Transliteration:( Bal kazzaboo bilhaqqi lammaa jaaa'ahum fahum feee amrim mareej )
7. By 'Truth' is either meant the personality or his of the Holy Prophet's blessed miracles, or the Holy QURAN or the Day of Judgement. This means these people do not ponder over the proofs, they all know how to falsify it.
8. Sometimes they call the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم a poet, sometimes a magician, and at other times a soothsayer. They were not consistent in their opinion.
The tafsir of Surah Qaf verse 5 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Qaf ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 2 through 5.
(50:5) They gave the lie to the Truth when it came to them. So they are now in a state of great perplexity.[5]
5. In this brief sentence a vast subject has been compressed. It means: These people did not rest content only with expressing wonder and declaring the thing to be far removed from reason, but when the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) presented his message of the truth, they denied it as falsehood without any hesitation. Its inevitable result was, and the same only could follow from it, that they do not agree on any one position with regard to the invitation and the Messenger who has presented it. Sometimes they brand him a poet, sometimes a sorcerer, and sometimes a madman. Sometimes they say that he is a magician and sometimes that he is bewitched. Sometimes they say that he has fabricated this thing by himself in order to establish his superiority. Therefore, leaving it aside, detailed reasoning is now being presented about the authenticity of the second thing which those people regarded as strange and far removed from reason and intellect.
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