So that when at last We open up the gate of severe punishment on them they will be overwhelmed with despair.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (until) give them respite, o muhammad, until (when we open for them the gate of extreme punishment) i.e. of hunger, (behold! they are aghast thereat) they despair of all goodness.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : until (hattā is for inceptiveness), when we opened on them the gate of a severe chastisement, namely, the day of badr, slaying [them], behold! they are aghast thereat, despairing of anything good.
