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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Al-Ma'idah 5:71

Word by word

وَحَسِبُوٓا۟ أَلَّا تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ فَعَمُوا۟ وَصَمُّوا۟ ثُمَّ تَابَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ ثُمَّ عَمُوا۟ وَصَمُّوا۟ كَثِيرٌ مِّنْهُمْ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ بَصِيرٌۢ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ

And they thought there would be no [resulting] punishment, so they became blind and deaf. Then Allāh turned to them in forgiveness; then [again] many of them became blind and deaf. And Allāh is Seeing of what they do.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

وظنَّ هؤلاء العُصاة أن الله لن يأخذهم بالعذاب جزاء عصيانهم وعُتُوِّهم، فمضوا في شهواتهم، وعمُوا عن الهدى فلم يبصروه، وصَمُّوا عن سماع الحقِّ فلم ينتفعوا به، فأنزل الله بهم بأسه، فتابوا فتاب الله عليهم، ثم عَمِي كثيرٌ منهم، وصمُّوا، بعدما تبين لهم الحقُّ، والله بصير بأعمالهم خيرها وشرها وسيجازيهم عليها.

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