The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 1) — Page 184
PT. 1 CH. 2 AL-BAQARAH 92. And when it is said to them, 'Believe in what Allah وَإِذَا قِيْلَ لَهُمْ أُمِنُوا بِمَا اَنْزَلَ اللهُ قَالُوا نُؤْمِنُ بِمَا أُنْزِلَ عَلَيْنَا وَيَكْفُرُونَ بِمَا has sent down, they say, We believe in what has been sent وَرَاءَهُ وَهُوَ الْحَقُّ مُصَدِّقًا لِمَا مَعَهُمْ down to us'; and they disbelieve قُلْ فَلِمَ تَقْتُلُونَ أَنْبِيَاءَ اللَّهِ مِنْ قَبْلُ إِنْ in what has been sent down كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ after that, yet it is the Truth, fulfilling that which is with them. Say: Why, then, did you attempt to slay the Prophets of Allah before this, if you were believers?'98 "2:171. 3:113, 182. ,means باء بغضب من الله. he returned with it he returned with anger from God, i. e. the anger of God came upon him; he incurred His anger (Aqrab & Lane). Commentary: In this verse, we are told that the Jews rejected the Holy Prophet solely because he was of different nationality. The verse means that the Jews upon whom the truth has dawned and who have come to recognize the Quran as the very Book mentioned in their Scriptures are, out of sheer pride and obstinacy, impiously rejecting it, little knowing that, by so doing, they are hastening the ruin of their own souls. The truth is that they cannot bear to see a Prophet raised from among any people other than their own. They fail to realize that all alike are the creatures of God and there is no earthly reason why Prophets should appear only from among the Israelites. The words translated here 184 as, they incurred wrath, literally mean "they returned with (God's) wrath" which points to the fact that though God called them to His presence in order to bestow on them His favours, they, instead of receiving favours, returned from His presence loaded with His displeasure and anger. The words, wrath upon wrath, are used to signify that even before the coming of the Holy Prophet the Jews had incurred the anger of God by their rejection of Jesus and other iniquities; so when they rejected the Holy Prophet, they incurred wrath upon wrath, i. e. they added to their previous load of God's anger. 98. Commentary: The verse means that whenever Islam is presented to Jews, they, far from reflecting over its claims, consider it enough to say that they will believe in what is sent to Israelite Prophets only, and not in the revelation of outsiders, although the