[126] The Qur’an.
[127] The Jews used to seek victory over the Arabs in expectance of the coming Prophet whom they knew of from the Torah. They knew that his coming was imminent, so, at times of war and fighting, they would pray: “O God! Send this Prophet about whom we find in the Torah so that our enemies may suffer and be killed at his hands”. When God sent Muhammad (ﷺ) and they realized that he was not one of them, they Denied him out of envy of the Arabs of whom the Prophet was one. Yet, they knew all too well that he was the one mentioned in the Torah. (al-Ṭabarī)
[128] They deserved God’s double Wrath firstly for their earlier rebelliousness and then for Denying Muhammad (ﷺ). (al-Ṭabarī, Ibn ʿAṭiyyah)
[129] The Qur’an.
[130] What was revealed after the Torah.
[131] This rhetorical question is meant to emphasize how flagrantly in the wrong they were, claiming that they were fulfilling the dictates of the Torah, while unjustly killing their Prophets (cf. NT: Matthew 23:37) when, in fact, these Prophets only came to them with a confirmation of the Torah, which itself forbids killing God’s Messengers. (al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī)
[132] Moses’ miracles. (al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr)
[133] Cf. 2: 51.
[134] While he was away.