Verse. 3060

٢٦ - ٱلشُّعَرَاء

26 - Ash-Shu'ara

اَتَبْنُوْنَ بِكُلِّ رِيْــعٍ اٰيَۃً تَعْبَثُوْنَ۝۱۲۸ۙ
Atabnoona bikulli reeAAin ayatan taAAbathoona

English

Ahmed Ali

You construct monuments on every hill in vain,

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : build ye on every high place a monument for vain delight?) you beat up any stranger who passes by you and steal his clothes; this can also be understood in this manner: do you build in every marketplace a sign by means of which you scoff at whoever passes by you?

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : do you build on every prominence, every high place, a monument, an edifice as a signpost for passers-by, so that you may hurl abuse?, at those who pass by you and deride them (ta‘bathūna, is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the subject of [the verb] tabnūna, ‘you build’).