Tafsir for verses: 40:84, 40:85
فَلَمَّا رَأَوۡاْ بَأۡسَنَا قَالُوٓاْ ءَامَنَّا بِٱللَّهِ وَحۡدَهُۥ وَكَفَرۡنَا بِمَا كُنَّا بِهِۦ مُشۡرِكِينَ ٨٤ ﴿84﴾ فَلَمۡ يَكُ يَنفَعُهُمۡ إِيمَٰنُهُمۡ لَمَّا رَأَوۡاْ بَأۡسَنَاۖ سُنَّتَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلَّتِي قَدۡ خَلَتۡ فِي عِبَادِهِۦۖ وَخَسِرَ هُنَالِكَ ٱلۡكَٰفِرُونَ ٨٥ ﴿85﴾
84When they saw Our punishment, they said, “We have (now) come to believe in Allah alone, and We have rejected everything we used to ascribe (to Him) as partners.” 85But, their profession of faith was not (competent) to benefit them, once they had seen Our punishment - a customary practice of Allah that has been there all along in the matter of His servants - and hence, the disbelievers became the losers.
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Commentary
Al-Ba's: the severity of punishment. From it is His saying, 'with a wretched punishment.' If you say: what is the difference between His saying, 'So their faith did not benefit them' and if it were said: 'So their faith did not benefit them'? I say: it is like His saying, 'It was not for Allah to take a son.' The meaning is: it was not correct or proper for their faith to benefit them. [Mahrud said: 'If you say: what is the difference between His saying: so their faith did not benefit them, and if it were said: so it did not benefit them, and he answered that the meaning of
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