Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Qalam, Ayah 2

Al-Qalam · Ayah 2 · View Ayah
مَآ أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍۢ
You are not, [O Muhammad], by the favor of your Lord, a madman.

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Thou art not) O Muhammad, (for your Lord's favour) for the prophethood and Islam bestowed (unto thee, a madman) bewitched. This is the reason why Allah made the above oath.

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You are not O Muhammad (s) by the grace of your Lord a madman that is to say madness is precluded in your case on account of your Lord’s grace to you by way of His assigning to you prophethood and in other ways — this was a refutation of their saying that he was a madman.

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