Waallawi istaqamoo AAala alttareeqati laasqaynahum maan ghadaqan
English
Ahmed Ali
(Say): "If they keep to the right path We shall give them water in abundance to drink
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : if they (the idolaters) tread the right path) the path of disbelief; and it is said: the path of islam, (we shall give them to drink of water in abundance) we shall give them abundant wealth and a comfortable life
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : god, exalted be he, says [the following] about the meccan disbelievers: and [it has been revealed to me] that if they (allaw: softened in place of the hardened form, its subject having been omitted, that is to say, annahum [law], which is a supplement to annahu istama‘a, ‘that [a company of jinn] listened’) adopt the [right] path, the path of submission [to god], we will give them abundant water to drink, plenteous [water], from the heaven — this was after rain had been withheld from them for seven years —
