But the more I called, they only ran the farther away.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (but all my calling) to them to repent and believe in allah's divine oneness (doth but add to their repugnance) does but increase their remoteness from faith and repentance;
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : but my summon has only increased their evasion, of faith.