Verse. 2749

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (already have we grasped them with punishment) with hunger and drought, (but they humble not themselves unto their lord) but they did not submit themselves to their lord by professing allah's divine oneness, (nor do they pray) nor do they believe,

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and we have already seized them with chastisement, [with] hunger, yet they did not humble themselves to their lord, nor did they devote themselves to prayer, [nor] did they seek [the pleasure of] god through supplication.

Ali ibn Ahmad al-Wahidi

تفسير : (already have we grasped them with punishment, but they humble not themselves unto their lord) [23:76]. abu’l-qasim ibn ‘abdan informed us> muhammad ibn ‘abd allah ibn muhammad al-dabbi> abu’l-‘abbas al-sayyari> muhammad ibn musa ibn hatim> ‘ali ibn al-hasan ibn shaqiq> al-husayn ibn waqid> yazid al-nahwi> ‘ikrimah> ibn ‘abbas who said: “abu sufyan went to the messenger of allah, allah bless him and give him peace, and said: ‘o muhammad, i beseech you by allah and our ties of kinship, we have eaten hair mixed with blood’, and so allah, exalted is he, revealed (already have we grasped them with punishment, but they humble not themselves unto their lord, nor do they pray)”. ibn ‘abbas said: “when thumamah ibn athal al-hanafi was brought to the messenger of allah, allah bless him and give him peace, as a prisoner and the latter embraced islam, he set him free. thumamah returned to al-yamamah and prevented the people of mecca from getting any provisions from al-yamamah. allah, exalted is he, sent upon quraysh years of scarcity until they were forced to eat animal hair mixed with blood. abu sufyan went to see the messenger of allah, allah bless him and give him peace, and said: ‘i beseech you by allah and our ties of kinship; do you not claim that you have been sent a mercy unto the worlds’. he said: ‘indeed!’ abu sufyan said: ‘but you have killed fathers with the sword and children with hunger’, and so allah, exalted is he, revealed this verse”.

Sahl al-Tustari

تفسير : …yet they did not humble themselves to their lord, nor do they devote themselves to prayer.they did not devote themselves solely to their lord in worship nor did they abase themselves before him in his unicity (waḥdāniyya).his words, exalted is he: