Transliteration:( Wa qaalal lazeenastud'ifoo lillazeenas takbaroo bal makrul laili wannahaari iz ta'muroonanaaaa an nakfura billaahi wa naj'ala lahooo andaadaa; wa asarrun nadaamata lammaa ra awul 'azaab; wa ja'alnal aghlaala feee a'naaqil lazeena kafaroo; hal yujzawna illaa maa kaanoo ya'maloon )
101. They had become infidels by following others. This includes those poor infidels who had accepted infidelity because of the wealthy, as well as those ignorant infidels who sold their faith because of the learned.
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102. This means day and might you had kept yourselves busy in devising plans of misleading people and were always running after us. In short the infidels would be revealing the faults of one another.Â
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103. From this, emerge two issues
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1. The rejection of the Holy Prophet of Allah is indeed the rejection of Allah Almighty, because these infidels were not really rejectors of Allah Almighty but of the Prophet of Allah. But this has been declared as a rejection of Allah Almighty.
2. The infidels regarded the idols as equal to Allah Almighty or like Him for this reason these had become idolators. Says Allah Almighty that they would be saving to their idols. "When we made equal with the Lord of the Words.
104. This tells us that infidels would try to conceal their regret, but Allah Almighty had revealed it.
 105. This tells us that sinful believers will not be carrying shackles in their necks, even though they would be sent into Hell to receive some punishment.
 This shackle has been determined as a form of punishment for the infidels. We further leam that on the Day of Judgement believers would be distinguished from the infidels. Having shackles in the neck would be the sign of the infidel, while being without it would be the identification of the believer, Says Allah Almighty "The culprits shall be recognized by their faces"(S55 V41).
 In short, the punishment of the sinful believer in Hell will be in the form of censure, while that of the infidel would be in the form of both censure and punishment.
 106. This tells us that the minor children of the infidels would not be sent into Hell because they did not commit infidelity or evil deeds. Like Paradise, Hell too will not be received without deeds However, some fortunate people would be receiving Paradise without having performed good deeds.
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The tafsir of Surah Saba verse 33 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Saba ayat 31 which provides the complete commentary from verse 31 through 33.
53. In other words, the common people’s reply will be: “How can you hold us as equal partners in this responsibility? Do you also remember what sort of trickeries and deceptions and false propaganda you practiced and what efforts you used to make to tempt and entice the people day and night. It is not just that you presented the world before us and we were allured, but this is also a fact that you used to befool us by your frauds and deceptions and each one of you brought a new bait every day to tempt and lure the simple people.â€
The Quran has made mention of the dispute between the religious guides and their followers at different places in different ways. For details, see Surah Al-Aaraf, Ayats 38- 39; (Surah Ibrahim, Ayat 21); (Surah Al-Qasas, Ayat 63); (Surah Al-Ahzab, Ayat 66-68); (Surah Al-Mumin, Ayat 47-48); (Surah HaMim As-Sajdah, Ayat 29).
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