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Ayah 96
Surah Al-Baqara
And you will surely find them the most greedy of people for life - [even] more than those who associate others with Allah. One of them wishes that he could be granted life a thousand years, but it would not remove him in the least from the [coming] punishment that he should be granted life. And Allah is Seeing of what they do.﴿96﴾
Translation
And you will surely find them the most greedy of people for life - [even] more than those who associate others with Allah. One of them wishes that he could be granted life a thousand years, but it would not remove him in the least from the [coming] punishment that he should be granted life. And Allah is Seeing of what they do.
Simplified Tafsir
ولتعلمَنَّ -أيها الرسول- أن اليهود أشد الناس رغبة في طول الحياة أيًّا كانت هذه الحياة من الذلَّة والمهانة، بل تزيد رغبتهم في طول الحياة على رغبات المشركين. يتمنى اليهودي أن يعيش ألف سنة، ولا يُبْعده هذا العمر الطويل إن حصل من عذاب الله. والله تعالى لا يخفى عليه شيء من أعمالهم وسيجازيهم عليها بما يستحقون من العذاب.
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