Say, "O you who are Jews, if you claim that you are allies of Allah , excluding the [other] people, then wish for death, if you should be truthful."
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{ قل يا أيها الذين هادوا إن زعمتم أنكم أولياء لله من دون الناس فتمنوا الموت إن كنتم صادقين } تعلق بتمنوا الشرطان على أن الأول قيد في الثاني، أي إن صدقتم في زعمكم أنكم أولياء لله، والولي يؤثر الآخرة ومبدؤها الموت فتمنوه.
{Say, “O you who are Jews, if you claim that you are allies of God to the exclusion of the people, then wish for death, if you should be truthful.”} The two conditions are attached to “wish for,” as the first is a restriction on the second, meaning if you are truthful in your claim that you are allies of God, and the guardian prefers the afterlife, the beginning of which is death, then wish for it.
