Tafsir for verses: 4:138, 4:139
بَشِّرِ ٱلۡمُنَٰفِقِينَ بِأَنَّ لَهُمۡ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا ١٣٨ ﴿138﴾ ٱلَّذِينَ يَتَّخِذُونَ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ أَوۡلِيَآءَ مِن دُونِ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَۚ أَيَبۡتَغُونَ عِندَهُمُ ٱلۡعِزَّةَ فَإِنَّ ٱلۡعِزَّةَ لِلَّهِ جَمِيعٗا ١٣٩ ﴿139﴾
138Give the hypocrites the ‘good news’ that for them there is a painful punishment 139- those who take the disbelievers for friends rather than the believers. Are they seeking honor in their company? But, indeed, all honor belongs to Allah,
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Commentary
Give good news to the hypocrites. Place (give good news) instead of: inform, mockingly towards them. And those (الَّذِينَ) is in the accusative for blame or in the nominative meaning: I mean those or they are those. And they used to side with the disbelievers and ally with them. Some of them would say to one another: The matter of Muhammad will not be established, so they turned to the Jews. For indeed, the might belongs to Allah altogether. He means for His allies, those whom He has decreed for them honor and victory over the Jews and others. And He said: And to Allah belongs the might and to His Messenger and to the believers.
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