Tafsir for verse: 20:98
إِنَّمَآ إِلَٰهُكُمُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِي لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَۚ وَسِعَ كُلَّ شَيۡءٍ عِلۡمٗا ٩٨ ﴿98﴾
98Your God is Allah other than whom there is no god. He encompasses everything with knowledge.”
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Commentary
Talhah read: Allah, there is no deity except Him, the Most Gracious, Lord of the Throne. He encompasses all things in knowledge. And according to Mujahid and Qatadah: 'encompasses' is transitive to one object, which is all things. As for 'knowledge', its case is that it is in the accusative as a specification, and in meaning it is a subject. When it became heavy, it was transferred to the transitive to two objects, and both were made accusative because the specification is a subject in meaning, just as you say in 'Zayd feared 'Amr': I made Zayd fear 'Amr, thus transferring what was a subject to an object.
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