Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Kahf, Ayah 41

Al-Kahf · Ayah 41 · View Ayah
أَوْ يُصْبِحَ مَآؤُهَا غَوْرًۭا فَلَن تَسْتَطِيعَ لَهُۥ طَلَبًۭا
Or its water will become sunken [into the earth], so you would never be able to seek it."

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Or some morning the water thereof) the water of the garden (will be lost in the earth) will sink in the earth, out of reach (so that thou canst not make search for it) so that you cannot access it.

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or maybe its water will sink deep down ghawran functions in meaning like ghā’iran and it constitutes a supplement to yursila ‘He will unleash’ but not a supplement to tusbiha ‘it becomes’ because the sinking of water deep into the earth does not necessarily result from thunderbolts so that you have no means of acquiring it’ no possible way of reaching it.

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