The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 1) — Page 170
CH. 2 AL-BAQARAH PT. 1 وَإِذَا لَقُوا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قَالُوا أَمَنَّا And when they meet those. 77 mají who believe, they say: 'We وَإِذَا خَلَا بَعْضُهُمْ إِلى بَعْضٍ قَالُوا believe, and when they meet one another in private, they say, اتُحَدِّثُوْنَهُمْ بِمَا فَتَحَ اللهُ عَلَيْكُمُ Do you inform them of what لِيُحَاجُوكُمْ بِهِ عِنْدَ رَبِّكُمْ ۖ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ Allah has unfolded to you, that they may thereby argue with you before your Lord? Will you not then understand?'83 Commentary: "2:15; 3:120; 5:62. The verse is addressed to Muslims. The Israelites having been reduced to such a condition as to have become hardened like stones or even worse, Muslims cannot expect them to subscribe to their belief or act faithfully to them. The Israelites had become utterly devoid of faith and all sense of honesty. They would hear the word of God revealed to the Holy Prophet and when they went back to their people, they would wilfully pervert it and thus try to mislead them and turn them against the Holy Prophet and his followers by means of deliberate misrepresentation. Nothing good can be expected from such people and nothing can prevent them from breaking agreements and their plighted word. meanings, e. g. , with, by, at, near, in the presence of, in the opinion of or in the estimation of, etc. (Lane). See also 2:275. Commentary: The verse mentions another class of Jews who acted hypocritically. When they mixed with Muslims, they chimed in with them from worldly motives, confirming the prophecies contained in their Books about the Holy Prophet. But when they were away from Muslims and mixed with their own people, they behaved in quite a different way. On such occasions other members of the community would reproach them for their enlightening the Muslims on what God had revealed to them, i. e. , for letting the Muslims know the prophecies about the Holy Prophet contained in the Jewish scriptures. In that case, they would say, the Muslims would argue with them before God, blaming them before Him on the Day of Judgement for their rejection of the Holy Prophet. (before) gives a number of And yet they well knew the 83. Important Words: (has unfolded) means: (1) he opened; (2) he unfolded or disclosed; (3) he taught; (4) he gained victory over a place or a people (Aqrab). 170