Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Alaq, Ayah 3

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ٱقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْأَكْرَمُ
Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous -

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

He said to him: (Read) the Qur'an, O Muhammad: (And thy Lord is the Most Bounteous) and your Lord is Clement and forgives the ignorance of the servants,

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Recite reiterating the first one and your Lord is the Most Generous having no counterpart in terms of His generosity wa-rabbuka’l-akram is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the subject of the verb iqra’ ‘recite’

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