Tafsir for verse: 23:81
بَلۡ قَالُواْ مِثۡلَ مَا قَالَ ٱلۡأَوَّلُونَ ٨١ ﴿81﴾
81But they say as the earlier people had said.
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Commentary
And when the meaning of the interrogative denial is negation, it is appropriate after it to say: 'Rather' and he shifted to the style of the third person to indicate anger by saying: 'They said,' meaning these Arabs 'like what the earlier ones said' from the people of Noah and those after them.
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