Tafsir Ibn Abbas: As-Saaffaat, Ayah 57
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And had it not been for the favour of my Lord His grace to me in giving me faith I too would have been of those arraigned’ with you in the Fire. The inhabitants of Paradise will say
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And had it not been for the favour of my Lord) Who bestowed faith upon me and protected me from disbelief, (I too had been of those haled forth (to doom)) I too would be tormented with you in the Fire.