Verse. 2544

٢١ - ٱلْأَنْبِيَاء

21 - Al-Anbiya

قَالُوْا فَاْتُوْا بِہٖ عَلٰۗي اَعْيُنِ النَّاسِ لَعَلَّہُمْ يَشْہَدُوْنَ۝۶۱
Qaloo fatoo bihi AAala aAAyuni alnnasi laAAallahum yashhadoona

English

Ahmed Ali

"Bring him before the people," they said, "that they may bear witness."

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (they said) nimrod said to them: (then bring him (hither) before the people's eyes) in the presence of people (that they may testify) that he did it; and it is said that this means: that they may testify that he said he will demolish them; and it is also said that this means: that they may witness his punishment.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : they said, ‘then bring him before the people’s eyes, that is, openly, that they may testify’, against him as being the perpetrator.