Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Jumu'a, Ayah 2
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It is He Who sent to the unlettered folk among the Arabs ummī means ‘one who cannot write or read a book’ a messenger from among them namely Muhammad (s) to recite to them His signs the Qur’ān and to purify them to cleanse them from idolatry and to teach them the Book the Qur’ān and wisdom in the rulings that it contains though indeed wa-in in has been softened from the hardened form with its subject having been omitted that is to say understand it as wa-innahum before that before his coming they had been in manifest error.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(He it is Who hath sent among the unlettered ones) the Arabs (a messenger of their own) of their own lineage, i.e. Muhammad (pbuh) (to recite unto them His revelations) the Qur'an which exposits commands and prohibitions (and to make them grow) and to cleanse them from idolatry by means of belief in Allah's divine Oneness; and it is also said this means: He cleanse them by means of them giving the poor-due from their wealth, and also by them repenting; in other words: He invites them to do so, (and to teach them the Scripture) i.e. the Qur'an (and Wisdom) the lawful and the unlawful; it is also said this means: knowledge and the admonitions of the Qur'an, (though heretofore) before the Prophet (pbuh) brought them the Qur'an (they) i.e. the Arabs (were indeed in error manifest) in manifest disbelief,