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And keep up prayer and pay the zakdt and bow down with those who bow down (43) . What! do you enjoin men to be good and forget your own selves while you read the Book? Have you then no sense? (44) General Comment Now begins the rebuking of the Jews that continues for more than a hundred verses.

Allah reminds them of the bounties bestowed, of the honours given; contrasting it with their ingrati­tude and disobedience; showing how at every juncture they paid the favours of Allah with disregard of their covenant, open rebel­lion against divine commands and even with polytheism.

The series reminds them of twelve events of their history - like res­cuing them from Pharaoh and his people by parting the river, drowning of Pharaoh and his army, the appointed rendezvous at the mount Sina'i, the Jews' starting calf-worship in Mūsa's absence, and Mūsa's order to them to kill themselves, their de­mand from Mūsa to show their Lord to them face to face, their death by lightning and then their arising from dead etc.