Laqad wuAAidna hatha nahnu waabaona min qablu in hatha illa asateeru alawwaleena
English
Ahmed Ali
Indeed we and our fathers had been promised this before. It is nothing but the earlier people's lore."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (we were promised this) which you are promising us, (forsooth, we and our fathers) before us. ((all) this) which you are promising us, o muhammad, (is naught but fables) tales (of the men of old.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : already we and our fathers have been promised this before. [but] these are just the [legendary] fables of the ancients’ (asātīr is the plural of ustūra, meaning ‘what has been written down [mā sutira] of lies’).
