Tafsir for verse: 4:138
بَشِّرِ ٱلۡمُنَٰفِقِينَ بِأَنَّ لَهُمۡ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا ١٣٨ ﴿138﴾
138Give the hypocrites the ‘good news’ that for them there is a painful punishment
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Commentary
And when all the forms of the verse apply to hypocrisy; some of them are truly real; and some of them are metaphorical; he said - in response to one who seemed to ask about their punishment; mocking them -: "Give glad tidings to the hypocrites"; thus he revealed the place of the implicit; generalizing; and linking the ruling to the description; "that for them is a painful punishment."
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