Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Fajr, Ayah 26

Al-Fajr · Ayah 26 · View Ayah
وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌۭ
And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(None bindeth as He then will bind) this can also be understood to mean: none punishes like this and none will inflict that kind of punishment except Allah.

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and likewise none shall bind read yūthiqu His bind a variant reading has yu‘adhdhabu ‘none shall be chastised’ and yūthaqu ‘none shall be bound’ so that the suffixed pronoun of ‘adhābahu and wathāqahu refers to the chastisement and the binds of the disbeliever the meaning then being ‘none shall be chastised as he shall and none shall be bound as he shall be bound’.

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