Transliteration:( Qaalal lazeenas takbaroo lillazeenas tud'ifooo anahnu sadadnaakum 'anil hudaa ba'da iz jaaa'akum bal kuntum mujrimeen )
99. Never! You are liars. From this we learn that the friendships of the world would be changed into enmities of the Hereafter. Only that friendship will remain which is for the sake of Allah Almighty as has been declared by the Holy Qur'aan at many places.
100. This means in heresy you are equal to us. Thus both of us should be given similar punishment. This verse is the commentary of those verses that say that on the Day of Judgement no one would be interceding, i.e. of the infidels.Â
In fact, those who they hoped would be their intercessors, would become their enemies. Some ignorant people use this verse to disprove that the believers, saints and Prophets will be interceding for their devotees.Â
These infidels claim that this discussion, on the Day of Judgement, would be taking place between the Peer (religious mentor), mureed (disciple), Prophet and his follower. interesting thing Is that the Murshids themselves have their own disciples. In short, this is not true, but the distortion of the truth. It is stated in Bukhari Shareef that the worst form of infidels are those who apply verses of the infidels for the believers. It should be remembered that these verses are connected with the infidels and their leaders.
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The tafsir of Surah Saba verse 32 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Saba ayat 31 which provides the complete commentary from verse 31 through 33.
52. That is, they will say: We had no power by which a few of us could have compelled hundreds of thousands of the people like you to follow us. If you had the will to believe, you could have deposed us from leadership and power and authority and government. In fact, you were our army, you were the source of our wealth and power. But for your offerings and gifts and taxes we should have been paupers. Had you not sworn allegiance to us, we could not have flourished as saints even for a day. Had you not appreciated and applauded us as leaders, we would have remained unknown. Had you not become our army and fought against the whole world for our sake, we could not have ruled over a single individual. Now why don’t you admit that you yourselves did not want to follow the way that the Messengers had presented before you. You were the slaves of your own lusts and desires, and the demands of your selves could not be fulfilled by the righteous way of life presented by the Messengers but by what we presented before you. You were heedless of the lawful and the unlawful and craved for the luxuries of life, which we only could provide you. You were in search of such guides as could give you the license to commit any sin, any crime, and take on themselves the responsibility to have you forgiven by God, in exchange for gifts. You wanted to listen to such religious scholars only who could please you by proving every kind of shirk and every innovation in religion and every lust of your self to be the very truth. You needed such forgers who could invent a new religion by altering the religion of God after your desires. You wanted to follow such leaders who could help you become prosperous in this world, no matter how you fared in the Hereafter. You wished to have such rulers who were immoral and dishonest so that under their patronage you also could have the freedom to indulge in any sin, any immorality. Thus, you and we were equal partners in the bargain. Now you cannot delude anyone by saying that you were absolutely innocent and that we had spoiled and corrupted you against your will.
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