He said: "O Lord, give me respite till the day the dead rise from their graves."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (he said) iblis said: (my lord!) o my lord! (reprieve me) give me a respite (till the day when they are raised) from the graves. the wicked one wanted to escape the taste of death.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : he said, ‘my lord, then reprieve me until the day when they, mankind, will be raised’.
