Tabari

Tafseer of The Heights · Al-A'raaf · 7:135

فَلَمَّا كَشَفْنَا عَنْهُمُ ٱلرِّجْزَ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ هُم بَٰلِغُوهُ إِذَا هُمْ يَنكُثُونَ

But when We removed the punishment from them until a term which they were to reach, then at once they broke their word.

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    The explanation of His word: فَلَمَّا كَشَفْنَا عَنْهُمُ الرِّجْزَ إِلَى أَجَلٍ هُمْ بَالِغُوهُ إِذَا هُمْ يَنْكُثُونَ (135) ("But when We removed the plague from them, until a term which they would reach, behold, then they broke their word") (135)

    Abū Jaʿfar said: The Exalted, whose praise is proclaimed, says: Mūsā called upon his Lord and He answered him; and when Allah removed from them the punishment which He had sent down upon them — "until a term which they would reach," so that they might complete the punishment of the days which Allah had granted them as an appointed term of life, until the time of their destruction — "behold, then they broke their word," that is to say: behold, then they broke the covenants which they had entered into with their Lord and with Mūsā, and they persisted in their disbelief (kufr) and their misguidance. And in accordance with what we have said concerning this, the exegetes have spoken.

    * Mention of who said that:

    15040 - Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to me, saying: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, saying: ʿĪsā related to us, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning the word of Allah the Exalted: "until a term which they would reach," he said: an appointed number of their days which was allotted to them.

    15041 - Al-Muthannā related to me, saying: Abū Ḥudhayfa related to us, saying: Shibl related to us, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, something similar.

    15042 - Mūsā ibn Hārūn related to me, saying: ʿAmr ibn Ḥammād related to us, saying: Asbāṭ related to us, on the authority of al-Suddī: "but when We removed the plague from them, until a term which they would reach, behold, then they broke their word," he said: that which was imposed upon them of covenants; and that is when Allah says: وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَا آلَ فِرْعَوْنَ بِالسِّنِينَ ("And indeed, We seized the people of Farʿawn with years of drought"), and that is the famine — وَنَقْصٍ مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ ("and with a shortage of fruits, that they might be reminded"), [al-Aʿrāf: 130].

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    The footnotes:

    (62) See the explanation of "al-ajal (the term)" earlier, 12 : 405, note 2, and the reference mentioned there.

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    القول في تأويل قوله : فَلَمَّا كَشَفْنَا عَنْهُمُ الرِّجْزَ إِلَى أَجَلٍ هُمْ بَالِغُوهُ إِذَا هُمْ يَنْكُثُونَ (135) قال أبو جعفر: يقول تعالى ذكره: فدعا موسى ربه فأجابه, فلما رفع الله عنهم العذاب الذي أنـزله بهم =(إلى أجل هم بالغوه)، ليستوفوا عذابَ أيامهم التي جعلَها الله لهم من الحياة أجلا إلى وقت هلاكهم (62) =(إذا هم ينكثون)، يقول: إذا هم ينقضون عهودَهم التي عاهدوا ربَّهم وموسى, ويقيمون على كفرهم وضلالهم. وبنحو الذي قلنا في ذلك قال أهل التأويل. * ذكر من قال ذلك: 15040 - حدثني محمد بن عمرو قال، حدثنا أبو عاصم قال، حدثنا عيسى, عن ابن أبي نجيح, عن مجاهد في قول الله تعالى: (إلى أجل هم بالغوه)، قال: عدد مسمَّى لهم من أيامهم. 15041 - حدثني المثنى قال، حدثنا أبو حذيفة قال، حدثنا شبل, عن ابن أبي نجيح, عن مجاهد, نحوه. 15042 - حدثني موسى بن هارون قال، حدثنا عمرو بن حماد قال، حدثنا أسباط, عن السدي: (فلما كشفنا عنهم الرجز إلى أجل هم بالغوه إذا هم ينكثون)، قال: ما أعطوا من العهود, وهو حين يقول الله: وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَا آلَ فِرْعَوْنَ بِالسِّنِينَ ، وهو الجوع = وَنَقْصٍ مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ ، [الأعراف: 130]. -------------- الهوامش : (62) انظر تفسير (( الأجل )) فيما سلف 12 : 405 ، تعليق : 2 ، والمرجع هناك.