Transliteration:( Am taamuruhum ahlaamuhum bihaazaaa am hum qawmun taaghoon )
39. This means, Oh My Beloved! Do not be saddened by their nonsensical prattle. They are rebellious and stupid. If they had a little bit of sense, they would have remained firm upon what they had said. They have no conviction over what they say. Sometimes they call him a poet, at other times a demented person. Although a poet is an intelligent person, a demented person lacks intelligence. Thus, it is not worthy of expressing grief over the nonsensical utterances of such fickle-minded persons.
The tafsir of Surah Tur verse 32 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Tur ayat 29 which provides the complete commentary from verse 29 through 34.
(52:32) Do their minds prompt them to say such things, or are they a people immersed in transgression?”[25]
25. In these two sentences, the opponents’ entire propaganda has been nailed, and they have been completely exposed. The reasoning briefly is this: These Qaraish chiefs and elders pose as very wise people, but does their intellect tell them that they should call a person a poet when he is not a poet, and call him a madman when he is well-known for his wisdom among the people, and dub him a sorcerer when he does not have the remotest association with sorcery? Then, if you are passing these judgments only on the basis of intellect and reason, you should have passed one judgment, and not so many contradictory judgments simultaneously. After all, how can one and the same man be a poet and a madman and a sorcerer at one and the same time? If he is mad, he can then neither be a sorcerer nor a poet. If he is a sorcerer, he cannot be a poet, and if he is a poet, he cannot be a sorcerer, for the language and diction and themes of poetry are quite different from the language and themes of sorcery. The one who knows the distinctions between poetry and sorcery cannot possibly call and regard the same discourse both as poetry and as sorcery at one and the same time. Therefore, it is evident that these contradictory things are being said against the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) not on the basis of intellect and reason but only due to obduracy and stubbornness, and the big chiefs of the nation blinded by their prejudice and enmity are leveling absurd charges which no serious person can regard as worthy of any attention. For further explanation, see (Surah Al-Aaraf, ayat 146) note 104; (Surah Younus, ayat 2) note 3; (Surah Bani-Israil, ayat 47-48) note 53,54; (Surah Ash-Shuara, ayat 210-211) note 130-131, (Surah Ash-Shuara, ayat 222) note 140, (Surah Ash-Shuara, ayat 224-226) 142-144.
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