Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Taa-Haa, Ayah 58
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Tafsir
Yet We too shall produce for you a sorcery like it one which will counter it. So fix a tryst between us and you for that purpose a tryst which neither we nor you shall fail to keep at a place makānan is in the accusative because the genitive-operator preposition fī ‘at’ has been removed of equal distance read siwān or suwān in other words in the middle equidistant for a person coming from either side.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
But we surely can produce magic the like thereof) like the magic you produced; (so appoint a tryst) appoint a time of encounter (between us and you, which neither we nor thou shall fail to keep, at a place convenient (to us both)) other than this place; it is also said that this means: a place that is fair to both of us.