Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-A'raaf, Ayah 89
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We would be forging a lie against God if we were to return to your creed after God has delivered us from it. It is not right for us to return to it unless God our Lord wills that it be so and forsakes us. Our Lord embraces all things through His knowledge that is to say His knowledge embraces all things including my situation and yours. In God we have put our trust. Our Lord decide adjudicate between us and our people for You are the best of deciders’ adjudicators.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(We should have invented a lie) falsehood (against Allah if we returned to your religion after Allah hath rescued us from it) from your religion. (It is not for us) it is not permissible for us (to return to it) to embrace your religion: associating others with Allah (unless Allah should (so) will) unless Allah takes away the knowledge from our hearts. (Our Lord comprehendeth all things in knowledge) our Lord knows everything. (In Allah do we put our trust. Our Lord!) O our Lord! (Decide with truth) with justice (between us and our folk, for Thou art the best of those who make decision) the best of judges.