What! Whenever they make a covenant, a party of them cast
it aside? Nay, most of them do not believe (100) And when there came to
them an Apostle from Allah verifying that which they have, a party of
those who were given the Book threw the Book of Allah behind their backs
as if they knew nothing (101).
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COMMENTARY
Qur’an: cast it
aside: “an-Nabdh” (= to throw away, to renounce).
Qur’an: And when
there came to them an Apostle from Allah…”: The word, “an Apostle,
definitely means the Apostle of Allah, Muhammad (s.a.w.a.); it does not
refer to any other apostle who might have come “verifying that which they
have”, because “when there came” does not mean “whenever there came”; in
other words, it does not signify a recurring incidence, but an event that
happened once only.
The verse
points to the Jews’ adverse attitude towards the truth: they were so
steeped in falsehood that they concealed the foretelling of the Torah
about the Prophet of Islam, and refused to believe in the Qur’an which
verified that which they had in their hands.
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