Verse. 2478

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (therefore, bear with what they say) bear, o muhammad, all their insults and denial; this verses was however abrogated by the verses of fighting, (and celebrate the praises of thy lord) pray, o muhammad, by the command of your lord (ere the rising of the sun) the morning prayer (and ere the going down thereof. and glorify him) pray the maghrib and 'isha' prayers (some hours of the night) after the advent of the night (and at the two ends of the day) the prayers of zuhr and 'asr, (that thou mayst find acceptance) that you may be given the intercession and be pleased thereby.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : so be patient with what they say — this is abrogated by the ‘fighting’ verse [cf. q. 2:190ff] — and make glorifications, pray, by praising your lord (bi-hamdi rabbika is a circumstantial qualifier, in other words, ‘ensconced in such [praise]’) before the rising of the sun, the morning prayer, and before its setting — the afternoon prayer — and in the watches of the night, [during] the hours thereof, and make glorifications, perform the sunset and the evening prayer, and at either side of the day (wa-atrāfa’l-nahāri, a supplement to the syntactical locus of the accusative clause wa-min ānā’i, ‘and in the watches’), in other words, perform the noon prayer, because the time for it begins at the point where the sun starts to go down, which is the [end] side of the first half [of the day] and the [start] side of the second half [of the day]; that perhaps you may be pleased, with the reward that you will be given.