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Surah Aal-i-Imraan (3) — Ayah 72

The Family of Imraan · Medinan · Juz 3 · Page 59

وَقَالَت طَّآئِفَةٌ مِّنْ أَهْلِ ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ ءَامِنُوا۟ بِٱلَّذِىٓ أُنزِلَ عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَجْهَ ٱلنَّهَارِ وَٱكْفُرُوٓا۟ ءَاخِرَهُۥ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ ﴿72﴾
And a party of the people of the Scripture say: "Believe in the morning in that which is revealed to the believers (Muslims), and reject it at the end of the day, so that they may turn back.
وَقَالَت waqālat And said
طَّآئِفَةٌۭ ṭāifatun a group
مِّنْ min of
أَهْلِ ahli (the) People
ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ l-kitābi (of) the Book
ءَامِنُوا۟ āminū Believe
بِٱلَّذِىٓ bi-alladhī in what
أُنزِلَ unzila was revealed
عَلَى ʿalā on
ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna those who
ءَامَنُوا۟ āmanū believe[d]
وَجْهَ wajha (at the) beginning
ٱلنَّهَارِ l-nahāri (of) the day
وَٱكْفُرُوٓا۟ wa-uk'furū and reject
ءَاخِرَهُۥ ākhirahu (at) its end
لَعَلَّهُمْ laʿallahum perhaps they may
يَرْجِعُونَ yarjiʿūna return

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(Ayah 72) {لِمَ تَلْبِسُوْنَ الْحَقَّ بِالْبَاطِلِ …:} The Jews used to devise various schemes to create doubts and suspicions about Islam in the hearts of weak-faith Muslims. This is also a description of one of their schemes in this regard: that in the morning, express faith in the Quran and the Prophet, and in the evening, announce disbelief and deviation. It is possible that by adopting this method, some Muslims might start thinking that these educated people, after becoming Muslims, have separated themselves from this movement, so they must have seen some flaw or weak aspect in it. (Ibn Kathir, Shawkani)

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72. 1. This mentions another scheme of the Jews. With which they wanted to mislead the Muslims, that they mutually decided to become Muslims in the morning so that doubt would arise in the hearts of the Muslims about their own Islam, that these people, after accepting Islam, returned to their own religion, so it is possible that there are such defects and shortcomings in Islam which have come to their knowledge.

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A group among the People of the Book said, "Believe in what has been revealed to the believers in the morning, and reject it at the end of the day, so that perhaps they [63] may turn back from their faith."

[63]
The Third Plot of the Jews: Accepting Faith and Then Apostatizing:

In this context, a conspiracy was devised in which a few Jews would openly become Muslims. Then, after a few days or even on the same day, they would apostatize from Islam. The background of this plot was that the Jews were renowned throughout Arabia as scholars of religious sciences, to the extent that they would call everyone except themselves "ummi" (unlettered people). When Jews would become Muslim and then apostatize, it would automatically create the impression among the common people that when the learned people studied the religion of Islam closely, they must have found something suspicious in it. Otherwise, how could a learned person prefer misguidance? This plot was still in the making when Allah, through His Prophet, warned the Muslims about it, and their inner wickedness was thus ended right there.