Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Baqara, Ayah 128

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رَبَّنَا وَٱجْعَلْنَا مُسْلِمَيْنِ لَكَ وَمِن ذُرِّيَّتِنَآ أُمَّةًۭ مُّسْلِمَةًۭ لَّكَ وَأَرِنَا مَنَاسِكَنَا وَتُبْ عَلَيْنَآ ۖ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلتَّوَّابُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ
Our Lord, and make us Muslims [in submission] to You and from our descendants a Muslim nation [in submission] to You. And show us our rites and accept our repentance. Indeed, You are the Accepting of repentance, the Merciful.

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Our Lord!) O our Lord! (And make us submissive) obedient and sincere (unto Thee) by not ascribing any partners to you and through worshipping You (and of our seed a nation submissive) obedient and sincere (unto Thee) by not ascribing any partners to you and through worshipping You, (and show us our rites) teach us the rites of our pilgrimage, (and relent towards us) overlook our shortcomings. (Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Relenting) You who overlooks shortcomings, (the Merciful) towards the believers.

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Our Lord! And make us submissive compliant to You and make of our seed our progeny a community a people submissive to You min in the phrase min dhurriyyatinā ‘of our seed’ here is partitive and is used here in accordance with God’s above-mentioned saying My covenant shall not reach the evildoers; and show us teach us our holy rites our ceremonies for worship or for the pilgrimage and relent to us. Surely You are the Relenting the Merciful they asked Him to turn towards them despite their moral impeccability out of humbleness and in order to teach their progeny.

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