Transliteration:( Yaaa ayyuhal lazeena amanoo laa tatawallaw qawman ghadibal laahu 'alaihim qad ya'isoo minal aakhirati kamaa ya'isal kuffaaru min as haabil quboor )
54. By this "people" is meant the entire infideis, or the Jews upon whom the wrath of Allah Almighty had come in this world on many occasions.
From these, some of them were turned into pigs and monkeys.
55. This means the Jews totally are despondent about the rewards of the Hereafter, because after being fully aware about the Holy Prophet from their Tauraat they still reject him. Thus, by belief they are infidels and are deprived from the rewards of the Hereafter.
One learns from this despondency of theirs that those Jews had accepted the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم a true Prophet, but by not accepting Islam they were regarding themselves deprived of the mercy and bounties of Allah Almighty simply because of their obstinacy.
The tafsir of Surah As-Saff verse 13 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Saff ayat 11 which provides the complete commentary from verse 11 through 13.
24. The words in the original can have two meanings:
First, that they have despaired of their well-being andrewards in the Hereafter just as the deniers of the life-afterdeathhave despaired of the resurrection of their near anddear ones, who are dead and gone into the graves. Thismeaning has been given by Abdullah bin Abbas and HasanBasri, Qatadah and Dahak.
The second meaning can be: They have despaired of the mercy and forgiveness of the Hereafter just as the disbelievers, who are Iying in the graves, have despaired of every good, for they are certain of their being involved in the punishment. This meaning has been related from Hadrat `Abdullah bin Mas’ud and from Mujahid, ‘Ikrimah, Ibn Zaid, Kalbi, Muqatil, Mansur (may Allah bless them all).
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