(The messengers) said: "Our Lord knows that we have been sent to you.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (they answered) the apostles answered: (our lord knoweth) testifies (that we are indeed sent unto you,
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : they said, ‘our lord knows (qālū rabbunā ya‘lamu functions like an oath. emphasis is intensified by this [oath] and also by the [addition of the] lām to what was before [simply, mursalūna, ‘we have been sent’] to counter their intensified denial) that we have indeed been sent to you [by him]!
