[2459] The fact of the matter is laid bare before the Messenger (ﷺ); eager as he was, they would never Believe. Guidance is in God’s Hand: “Never will most people be eager as you are ˹Muhammad˺ to Believe!” (12: 103).
[2460] They met the end that God decreed; they were Denying through and through (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Shawkānī).