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Sura 80
Aya 10
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فَأَنتَ عَنهُ تَلَهّىٰ

Ali Unal

You divert your attention from him.1
  • Particularly in the early period of conveying Islam, God’s Messenger, upon him be peace and blessings, thought that if the leaders of the Quraysh accepted Islam, the other people would more easily enter it. So without ever neglecting others, he preached Islam to the leaders with great eagerness. One day, when he was busy with one of those leaders, ‘Abdullāh ibn Umm Maktūm, a blind Muslim, may God be pleased with him, came near that group of leading unbelievers in order to listen to the Messenger and benefit from him. However, a hypocritical one among the group felt great discomfort and frowned disdainfully at the coming of that blind Muslim, while attending eagerly to the unbelievers as if he had wished their conversion. The verses were revealed on this occasion.