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

Al-Ma'idah 5:79

Word by word

كَانُوا۟ لَا يَتَنَاهَوْنَ عَن مُّنكَرٍ فَعَلُوهُ ۚ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْعَلُونَ

They used not to prevent one another from wrongdoing that they did. How wretched was that which they were doing.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

كان هؤلاء اليهود يُجاهرون بالمعاصي ويرضونها، ولا يَنْهى بعضُهم بعضًا عن أيِّ منكر فعلوه، وهذا من أفعالهم السيئة، وبه استحقوا أن يُطْرَدُوا من رحمة الله تعالى.

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