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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Al-mizan an Exegesis of the Qur'an (volume Two) Volume 2: Surah Baqarah, Verses 100-101 What! Whenever they make a covenant, a party of them cast it aside? Nay, most of them do not believe (100) And when there came to them an Apostle from Allah verifying that which they have, a party of those who were given the Book threw the Book of Allah behind their backs as if they knew nothing (101).

******** **COMMENTARY ** Qur’an: cast it aside: “an-Nabdh” (= to throw away, to renounce). Qur’an: And when there came to them an Apostle from Allah…”: The word, “an Apostle, definitely means the Apostle of Allah, Muhammad (s.a.w.a.); it does not refer to any other apostle who might have come “verifying that which they have”, because “when there came” does not mean “whenever there came”; in other words, it does not signify a recurring incidence, but an event that happened once only.

The verse points to the Jews’ adverse attitude towards the truth: they were so steeped in falsehood that they concealed the foretelling of the Torah about the Prophet of Islam, and refused to believe in the Qur’an which verified that which they had in their hands.

******** Volume 2: Surah Baqarah, Verses 102-103 And they followed what the satans chanted (of sorcery) against the kingdom of Sulayman; and Sulayman was not an unbeliever, but, the satans disbelieved; they taught men sorcery and what was sent down to the two angels at Babylon, Harut and Marut Yet these two taught no one until they. had said: "Surely we are only a trial, therefore do not be a disbeliever.

" Even then men learned from these two that by which they might cause a separation between a man and his wife; and they cannot hurt with it any one except with Allah's permission; and they learned what harmed them and did not profit them; and certainly they knew that he who bought it should have no share (of good) in the hereafter, and vile was the price for which they sold their souls; had they but known (this) ( 102).

And if they had believed and guarded themselves (against evil), reward from Allah would certainly have been better; had they but known (this) ( 103). ******** **COMMENTARY ** QUR'AN: And they followed what the satans chanted. The exegetes have disputed among themselves about each and every aspect of this verse; so much so that the resulting picture of the differences is almost unparalleled in the whole Qur'an.