Itha tutla AAalayhi ayatuna qala asateeru alawwaleena
English
Ahmed Ali
When you recite Our revelations to him, he says: "These are fables of long ago."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (that, when our revelations) the qur'an, detailing the commands and prohibitions (are recited unto him, he saith: mere fables of the men of old) this is just the talk and lies of the men of old.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : when our signs — the qur’ān — are recited to him, he says, that they are [merely], ‘fables of the ancients!’, in other words, he denies them [in arrogance] on account of the mentioned things which we have bestowed on him out of our grace (a variant reading [for an of the previous verse] has [the interrogative] a-an).
