Tabari

Tafseer of The Table · Al-Maaida · 5:80

تَرَىٰ كَثِيرًۭا مِّنْهُمْ يَتَوَلَّوْنَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ ۚ لَبِئْسَ مَا قَدَّمَتْ لَهُمْ أَنفُسُهُمْ أَن سَخِطَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَفِى ٱلْعَذَابِ هُمْ خَٰلِدُونَ

You see many of them becoming allies of those who disbelieved. How wretched is that which they have put forth for themselves in that Allah has become angry with them, and in the punishment they will abide eternally.

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Tabari (1 passage)

  1. Full Dutch translation of Tabari's text

    The explanation of the saying: تَرَى كَثِيرًا مِنْهُمْ يَتَوَلَّوْنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَبِئْسَ مَا قَدَّمَتْ لَهُمْ أَنْفُسُهُمْ أَنْ سَخِطَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَفِي الْعَذَابِ هُمْ خَالِدُونَ (80) (You see many of them taking the disbelievers as allies. Truly evil is what their souls have sent ahead for them, that Allah is angry with them, and in the punishment they will abide eternally. (5:80))

    Abū Jaʿfar said: The Exalted, whose mention is exalted, says: "You see," O Muḥammad ﷺ, many of the Children of Israel "taking the disbelievers as allies," that is to say: they take the polytheists (mushrikīn) among the idol-worshippers as allies, and they harbor enmity toward the friends of Allah and His messengers. "Truly evil is what their souls have sent ahead for them"—the Exalted, whose mention is exalted, says: I swear: truly evil is that which their souls have sent ahead for them, ahead of themselves toward their place of return in the Hereafter, "that Allah is angry with them," that is to say: their souls have sent ahead for them the anger of Allah upon them, because of what they did.

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    And "an" in His saying "that Allah is angry with them" is in the position of rafʿ (nominative), as a closer specification (tarjama) of "mā," which is in His saying "truly evil is what."

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    "And in the punishment they will abide eternally," that is to say: and in the punishment of Allah on the Day of Resurrection "they will abide eternally," their abiding and their tarrying therein being perpetual.

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    القول في تأويل قوله : تَرَى كَثِيرًا مِنْهُمْ يَتَوَلَّوْنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَبِئْسَ مَا قَدَّمَتْ لَهُمْ أَنْفُسُهُمْ أَنْ سَخِطَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَفِي الْعَذَابِ هُمْ خَالِدُونَ (80) قال أبو جعفر: يقول تعالى ذكره: " ترى "، يا محمد، كثيرًا من بني إسرائيل=" يتولون الذين كفروا "، يقول: يتولون المشركين من عَبَدة الأوثان، ويعادون أولياء الله ورسله (22) =" لبئس ما قدمت لهم أنفسهم "، يقول تعالى ذكره: أُقسم: لبئس الشيء الذي قدمت لهم أنفسهم أمامهم إلى معادهم في الآخرة (23) =" أنْ سخط الله عليهم "، يقول: قدّمت لهم أنفسهم سخط الله عليهم بما فعلوا. * * * و " أن " في قوله: " أنْ سخط الله عليهم "، في موضع رفع، ترجمةً عن " ما "، الذي في قوله: " لبئس ما ". (24) * * * =" وفي العذاب هم خالدون "، يقول: وفي عذاب الله يوم القيامة=" هم خالدون "، دائم مُقامهم ومُكثهم فيه. (25) ------------- الهوامش : (22) انظر تفسير"التولي" فيما سلف من فهارس اللغة (ولى). (23) انظر تفسير"قدم" فيما سلف 2: 368/7: 447/8: 514. (24) "الترجمة": البدل ، انظر ما سلف من فهارس المصطلحات. (25) انظر تفسير"الخلود" فيما سلف من فهارس اللغة (خلد).