Transliteration:( Zaalika bi annahum qaaloo lillazeena karihoo maa nazzalal laahu sanutee'ukum fee ba'dil amri wallaahu ya'lamu israarahum )
67. The subject of "they said" is these hypocrites or the infidels of the People of the Book who are mentioned here, while the subject of "those who hate" are all infidels and polytheists.
By "one matter" is meant opposition to the Holy Prophet ie the hypocrites and People of the Book tell the polytheists that although your religion is different from ours, we will help you crush Islam and oppose the Holy Prophet ?. We all come together to crush Islam. This tells us that in their opposition to Islam all the infidels are united. They demonstrated this practically in the Battle of the Trench. But Allah Almighty intervened in this by helping the believers. The commentary of this verse is the following verse: "If you fight against them, we will surely help you" (S59:V11).
68. Thus, He will punish all of them, in the world as well as in the Hereafter. This tells us that if the believers remain firm on their faith, then all the infidels of the world can cause no harm to them.
The tafsir of Surah Muhammad verse 26 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Muhammad ayat 24 which provides the complete commentary from verse 24 through 28.
(47:26) This, because they said to those who are averse to the faith that Allah has revealed: “In some matters we shall obey you.”[36] Allah has full knowledge of their secret parleys.
36. That is, in spite of professing the faith and being counted among the Muslims, they went on conspiring secretly with the enemies of Islam and even pledged to support them in certain matters.
[1505]- i.e., the Jews of Madīnah.
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