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

Al-Mujadila 58:16

Word by word

ٱتَّخَذُوٓا۟ أَيْمَـٰنَهُمْ جُنَّةً فَصَدُّوا۟ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ فَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ مُّهِينٌ

They took their [false] oaths as a cover, so they averted [people] from the way of Allāh, and for them is a humiliating punishment.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

اتخذ المنافقون أيمانهم الكاذبة وقاية لهم من القتل بسبب كفرهم، ولمنع المسلمين عن قتالهم وأخذ أموالهم، فبسبب ذلك صدُّوا أنفسهم وغيرهم عن سبيل الله وهو الإسلام، فلهم عذاب مُذلٌّ في النار؛ لاستكبارهم عن الإيمان بالله ورسوله وصدِّهم عن سبيله.

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