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

Al-Anbya 21:90

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فَٱسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُۥ وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُۥ يَحْيَىٰ وَأَصْلَحْنَا لَهُۥ زَوْجَهُۥٓ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ يُسَـٰرِعُونَ فِى ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ وَيَدْعُونَنَا رَغَبًا وَرَهَبًا ۖ وَكَانُوا۟ لَنَا خَـٰشِعِينَ

So We responded to him, and We gave to him John, and amended for him his wife. Indeed, they used to hasten to good deeds and supplicate Us in hope and fear, and they were to Us humbly submissive.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

فاستجبنا له دعاءه ووهبنا له على الكبر ابنه يحيى، وجعلنا زوجته صالحة في أخلاقها وصالحة للحمل والولادة بعد أن كانت عاقرًا، إنهم كانوا يبادرون إلى كل خير، ويدعوننا راغبين فيما عندنا، خائفين من عقوبتنا، وكانوا لنا خاضعين متواضعين.

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