Hal ata AAala alinsani heenun mina alddahri lam yakun shayan mathkooran
English
Ahmed Ali
WAS THERE NOT a time in the life of man when he was not even a mentionable thing?
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : and from his narration on the authority of ibn 'abbas that he said regarding the interpretation of allah's saying (hath there come upon man (ever)): '(hath there come upon man (ever)) there has come upon adam (any period of time) a period of 40 years when he was created and fashioned (in which he was a thing unremembered?) not knowing who he was, what his name was or what allah wanted from him.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : has there [ever] been — there has indeed [been] — for man, adam, a period of time, forty years, in which he was a thing unmentioned? — he was during this [period] a fashioned in clay and not mentioned; alternatively what is meant by insān, ‘man’, is the generic noun and by hīn, ‘a period of time’, the period of gestation.
