When the hypocrites come to you (O Prophet), they say, 'We bear witness that you are God's Messenger.' Yes, God knows that you are truly His Messenger, but God bears witness that the hypocrites are liars. [48:29. They say what they don't mean]

They make their oaths and proclamation of faith a cover so that they may bar others from the path of God. Their deeds are disruptive to the society. [Saa, Su = Disruptive behavior]

This, because they profess (before you) that they have believed whereas afterward they reject the truth. And so a seal has been set upon their hearts, thus they understand not. [Variation between utterance and action hampers the power of reasoning within human psyche 61:2-5]

When you see them, their looks may impress you. And if they speak, you are inclined to listen to their speech. But they are like wooden logs propped up. They think that every call is directed against them. These are the real enemies, so beware of them. God condemns them. How are they deluded! [Wooden logs = Empty of inner strength, unable to stand at their own feet]

And when it is said to them, 'Come! God's Messenger will ask for your forgiveness', they shake their heads, and you see them pause, and then draw back in false pride. [Istighfar = Protection of forgiveness = Absolving the faults through good deed = Guarding of the 'self' = Guarding against detriment]

It is the same for them whether you pray for their forgiveness, or not pray for their forgiveness. God will not forgive them. God does not guide people who keep drifting away. [Fisq = Drifting away = Slip out of sense = Move away from reason = = Drift away from discipline = Defy Divine Commands]

They are the ones who say, 'Do not spend anything on those who are with God's Messenger, so that they leave.' However, to God belongs the treasures of the heavens and earth, but the hypocrites cannot grasp this truth. [Ansar, the helping hosts, Muslim residents of Madinah, were supporting the needy Mahaajireen or immigrants from Makkah]

And they say, 'When we return to Madinah, the honored ones will expel from there the contemptible ones.' However, all honor belongs to God, to His Messenger and to the believers. But the hypocrites do not realize this. [The hypocrites, holding the believers in contempt, said that upon returning from Banu Musta'liq in 5 AH]

O You who have chosen to be graced with belief! Let not your wealth or your children distract you from the remembrance of God. Those who do this are the losers.

And spend on others of what We have provided you with, before death comes to one of you. And he then says, 'My Lord! If only You would delay this for a short while, so that I could give in charity and be among the righteous.'