Sunnata Allahi allatee qad khalat min qablu walan tajida lisunnati Allahi tabdeelan
English
Ahmed Ali
This is the law of God, effective as before: You will not find any change in the law of God.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (it is the law of allah which hath taken course aforetime) regarding past nations that they were exposed to killing and defeat when their rebelled against the prophets of allah. (thou wilt not find for the law of allah) you will not find for the law of allah of punishing those who rebel against the prophets (aught of power to change) any change.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : [that is] the way of god (sunnata’llāhi is a verbal noun emphasising the import of the preceding sentence about the defeat of the disbelievers and the victory of the believers, that is to say, sanna’llāhu dhālika sunnatan, ‘god has established this as [his] way [of dealing with believers and disbelievers]’) which has taken its course before, and you will never find in god’s way any change, by him.
