Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Mulk, Ayah 22
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Is he who walks cast down fallen on his face more rightly guided or he who walks upright on a straight path? the predicate of the second man ‘who’ has been omitted but is indicated by the predicate of the first namely ahdā ‘more rightly guided’; the similitude refers to the believer and the disbeliever and to which of the two is more rightly guided.
Related Hadiths
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Is he who goeth groping on his face) bent down in his error and disbelief, i.e. Abu Jahl Ibn Hisham (more rightly guided) more correct in his religion, (or he who walketh upright on a beaten road) on an established religion with which Allah is pleased, i.e. Islam? This refers to Muhammad (pbuh).