Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Taa-Haa, Ayah 129
وَلَوْلَا كَلِمَةٌۭ سَبَقَتْ مِن رَّبِّكَ لَكَانَ لِزَامًۭا وَأَجَلٌۭ مُّسَمًّۭى
And if not for a word that preceded from your Lord, punishment would have been an obligation [due immediately], and [if not for] a specified term [decreed].
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And but for a decree that had already preceded from your Lord that their chastisement be deferred to the Hereafter it destruction would have been an inevitability their destruction would have been necessary in this world and a specified term fixed for them ajalun musamman a supplement to the pronoun concealed in kāna ‘it would have been’ the separation of both subjects by the predicate of both serves as an emphasis.
Related Hadiths
Sunan an-Nasa'i#4895Sahih
"Pardon matters that may deserve a Hadd punishment before you bring it to my attention, for whatever is brought to my attention, the Hadd punishment becomes binding." (Saif)
Narrated by It was narrated form 'Amr bin Shu'ainb, from his father, from his grandfather, that the Prophet said:
Sahih Muslim#1718Sahih
" Had this (Nafl) prayer become obligatory for you, you would not be able to observe it."
Narrated by Zaid b. Thabit reported that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) made an apartment in the mosque of mats, and he observed in it prayers for many nights till people began to gather around him, and the rest of the hadith is the same but with this addition:
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And but for a decree that had already gone forth from thy Lord) that their punishment shall be postponed, (and a term already fixed) for this nation, (the judgement would (have) been inevitable (in this world)) their punishment would have been inevitable.