Tafsir for verse: 3:181
لَّقَدۡ سَمِعَ ٱللَّهُ قَوۡلَ ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ فَقِيرٞ وَنَحۡنُ أَغۡنِيَآءُۘ سَنَكۡتُبُ مَا قَالُواْ وَقَتۡلَهُمُ ٱلۡأَنۢبِيَآءَ بِغَيۡرِ حَقّٖ وَنَقُولُ ذُوقُواْ عَذَابَ ٱلۡحَرِيقِ ١٨١ ﴿181
181Allah has surely heard the words of those who said, “Allah is poor, and we are rich.”We shall write down what they said, and their killing of the prophets unjustly; and We shall say, “Taste the punishment of the flaming fire.
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Commentary

And when the action was comprehensive of all the movements of the limbs; from the heart; and the tongue; and all the other parts; He said - indicating His knowledge by hearing what they said; surpassing the abyss of miserliness; to the depths of ugliness; intending to create doubt for the people of Islam by what they bring forth of doubts; by analogy to what they know of themselves; that he - as previously mentioned - only seeks what is needed -: ﴿Indeed, Allah has heard﴾; meaning: the One who possesses all perfection; ﴿the saying of those who said﴾; meaning: from the Jews; ﴿Indeed, Allah﴾; meaning: the Greatest King; ﴿is poor﴾; meaning: for His seeking a loan; ﴿and we are rich﴾ for the fact that He seeks from us; and this is a return from Him - glorified and exalted is He - to complete what He had alerted to before this story; of the hatred of the people of the Book for the people of this religion; and their envy of them; and their desire to create doubt in it; to turn away from it; by the most excellent methods; and the highest means.

And when the souls longed for their recompense for this greatness; and the kings, if they knew of the diminishment of one of them while they are able; would hasten to him; for what they have of the lack of harm by anger; He said - glorified and exalted is He - threatening them; indicating that He is not in that -: ﴿We will write﴾; meaning: upon our greatness; to establish the proof against them; for what they are accustomed to in this world; ﴿what they said﴾; meaning: of this disbelief; and similar to it; and the 's' is for emphasis; and it may be that it is on its original meaning of delay; to urge towards repentance before the completion of the ranks of testimony; and more clarification will come in 'Az-Zukhruf'.

And when this was an act of transgression against the Creator; He followed it with their transgression against the noblest of creatures; so He said - indicating; by adding the source to their pronoun; and with the plural broken form indicating the multitude; that they are the most rebellious of people; and the most accustomed to committing great sins; and that the transgression against the greatest types of disbelief has become their nature -: ﴿and killing the prophets﴾; meaning: those whom We established among them; to renew what they had destroyed of the foundation of their religion; and when there was no doubt at all in their killing; He said: ﴿without right﴾; for it is a greater blame than what preceded it from the expression with the present tense; in His saying: ﴿and they kill the prophets without right﴾ [Al-Imran: 112]; then He joined His saying: ﴿We will write﴾; with His saying: ﴿and We will say﴾; meaning: with what We have of majesty; ﴿Taste﴾; meaning: with what We will afflict you with of calamities in this world; and punishment in the Hereafter; as you used to taste the foods which you were miserly with; so you do not fulfill its rights; ﴿the punishment of the blaze﴾; as a recompense for what you have burned with it the hearts of Our servants;

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