Az-Zújruf 43:17 واذا بشر احدهم بما ضرب للرحمان مثلا ظل وجهه مسودا وهو كظيم ١٧
وَإِذَا
بُشِّرَ
أَحَدُهُم
بِمَا
ضَرَبَ
لِلرَّحۡمَٰنِ
مَثَلٗا
ظَلَّ
وَجۡهُهُۥ
مُسۡوَدّٗا
وَهُوَ
كَظِيمٌ
١٧
Whenever one of them is given the good news of what they attribute to the Most Compassionate,1 his face grows gloomy, as he suppresses his rage.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
And when one of them is given good tidings of that which he attributes to the Most Merciful in comparison [i.e., a daughter], his face becomes dark, and he suppresses grief.
— Saheeh International
Lee Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Condemnation of the Idolators' attribution of Offspring to Allah
Here Allah speaks of the lies and fabrications of the idolators, when they devoted some of their cattle to their false gods and some to Allah, as He described in Surat Al-An`am where He said:
وَجَعَلُواْ لِلَّهِ مِمَّا ذَرَأَ مِنَ الْح
…Condemnation of the Idolators' attribution of Offspring to Allah
Here Allah speaks of the lies and fabrications of the idolators, when they devoted so
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