آلِ عِمْرَان : ٧٢

  • وَقَالَت And said
  • طَّآئِفَةٞ a group
  • مِّنۡ of
  • أَهۡلِ (the) People
  • ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ (of) the Book
  • ءَامِنُواْ Believe
  • بِٱلَّذِيٓ in what
  • أُنزِلَ was revealed
  • عَلَى on
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • ءَامَنُواْ believe[d]
  • وَجۡهَ (at the) beginning
  • ٱلنَّهَارِ (of) the day
  • وَٱكۡفُرُوٓاْ and reject
  • ءَاخِرَهُۥ at its end
  • لَعَلَّهُمۡ perhaps they may
  • يَرۡجِعُونَ return
And a faction of the People of the Scripture say [to each other], "Believe in that which was revealed to the believers at the beginning of the day and reject it at its end that perhaps they will return [i.e., abandon their religion],
A party of the People of the Scripture, the Jews, say, to some among them, 'Believe in what has been revealed to those who believe, that is, Al-Qur'an, at the beginning of the day, and disbelieve, in it, at the end of it, so that they, the believers, might then turn back, from his [Muhammad's] religion, and that they [the believers] will then say: these [Jews] are knowledgeable and they could only have turned away from it after accepting it because they know it to be false.