7:201

Al-A'raaf

Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-A'raaf, Ayah 201

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّقَوْا۟ إِذَا مَسَّهُمْ طَٰٓئِفٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ تَذَكَّرُوا۟ فَإِذَا هُم مُّبْصِرُونَ

Indeed, those who fear Allah - when an impulse touches them from Satan, they remember [Him] and at once they have insight.

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Lo! those who ward off (evil)) those who ward off the whispering of the devil, (when a glamour) doubt and insinuation (from the devil troubles them) befalls them, (they do but remember) know ((Allah's guidance) and behold them seers) refraining from transgression!

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Truly the God-fearing when a visitation from Satan touches them befalls them tayfun a variant reading has tā’ifun that is when something of the sort overcomes them they remember God’s punishment and His reward and then see clearly distinguishing the truth from what is other than it and so they return to God.

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