Innee ana rabbuka faikhlaAA naAAlayka innaka bialwadi almuqaddasi tuwan
English
Ahmed Ali
"O Moses, I am verily your Lord, so take off your shoes, for you are in the holy plain of Towa.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (lo! i, even i, am thy lord. so take off thy shoes) for his shoes were made of the skin of a dead ass, (for lo! thou art in the holy valley of tuwa) tuwa is the name of the valley; it also said that tuwa means: this valley has been crossed (tawathu) by prophets before you; it is also said that tuwa is a well which was filled with stones (tuwiyyat bi'l-sakhr) in the valley where he found the tree.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : indeed (read as innī, if one understands nūdiya, ‘he was called’, as meaning qīla, ‘it was said’; or read it as annī, because of an implied [prefixed] bā’) i am (anā, reiterates the [first person indicator] yā’ [of innī] used by the [direct] speaker) your lord. so take off your sandals, for lo! you are in the holy, [meaning] either the pure, or the blessed, valley of tuwā ([this is] either a substitution, or an explicative supplement; read [tuwan] with nunation or [tuwā] without: it is [considered] declinable on account of it being a location; but [alternatively considered] indeclinable, if taken as considered a feminine proper noun denoting a place name).
