Surah Ash-Shu'ara 26:4

The Poets · Verse 4 of 227 · Juz 19 · Page 367

إِن نَّشَأْ نُنَزِّلْ عَلَيْهِم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ ءَايَةً فَظَلَّتْ أَعْنَـٰقُهُمْ لَهَا خَـٰضِعِينَ

If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled.

Translation: Saheeh International

Tafsir

If We will We will send down to them a sign from the heaven before which their necks will remain fa-zallat although grammatically in the past tense is being used in the sense of the imperfect tense bowed in humility and they will believe since ‘necks’ are described as ‘bowed in humility’ a status which in fact refers …

Excerpt from Tafsir al-Jalalayn, commentary on 26:4, via Quran.com. The reader has the full commentary and 9 more tafsirs.