Transliteration:( Wa qaalal mala-u min qawmihil lazeena kafaroo wa kazzaboo bi liqaaa'il Aakhirati wa atrafnaahum fil hayaatid dunyaa maa haazaaa illaa basharum mislukum yaakulu mimmaa taakuloona minhu wa yashrabu mimmaa tashraboon )
52. From this, we learn that those possessing wealth. leadership and worldly respect had always been found to be the enemies of the Prophets. The poor and destitute had formed the bulk of the believers. Even today, this is clearly evident i.e. it is the poor who are generally found to be engaged in doing religious work.
53. This tells us to regard the Prophets as humans like us and to assess them on just their eating and drinking without understanding their hidden mystical nature. has been the work of the infidels from the earliest times.
The first person to call the Prophets an ordinary human being was the devil. Thereafter, the infidels continued uttering this. Looking merely at the casing of the Holy Quran is the work of the neglectful people while looking at the inside of the casing of the Holy Qur'an is the habit of the believers.
Abu Jahl did not become a Companion, but Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (May Allah be pleased with him) did. Although both looked at the Holy Prophet ﷺ.
Abu Jahl looked at the human side of the Holy Prophet ﷺÂ while Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (May Allah be pleased with him) saw the light enveloped under human form.Â
54. This means that if these were prophets, then like the angels, they would not have had any desire for eating and drinking. They saw the beginning of their eating and drinking but failed to observe the difference in its ending.
The wasp and the honey bee suck the same flower, yet when the nectar of this flower reaches the stomach of the wasp it turns into poison, and in the stomach of the honey bee it becomes honey.
In the same way our eating is based on negligence, while the nourishment of the blessed Prophets is the means of augmentation of divine light for them.
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The tafsir of Surah Al-Muminun verse 33 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Muminun ayat 31 which provides the complete commentary from verse 31 through 41.
(23:33) The notables among his people who had refused to believe and who denied the meeting of the Hereafter, and those whom We had endowed with ease and comfort in this life,[35] cried out: “This is no other than a mortal like yourselves who eats what you eat and drinks what you drink.
35. It should be noted that all those people who opposed the Messengers had three common characteristics: (1) They were the chiefs of their people. (2) They denied life in the Hereafter. (3) They were prosperous in the worldly life. Obviously, they loved the life of this world and could never conceive that their way of life, which had made them chiefs and brought prosperity, could ever be wrong. Therefore they opposed their Messengers, who took away their peace of mind, by preaching that there was a life-after-death and they shall have to render an account to Allah of what they did in this world. And this was exactly what was happening at Makkah.
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