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{ أَتَبْنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ آيَةً تَعْبَثُونَ }

Do you build on every prominence every high place a monument an edifice as a signpost for passers-by so that you may hurl abuse? at those who pass by you and deride them ta‘bathūna is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the subject of the verb tabnūna ‘you build’.


Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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