It is also probable that it refers to the Jews who were con...

It is also probable that it refers to the Jews who were con temporary with the holy Prophet (S) and used to inflexibly oppose him with obstinacy and enmity. However, it states the fact that Man, following his desires, may reach a point that he be cursed by Allah and be deprived of His Mercy. It is in this case that his heart is enclosed in a covering so tight that the truth can rarely penetrate into it.

"When there came to them a Book from Allah, confirming what was with them -and, from before, they had been praying for victory over those who rejected the Truth -when there came to them that which they recognized (to be Truth), they disbelieved in it. So Allah's curse is on the disbelievers." 90.

"Evil is the thing they have sold themselves for, denying in what Allah has sent down, out of envy that Allah should send down of His grace on whomever He wills of His servants, and they have incurred Wrath upon Wrath, and for the disbelievers awaits a humiliating punishment." A Religious Adherent & an Infidel! The words in these verses are again about the Jews and their lives.

They formerly had an ardent love and were desirous for the advent of Islam and (S) for which they had settled in Medina waiting to see the signs of the new Prophet (S) about which they had studied in their heavenly Book, the Turah. From before, they usually gave each other the happy tidings of the advent of such a Prophet (S) and they hoped that his appearance would help them to be able to defeat their enemies.

But when they received a Book from Allah, the Qur'an, which contained the same message that the Jews had had with them, in the Turah, they rejected it.