Tafseer of The Splitting Open · Al-Inshiqaaq · 84:21
And when the Qur'an is recited to them, they do not prostrate [to Allah]?
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His statement: وَإِذَا قُرِئَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْقُرْآنُ لا يَسْجُدُونَ ("and when the Qurʾān is recited to them, they do not prostrate themselves"). The Exalted, whose mention is exalted, says: and when the Book of their Lord is recited to them, they do not submit themselves nor bow down humbly. We have already expounded the meaning of prostration (al-sujūd) earlier, together with its supporting evidences, and that renders its repetition here unnecessary.
