Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Muhammad, Ayah 22
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May it not be the case with you read ‘asītum or ‘asaytum; there is a shift here from the third person to the second person address that if you were to turn away if you were to shun faith you would then cause corruption in the land and sever your kinship ties? in other words that you would then return to the ways of pagandom such as belligerence and fighting.
Related Hadiths
Verily Allah created the universe and when He had finished that, ties of relationship came forward and said This is the place for him who seeks refuge from severing (of blood-relationship). He said: Y...
The severer of the tie of kinship would not get into Paradise.
The severer would not enter Paradise. Ibn Umar said that Sufyan (explained it as): One who severs the tie of kinship would not enter Paradise.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Would ye then, if ye were given the command) would you then, O group of hypocrites, wish that if you were given the command of this community after the Prophet (pbuh) (work corruption in the land) through killing, transgressions and corruption (and sever your ties of kinship) by making disbelief manifest?