1 The Virtues of Surah Al-Ma'idah; When It was Revealed Surah to ...

Allah says;
لَقَدْ‏ أَخَذْنَا مِيثَاقَ‏ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ‏ وَأَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهِمْ‏ رُسُلاً‏ ...
Verily, We took the covenant of the Children of Israel
and sent Messengers to them.
Allah reminds that He took the covenant and
pledges from the Children of Israel to hear and
obey Him and His Messenger. They broke these
pledges and covenants and followed their lusts
and desires instead of the law, and whichever
part of the law they agreed with, they took it.
Otherwise, they abandoned it, if it did not
conform to their desires.
This is why Allah said,
آُل َّمَا جَاءهُمْ‏ رَسُولٌ‏ بِمَا لاَ‏ تَهْوَى أَنْفُسُهُمْ‏ فَرِیقًا آَذ َّبُواْ‏ وَفَرِیقًا یَقْتُلُو ‏َن
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وَحَسِبُواْ‏ أَلا َّ تَكُونَ‏ فِتْنَةٌ‏ فَعَمُواْ‏ وَصَم ُّواْ‏
Whenever there came to them a Messenger with what
they themselves desired not - a group of them they
called liars, and others among them they killed. They
thought there will be no Fitnah (trial or punishment) so
they became blind and deaf.
thinking that they would suffer no repercussions
for of the evil that they committed. Consequently,
they were blinded from the truth and became
deaf, incapable of hearing the truth. For these
reasons they were unable to be guided by it.
ثُم َّ تَابَ‏ اللّهُ‏ عَلَيْهِمْ‏ ثُم َّ عَمُواْ‏ وَصَم ُّواْ‏ ...
after that Allah turned to them (with forgiveness); yet
again many of them became blind and deaf.
Allah forgave that, then, ثُم َّ عَمُواْ‏ وَصَم ُّواْ‏ (yet they
became blind and deaf) again,
آَثِيرٌ‏ م ِّنْهُمْ‏ وَاللّهُ‏ بَصِيرٌ‏ بِمَا یَعْمَلُونَ‏ ﴿٧١ ﴾
many of them, and Allah is the All-Seer of what they do.
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