Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-A'raaf, Ayah 139

إِنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ مُتَبَّرٌۭ مَّا هُمْ فِيهِ وَبَٰطِلٌۭ مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ

Indeed, those [worshippers] - destroyed is that in which they are [engaged], and worthless is whatever they were doing."

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

Truly as for these their way will be destroyed and what they have been doing is in vain’.

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(Lo! as for these, their way) their idolatry (will be destroyed and all that they are doing) of idolatry (is in vain) is error.

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