He even made Muslim girls and women the subject and theme of his sexual poetries...
He even made Muslim girls and women the subject and theme of his sexual poetries, and sometimes so much shamelessly that the Messenger of God condemned him to death.
So this verse was sent down to encourage the Muslims not to be tired of resistance and patience, and to persevere in spite of all that counter influences and oppositions: ``You shall certainly be tested in your possession, and also in your personal self, and shall hear from the people of the Book and from the polytheists much hurt and abuses; but do not lose your patience and persistence.
The concurrence of patience and piety here, may refer to some people that in spite of their patience, they open their mouth to complain and show thanklessness, but the true believers always endure painful events patiently and with consent.
187 This refers to another ugly and evil conducts of the people of the BIBLE who were contemporary to OUR prophet, and that was their concealing the facts, and hiding the truth, while they had a covenant with God not to do so, and make message and revelation of Allah known to people. They not only cast the covenant of God behind their ears and entirely ignored it, but on the contrary they twisted and disturbed the facts according to their own fancies and caprices.
They tampered with the truth that had come to them, and took what they found it to their personal profit and ignored the rest, and easily sold it for a small price and a miserable profit.
In the first stage the verse refers to the Jewish Rabbis and learned, but in a general sense of meaning it is a notice and a warning common to all the learned, scholars, men of knowledge and in particular the priesthood of all Divine religions; that it is a duty incumbent on them to make known to people the facts and the truth which is sent down through the scriptures to them.
In other word, they ought to know that the message of God has to reach to any man or any nation as a matter of sacred trust.