Transliteration:( Lakunna 'ibaadal laahil mukhlaseen )
"We would surely have been the chosen [167] devotees of Allah."
This verse captures the false assertion of the disbelievers who claimed that if a heavenly Book had been sent to them, they would have been among the devoted and obedient servants of Allah.
They implied they would not have gone astray or rebelled, unlike the Jews and Christians.
However, when the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and the Qur'an actually came to them, they rejected the message and did not believe, exposing the insincerity of their claim.
The tafsir of Surah As-Saffat verse 169 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Saffat ayat 161 which provides the complete commentary from verse 161 through 170.
(37:169) we would surely have been Allah’s chosen servants.”[92]
92. This same thing has already been mentioned in (Surah Fatir, Ayat 42).
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