Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Ghaashiya, Ayah 22

Al-Ghaashiya · Ayah 22 · View Ayah
لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ
You are not over them a controller.

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Thou art not) O Muhammad (at all a warder over them) you are not imposed on them such that you force them to accept faith.

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you are not a taskmaster over them a variant reading for musaytir has musaytir that is to say not one who has been given authority over them — this was revealed before the command to struggle against the disbelievers.

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