Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Luqman, Ayah 3

Luqman · Ayah 3 · View Ayah

هُدًۭى وَرَحْمَةًۭ لِّلْمُحْسِنِينَ

As guidance and mercy for the doers of good

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(A guidance) from error (and a mercy) shielding from chastisement (for the good) for the sincere ones who believe in Allah's divine Oneness,

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it is a guidance and a mercy read nominative rahmatun; the popular accusative reading rahmatan would make it a circumstantial qualifier referring to āyāt ‘signs’ the operator of which being the implicit demonstrative import of tilka ‘those’ for the virtuous

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