Verse. 797

٦ - ٱلْأَنْعَام

6 - Al-An'am

وَقَالُوْا لَوْلَاۗ اُنْزِلَ عَلَيْہِ مَلَكٌ۝۰ۭ وَلَوْ اَنْزَلْنَا مَلَكًا لَّقُضِيَ الْاَمْرُ ثُمَّ لَا يُنْظَرُوْنَ۝۸
Waqaloo lawla onzila AAalayhi malakun walaw anzalna malakan laqudiya alamru thumma la yuntharoona

English

Ahmed Ali

They say: "How is it no angel was sent down to him?" Had We sent an angel down the matter would have come to end, and they would have had no respite.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (they say) i.e. 'abdullah ibn umayyah al-makhzumi: (why hath not an angel been sent down unto him?) to testify for what he is saying. (if we sent down an angel) as they are asking you, (then the matter would be judged) he would come down to punish them and take away their souls; it is also said that this means: if the angel comes down, he would destroy all of them; (no further time would be allowed them (for reflection)) they would not be allowed any delay.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and they say, ‘why has an angel not been sent down to him?’, to muhammad (s), to confirm his truthfulness; yet had we sent down an angel, as they have requested and if they then did not believe, the matter, that they be destroyed, would have been decreed, and then they would not be given any respite, they would [not] be given any extra time for repentance or an excuse, as is god’s custom [in dealing] with those before them, destroying them when they disbelieve after their request is granted.