Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Munaafiqoon, Ayah 6
سَوَآءٌ عَلَيْهِمْ أَسْتَغْفَرْتَ لَهُمْ أَمْ لَمْ تَسْتَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ لَن يَغْفِرَ ٱللَّهُ لَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِى ٱلْقَوْمَ ٱلْفَٰسِقِينَ
It is all the same for them whether you ask forgiveness for them or do not ask forgiveness for them; never will Allah forgive them. Indeed, Allah does not guide the defiantly disobedient people.
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It will be the same for them whether you ask forgiveness for them a’staghfarta the interrogative hamza here has taken the place of the conjunctive hamza or do not ask forgiveness for them God will never forgive them. Indeed God does not guide the immoral folk.
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“None of you should say: ‘O Allah forgive me if You wish. O Allah have mercy on me if You wish.’ Let him be firm in asking, for there is none that can compel Him to do things.”
Narrated by Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said:
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Whether thou ask forgiveness for them) i.e. for the hypocrites, (or ask not forgiveness for them, Allah will not forgive them) as long as they persist on that. (Lo! Allah guideth not) forgives not (the evil-living folk) the hypocrites, i.e. those people whom Allah knew in His pre-eternal knowledge that they will die as hypocrites.