Tabari (1 passage)

1. Full Dutch translation of Tabari's text

   The explanation of His statement, the Exalted: وَإِن يُكَذِّبُوكَ فَقَدْ كُذِّبَتْ رُسُلٌ مِّن قَبْلِكَ ۚ وَإِلَى اللَّهِ تُرْجَعُ الْأُمُورُ (And if they deny you, then messengers before you were already denied. And to Allah are matters returned.) (4)

   He, exalted is His remembrance, says to His Prophet Muhammad ﷺ: And if these polytheists (mushrikīn) from your people, who ascribe partners to Allah, deny you, O Muhammad, then let that not grieve you and let it not weigh heavily upon you, for that is the custom of their like among the communities that disbelieved in Allah before them, and who denied the messengers of Allah whom He had sent to them before you. And the polytheists of your people will be no different from them, so that in denying you they follow their way and tread their path. (And to Allah are matters returned) — He, exalted is His remembrance, says: and to Allah is the return of your affair and their affair. He will then send down the punishment upon them, if they do not turn back to obeying Us by following you, acknowledging your prophethood, and accepting that to which you call them of sincere counsel — just as We sent down upon their like among the communities that denied their messengers before you. And He will deliver you and your followers from that — that is Our custom regarding those before you among Our messengers and Our close allies (awliyāʾ).

   And in accordance with what we have said concerning this, the scholars of interpretation (ahl al-taʾwīl) have spoken.

   * Mention of who said that:

   Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, (And if they deny you, then messengers before you were already denied): He consoles His Prophet, as you hear.

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   القول في تأويل قوله تعالى : وَإِنْ يُكَذِّبُوكَ فَقَدْ كُذِّبَتْ رُسُلٌ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ وَإِلَى اللَّهِ تُرْجَعُ الأُمُورُ (4) يقول تعالى ذكره لنبيه محمد صَلَّى الله عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّم: وإن يكذبك يا محمد هؤلاء المشركون بالله من قومك فلا يحزننك ذاك، ولا يعظم عليك، فإن ذلك سنة أمثالهم من كفرة الأمم بالله، من قبلهم وتكذيبهم رسل الله التي أرسلها إليهم من قبلك، ولن يعدو مشركو قومك أن يكونوا مثلهم، فيتبعوا في تكذيبك منهاجهم ويسلكوا سبيلهم (وَإِلَى اللَّهِ تُرْجعُ الأمُورُ) يقول تعالى ذكره: وإلى الله مرجع أمرك وأمرهم، فمُحِل بهم العقوبة، إن هم لم ينيبوا إلى طاعتنا في اتباعك والإقرار بنبوتك، وقبول ما دعوتهم إليه من النصيحة، نظير ما أحللنا بنظرائهم من الأمم المكذبة رسلها قبلك، ومنجيك وأتباعك من ذلك، سنتنا بمن قبلك في رسلنا وأوليائنا. وبنحو الذي قلنا في ذلك قال أهل التأويل. * ذكر من قال ذلك: حدثنا بشر، قال: ثنا يزيد، قال: ثنا سعيد، عن قتادة ( وَإِنْ يُكَذِّبُوكَ فَقَدْ كُذِّبَتْ رُسُلٌ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ ) يعزي نبيه كما تسمعون.