Tabari (1 passage)

1. Full Dutch translation of Tabari's text

   The explanation of the statement of the Exalted: اتَّبِعْ مَا أُوحِيَ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ رَبِّكَ لا إِلَهَ إِلا هُوَ وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ (106) ("Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord; there is no god but He, and turn away from the polytheists (mushrikīn)" (6:106)).

   Abū Jaʿfar said: The Exalted, whose mention is exalted, says to His Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ: Follow, O Muḥammad, what your Lord has charged you with in His revelation which He has revealed to you; act according to it, and keep far from that against which He has warned you therein, and abandon that to which the polytheists of your people invite you, namely the worship of the idol-images and the idols, for there is no god but He. He says: There is no worshipped being that deserves that you keep worship pure for him, except Allah, who is the Cleaver of the grain and the kernel, and the Cleaver of the daybreak, and who has made the night for rest, and the sun and the moon for a [fixed] reckoning — وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ ("and turn away from the polytheists"). He says: and abandon their wrangling and their bickering.

   Then He, exalted is His praise, abrogated that with His statement in [sūrat] Barāʾa: فَاقْتُلُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ حَيْثُ وَجَدْتُمُوهُمْ ("Then kill the polytheists wherever you find them"), the [whole] āya [sūrat al-Tawba: 5]. As [in the following]:

   13736 — Al-Muthannā related to me, he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ related to us, he said: Muʿāwiya ibn Ṣāliḥ related to me, on the authority of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭalḥa, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās: As for His statement وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ ("and turn away from the polytheists") and the like, by which Allah commanded the believers to pardon the polytheists — that is abrogated by His statement: فَاقْتُلُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ حَيْثُ وَجَدْتُمُوهُمْ ("Then kill the polytheists wherever you find them").

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   القول في تأويل قوله تعالى : اتَّبِعْ مَا أُوحِيَ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ رَبِّكَ لا إِلَهَ إِلا هُوَ وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ (106) قال أبو جعفر: يقول تعالى ذكره لنبيه محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم: اتبع، يا محمد، ما أمرك به ربك في وحيه الذي أوحاه إليك, فاعمل به, وانـزجر عما زجرك عنه فيه, ودع ما يدعوك إليه مشركو قومك من عبادة الأوثان والأصنام, فإنه لا إله إلا هو. يقول: لا معبود يستحق عليك إخلاص العبادة له إلا الله الذي هو فالق الحب والنوى، وفالق الإصباح، وجاعلُ الليل سكنًا، والشمسَ والقمر حسبانًا =(وأعرض عن المشركين) , يقول: ودع عنك جدالهم وخصومتهم . (38) ثم نسخ ذلك جل ثناؤه بقوله في براءة: فَاقْتُلُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ حَيْثُ وَجَدْتُمُوهُمْ ، الآية [سورة التوبة: 5] . كما:- 13736- حدثني المثنى قال، حدثنا عبد الله بن صالح قال، حدثني معاوية بن صالح, عن علي بن أبي طلحة, عن ابن عباس: أما قوله: (وأعرض عن المشركين) ونحوه، مما أمر الله المؤمنين بالعفو عن المشركين, فإنه نسخ ذلك قوله: فَاقْتُلُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ حَيْثُ وَجَدْتُمُوهُمْ . * * * ---------------------- الهوامش : (38) انظر تفسير (( أعرض )) فيما سلف 11 : 436 ، تعليق : 2 ، والمراجع هناك .