[45] i.e., the hypocrites.
[46] Tāghūt: See 2:256. [47] This verse was revealed about a group of the Aslam tribe, who professed Islam, then went to Abu Zurārah al-Aslamī, the soothsayer, to settle a dispute.
[48] That is, do not punish them for their insincerity, so long as they did not make manifest their disbelief.