Bal yureedu kullu imriin minhum an yuta suhufan munashsharatan
English
Ahmed Ali
In fact every one of them wants to be given open books (like the prophets).
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (nay, but everyone of them desireth that he should be given open pages (from allah)) a book wherein is written his crimes and repentance, for they said: “bring us a book in which is written our crimes and repentance and we will believe in you”.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : nay, but everyone of them desires to be given unrolled scrolls, from god, exalted be he, [enjoining them] to follow the prophet (s), as they said [before], ‘and [even then] we will not believe your ascension until you bring down for us a book that we may read’ [q. 17:93].
