Surah 29:67
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أَوَلَمۡ يَرَوۡاْ أَنَّا جَعَلۡنَا حَرَمًا ءَامِنٗا وَيُتَخَطَّفُ ٱلنَّاسُ مِنۡ حَوۡلِهِمۡۚ أَفَبِٱلۡبَٰطِلِ يُؤۡمِنُونَ وَبِنِعۡمَةِ ٱللَّهِ يَكۡفُرُونَ
Do they not see that We established a secure sanctuary (for them), while all around them the people are plundered? Do they believe in falsehood, but disbelieve in the blessing of God?
وَمَنۡ أَظۡلَمُ مِمَّنِ ٱفۡتَرَىٰ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا أَوۡ كَذَّبَ بِٱلۡحَقِّ لَمَّا جَآءَهُۥٓۚ أَلَيۡسَ فِي جَهَنَّمَ مَثۡوٗى لِّلۡكَٰفِرِينَ
Who is more evil than the one who forges a lie against God, or calls the truth a lie when it comes to him? Is there not in Gehenna a dwelling place for the disbelievers?
وَٱلَّذِينَ جَٰهَدُواْ فِينَا لَنَهۡدِيَنَّهُمۡ سُبُلَنَاۚ وَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَمَعَ ٱلۡمُحۡسِنِينَ
But those who struggle for Us, We shall indeed guide them in Our ways. Surely God is indeed with the doers of good.
Here Allah reminds Quraysh how He blessed them by granting them access to His sanctuary which He has made (open) to (all) men, the dweller in it and the visitor from the country are equal there, and whoever enters it is safe, because he is in a place of great security, although the Arabs of the desert round about used to ambush and raid one another and kill one another. As Allah says:
means, is the thanks that they give for this immense blessing to associate others with Him and worship others besides Him, idols and rivals?
They disbelieved in the Prophet, servant and Messenger of Allah, when what they should have done was to worship Allah Alone and not associate anything with Him, and to believe in, honor and respect the Messenger, but they rejected him and fought him, and expelled him from their midst. So, Allah took His blessing away from them, and killed those of them whom He killed at Badr, then His Messenger and the believers gained the upper hand, and Allah enabled His Messenger to conquer Makkah, and He disgraced them and humiliated them (the disbelievers).
Then Allah says:
There is no one who will be more severely punished than one who tells lies about Allah and says that Allah revealed something to him at the time when Allah did not reveal anything to him, or says, ‘I shall reveal something like that which Allah revealed.’ And there is no one who will be more severely punished than one who denies the truth when it comes to him, for the former is a fabricator and the latter is a disbeliever. Allah says:
Then Allah says:
meaning the Messenger and his Companions and those who follow him, until the Day of Resurrection,
means, ‘We will help them to follow Our path in this world and the Hereafter.’
Ibn Abi Hatim narrated that ‘Abbas Al-Hamdani Abu Ahmad - one of the people of ‘Akka (Palestine) - said, concerning the Ayah:
“Those who act upon what they know, Allah will guide them to that which they do not know.” Ahmad bin Abu Al-Hawari said, “I told this to Abu Sulayman Ad-Darani, and he liked it and said: ‘No one who is inspired to do something good should do it until he hears a report concerning that; if he hears a report then he should go ahead and do it, and praise Allah because it was in accordance with what he himself felt.’”
{And verily, Allah is with the doers of good.} Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that Ash-Sha'bi said; “Isa bin Maryam, peace be upon him, said: ‘Righteousness means doing good to those who ill-treat you, it does not mean doing good to those who do good to you.’” And Allah knows best.
This is the end of the Tafsir of Surat Al-'Ankabut. All praise and thanks are due to Allah.
— from Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Vol. 7, Page 514)