Akhitheena ma atahum rabbuhum innahum kanoo qabla thalika muhsineena
English
Ahmed Ali
Receiving what is given them by their Lord. They were surely the virtuous before this.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (taking) content and pleased with (that which their lord giveth them) in the garden and it is also said that this means: they act upon that which their lord commands them in the life of the world; (for lo! aforetime) before they were given this reward and honour (they were doers of good) they were good in their speech and action in the life of the world;
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : receiving (ākhidhīna is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the person of the predicate of inna, ‘truly’) what their lord has given them, of reward, for indeed formerly, [before] their entering paradise, they had been virtuous, in the world.
