Tafsir for verse: 4:65
فَلَا وَرَبِّكَ لَا يُؤۡمِنُونَ حَتَّىٰ يُحَكِّمُوكَ فِيمَا شَجَرَ بَيۡنَهُمۡ ثُمَّ لَا يَجِدُواْ فِيٓ أَنفُسِهِمۡ حَرَجٗا مِّمَّا قَضَيۡتَ وَيُسَلِّمُواْ تَسۡلِيمٗا ٦٥ ﴿65
65So, never by your Lord! Never shall they become believers, unless they make you the judge in the disputes that arise between them, then find no discomfort in their hearts against what you have decided, and surrender to it in total submission.
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Commentary

And when it became clear to him that their refusal to accept his judgment and to confess their sin before him was a barrier preventing them from believing, he said - affirming his words with the utmost emphasis; with a strong oath to establish the content of it; and "no"; the negation of its opposite -: ﴿So, by your Lord﴾; meaning: the One who is good to you; ﴿they do not believe﴾; meaning: they possess this description; and they renew it; ﴿until they make you judge﴾; meaning: they make you a judge; ﴿in what has arisen﴾; meaning: mixed and differed; ﴿between them﴾; from the words of some of them to each other for dispute; until they were like the branches of a tree in intertwining and constriction.

And when submission to the judgment that contradicts desires is extremely difficult for the soul, he indicated it with a tool of relaxation; so he said: ﴿Then they will not find in themselves any discomfort﴾; meaning: a type of tightness; ﴿from what you have decreed﴾; meaning: upon them by it; and he affirmed their submission to themselves with the form of intensification; so he said: ﴿and they submit﴾; meaning: they establish profound submission for all that is for them from themselves; and others; to Allah; and His Messenger, blessings and peace be upon him, purely without any mixture of dislike; then he emphasized it further by saying: ﴿submission﴾; and it is authentic that the verse was revealed regarding Al-Zubair; and a dispute he had with one of the Ansar; so there is no attention to the one who said: it is "Hatib" - may Allah be pleased with him.

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