Thalika jazaynahum bima kafaroo wahal nujazee illa alkafoora
English
Ahmed Ali
That is how We requited them for their ingratitude. We only punish those who are ungrateful.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : this we awarded them) what befell them was a punishment (because of their ingratitude) for the blessings of allah. (punish we ever any save the ingrates) those who are ungrateful towards allah and towards his blessings?
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : that, replacement [of what they had], is what we requited them with for their ingratitude: and is anyone but the ingrate ever [so] requited? (read hal yujāzā illā’l-kafūru; or read as hal nujāzī illā’l-kafūra, ‘would we requite anyone but the ingrate?’), in other words, it is only the like of such who is called to account.
