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11:122

وَٱنتَظِرُوٓاْ إِنَّا مُنتَظِرُونَ

Waintathiroo inna muntathiroona

And wait, indeed, we are waiting."

Word by word
  1. وَٱنتَظِرُوٓاْAnd wait
  2. إِنَّاindeed,we
  3. مُنتَظِرُونَ(are) ones who wait
Hud · 11:122Makkah

Wait, and we are waiting too.

Calm waiting for how things end

Both sides wait
you waitfor us to fail
we waitfor Allah's promise
and
the promise keptHis word made uppermost
What waiting is
anxious doubtwhat if we are wrong
trusting watchHis promise comes true

The command continues: wait, we too are waiting. Ibn Kathir links it to the verse that the wrongdoers will not succeed. He says Allah fulfilled His promise to His Messenger ﷺ, helped him, and made His word uppermost.

You are waiting for the job offer, the test result, the reconciliation with a sibling. Waiting can eat you up. A believer's waiting is calm, because it is waiting on a promise from One who keeps His word.

Waiting means sitting in anxiety until things work out.

I can wait calmly, because I am waiting on Allah, who keeps His promises.

Try this

While you wait on something today, replace one anxious thought with: Allah keeps His promise.

Related6:135
Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (shared passage from 11:121)

And say to those who do not believe: "Act according to your ability and way, We are acting (121)And you wait! We (too) are waiting. (122)

Allah, the Exalted, commands His Messenger ﷺ to say to those who disbelieve in what he has come with from his lord,by way of warning,

اعْمَلُوا عَلَىٰ مَكَانَتِكُمْ

(Act according to your ability) This means upon your path and your way.

إِنَّا عَامِلُونَ

(We are acting (in our way). This means that we are upon our path and our way (Islam).

وَانتَظِرُوا إِنَّا مُنتَظِرُونَ

(And you wait ! We (too) are waiting.) This means,

فَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ مَن تَكُونُ لَهُ عَاقِبَةُ الدَّارِ ۗ إِنَّهُ لَا يُفْلِحُ الظَّالِمُونَ

(And you will come to know for which of us will be the (happy) end in the Hereafter. Certainly the wrongdoers will not be successful.)[6:135] Verily, Allah fulfilled His promise to His Messenger ﷺ, helped him and aided him. He made His Word uppermost (victorious), and the word of those who disbelieved lowly and disgraced. Allah is truly the Most Mighty, Most Wise.