Verse. 1315

٩ - ٱلتَّوْبَة

9 - At-Tawba

اِسْتَغْفِرْ لَہُمْ اَوْ لَا تَسْتَغْفِرْلَہُمْ۝۰ۭ اِنْ تَسْتَغْفِرْ لَہُمْ سَبْعِيْنَ مَرَّۃً فَلَنْ يَّغْفِرَ اللہُ لَہُمْ۝۰ۭ ذٰلِكَ بِاَنَّہُمْ كَفَرُوْا بِاللہِ وَرَسُوْلِہٖ۝۰ۭ وَاللہُ لَا يَہْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْفٰسِقِيْنَ۝۸۰ۧ
Istaghfir lahum aw la tastaghfir lahum in tastaghfir lahum sabAAeena marratan falan yaghfira Allahu lahum thalika biannahum kafaroo biAllahi warasoolihi waAllahu la yahdee alqawma alfasiqeena

English

Ahmed Ali

Whether you plead forgiveness for them or not, God will not forgive them, even though you plead seventy times, for they disbelieved in God and His Apostle; and God does not show transgressors the way.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (ask forgiveness for them (o muhammad)) allah says: if you ask forgiveness for 'abdullah ibn ubayy, jadd ibn qays, and mu'attib ibn qushayr and their followers-who were about 70 men-, (or ask not forgiveness for them) it is all the same for them; (though thou ask forgiveness for them seventy times allah will not forgive them) that punishment. (that is because they disbelieved in allah and his messenger) in secret, (and allah guideth not) forgives not (wrong-doing folk) the hypocrites: 'abdullah ibn ubayy and his host.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : ask forgiveness for them, o muhammad (s), or do not ask forgiveness for them: this leaves the choice of asking forgiveness, or refraining, up to him; the prophet (s) said, ‘i have been given the choice, and i made it’, meaning [the choice] to ask forgiveness, as reported by al-bukhārī. if you ask forgiveness for them seventy times, god will not forgive them: it is said that the ‘seventy’ is intended to express [by hyperbole] a great frequency of asking forgiveness. in [the sahīh of] al-bukhārī there is a hadīth [which states]: ‘if i was sure that were i to ask more than seventy times, god would forgive [them], i would have done so’. it is also said, however, that the very number [seventy] is actually meant, on account of this other hadīth of his: ‘i shall ask more than seventy times’, whereupon it was made clear to him [the prophet] that the matter regarding forgiveness had been concluded by the verse, [q. 63:6] alike it will be regarding them: whether you ask forgiveness for them or you do not ask forgiveness for them [god will not forgive them]; that is because they disbelieved in god and his messenger; and god does not guide the wicked folk.