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

Al-Kahf 18:14

Word by word

وَرَبَطْنَا عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ إِذْ قَامُوا۟ فَقَالُوا۟ رَبُّنَا رَبُّ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ لَن نَّدْعُوَا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ إِلَـٰهًا ۖ لَّقَدْ قُلْنَآ إِذًا شَطَطًا

And We bound [i.e., made firm] their hearts when they stood up and said, "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Never will we invoke besides Him any deity. We would have certainly spoken, then, an excessive transgression.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

وقوَّينا قلوبهم بالإيمان، وشددنا عزيمتهم به، حين قاموا بين يدي الملك الكافر، وهو يلومهم على تَرْكِ عبادة الأصنام فقالوا له: ربنا الذي نعبده هو رب السموات والأرض، لن نعبد غيره من الآلهة، لو قلنا غير هذا لكُنَّا قد قلنا قولا جائرًا بعيدًا عن الحق.

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