Tafseer of The Moon · Al-Qamar · 54:6
So leave them, [O Muhammad]. The Day the Caller calls to something forbidding,
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The explanation of His saying — exalted is His mention: فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ يَوْمَ يَدْعُو الدَّاعِي إِلَى شَيْءٍ نُكُرٍ ("So turn away from them on the Day when the caller calls to something terrible") (54:6).
The Exalted — exalted is His mention — means by His saying فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ ("So turn away from them"): Turn away, O Muḥammad, from these polytheists (mushrikīn) among your people who, when they see a sign, turn away and say: "It is continuous sorcery." For they will, on the Day when the caller of Allah calls to the standing-place of the Resurrection — and that is the terrible thing — [be seized].
