Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Baqara, Ayah 32

Al-Baqara · Ayah 32 · View Ayah
قَالُوا۟ سُبْحَٰنَكَ لَا عِلْمَ لَنَآ إِلَّا مَا عَلَّمْتَنَآ ۖ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلْعَلِيمُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ
They said, "Exalted are You; we have no knowledge except what You have taught us. Indeed, it is You who is the Knowing, the Wise."

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(They said: Be glorified!), we repent to you of what we said (We have no knowledge saving that which Thou hast taught us), inspired us with. (Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Knower) of us and of them (the Wise) regarding our matters and theirs.

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They said ‘Glory be to You! exalting You above that any should object to You We know not except what You have taught us. Surely You are innaka anta emphasises the preceding suffixed pronoun kāf the Knower Wise’ from whose knowledge and wisdom nothing escapes.

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