Tafsir Ibn Abbas: As-Saaffaat, Ayah 10

As-Saaffaat · Ayah 10 · View Ayah
إِلَّا مَنْ خَطِفَ ٱلْخَطْفَةَ فَأَتْبَعَهُۥ شِهَابٌۭ ثَاقِبٌۭ
Except one who snatches [some words] by theft, but they are pursued by a burning flame, piercing [in brightness].

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Save him who snatcheth a fragment) save him who snatches a little of the words of the angels, (and there pursueth him a piercing flame) and is chased by a bright star which burns him.

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except him who snatches a fragment al-khatfa is the verbal noun that is to say ‘that one time’; the exceptive clause refers to the subject of the verb yasma‘ūna in other words ‘the only devil that is able to listen is the one that hears a word from the angels and snatches it away quickly’ and who is then pursued by a piercing flame shihāb is a meteor that pierces him or burns him or robs him of his senses.

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