Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-A'raaf, Ayah 19

Al-A'raaf · Ayah 19 · View Ayah
وَيَٰٓـَٔادَمُ ٱسْكُنْ أَنتَ وَزَوْجُكَ ٱلْجَنَّةَ فَكُلَا مِنْ حَيْثُ شِئْتُمَا وَلَا تَقْرَبَا هَٰذِهِ ٱلشَّجَرَةَ فَتَكُونَا مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ
And "O Adam, dwell, you and your wife, in Paradise and eat from wherever you will but do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers."

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(And (unto man): O Adam! Dwell thou and thy wife) Eve (in the Garden and eat from whence) in Paradise (ye will) and whenever you will, (but come not nigh this tree) do not eat from this tree: the tree of knowledge (lest ye become wrong-doers) lest you become of those who harm themselves.

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And He said ‘O Adam dwell you anta this is reiterated in order to emphasise the subject of the verb uskun ‘dwell’ and to supplement to it what follows and your wife Eve read Hawwā’ in the Garden and eat from whence you will but do not come near this tree to eat of it — and this was wheat — lest you become evildoers’.

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