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Tafsir Ibn Abbas: At-Tur, Ayah 40

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أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ أَجْرًۭا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍۢ مُّثْقَلُونَ

Or do you, [O Muhammad], ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Or askest thou) O Muhammad (a fee from them) in exchange for their faith (so that they are plunged in debt) so that they are drowned in debt if they accept to give you a fee?

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Or are you asking them for a fee a wage in return for what you have brought them in the way of religion so that they are weighed down with debt? with the liability for this so that they are unable to submit to God.

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