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Allahs statement: ‘they say: There is no blame on us to betray and take the properties of the illiterates (Arabs)’
means, what made them reject the truth (or what they owed) is that they said, "There is no harm in our religion if we eat up the property of the unlettered ones, the Arabs, for Allah has allowed it for us." Allah replied:
‘But they tell a lie against Alläh while they know it’

Many scholars stated that Alläh sent every Prophet with a miracle suitable to his time. For instance, in the time of Musa, magic was the trade of the time, and magicians held a high position. So Alläh sent Müsa with a miracle that captured the eyes and bewildered every magician. When the magicians realized that Musa's miracle came from the Almighty, Most Great, they embraced Islam and became pious believers.

Maintaining the Masjids not only means beautifying them, but it involves remembering Alläh, establishing His Shariah in the Masjids and purifying them from the filth of Shirk.

The arrogant people will be gathered on the Day o Resurrection in the size of ants, but in the shape of men. Everything shall be above them, because of the humiliation placed on them, until they enter a prison in Jahannam called Bawlas' where the fire will surround them from above. They shall drink from the puss of the people of the Fire

ibn Abbas said: "O Muslims! How could you ask the People of the Book about anything, while the Book of Allah (Qur'än) that He revealed to His Prophet is the most recent Book from Him and you still read it fresh and young? Alläh told you that the People of the Book altered the Book of Alläh, changed it and wrote another book with their own hands.

it was also said that they were called yahud in reference to yahuda, the eldest son of Yaqub (AS).

The Jews are the followers of Prophet Müsa, who used to refer to the Tawrah for judgment. Yahud is a word that means, repenting, just as Musa said: “certainly we have hudna to you”, meaning we repent to you. this indicates that they were first called yahud because they repented

this Ayah (2:30) proves the obligation of appointing a Khalifah to pass judgements on matters of dispute between people, to aid the oppressed against the oppressor, to implement the Islamic penal code and to forbid evil. There are many other tasks that can only be fulfilled by appointing the Imam, and what is necessary in performing an obligation, is an obligation in itself”

Abu Ja'far Ar-Razi reported that Ar-Rabi' bin Anas commented on this Ayah (2:26):

"This is an example that Allah has given for the life of this world. The mosquito lives as long as it needs food, but when it gets fat, it dies. This is also the example of people whom Allah mentioned in the Qur'ān, when they acquire (and collect the delights of) the life of this world, Allah then takes them away."

‘From Hadiths it is learned that the banks of Al-Kawthar (the Prophet's lake in Paradise) are made of domes of hollow pearls, the sand of Paradise is made of scented musk while its stones are made from pearls and jewels’