Kabura maqtan AAinda Allahi an taqooloo ma la tafAAaloona
English
Ahmed Ali
Saying what you do not practice is odious to God.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (it is most hateful in the sight of allah that ye say that which ye do not) that you promise that which you cannot fulfil or speak of doing that which you cannot do.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : it is greatly loathsome (maqtan is for specification) to god that you say (an taqūlū constitutes the agent of [the verb] kabura, ‘it is great[ly]’) what you do not do.
