Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Anbiyaa, Ayah 42

Al-Anbiyaa · Ayah 42 · View Ayah
قُلْ مَن يَكْلَؤُكُم بِٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ مِنَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ۗ بَلْ هُمْ عَن ذِكْرِ رَبِّهِم مُّعْرِضُونَ
Say, "Who can protect you at night or by day from the Most Merciful?" But they are, from the remembrance of their Lord, turning away.

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Say) O Muhammad to the people of Mecca: (Who guardeth you) who protects you (in the night or in the day from the Beneficent) from the chastisement of the Beneficent? It is also said that this means: who protects you from the punishment of other than the Beneficent? (Nay, but they turn away from) but they disbelieve and discard the (the mention of their Lord) from the profession of Allah's divine Oneness and the Scripture of their Lord,

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Say to them ‘Who can guard you preserve you by night and day from the Compassionate One?’ from His chastisement if it should befall you? In other words no one can do such a thing. Those being addressed here do not fear God’s chastisement because they deny the truth of it. Nay but of the Remembrance of their Lord that is the Qur’ān they are disregardful failing to reflect on it.

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