Illa mawtatana aloola wama nahnu bimuAAaththabeena
English
Ahmed Ali
Other than our first death, and we shall not be punished?
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (saving our former death) after our death in the life of the world. they would say to him: “yes, indeed!” thereupon he will hear a crier crying: “o people of hell! the fire is now closed; none will enter it or leave it”, and he will say to his brothers: (and are we not to be punished) after the fire is closed? and their answer will be in the affirmative.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : aside from our first death, that is, the one [which we suffered] in this world, and are we not to be chastised?’ — this interrogative statement is one made out of [sheer] delight and in order to speak [at length] of the graces of god, exalted be he, in [his] granting of everlasting life and refraining from inflicting any punishment.
