And when it became known that the steadfastness of deeds and their purity is only by following the command of Allah, glorified and exalted is He, and the command of His Messenger, blessings and peace be upon him, and the command of those who inherited knowledge from him, it indicated what he informed about regarding the failure and lack of victory, as seen in their conditions in opposing the religion. He said: "Did you not see?" And the place was suitable to say: to them, but he said: "to those who were given a share of the Book" to indicate that their misguidance is based on knowledge, and that what they were given from it is their reading of it with their tongues and claiming faith in it. Al-Harali said: Their specific book is a share of the comprehensive Book, and what they took from their book is a share of its specificity. For if they had fulfilled their share of it, they would not have deviated in judgment from it, and they would have been satisfied with it. And in this is a wonder that others are satisfied with the judgment of their book, yet they themselves are not satisfied with it. End of quote.

"They are invited to the Book of Allah." He made the noble name apparent and did not say: to their book, as a precaution against what they changed and altered. For they only invited to the Book of Allah that was revealed to Musa, blessings and peace be upon him, not to what they might have in their hands of what they changed - Al-Harali pointed this out. And there is also an indication of their great audacity in turning to one who has complete knowledge, "to judge between them." Al-Harali said: It implies that a group among them is on the truth from it, meaning they are those who submit to the judgment that they were invited to. End of quote.

And when following him is an obvious obligation, its benefit is for whoever strips himself of desires, he expressed his opposition with a tool of distance, saying: "Then." Al-Harali said: In his delaying, it indicates their stubbornness and dullness in that, by what Allah inflicts of wrath and confusion upon one who is invited to a truth and rejects it. And in the form of "to take" in his saying: "they take" (p-304), it is appropriate to the meaning of that in the effort to take on a pull from their innermost being towards what they knew and concealed. And his explicit statement: "a group among them" understood from his previous saying: "to judge between them" indicates that a group among them is steadfast, affirming the judgment of the Book of Allah, glorified and exalted is He. And his statement indicating the multitude of individuals in this group, "and they are turning away," reflects what they have deprived themselves of from that hesitation and effort. Thus, it became a description of them after it was a deliberation. No denier has denied the truth while knowing it except that Allah, glorified and exalted is He, has deprived him of knowledge until his denial of it becomes in the form and description of one who has never known it. End of quote.

And in this is a warning to this nation from falling into something like that, even if one of them is invited from good to something better than it - Al-Harali pointed this out and said: For the aim is not merely to recount what has passed nor only what is occurring, but the address of the Qur'an is a continuous address, wholly applicable in the past of the Muhammadan day with those whose conditions are similar to those who preceded them, and in the right of a person with himself at different times. End of quote.