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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli and Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti

Explains release from an implied barrier shortly before resurrection, identifies Gog and Magog as two tribes, and records alternative readings of their names and the verb for opening. Demonstrates how grammatical gloss supplies details absent from a bare translation.

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Complete commentary on Quran 21:96

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