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Verse and interpretation (20)
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A verse and its Tafsir
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Allah the Exalted says
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“Wheresoever ye may be, death will overtake you, even though ye were in lofty towers. Yet if a happy thing befalleth them they say: This is from Allah; and if an evil thing befalleth them they say: This is of thy doing (O Muhammad). Say (unto them): All is from Allah. What is amiss with these people that they come not nigh to understand a happening?” (4:78)
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Meaning: you are all inevitably headed toward death
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And not one of you shall escape it
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“Wheresoever ye may be, death will overtake you, even though ye were in lofty towers. Yet if a happy thing befalleth them they say: This is from Allah; and if an evil thing befalleth them they say: This is of thy doing (O Muhammad). Say (unto them): All is from Allah. What is amiss with these people that they come not nigh to understand a happening?” (4:78)
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Meaning: fortified, impregnable, lofty, and elevated
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It has been said that "al-mushayyadah" is the same as "al-mashidah"
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Just as the Exalted says
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"And a lofty palace"
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Yet it is said that there is a difference between the two
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Which is that "al-mushayyadah," with the shaddah, means "extended" or "heightened"
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While "al-mashidah," with the light consonant, means "decorated with plaster"
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Which is gypsum
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Tafsir Ibn Kathir