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تفسير القرآن

Al-Samʿānī

أبو المظفر السمعاني (ت ٤٨٩ هـ)

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Az-Zumar 39:42 Juzʾ 24 Page 463

‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏

Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that do not die [He takes] during their sleep. Then He keeps those for which He has decreed death and releases the others for a specified term. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.

Read in the muṣḥaf
تفسير القرآن Al-Samʿānī

وَقَوله: ‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ أَي: لعبرا لقوم يتفكرون فِي آيَاتنَا.

The same ayah, in another commentary

Az-Zumar 39:42