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

Al-Isra 17:90

Word by word

وَقَالُوا۟ لَن نُّؤْمِنَ لَكَ حَتَّىٰ تَفْجُرَ لَنَا مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ يَنۢبُوعًا

And they say, "We will not believe you until you break open for us from the ground a spring

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

ولما أعجز القرآن المشركين وغلبهم أخذوا يطلبون معجزات وَفْق أهوائهم فقالوا: لن نصدقك -أيها الرسول- ونعمل بما تقول حتى تفجر لنا من أرض «مكة» عينًا جارية.

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