Tafseer of The Poets · Ash-Shu'araa · 26:196
And indeed, it is [mentioned] in the scriptures of former peoples.
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He, Whose praise is exalted, says: "And indeed this is the Qurʾān, mentioned in the scriptures of the former peoples" — that is to say: in the books of the earlier nations. The expression has the form of generality, but its meaning is that of particularity; the real sense is: "And indeed this is the Qurʾān, mentioned in some of the scriptures of the former peoples" — that is to say: that its mention and its tidings occur in some of the Books which Allah sent down upon some of His messengers.
