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

Al-Anbya 21:9

Word by word

ثُمَّ صَدَقْنَـٰهُمُ ٱلْوَعْدَ فَأَنجَيْنَـٰهُمْ وَمَن نَّشَآءُ وَأَهْلَكْنَا ٱلْمُسْرِفِينَ

Then We fulfilled for them the promise, and We saved them and whom We willed and destroyed the transgressors.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

ثم أنجزنا للأنبياء وأتباعم ما وعدناهم به من النصر والنجاة، وأهلَكْنا المسرفين على أنفسهم بكفرهم بربهم.

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