Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Ash-Shu'araa, Ayah 4
إِن نَّشَأْ نُنَزِّلْ عَلَيْهِم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ ءَايَةًۭ فَظَلَّتْ أَعْنَٰقُهُمْ لَهَا خَٰضِعِينَ
If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled.
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If We will We will send down to them a sign from the heaven before which their necks will remain fa-zallat although grammatically in the past tense is being used in the sense of the imperfect tense bowed in humility and they will believe since ‘necks’ are described as ‘bowed in humility’ a status which in fact refers to those who possess them the adjectival form khādi‘ūn ‘bowed in humility’ used therein is the one normally used for rational beings.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(If We will, We can send down on them from the sky a portent) a sign (so that their necks would remain bowed before it) in humiliation.