Al-Mu'minun 23:83 لقد وعدنا نحن واباونا هاذا من قبل ان هاذا الا اساطير الاولين ٨٣
لَقَدۡ
وُعِدۡنَا
نَحۡنُ
وَءَابَآؤُنَا
هَٰذَا
مِن
قَبۡلُ
إِنۡ
هَٰذَآ
إِلَّآ
أَسَٰطِيرُ
ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ
٨٣
"Such things have been promised to us and to our fathers before! they are nothing but tales of the ancients!"
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَـهُمْ بِالْعَذَابِ
(And indeed We seized them with punishment,) means, `We tried and tested them with difficulties and calamities.' His saying:
فَمَا اسْتَكَانُواْ لِرَبِّهِمْ وَمَا يَتَضَرَّعُونَ
(but they humbled not themselves to their Lord, nor did they invoke with submission to Hi
…وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَـهُمْ بِالْعَذَابِ
(And indeed We seized them with punishment,) means, `We tried and tested them with difficulties and calamities.' Hi
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