تفسير : (and lo! elias was of those sent (to warn)) his folk.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and truly elias (read [wa-inna ilyās] with the initial hamza or without [wa-inna’l-yāsa) was [also] one of the messengers. some think that this [elias] was the son of aaron’s brother — [aaron] the brother of moses; but some say that this [elias] was some other [person], who was sent to the people living in and around baalbak.