Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Maaida, Ayah 102

Al-Maaida · Ayah 102 · View Ayah
قَدْ سَأَلَهَا قَوْمٌۭ مِّن قَبْلِكُمْ ثُمَّ أَصْبَحُوا۟ بِهَا كَٰفِرِينَ
A people asked such [questions] before you; then they became thereby disbelievers.

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

Verily a people before you asked about them that is they asked their prophets about such things and they received the response in the form of revealed explications of the rules concerning them; and then they disbelieved in them by neglecting to implement them.

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(A folk before you asked) their prophets ((for such disclosures) and then disbelieved there in) when things were made clear to them, they disbelieved in them.

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