A party of the people of scripture say “Believe in what has been revealed to those who believe at the beginning of the day and disbelieve at the end of it so that they might then turn back. [By this verse] God سبحانه showed that their hypocrisy was exposed to the Muslims and that it had not benefited them either in this world because God informed His Prophet عليه السلام and the believers of it or in the hereafter because [their hypocrisy] deprived them of sincere devotion [toward God].
