Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: As-Saff, Ayah 3

As-Saff · Ayah 3 · View Ayah
كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِندَ ٱللَّهِ أَن تَقُولُوا۟ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ
Great is hatred in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not do.

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

It is greatly loathsome maqtan is for specification to God that you say an taqūlū constitutes the agent of the verb kabura ‘it is greatly’ what you do not do.

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(It is most hateful in the sight of Allah that ye say that which ye do not) that you promise that which you cannot fulfil or speak of doing that which you cannot do.

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