Commentary
So, because of the wrongdoing of those who were Jews, and by what wrongdoing of theirs. The meaning is that we did not prohibit them from the good things except for a great wrongdoing they committed, which is what has been enumerated for them of disbelief and great sins. The good things that were prohibited for them are what He mentioned in His saying: "And upon those who were Jews, We prohibited every [animal] with claws." And the milk was prohibited for them. Whenever they committed a small or large sin, some of the good things from food and others were prohibited for them. And by their turning away from the path of Allah, many people or a great turning away with falsehood, through the bribes they took from their lowly ones in distorting the scripture. But the steadfast ones mean those who believed among them, like Abdullah ibn Salam and his peers, and the steadfast ones in knowledge, who are firm in it, skilled and insightful. And the believers mean the believers among them, or the believers from the emigrants and the helpers. The steadfast ones is raised as a subject. And they believe is its news. And the establisher of prayer is in the accusative as praise to indicate the virtue of prayer, which is a broad topic, and Sibawayh has broken it down into examples and evidence. And one should not pay attention to what they claimed about it being a grammatical error in the writing of the mushaf. Perhaps one would pay attention to it who has not looked into the book and does not know the ways of the Arabs and what they have in the accusative for specification from the subtleties, and it is unclear to him that the first predecessors, whose likenesses are in the Torah and their likenesses in the Gospel, were more zealous in their concern for Islam and defending it against criticisms than to leave in the Book of Allah a gap that would be filled by those who come after them and a tear that would be mended by those who catch up with them. And it was said: It is an addition to: "By what has been revealed to you," meaning they believe in the Book and in the establisher of prayer, which are the prophets. In the mushaf of Abdullah: and the establisher, with the conjunction, and this is the reading of Malik ibn Dinar, Al-Juhdari, and Isa Al-Thaqafi.
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