ذَٰلِكَ
بِأَنَّهُمۡ
قَالُواْ
لَن
تَمَسَّنَا
ٱلنَّارُ
إِلَّآ
أَيَّامٗا
مَّعۡدُودَٰتٖۖ
وَغَرَّهُمۡ
فِي
دِينِهِم
مَّا
كَانُواْ
يَفۡتَرُونَ
٢٤
This is because they say, “The Fire will not touch us except for a few days.” They have been deceived in their faith by their wishful lying.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
That is because they say, "Never will the Fire touch us except for [a few] numbered days," and [because] they were deluded in their religion by what they were inventing.
— Saheeh International
Lee Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Chastising the People of the Book for Not Referring to the Book of Allah for Judgment
Allah criticizes the Jews and Christians who claim to follow their Books, the Tawrah and the Injil, because when they are called to refer to these Books where Allah commanded them to follow Muhammad , they turn away
…Chastising the People of the Book for Not Referring to the Book of Allah for Judgment
Allah criticizes the Jews and Christians who claim to follow thei
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