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تفسير القرآن

Al-Samʿānī

أبو المظفر السمعاني (ت ٤٨٩ هـ)

Short and steady — the plain meaning, with the reports that bear on it and little else.

Ghāfir 40:12 Juzʾ 24 Page 468

‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏

[They will be told], "That is because, when Allah was called upon alone, you disbelieved; but if others were associated with Him, you believed. So the judgement is with Allah, the Most High, the Grand."

Read in the muṣḥaf

قَوْله تَعَالَى: ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ مَعْنَاهُ: أَن تخليدكم فِي النَّار ومكثكم فِيهَا كَانَ بِأَنَّهُ إِذا دعى الله وَحده كَفرْتُمْ.

‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ أَي: يُشْرك بِاللَّه تؤمنوا، أَي: تصدقوا بالشرك.

وَقَوله: ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ظَاهر الْمَعْنى.

The same ayah, in another commentary

Ghāfir 40:12