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

Al-Anfal 8:54

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كَدَأْبِ ءَالِ فِرْعَوْنَ ۙ وَٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَهْلَكْنَـٰهُم بِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَأَغْرَقْنَآ ءَالَ فِرْعَوْنَ ۚ وَكُلٌّ كَانُوا۟ ظَـٰلِمِينَ

[Theirs is] like the custom of the people of Pharaoh and of those before them. They denied the signs of their Lord, so We destroyed them for their sins, and We drowned the people of Pharaoh. And all [of them] were wrongdoers.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

شأن هؤلاء الكافرين في ذلك كشأن آل فرعون الذين كذبوا موسى، وشأن الذين كذبوا رسلهم من الأمم السابقة فأهلكهم الله بسبب ذنوبهم، وأغرق آل فرعون في البحر، وكل منهم كان فاعلا ما لم يكن له فِعْلُه من تكذيبهم رسل الله وجحودهم آياته، وإشراكهم في العبادة غيره.

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