Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Hadid, Ayah 8
وَمَا لَكُمْ لَا تُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِ ۙ وَٱلرَّسُولُ يَدْعُوكُمْ لِتُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِرَبِّكُمْ وَقَدْ أَخَذَ مِيثَٰقَكُمْ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ
And why do you not believe in Allah while the Messenger invites you to believe in your Lord and He has taken your covenant, if you should [truly] be believers?
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And why should you not believe — an address to the disbelievers — in other words there is nothing to prevent you from believing in God when the Messenger is calling you to believe in your Lord and a pledge has been taken from you reading it as ukhidha mīthāqukum; otherwise akhadha mīthāqakum ‘He has taken a pledge from you’ concerning it — that is to say God took this pledge from you in the world of atoms when He made them bear witness against themselves ‘Am I not your Lord?’ They said ‘Yea indeed’ Q. 7172 — if you are believers? that is to say if your intention is to believe in Him then apply yourselves to this duty of faith.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(What aileth you) O people of Mecca (that ye believe not in Allah) that you deny Allah's divine Oneness, (when the messenger) Muhammad (pbuh) (calls you to believe in your Lord) to profess your Lord's divine Oneness, (and He hath already made a covenant with you) and He has already taken your declaration of Allah's divine Oneness, (if ye are believers) on the Day of Covenant?