The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 283
PT. 6 AN-NISA' CH. 4 وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِاللهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَلَمْ يُفَرِّقُوا And as for those who. 153 بَيْنَ أَحَدٍ مِّنْهُمْ أُولَبِكَ سَوْفَ يُؤْتِيهِمْ b أجُورَهُمْ وَكَانَ اللهُ غَفُورًا رَّ حِيْمان الى no any of believe in Allah and in all of His Messengers and make distinction between them, these are they whom He will soon give their rewards. And Allah is Most Forgiving, Merciful. 616 R. 22. ask thee to cause a Book to "They asked Moses a greater يَسْتَلُكَ أَهْلُ الْكِتَبِ اَنْ تُنَزِّلَ عَلَيْهِمْ The People of the Book. 154 كِتُبَا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَقَدْ سَأَلُوا مُوسَى اَكْبَرَ. descend on them from heaven مِنْ ذلِكَ فَقَالُوا اَرِنَا اللَّهَ جَهْرَةً فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ,thing than this: they said الصُّعِقَةُ بِظُلْمِهِمْ ۚ ثُمَّ اتَّخَذُوا الْعِجْلَ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا جَاءَتْهُمُ الْبَيِّنْتُ فَعَفَوْنَا عَنْ their ذلِكَ وَأَتَيْنَا مُوسَى سُلْطَنَّا مُّبِينًا Show us Allah openly. ' Then a destructive punishment overtook them because of transgression. Then "they took the calf for worship after clear 2:137; 2:286; 3:85. b2:109. 2:56. d2:52, 93; 7:149, 153. course, as explained in the previous verse, are "veritable disbelievers" in the sight of God and shall be awarded "a humiliating punishment. " 616. Commentary: The verse 4:151 above dealt with four classes of disbelievers: (1) those who disbelieve both in Allah and His Messengers; (2) those who profess to believe in Allah but reject His Messengers, i. e. those who believe that there is indeed a God but that He sends no Messengers, or those who think they are bound to accept only that which God sends down by His revelation but do not look upon the 723 behests and precepts of the Prophet as binding on them; (3) those who accept some of the Messengers of God and reject others; and (4) those who accept some claims of a divine Messenger and reject others, or those who, though declaring a claimant to prophethood to be true in his claims, do not think it to be binding on them to enter his fold. In continuation of the above, the verse under comment says that only those people can hope for reward from God who spurn all the above different forms of disbelief and whose faith in God and in all His Prophets is full and unqualified.