Verse. 115

٢ - ٱلْبَقَرَة

2 - Al-Baqara

اَمْ تُرِيْدُوْنَ اَنْ تَسْـــَٔـلُوْا رَسُوْلَكُمْ كَـمَا سُىِٕلَ مُوْسٰى مِنْ قَبْلُ۝۰ۭ وَمَنْ يَّتَـبَدَّلِ الْكُفْرَ بِالْاِيْمَانِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ سَوَاۗءَ السَّبِيْلِ۝۱۰۸
Am tureedoona an tasaloo rasoolakum kama suila moosa min qablu waman yatabaddali alkufra bialeemani faqad dalla sawaa alssabeeli

English

Ahmed Ali

Do you too, O believers, wish to question your Apostle as Moses was in the past? But he who takes unbelief in exchange for belief only strays from the right path.

108

Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (or would ye question your messenger) ask him to see your lord, hear his speech and other similar things (as moses was questioned) as the children of israel asked moses (before) before the advent of muhammad (pbuh)? (he who chooseth disbelief instead of faith, verily he hath gone astray from a plain road) he has relinquished the path of guidance.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : when the meccans asked [the prophet] to enlarge the size of mecca and make safā full of gold, the following was revealed: or do you desire to question your messenger as moses was questioned, by his people, aforetime?, when they asked him to show them god openly among other things; whoever exchanges belief for unbelief, taking the latter in place of the former by refraining from contemplating the clear proofs and by requesting others instead, has surely strayed from the even way, meaning, he has mistaken the proper path (al-sawā‘ essentially means al-wasat, ‘middle way’).

Ali ibn Ahmad al-Wahidi

تفسير : (or would ye question your messenger…) [2:108]. said ibn ‘abbas: “this verse was revealed about ‘abd allah ibn abi umayyah and a group of people from the quraysh who had said to the prophet: ‘o muhammad! turn al-safa into gold, expand for us the land of mecca and make rivers gush out throughout it — if you do this, we will believe in you!’ allah, exalted is he, revealed this verse as a response to them”. the commentators of the qur’an also said: “the jews and other idolaters put their requests to the messenger of allah, allah bless him and give him peace; some said: ‘bring us an entire book from heaven as did moses bring the torah’; some — ’abd allah ibn umayyah al-makhzumi — said: ‘bring us a book from heaven which reads: this is from the lord of the worlds to ibn abi umayyah: know that i have sent muhammad to mankind’; others said: ‘we shall not believe in you until you bring the angels as guarantors’. hence, allah, exalted is he, revealed this verse”.