Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: An-Nahl, Ayah 68

An-Nahl · Ayah 68 · View Ayah
وَأَوْحَىٰ رَبُّكَ إِلَى ٱلنَّحْلِ أَنِ ٱتَّخِذِى مِنَ ٱلْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًۭا وَمِنَ ٱلشَّجَرِ وَمِمَّا يَعْرِشُونَ
And your Lord inspired to the bee, "Take for yourself among the mountains, houses, and among the trees and [in] that which they construct.

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

And your Lord revealed to the bee a revealing effected through inspiration saying an ‘that’ is either explicative or relates to the verbal noun ‘Choose among the hills habitations to which you can resort and among the trees also habitations and among the trellises which they raise that is the places which humans build for you — for otherwise it the bee would not resort to these places.

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(And thy Lord inspired the bee, saying: Choose thou habitations in the hills and in the trees and in that which they thatch) and in that which they build;

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