Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Ash-Shu'araa, Ayah 223

Ash-Shu'araa · Ayah 223 · View Ayah

يُلْقُونَ ٱلسَّمْعَ وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ كَٰذِبُونَ

They pass on what is heard, and most of them are liars.

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(They listen eagerly) the devils listen eagerly to the speech of the angels, (but most of them are liars) the devils are liars because they hear one thing and convey instead 100 things to fortune tellers.

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They the devils report the heard sayings what they hear from the angels they report to the soothsayers but most of them are liars adding much that is false to what they hear — this was revealed before the devils were barred from the heaven.

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We narrate what we have heard.

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‘It is enough of a lie for a man that he narrates everything he hears’.

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‘It is enough of a lie for a man that he narrates everything he hears’.

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‘al-Hārith al-A’war ul-Hamdānī narrated to me, and he is a liar’.

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