Verse. 4217

٤٠ - غَافِر

40 - Ghafir

فَلَمَّا رَاَوْا بَاْسَـنَا قَالُوْۗا اٰمَنَّا بِاللہِ وَحْدَہٗ وَكَفَرْنَا بِمَا كُنَّا بِہٖ مُشْرِكِيْنَ۝۸۴
Falamma raaw basana qaloo amanna biAllahi wahdahu wakafarna bima kunna bihi mushrikeena

English

Ahmed Ali

So that when they saw Our might, they said: "We believe in God the one and single, and reject those we associated (with Him)." --

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (then, when they saw our doom) which came to destroy them, (they said: we believe in allah only and reject (all) that we used to associate (with him)) but this was said with their tongues only when they saw the punishment, but their hearts still did not believe.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : then, when they saw our doom, that is, the severity of our chastisement, they said, ‘we believe in god alone, and we disavow what we used to associate with him’.