Of Eram with lofty pillars (erected as signposts in the desert),
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (with many columned) powerful (iram) the son of iram; iram is shem son of noah who had a son called shim and the later had a son called ham who himself had a son called 'aad,
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : iram — these were the former [people of] ‘Ād (irama is an explicative supplement or a substitution, and it is treated as a diptote because it is a proper noun and feminine) — of the towering ones, that is to say, the tall ones — the tallest one among them would reach four hundred cubits —
