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Al-Ahqaf 46:35

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فَٱصْبِرْ كَمَا صَبَرَ أُو۟لُوا۟ ٱلْعَزْمِ مِنَ ٱلرُّسُلِ وَلَا تَسْتَعْجِل لَّهُمْ ۚ كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَ مَا يُوعَدُونَ لَمْ يَلْبَثُوٓا۟ إِلَّا سَاعَةً مِّن نَّهَارٍۭ ۚ بَلَـٰغٌ ۚ فَهَلْ يُهْلَكُ إِلَّا ٱلْقَوْمُ ٱلْفَـٰسِقُونَ

So be patient, [O Muḥammad], as were those of determination among the messengers and do not be impatient for them. It will be - on the Day they see that which they are promised - as though they had not remained [in the world] except an hour of a day. [This is] notification. And will [any] be destroyed except the defiantly disobedient people?

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

فاصبر -أيها الرسول- على ما أصابك مِن أذى قومك المكذبين لك، كما صبر أولو العزم من الرسل من قبلك -وهم، على المشهور: نوح وإبراهيم وموسى وعيسى وأنت منهم- ولا تستعجل لقومك العذاب; فحين يقع ويرونه كأنهم لم يمكثوا في الدنيا إلا ساعة من نهار، هذا بلاغ لهم ولغيرهم. ولا يُهْلَكُ بعذاب الله إلا القوم الخارجون عن أمره وطاعته.

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