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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

An-Nahl 16:94

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وَلَا تَتَّخِذُوٓا۟ أَيْمَـٰنَكُمْ دَخَلًۢا بَيْنَكُمْ فَتَزِلَّ قَدَمٌۢ بَعْدَ ثُبُوتِهَا وَتَذُوقُوا۟ ٱلسُّوٓءَ بِمَا صَدَدتُّمْ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ ۖ وَلَكُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ

And do not take your oaths as [means of] deceit between you, lest a foot slip after it was [once] firm, and you would taste evil [in this world] for what [people] you diverted from the way of Allāh, and you would have [in the Hereafter] a great punishment.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

ولا تجعلوا من الأيمان التي تحلفونها خديعة لمن حلفتم لهم، فتهلكوا بعد أن كنتم آمنين، كمن زلقت قدمه بعد ثبوتها، وتذوقوا ما يسوؤكم من العذاب في الدنيا; بما تسببتم فيه مِن مَنْع غيركم عن هذا الدين لما رأوه منكم من الغدر، ولكم في الآخرة عذاب عظيم.

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