Qaloo harriqoohu waonsuroo alihatakum in kuntum faAAileena
English
Ahmed Ali
They said: "Burn him, and save your gods, if you are men of action."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (they cried) their king nimrod said to them: (burn him) in the fire (and stand by your gods) and avenge your deities, (if ye will be doing) something to him; and they threw him in the fire.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : they said, ‘burn him, that is, [burn] abraham, and stand by your gods, by having him burnt, if you are to do anything’, in the way of standing by them. thus they gathered lots of firewood and lit a fire throughout it. they then tied up abraham, placed him in a ballista and had him hurled into the fire. god, exalted be he, says:
