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

Az-Zumar 39:47

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وَلَوْ أَنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ مَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا وَمِثْلَهُۥ مَعَهُۥ لَٱفْتَدَوْا۟ بِهِۦ مِن سُوٓءِ ٱلْعَذَابِ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ ۚ وَبَدَا لَهُم مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَمْ يَكُونُوا۟ يَحْتَسِبُونَ

And if those who did wrong had all that is in the earth entirely and the like of it with it, they would [attempt to] ransom themselves thereby from the worst of the punishment on the Day of Resurrection. And there will appear to them from Allāh that which they had not taken into account.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

ولو أن لهؤلاء المشركين بالله ما في الأرض جميعا مِن مال وذخائر، ومثله معه مضاعفًا، لَبذلوه يوم القيامة؛ ليفتدوا به من سوء العذاب، ولو بذلوا وافتدوا به ما قُبِل منهم، ولا أغنى عنهم من عذاب الله شيئًا، وظهر لهم يومئذٍ من أمر الله وعذابه ما لم يكونوا يحتسبون في الدنيا أنه نازل بهم.

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