Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Muddaththir, Ayah 49

فَمَا لَهُمْ عَنِ ٱلتَّذْكِرَةِ مُعْرِضِينَ
Then what is [the matter] with them that they are, from the reminder, turning away

Common Words

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فما1x
لهم1x
عن1x
ٱلتذكرة1x
معرضين1x

Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Why now turn they away from) disbelieve in (the Admonishment) the Qur'an

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So what fa-mā the subject is wrong with them lahum the predicate thereof semantically connected to an omitted clause the person of which has been transposed onto it that they turn away mu‘ridīna is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the suffixed pronoun in lahum ‘them’ from the Reminder — in other words ‘what has happened to them that they have turned away from admonition’ —

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