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Tafsir al-Qur'an al-'Aziz by Ibn Abi Zamanin
Volume 5 · Page 75619

Translation · EN

"And you devour the inheritance with a greedy devouring," meaning: you do not care whether it is from unlawful or lawful sources.

Muhammad said: "Greedy" (lamma) means intense. It is derived from your saying: "I gathered (lamamtu) the thing" when you collect it. The origin of the word inheritance (turath) is from "he who inherits" (al-warith), derived from "I inherited" (warithtu). The 'ta' in it is a transformed 'waw'. It is said that he intended the inheritance of orphans.

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