Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Ankaboot, Ayah 61

Al-Ankaboot · Ayah 61 · View Ayah
وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُم مَّنْ خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَسَخَّرَ ٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ لَيَقُولُنَّ ٱللَّهُ ۖ فَأَنَّىٰ يُؤْفَكُونَ
If you asked them, "Who created the heavens and earth and subjected the sun and the moon?" they would surely say, "Allah." Then how are they deluded?

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(And if thou wert to ask them) i.e. the disbelievers of Mecca: (Who created the heavens and the earth, and constrained) and made subservient (the sun and the moon? they would say) the disbelievers of Mecca would say: (Allah) created and made them subservient. (How then are they turned away?) How then do they lie against Allah?

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And if wa-la-in the lām is for oaths you were to ask them namely the disbelievers ‘Who created the heavens and the earth and disposed the sun and the moon?’ They would assuredly say ‘God.’ So how then are they turned away? from affirming His Oneness after affirming that God created them.

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Sahih Muslim#258Sahih

Verily your people would constantly question about this and that till they would say: Well, it is Allah Who created the creation, but who created Allah?

Narrated by Anas b. Malik transmitted it from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) that the Great and Glorious Allah said:
Sunan Abu Dawud#4723Hasan Sahih

People will continue to ask one another(questions) till this is pronounced: Allah created all things, but who created Allah ? Whoever comes across anything of that, he should say: I believe in Allah.

Narrated by Abu Hurairah reported to the Messenger of Allah( may peace be upon him) as sayings:
Sahih al-Bukhari#7019Sahih

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "People will not stop asking questions till they say, 'This is Allah, the Creator of everything, then who created Allah?' "

Narrated by Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Sahih Muslim#254Sahih

People will constantly ask you questions pertaining to knowledge till they would say: Allah created us, but who created Allah? he (the narrator) says: he (Abu Huraira) was (at the time of narrating th...

Narrated by It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) observed:
Sahih Muslim#257Sahih

I heard Abu Huraira saying that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) observed: people will certainly ask you about everything till they will propound: Allah created every thing, but who created Allah?

Narrated by Yazid b. al-Asamm said:
Sahih Muslim#256Sahih

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: they (the people) till constantly ask you, Abu Huraira, (about different things pertaining to religion) the they would say: Well, there is Allah, but after all w...

Narrated by Abu Huraira reported:

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