Verse. 3600

٣٣ - ٱلْأَحْزَاب

33 - Al-Ahzab

وَقَالُوْا رَبَّنَاۗ اِنَّاۗ اَطَعْنَا سَادَتَنَا وَكُبَرَاۗءَنَا فَاَضَلُّوْنَا السَّبِيْلَا۝۶۷
Waqaloo rabbana inna ataAAna sadatana wakubaraana faadalloona alssabeela

English

Ahmed Ali

They will say: "O our Lord, we obeyed our leaders and the elders, but they only led us astray.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and they say) i.e. the followers: (our lord!) o our lord! (lo! we obeyed our princes) our chieftains (and great men) our noble and eminent men, (and they misled us from the way) they barred us from religion.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and they, namely, those who had been the followers [of the leaders of error], shall say, ‘our lord, we obeyed our leaders (read [plural] sādatanā, or sādātanā, which is the plural of the plural) and elders, and they led us astray from the way, the path of guidance.