Surah 3:22
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إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يَكۡفُرُونَ بِـَٔايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ وَيَقۡتُلُونَ ٱلنَّبِيِّـۧنَ بِغَيۡرِ حَقّٖ وَيَقۡتُلُونَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَأۡمُرُونَ بِٱلۡقِسۡطِ مِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ فَبَشِّرۡهُم بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ
Surely those who disbelieve in the signs of God, and kill the prophets without any right, and kill those of the people who command justice – give them news of a painful punishment.
أُوْلَـٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ حَبِطَتۡ أَعۡمَٰلُهُمۡ فِي ٱلدُّنۡيَا وَٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ وَمَا لَهُم مِّن نَّـٰصِرِينَ
Those are the ones whose deeds come to nothing in this world and the Hereafter. They will have no helpers.
This Ayah chastises the People of the Book for the transgression and prohibitions they committed by their denials in the past and more recent times, of Allah’s Aydt and the Messengers. They did this due to their defiance and rejection of the Messengers, denial of the truth and refusal to follow it. They also killed many Prophets when they conveyed to them what Allah legislated for them, without cause or criminal behavior committed by these Prophets, for they only called them to the truth,
iAini kill those men who order just dealings }
thus, demonstrating the worst type of arrogance. Indeed, the Prophet said,
tKibr (arrogance) is refusing the truth and degrading people » (11
This is why when they rejected the truth and acted arrogantly towards the creation, Allah punished them with humiliation and disgrace in this life, and humiliating torment in the Hereafter. Allah said,
announce to them a painful torment}
meaning, painful and humiliating,
iThey are those whose works will be lost in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will have no helpers.}.