The Holy Quran 24:49 — Surah An-Nur

Arabic text

وَإِن يَكُن لَّهُمُ ٱلْحَقُّ يَأْتُوٓا۟ إِلَيْهِ مُذْعِنِينَ

Translation

If any of their rights are owing to them (if they stand to gain anything from his judgement), they would come to him willingly (eager to get what they want. However, when they fear that judgement may be passed against them, they are reluctant to refer the matter to Rasulullaah ﷺ).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The hypocrites' following of their desires: that is, if they fell into a dispute with someone and understood that they were in the wrong, and at that point the other party said, “Let us go to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and have this matter settled”, these hypocrites would not agree, because they knew that the Prophet ﷺ would certainly judge according to the…

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