Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Nooh, Ayah 16

Nooh · Ayah 16 · View Ayah
وَجَعَلَ ٱلْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًۭا وَجَعَلَ ٱلشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًۭا
And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp?

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(And hath made the moon) along with them (a light therein) a shining light therein, (and made the sun a lamp) a radiance for the children of Adam?

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and made the moon therein — that is to say within their totality but which is effectively true in the case of the heaven of this world — as a light and made the sun as a lamp? as an illuminating lantern more powerful than the light of the moon.

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