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

Al-Anbya 21:44

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بَلْ مَتَّعْنَا هَـٰٓؤُلَآءِ وَءَابَآءَهُمْ حَتَّىٰ طَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْعُمُرُ ۗ أَفَلَا يَرَوْنَ أَنَّا نَأْتِى ٱلْأَرْضَ نَنقُصُهَا مِنْ أَطْرَافِهَآ ۚ أَفَهُمُ ٱلْغَـٰلِبُونَ

But, [on the contrary], We have provided good things for these [disbelievers] and their fathers until life was prolonged for them. Then do they not see that We set upon the land, reducing it from its borders? Is it they who will overcome?

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

لقد اغترَّ الكفار وآباؤهم بالإمهال لِمَا رأوه من الأموال والبنين وطول الأعمار، فأقاموا على كفرهم لا يَبْرحونه، وظنوا أنهم لا يُعذَّبون وقد غَفَلوا عن سُنَّة ماضية، فالله ينقص الأرض من جوانبها بما ينزله بالمشركين مِن بأس في كل ناحية ومِن هزيمة، أيكون بوسع كفار «مكة» الخروج عن قدرة الله، أو الامتناع من الموت؟

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