Verse. 3911

٣٧ - ٱلصَّافَّات

37 - As-Saffat

وَاِنَّ اِلْيَاسَ لَمِنَ الْمُرْسَلِيْنَ۝۱۲۳ۭ
Wainna ilyasa lamina almursaleena

English

Ahmed Ali

Verily Elias is one of the apostles.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

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.