And because they denied and spoke dreadful calumnies of Mary;
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and because of their disbelief) in jesus and the gospel (and of their speaking against mary a tremendous calumny) the calumny for which we have turned them into swine;
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and for their disbelief, a second time, in jesus (the bā’ [of bi-kufrihim, ‘for their disbelief’] is repeated in order to separate it [‘their disbelief’ in jesus] from what is supplemented to it [‘their utterance against mary’]) and their uttering against mary a tremendous calumny, when they accused her of fornication.
