And sent them tokens to bring out the best in them.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and we gave them portents) signs (wherein was a clear trial) and it is this that saved them from pharaoh and drowning, and he sent down for them quails and honey in the wilderness, etc.; it is also said that (wherein was a clear trial) means: wherein was a great blessing.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and we gave them signs in which there was a manifest trial, an obvious grace, such as the parting of the sea, [the sending down of] manna and quails and other such [signs].
