Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Qalam, Ayah 15

Al-Qalam · Ayah 15 · View Ayah
إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples."

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(That, when Our revelations) the Qur'an, detailing the commands and prohibitions (are recited unto him, he saith: Mere fables of the men of old) this is just the talk and lies of the men of old.

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When Our signs — the Qur’ān — are recited to him he says that they are merely ‘Fables of the ancients!’ in other words he denies them in arrogance on account of the mentioned things which We have bestowed on him out of Our grace a variant reading for an of the previous verse has the interrogative a-an.

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