ALIF LAM RA. These are the verses of the authoritative Book.
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'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : and from his narration on the authority of ibn 'abbas that he said concerning allah's saying (alif. lam. ra): '(alif. lam. ra.) allah says: i am allah: i see; it is also said that it is an oath by which allah swore. (these are verses of the wise scripture) this surah consists of the verses of the clear qur'an, expositing the lawful and the prohibited.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : alif lām rā’: god knows best what he means by these [letters]. those, namely, these signs, are the signs of the wise book, that is, the qur’ān (the genitive annexation [āyāt al-kitāb] has the meaning of min [sc. min āyāti’l-kitāb, ‘from among the verses of the book’]), which has been made clear.
