Nor is it the word of a soothsayer. Little is it that you reflect!
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (nor diviner's speech) which informs about the future (little is it that ye remember!) you do not take admonition in little or much.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : nor [is it] the speech of a soothsayer. little do you remember! (read both verbs either in the second person plural or in the third person plural; the mā [preceding both verbs] is extra, intended for emphasis). the meaning is: they believed and remembered only very few things of what the prophet (s) did, [things] such as [his] good acts, [his] kindness to kin and abstinence; yet this will be of no avail to them.
