Quran Universe
17:82

وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ ٱلۡقُرۡءَانِ مَا هُوَ شِفَآءٞ وَرَحۡمَةٞ لِّلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ وَلَا يَزِيدُ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا خَسَارٗا

Wanunazzilu mina alqurani ma huwa shifaon warahmatun lilmumineena wala yazeedu alththalimeena illa khasaran

And We send down of the Qur'an that which is healing and mercy for the believers, but it does not increase the wrongdoers except in loss.

Word by word
  1. وَنُنَزِّلُAnd We reveal
  2. مِنَfrom
  3. ٱلۡقُرۡءَانِthe Quran
  4. مَاthat
  5. هُوَit
  6. شِفَآءٞ(is) a healing
  7. وَرَحۡمَةٞand a mercy
  8. لِّلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَfor the believers
  9. وَلَاbut not
  10. يَزِيدُit increases
  11. ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَthe wrongdoers
  12. إِلَّاexcept
  13. خَسَارٗا(in) loss
Al-Isra · 17:82Makkah

The Quran is healing and mercy for those who believe.

Same words, different effect

The Quran
sent down
for believers
cure and mercyheals doubt, confusion
for wrongdoers
only loss
Where the problem is
the Quran did nothing
the heart receiving it

Ibn Kathir says the Quran takes away doubt, hypocrisy, shirk and confusion from the heart. It is a mercy through which one gains faith and wisdom. For one who wrongs himself, it only pushes him further. The problem is with the listener, not the Quran.

Anxiety at night. A heart full of resentment. A head full of doubt. You open the Quran expecting nothing, read one page slowly, and something settles. That is the cure working.

The Quran is for rituals, not for what is going on inside me.

The Quran heals what is inside me when I open my heart to it.

Try this

When you feel low today, read one page of the Quran slowly with its meaning.

Related41:449:124
Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir

And We send down of the Qur'an that which is a cure and a mercy to the believers, and it increases the wrongdoers in nothing but loss (82)

The Qur'an is a Cure and a Mercy

Allah tells us that His Book, which He has revealed to His Messenger Muhammad ﷺ, the Qur'an to which falsehood cannot come, from before it or behind it, (it is) sent down by the All-Wise, Worthy of all praise, is a cure and a mercy for the believers, meaning that it takes away whatever is in their hearts of doubt, hypocrisy, Shirk, confusion and inclination towards falsehood. The Qur'an cures all of that. It is also a mercy through which one attains faith and wisdom and seeks goodness. This is only for those who believe in it and accept it as truthful, it is a cure and a mercy only for such people. As for the disbeliever who is wronging himself by his disbelief, when he hears the Qur'an, it only makes him further from the truth and increases him in his disbelief. The problem lies with the disbeliever himself, not with the Qur'an, as Allah says:

قُلْ هُوَ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا هُدًى وَشِفَاءٌ ۖ وَالَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ فِي آذَانِهِمْ وَقْرٌ وَهُوَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَمًى ۚ أُولَٰئِكَ يُنَادَوْنَ مِن مَّكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ

(Say: "It is for those who believe, a guide and a cure. And as for those who disbelieve, there is heaviness in their ears, and it is blindness for them. They are those who are called from a place far away (so they neither listen nor understand).")[41:44]

وَإِذَا مَا أُنزِلَتْ سُورَةٌ فَمِنْهُم مَّن يَقُولُ أَيُّكُمْ زَادَتْهُ هَٰذِهِ إِيمَانًا ۚ فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا فَزَادَتْهُمْ إِيمَانًا وَهُمْ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ - وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ فَزَادَتْهُمْ رِجْسًا إِلَىٰ رِجْسِهِمْ وَمَاتُوا وَهُمْ كَافِرُونَ

(And whenever there comes down a Surah, some of them (hypocrites) say: "Which of you has had his faith increased by it?" As for those who believe, it has increased their faith, and they rejoice. But as for those in whose hearts is a disease, it will add suspicion and doubt to their suspicion, disbelief and doubt; and they die while they are disbelievers.)(9:124-125) And there are many other similar Ayat.

وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَا هُوَ شِفَاءٌ وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

(And We send down of the Qur'an that which is a cure and a mercy to the believers,) Qatadah said, "When the believer hears it, he benefits from it and memorizes it and understands it."

وَلَا يَزِيدُ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا خَسَارًا

(and it increases the wrongdoers in nothing but loss.) They do not benefit from it or memorize it or understand it, for Allah has made this Qur'an a cure and a mercy for the believers.