Repentance
[9:124]
YET WHENEVER a sūrah [of this divine writ] is bestowed from on high, some of the deniers of the truth are prone to ask, "Which of you has this [message] strengthened in his faith?"
Now as for those who have attained to faith, it does strengthen them in their faith, and they rejoice in the glad tiding [which God has given them].

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* v.124 : Lit., “there are among them such as say.” The “saying” that follows is perhaps an oblique, sarcastic reference to 8:2, which speaks of the believers “whose faith is strengthened whenever His messages are conveyed unto them.”
* A reference to the promise of paradise expressed in verse 111 above.