Tafsir for verse: 17:8
عَسَىٰ رَبُّكُمۡ أَن يَرۡحَمَكُمۡۚ وَإِنۡ عُدتُّمۡ عُدۡنَاۚ وَجَعَلۡنَا جَهَنَّمَ لِلۡكَٰفِرِينَ حَصِيرًا ٨ ﴿8﴾
8May be your Lord would bestow mercy upon you. But if you do this again, We shall do that again, and We have made Jahannam (Hell) a prison for the disbelievers.”
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Commentary
Perhaps your Lord will have mercy on you after the second time if you repent with another repentance and refrain from sins. And if you return a third time, we will return to your punishment. And they have returned, so Allah returned to them the wrath by sending the kings upon them and imposing tribute upon them. And from Al-Hasan: They returned, so Allah sent Muhammad, and they give the jizyah while they are humbled. And from Qatadah: Then the last of that was that Allah sent upon them this group of Arabs, and they are in torment from them until the Day of Resurrection, a prison that is called 'muḥṣar' and 'ḥaṣīr.' And from Al-Hasan: A mat as the woven mat is spread.
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