Tafsir for verses: 36:18, 36:19
قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّا تَطَيَّرۡنَا بِكُمۡۖ لَئِن لَّمۡ تَنتَهُواْ لَنَرۡجُمَنَّكُمۡ وَلَيَمَسَّنَّكُم مِّنَّا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٞ ١٨ ﴿18﴾ قَالُواْ طَٰٓئِرُكُم مَّعَكُمۡ أَئِن ذُكِّرۡتُمۚ بَلۡ أَنتُمۡ قَوۡمٞ مُّسۡرِفُونَ ١٩ ﴿19﴾
18They (the People of the Town) said, “We take you as a bad omen for us. If you do not desist, we will certainly stone you and you will be afflicted by a painful punishment from us.” 19They said, “Your bad omen is with yourselves. (Do you take it as bad omen) if you are given a good counsel? Rather, you are a people who cross all limits.”
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Commentary

We have taken omens from you, as you desire your places. This is because they disliked their religion and their souls turned away from it. The saying 'and their souls turned away from it' may refer to it, as stated by al-Nasafi. It is customary for the ignorant to seek good omens from everything they are inclined towards, desire, and prefer, and their nature accepts it. They take bad omens from what they turn away from and dislike. If a blessing or calamity befalls them, they say it is by the blessing of this and the evil of that, as Allah has narrated about the Egyptians: 'And if a harm touches them, they take omens from Moses and those with him.' And about the polytheists of Mecca: 'And if a harm touches them, they say,

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