Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Qamar, Ayah 5
Common Words
Other Scholars on This Ayah
Tafsir
wisdom hikmatun is the predicate of an omitted subject or a substitution for mā ‘such as’ or for muzdajar ‘deterrent’ that is far-reaching complete; but warnings nudhur is the plural of nadhīr functioning in the agent sense of mundhir ‘a warner’ that is to say ‘those matters which warn them’; mā is either for negation or it is an interrogative of denial in which case it stands as a preceding direct object are of no avail warnings are of no use with them.
Related Hadiths
"There is no forbearance except for the one who stumbled, and there is no wisdom except for the one who has experience." (Dai'f)
In poetry there is wisdom.
"In some poetry there is wisdom."
"In some poetry there is wisdom."
"Beware! The extremists perished," saying it three times.
“There is no wisdom like reflection, and no honor like good manners.”
The belief is among the Yemenites, the sagacity is that of the Yemenites.
Knowledge cannot be acquired with sloth.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Effective) is the (wisdom) of the Qur'an; it is wisdom from Allah which they were conveyed on behalf of Allah; (but warnings) i.e. the messengers (avail not) the people who disbelieve in Allah as it is in His preeternal knowledge.