How will you comprehend what the Steep ascent is? --
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (ah, what will convey unto thee) o muhammad (what the ascent is!) it is a smooth hurdle between paradise and hell. allah said this to arouse the prophet's astonishment.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and what will show you, [what will] make known to you, what the obstacle is?, that he is to surmount — intended to emphasise its enormity (this statement is a parenthetical one). he explains the way to surmount it by saying:
