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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.

Al-Aḥqāf 46:28 Juzʾ 26 Page 505

‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏

Then why did those they took besides Allah as deities by which to approach [Him] not aid them? But they had strayed from them. And that was their falsehood and what they were inventing.

Read in the muṣḥaf

قَوْله تَعَالَى: ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ مَعْنَاهُ: فَهَلا نَصرهم ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ أَي: منع الْأَصْنَام مِنْهُم عذابنا. وَقَوله: ‏‏‏‏‏‏ إِنَّمَا قَالَ ذَلِك؛ لأَنهم كَانُوا يَقُولُونَ إِن عبادتنا لَهَا تقربنا إِلَى الله.

وَقَوله: ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ أَي: ضلوا عَن عبَادَة الْأَصْنَام وَلم تنفعهم أبدا.

وَقَوله: ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ أَي: ذَلِك كذبهمْ وفريتهم.

The same ayah, in another commentary

Al-Aḥqāf 46:28