Tabari (1 passage)

1. Full Dutch translation of Tabari's text

   His statement: ( And Nūḥ said: My Lord, do not leave upon the earth a single dweller from among the unbelievers ) By al-dayyār He means: the one who roams about the earth, who goes back and forth upon it. It is a fayʿāl form derived from al-dawarān (roaming about): diwārān; the yāʾ and the wāw came together, and the yāʾ preceded the wāw while it was unvocalized, so the wāw was assimilated into it, and the two became a doubled yāʾ, just as one says: al-ḥayy al-qiyām (the Living, the Subsisting) from qumtu, while its original form is qiywām. The Arabs say: there is not in it a dayyār nor an ʿarīb, nor a duwwiyy nor a ṣāfir, nor a blower of a small fire — by all of which they mean: there is no one in it.

   The explanation of His statement, the Exalted: إِنَّكَ إِنْ تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّوا عِبَادَكَ وَلا يَلِدُوا إِلا فَاجِرًا كَفَّارًا (27) رَبِّ اغْفِرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيَّ وَلِمَنْ دَخَلَ بَيْتِيَ مُؤْمِنًا وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ وَلا تَزِدِ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلا تَبَارًا (28) ( Indeed, if You leave them, they will lead Your servants astray, and they will beget none but a wicked, persistent unbeliever (27) My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house as a believer, and the believing men and the believing women, and increase the wrongdoers in nothing but destruction (28) )

   He, exalted is His mention, says, reporting the words of Nūḥ in his supplication to Him against his people: indeed, O my Lord, if You leave the unbelievers alive upon the earth and do not destroy them with a punishment from You, ( they will lead Your servants astray ) who have already believed in You, and they will turn them away from Your path, ( and they will beget none but a wicked one ) in Your religion ( a persistent unbeliever ) toward Your favor.

   And it is mentioned that Nūḥ's utterance of these words and his supplication with this prayer took place after his Lord had revealed to him: that none of your people will believe except whoever has already believed .

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   وقوله: (وَقَالَ نُوحٌ رَبِّ لا تَذَرْ عَلَى الأرْضِ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ دَيَّارًا ) ويعني بالدَّيار: من يدور في الأرض، فيذهب ويجيء فيها وهو فَيْعال من الدوران ديوارًا، اجتمعت الياء والواو، فسبقت الياء الواو وهي ساكنة، وأدغمت الواو فيها، وصيرتا ياءً مشددة، كما قيل: الحيّ القيام من قمت، وإنما هو قيوام، والعرب تقول: ما بها ديار ولا عريب، ولا دويّ ولا صافر، ولا نافخ ضرمة، يعني بذلك كله: ما بها أحد. القول في تأويل قوله تعالى : إِنَّكَ إِنْ تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّوا عِبَادَكَ وَلا يَلِدُوا إِلا فَاجِرًا كَفَّارًا (27) رَبِّ اغْفِرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيَّ وَلِمَنْ دَخَلَ بَيْتِيَ مُؤْمِنًا وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ وَلا تَزِدِ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلا تَبَارًا (28) يقول تعالى ذكره مخبرا عن قيل نوح في دعائه إياه على قومه: إنك يا ربّ إن تذر الكافرين أحياء على الأرض، ولم تهلكهم بعذاب من عندك ( يُضِلُّوا عِبَادَكَ ) الذين قد آمنوا بك، فيصدوهم عن سبيلك، ( وَلا يَلِدُوا إِلا فَاجِرًا ) في دينك ( كَفَّارًا ) لنعمتك. وذُكر أن قيل نوح هذا القول ودعاءه هذا الدعاء، كان بعد أن أوحى إليه ربه: أَنَّهُ لَنْ يُؤْمِنَ مِنْ قَوْمِكَ إِلا مَنْ قَدْ آمَنَ . * ذكر من قال ذلك: