Tafsir for verse: 7:160
وَقَطَّعۡنَٰهُمُ ٱثۡنَتَيۡ عَشۡرَةَ أَسۡبَاطًا أُمَمٗاۚ وَأَوۡحَيۡنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ إِذِ ٱسۡتَسۡقَىٰهُ قَوۡمُهُۥٓ أَنِ ٱضۡرِب بِّعَصَاكَ ٱلۡحَجَرَۖ فَٱنۢبَجَسَتۡ مِنۡهُ ٱثۡنَتَا عَشۡرَةَ عَيۡنٗاۖ قَدۡ عَلِمَ كُلُّ أُنَاسٖ مَّشۡرَبَهُمۡۚ وَظَلَّلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلۡغَمَٰمَ وَأَنزَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلۡمَنَّ وَٱلسَّلۡوَىٰۖ كُلُواْ مِن طَيِّبَٰتِ مَا رَزَقۡنَٰكُمۡۚ وَمَا ظَلَمُونَا وَلَٰكِن كَانُوٓاْ أَنفُسَهُمۡ يَظۡلِمُونَ ١٦٠ ﴿160﴾
160And We divided them into twelve tribes, as separate communities, and We revealed to Mūsā when his people asked him for water, “Strike the rock with your staff.” Then twelve springs gushed forth from it. Each tribe came to know their drinking place. We shaded them with the shadow of the clouds. And We sent down to them Mann and Salwā (saying), “Eat of the good things we have provided you.” And they did us no harm, rather they have been harming their own selves.
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Commentary

'And We inspired to Musa when his people asked him for water, 'Strike with your staff the stone.' And there gushed forth from it twelve springs, and every people knew its watering place. And We shaded them with clouds and sent down upon them manna and quails. 'Eat from the good things We have provided for you.' And they did not wrong Us, but they used to wrong themselves.' It has already been mentioned in Surah Al-Baqarah the matter of the stone and the asking for water, and where it was, and the matter of the shading and the sending down of manna and quails. We have mentioned that in a way that suffices for repeating it here. And 'And there gushed forth' means 'it burst forth,' except that gushing forth is lighter than bursting. Al-Amash and Isa Al-Hamdani read, 'Eat from the good things We have provided for you' with the singular pronoun.

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