Innahum kanoo itha qeela lahum la ilaha illa Allahu yastakbiroona
English
Ahmed Ali
They were those who, when it was said to them, "There is no god but God," behaved with insolence,
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (for when it was said unto them) in the life of the world, say: (there is no god save allah, they were scornful) they were too proud to say it
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : for truly it was they who, in other words, [it was] these [sinners] who — given the context that follows — when it was said to them, ‘there is no god except god’, used to be scornful,