AttalaAAa alghayba ami ittakhatha AAinda alrrahmani AAahdan
English
Ahmed Ali
Has he peeped into the Unknown, or obtained a promise from Ar-Rahman?
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : but allah answered him, saying: (hath he perused the unseen) did he have a look at the guarded tablet for him to claim what he claimed, (or hath he made a pact with the beneficent) by means of 'there is no deity except allah' such that he can claim this claim?
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : has he come to learn [something] of the unseen, that is, has he been given [some] knowledge of it and [of the fact] that he will be given what he has mentioned (here the interrogative hamza [of a-ittala‘a, ‘has he come to learn?’] suffices in place of the conjunctive hamza, which has therefore been omitted) or has he made a covenant with the compassionate one?, to [the effect that he] be given what he claims?
