Transliteration:( Wa qaalat taaa'ifatum min Ahlil Kitaabi aaminoo billazeee unzila 'alal lazeena aamanoo wajhan nahaari wakfurooo aakhirahoo la'alla hum yarji'oon )
152. This scheme to make the Muslims apostates was planned by the twelve Jewish priests of Khaibar who had thought that a group of Yahud became Muslims in the morning and turn to apostasy in the evening, saying that they had found no greatness in either Islam or the Prophet of Islam. A true prophet is he about whom our books had prophecized. The Holy QUR AAN had forewarned about this scheme of theirs. thereby rendering it totally in vain. From this. two issues emerge:
1. The non-believers are busy plotting such schemes against Islam. which even the devil has not thought of.
2. The penalty of death for apostasy was passed. Because there is real danger of Muslims going astray therewith, and that an apostate has rebelled against Divine Order. During the time of Hazrat Musa (On whom be peace) the worshippers of the Golden Calf were put to death. The command was: "Then kill amongst yourself" (S2:V54).
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The tafsir of Surah Imran verse 72 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Imran ayat 69 which provides the complete commentary from verse 69 through 74.
61. This was one of the devices adopted by the leaders and rabbis of the Jews who lived on the outskirts of Madina in order to damage the mission of Islam. To demoralize the Muslims and create misgivings about the Prophet (peace be on him), they sent their agents to embrace Islam publicly, then to renounce it, and subsequently to go about telling people they had done so because of the faults they had found in Islam, the Muslims and their Prophet.
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