Verse. 2968

٢٦ - ٱلشُّعَرَاء

26 - Ash-Shu'ara

قَالُوْۗا اَرْجِہْ وَاَخَاہُ وَابْعَثْ فِي الْمَدَاۗىِٕنِ حٰشِرِيْنَ۝۳۶ۙ
Qaloo arjih waakhahu waibAAath fee almadaini hashireena

English

Ahmed Ali

They said: "Put him and his brother off awhile, and send summoners to the cities to gather

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (they said: put him off) retain him, ((him) and his brother) and do not kill them, (and send them) i.e. the police (into the cities) the cities where the wizards are found (summoners) to summon these wizards,

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : they said, ‘put him and his brother off for a while, postpone [judgement of] their affair, and send musterers into the cities