Qala hum olai AAala atharee waAAajiltu ilayka rabbi litarda
English
Ahmed Ali
He said: "They are right behind me. I have hastened to You, O Lord, so that You may be pleased."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : he said: they are close upon my track) they are following in my track. and (i hastened unto thee that thou mightest be well pleased) so that your good pleasure with me is increased.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : he said, ‘they are close, behind me, coming, upon my track, and i hastened to you, my lord, that you may be pleased’, with me, in other words, to please you [even] more — before [giving] the response, he gives an excuse, according to what he supposed [was the situation with his people],
