قَالُوا۟ ٱبْنُوا۟ لَهُۥ بُنْيَـٰنًا فَأَلْقُوهُ فِى ٱلْجَحِيمِ
- EnglishSaheeh International
- They said, "Construct for him a structure [i.e., furnace] and throw him into the burning fire."
- TamilJan Trust Foundation
- அவர்கள் கூறினார்கள்; "இவருக்காக(ப் பெரியதொரு நெருப்புக்) கிடங்கை அமைத்து எரிநெருப்பில் அவரை எறிந்து விடுங்கள்."
- SinhalaRuwwad Center
- “ඔහු (ඉබ්රාහීම්) වෙනුවෙන් යම් ඉඳිකිරීමක් තනා පසුව ඔහුව ගින්නෙහි හෙළනු යැ”යි ඔවුහු පැවසූහ.
- UrduMaulana Muhammad Junagarhi
- وه کہنے لگے اس کے لئے ایک مکان بناؤ اور اس (دہکتی ہوئی) آگ میں اسے ڈال دو.
- JapaneseRyoichi Mita
- 人びとは言った。「かれ（イブラーヒーム）のために炉を築き，燃え盛る火の中に投げ込みなさい。」
- ChineseMa Jian
- 他们说：你们应当为他而修一个火炉，然后，将他投在烈火中。
Tafsir of 37:97
فَتَوَلَّوْاْ عَنْهُ مُدْبِرِينَ (So they turned away from him and departed.) Qatadah said, "The Arabs say of one who thinks deeply that he is looking at the stars." What Qatadah meant is that he looked at the heavens, thinking of a way to distract his people. So he said, إِنِّى سَقِيمٌ (Verily, I am sick.) Meaning weak. Ibn Jarir narrated here a Hadith from Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, stating that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: «لَمْ يَكْذِبْ إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ غَيْرَ ثَلَاثَ كَذَبَاتٍ: ثِنْتَيْنِ فِي ذَاتِ اللهِ تَعَالَى، قَوْلُهُ: إِنِّى سَقِيمٌ وَقَوْلُهُ: بَلْ فَعَلَهُ كَبِيرُهُمْ هَذَا وَقَوْلُهُ فِي سَارَّةَ: هِيَ أُخْتِي» (Ibrahim (peace and blessings be upon him) did not lie except in three cases. Two were for the sake of Allah: (one is) when he said, "Verily, I am sick"; (the second) when he said, "Nay, this one, the biggest of them (idols) did it"; and (the third) when he said concerning (his wife) Sarah, "She is my sister." This Hadith is recorded in the books of the Sahih and Sunan with various chains of narrations.…
Source: Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
