Verse. 787

٥ - ٱلْمَائِدَة

5 - Al-Ma'ida

اِنْ تُعَذِّبْہُمْ فَاِنَّہُمْ عِبَادُكَ۝۰ۚ وَاِنْ تَغْفِرْ لَہُمْ فَاِنَّكَ اَنْتَ الْعَزِيْزُ الْحَكِيْمُ۝۱۱۸
In tuAAaththibhum fainnahum AAibaduka wain taghfir lahum fainnaka anta alAAazeezu alhakeemu

English

Ahmed Ali

If You punish them, indeed they are Your creatures; if You pardon them, indeed You are mighty and wise."

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (if thou punish them, lo! they are thy slaves, and if thou forgive them (lo! they are your slaves). lo! thou, only thou art the mighty, the wise). this verse has already been explained.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : if you chastise them, that is, those among them who are fixed upon disbelief, verily they are your servants, and you are their master, disposing of them as you will: there can be no objection to [what] you [do]; and if you forgive them, that is, those of them who are believers, you, only you, are the mighty, in his affair, the wise’, in his actions.