But then they divided up their order into different creeds, each section rejoicing in what it had come to have.
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'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (but they (mankind) have broken their religion among them into sects) so they split among themselves with regard to religion into different groups: groups of jews, christians, idolaters and magians, (each sect) the adherents of each religion and sect (rejoicing in its tenets) being impressed with what they have.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : but they, the followers, split into sects regarding their affair, their religion (zuburan, ‘sects’, is a circumstantial qualifier of the subject of the verb taqatta‘ū, ‘they split’), in other words, [they became] opposing parties, the likes of the jews and the christians and others, each party rejoicing in, exultant with, what they had, that is, with the religion they had.
