Walakum fee alqisasi hayatun ya olee alalbabi laAAallakum tattaqoona
English
Ahmed Ali
In retribution there is life (and preservation). O men of sense, you may haply take heed for yourselves.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and there is a life for you in retaliation) a continuation of existence and a lesson, (o men of understanding) those who possess sound minds among people, (that ye may ward off (evil)) that you may ward off killing one another for fear of retaliation.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : in retaliation there is life for you, that is great longevity, o people of pith, possessors of intellect, because if the would-be killer knew that he would be killed [in retaliation], he would refrain [from such action] and would have thereby given life to himself and to the one whom he had intended to kill; and so it [retaliation] was stipulated by the law, so that you might fear killing, fearing retaliation.
