Tafsir for verse: 18:90
حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا بَلَغَ مَطۡلِعَ ٱلشَّمۡسِ وَجَدَهَا تَطۡلُعُ عَلَىٰ قَوۡمٖ لَّمۡ نَجۡعَل لَّهُم مِّن دُونِهَا سِتۡرٗا ٩٠ ﴿90﴾
90until when he reached the point of sunrise, he found it rising over a people for whom We did not make any shelter against it.
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Commentary
Until when he reached in his journey that "place of the sunrise," meaning the location where it rises first from the inhabited part of the earth, he found it rising over a people on the shore of the sea. They have a great strength. We did not make for them, and since the intention was to generalize, he affirmed the preposition and said: "from beneath it," meaning from the lowest places to them, the first thing it rises over is a "screen" that prevents them from the place from which its rising is seen, from the sea, from a mountain, nor buildings, nor trees, nor anything else.
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