Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Aal-i-Imraan, Ayah 177
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱشْتَرَوُا۟ ٱلْكُفْرَ بِٱلْإِيمَٰنِ لَن يَضُرُّوا۟ ٱللَّهَ شَيْـًۭٔا وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۭ
Indeed, those who purchase disbelief [in exchange] for faith - never will they harm Allah at all, and for them is a painful punishment.
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Those who purchase unbelief at the price of faith that is taking it in place of it they will not hurt God at all with their unbelief and there awaits them a painful chastisement alīm means mu’lim ‘painful’.
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Never a believer is stricken with discomfort, hardship or illness, grief or even with mental worry that his sins are not expiated for him.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Those who purchase disbelief at the price of faith) those who preferred disbelief to faith: the hypocrites (harm Allah not at all) they do not harm Allah by choosing disbelief, (but theirs will be a painful doom) whose agony will spread to their hearts.