And (further): "We have far more wealth and children (than you), and we are not the ones to be punished."
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'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and they say) to the messengers: (we are more (than you) in wealth and children. we are not the punished) because of our religion in spite of all the wealth and children that we have! and this is exactly what the disbelievers of mecca said to muhammad (pbuh).
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and they say, ‘we possess more wealth and children, than those who are believers, and we shall not be chastised’.
