Verse. 124

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (the originator of the heavens and the earth!) he originated them when they were nothing before. (when he decreeth a thing) when he wants to create a child without a father, like jesus, (he saith unto it only: be!) be a child without a father, just like adam was without a father or mother, (and it is).

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : creator of the heavens and the earth, making them exist without any exemplary precedent; and when he decrees, wills, a thing, to exist, he but says to it ‘be’ and it is, that is to say, it becomes (fa-yakūnu: a variant reading has fa-yakūna, on account of it being the response [in the subjunctive mood] to the jussive statement).