Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān fī tafsīr kalām al-Mannān, by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nāṣir al-Saʿdī (d. 1376 AH / 1956 CE). A modern commentary in plain Arabic that states the sense of each verse and the lesson drawn from it, without chains or digressions.
The complete commentary on The refuge on high ground (23:50), covering 23:50.
On 23:50
That is: and We bestowed favour upon Jesus son of Mary and made him and his mother among the wondrous signs of God, in that she conceived him and gave birth to him without a father, and he spoke in the cradle as a child, and God caused to be wrought at his hands the signs that He wrought. And We gave them both refuge on a height, that is, an elevated place, and this, and God knows best, was at the time of her delivery, having a place of rest, that is, a settled abode and ease, and a flowing spring (23:50), that is, running water, as shown by His words: your Lord has placed beneath you, that is, beneath the place in which you are, because of its elevation, a stream (19:24), that is, a river, which is the flowing spring; and shake towards you the trunk of the palm tree; it will drop upon you fresh ripe dates. So eat and drink and be comforted in eye (19:24–26).
About this text
This is a complete English rendering of Taysīr al-Karīm al-Raḥmān fī tafsīr kalām al-Mannān on these verses, prepared for this website from the public-domain Arabic text (tafsir.app, src=saadi). Nothing is abridged: every opinion, every report with its chain of transmission, every verse of poetry and every grammatical note is translated. Qur’anic quotations are in bold; the translator’s own notes are confined to the numbered footnotes and identify names, terms and variant readings only. A second translator has not checked the rendering, and the Arabic is linked so that any passage can be compared. The modern editors’ apparatus is not part of the classical text and is not translated.
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