Tafseer of Noah · Nooh · 71:20
That you may follow therein roads of passage.' "
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His words: لِتَسْلُكُوا مِنْهَا سُبُلا فِجَاجًا ("that you may travel along its broad ways"). He says: that you may travel along its difficult, divergent ways. Al-fijāj is the plural of fajj, which is the road.
And in accordance with what we have said about this, the people of interpretation (ahl al-taʾwīl) have spoken.
* Mention of who said that:
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda: لِتَسْلُكُوا مِنْهَا سُبُلا فِجَاجًا ("that you may travel along its broad ways"), he said: roads and landmarks.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, saying: Ibn Thawr related to us, on the authority of Maʿmar, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His words: لِتَسْلُكُوا مِنْهَا سُبُلا فِجَاجًا ("that you may travel along its broad ways"), he said: roads.
ʿAlī related to me, saying: Abū Ṣāliḥ related to us, saying: Muʿāwiya related to me, on the authority of ʿAlī, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning His words: لِتَسْلُكُوا مِنْهَا سُبُلا فِجَاجًا ("that you may travel along its broad ways"), he says: divergent ways.
