Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Az-Zukhruf, Ayah 28

Az-Zukhruf · Ayah 28 · View Ayah
وَجَعَلَهَا كَلِمَةًۢ بَاقِيَةًۭ فِى عَقِبِهِۦ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ
And he made it a word remaining among his descendants that they might return [to it].

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(And he made It) i.e. �there is no deity except Allah� (a word enduring) firm (among his seed) the offspring of Abraham, (that haply they might return) that his folk may return from their disbelief to the belief in Allah's divine Oneness.

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And he made it namely the statement of the affirmation of God’s Oneness understood from his words I shall indeed depart to my Lord; He will guide me Q. 3799 a word enduring among his posterity his descendants and thus there still remains among them those who affirm the Oneness of God; that perhaps they that is the people of Mecca might recant what they follow and return to the religion of their forefather Abraham.

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