Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: An-Naml, Ayah 21

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لَأُعَذِّبَنَّهُۥ عَذَابًۭا شَدِيدًا أَوْ لَأَا۟ذْبَحَنَّهُۥٓ أَوْ لَيَأْتِيَنِّى بِسُلْطَٰنٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ
I will surely punish him with a severe punishment or slaughter him unless he brings me clear authorization."

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

He said ‘Assuredly I will chastise him with a severe chastisement by having all his feathers as well as his tail plucked and leaving him out in the sun where he would not be able to escape from reptiles or I will slaughter him by slitting his throat unless he brings me read la-ya’tiyannī or la-ya’tinannī a clear warrant’ plain manifest proof for his having a valid excuse.

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He said: if he is among the absent, then (I verily will punish him with hard punishment) I will pluck out his feathers; such was the punishment of the birds, (or I verily will slay him, or he verily shall bring me a plain excuse) an acceptable excuse.

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