18:6

Al-Kahf

Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Kahf, Ayah 6

فَلَعَلَّكَ بَٰخِعٌۭ نَّفْسَكَ عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَٰرِهِمْ إِن لَّمْ يُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ أَسَفًا

Then perhaps you would kill yourself through grief over them, [O Muhammad], if they do not believe in this message, [and] out of sorrow.

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Yet it may be, if they believe not in this statement) if they do not believe in this Qur'an, (that thou) O Muhammad (wilt torment thy soul) kill yourself (with grief over their footsteps) for them.

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Yet it may be that you will consume destroy yourself in their wake — following your being with them that is after they have left you — if they should not believe in this discourse in this Qur’ān out of grief out of rage and anguish on your part because of your eagerness that they believe asafan ‘out of grief’ is in the accusative because it functions as an object denoting reason.

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