Tabari (1 passage)

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   The discourse on the explanation of His saying, mighty is His remembrance: وَقَفَّيْنَا عَلَىٰ آثَارِهِم بِعِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ مُصَدِّقًا لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مِنَ التَّوْرَاةِ وَآتَيْنَاهُ الْإِنجِيلَ فِيهِ هُدًى وَنُورٌ وَمُصَدِّقًا لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مِنَ التَّوْرَاةِ وَهُدًى وَمَوْعِظَةً لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ (5:46).

   Abū Jaʿfar said: The Exalted, whose remembrance is exalted, means by His saying "And We caused to follow in their footsteps": We caused to follow after. That is to say: We caused ʿĪsā, the son of Maryam, to follow in the footsteps of the prophets who had submitted before you, O Muḥammad, and We sent him as a prophet, confirming Our Book which We had sent down to Mūsā before him, that it is true, and that acting upon that which the Injīl has not abrogated of it is an obligatory duty — "and We gave him the Injīl", that is to say: and We sent down to him Our Book which is called "the Injīl", "in which is guidance and light", that is to say: in the Injīl there is "guidance", which is the clarification of that which the people did not know of the ruling of Allah in his time — "and light", that is to say: and an illumination against the blindness of ignorance — "and confirming what was before it", that is to say: We revealed it to him and sent it down to him in confirmation of what was before it of the Books of Allah, which He had sent down to every community to whose prophet a Book was sent down, so that they would act upon that which was sent down to their prophet in that Book, in permitting what He permitted and forbidding what He forbade —

   "and as guidance and admonition", that is to say: We sent down the Injīl to ʿĪsā, confirming the Books that were before it, and as a clarification of the ruling of Allah which He was pleased with for His God-fearing servants in the time of ʿĪsā — "and admonition" for them — that is to say: and as a rebuke for them, away from that which Allah detests, toward that which He loves of deeds, and as an exhortation for them toward that.

   And "the God-fearing" are those who feared Allah and were wary of His punishment, and so feared Him by obeying Him in that which He commanded them, and were wary of Him by abandoning that which He forbade them to do. The exposition of that, with its attestations, has already passed earlier, which dispenses us from repeating it.

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   القول في تأويل قوله عز ذكره : وَقَفَّيْنَا عَلَى آثَارِهِمْ بِعِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ مُصَدِّقًا لِمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مِنَ التَّوْرَاةِ وَآتَيْنَاهُ الإِنْجِيلَ فِيهِ هُدًى وَنُورٌ وَمُصَدِّقًا لِمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مِنَ التَّوْرَاةِ وَهُدًى وَمَوْعِظَةً لِلْمُتَّقِينَ (46) قال أبو جعفر: يعني تعالى ذكره بقوله: " وقفينا على آثارهم "، (1) أتبعنا. يقول: أتبعنا عيسى ابن مريم على آثار النبيين الذين أسلموا من قبلك، يا محمد، فبعثناه نبيًّا مصدّقا لكتابنا الذي أنـزلناه إلى موسى من قبله أنّه حق، وأن العمل بما لم ينسخه الإنجيل منه فرضٌ واجب=" وآتيناه الإنجيل "، يقول: وأنـزلنا إليه كتابنا الذي اسمه " الإنجيل "" فيه هدى ونور " يقول: في الإنجيل " هدًى "، وهو بيان ما جهله الناس من حكم الله في زمانه=" ونور "، يقول: وضياء من عَمَى الجهالة=" ومصدقًا لما بين يديه "، يقول: أوحينا إليه ذلك وأنـزلناه إليه بتصديق ما كان قبله من كتب الله التي كان أنـزلها على كل أمة أُنـزل إلى نبيِّها كتاب للعمل بما أنـزل إلى نبيهم في ذلك الكتاب، من تحليل ما حلّل، وتحريم ما حرّم= " وهدى وموعظة "، يقول: أنـزلنا الإنحيل إلى عيسى مصدِّقا للكتب التي قبله، وبيانًا لحكم الله الذي ارتضاه لعباده المتَّقين في زمان عيسى،=" وموعظة "، لهم= يقول: وزجرًا لهم عما يكرهه الله إلى ما يحبُّه من الأعمال، وتنبيهًا لهم عليه. &; 10-374 &; و " المتقون "، هم الذين خافوا الله وحَذِروا عقابه، فاتقوه بطاعته فيما أمرهم، وحذروه بترك ما نهاهم عن فعله. وقد مضى البيان عن ذلك بشواهده قبل، فأغنى ذلك عن إعادته. (2) ----------------------- الهوامش : (1) انظر تفسير"قفى" فيما سلف 2: 318. (2) انظر تفسير ألفاظ هذه الآية فيما سلف من فهارس اللغة.