debt, what is to be paid | dayn — a debt |
| Requital, recompense, judgement | yawmu'l-dīn — the day of reckoning |
| Religion, a way | dīn |
The sense here is the second: the recompense that is due. The word's link with "debt" joins with the verb of the verse: yuwaffī — to pay in full. The verse, that is, builds a scene of payment.
And the attribute al-ḥaqq is worth noting: the recompense is not only "in full" but also "just". The two words reinforce one another: complete, and in its right place.
This is the only place in the sūra where the name al-Ḥaqq occurs, and the only place where the root ب-ي-ن comes together with a divine name.
And an observation about the word order may be recorded: the section between the eleventh and the twenty-fifth verses opened with a slander and closes with the name al-Ḥaqq al-Mubīn.
| The head of the section | The end of the section |
|---|---|
| al-ifk (11) — what is turned about | al-Ḥaqq (25) — what is true |
| ifkun mubīn (12) — a plain slander | al-Ḥaqqu'l-Mubīn (25) — the plain Truth |
The two pairs of words stand facing each other: in the twelfth verse the believers were asked to say hādhā ifkun mubīn; in the twenty-fifth God is named al-Ḥaqq al-Mubīn. The same adjective, upon two opposite objects.
I record this as my own reading; the wording of the two expressions stands in the text and can be compared.