Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Ash-Shu'araa, Ayah 111

Ash-Shu'araa · Ayah 111 · View Ayah
۞ قَالُوٓا۟ أَنُؤْمِنُ لَكَ وَٱتَّبَعَكَ ٱلْأَرْذَلُونَ
They said, "Should we believe you while you are followed by the lowest [class of people]?"

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(They said: Shall we put faith in thee) shall we believe in you, O Noah, (when the lowest (of the people) follow thee) when our most lowly and weak have followed you? We will not believe in you until you repulse them.

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They said ‘Shall we believe in you in your words when it is the lowliest people who follow you?’ wa’ttaba‘aka a variant reading has wa-atbā‘uka ‘when your followers’ plural of tābi‘ ‘follower’ as a subject the riffraff such as the weavers and the shoemakers.

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