Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Ash-Shu'araa, Ayah 137

Ash-Shu'araa · Ayah 137 · View Ayah
إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا خُلُقُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
This is not but the custom of the former peoples,

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(This) that in which we are now (is but a fable of the men of old) the religion of the people of old; the religion of our forefathers; it is also said that this means: what you say is nothing but the invention of the people of old,

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This that you threaten us with is merely the fabrication of the ancients that is their inventions and lies a variant reading for khalq ‘fabrication’ is khuluq ‘ethos’ in other words this denial of resurrection to which we adhere is merely ‘the ethos of the ancients’ in other words their nature and wont;

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