Are you, the disbelievers, better than those people? Or do you have any freedom in the Scripture?
Allah-the Dictator-had seized Pharaoh who was ruling the country proudly declaring that ‘I am the Lord of the whole worlds’ and his followers, Aad people who were challenging that who is there mightier than us’, and Thamood people who were making the houses by drilling the rocks. If Allah has done so upon these earlier people, through this verse it is asked to the Arabs-the addressees of Messenger Muhammed-that are you-the Kuffar-a better and significant people than those people. Today through this verse Allah is asking the Arabic Qur’an Reading Fujjar-the Kuffar as told in verses 83: 34 and 36-that have you any proof to quote from the Book saying that you will get salvation from the punishment of the hellfire by learning to say Arabic word Allah, by naming the names of Messengers and prophets, or by undergoing for genital circumcision, etc. It is told in verses 4: 123-124 that not your desires nor the desires of the people of the Book, whoever commits an evil, he will be rewarded with it, and he will not find any protector or any helper besides Lord Allah; and whoever from male or female is doing honorable deeds provided that he is a believer, then such will be entered in the Paradise and he will not be shown unjust a speck. See explanation 2: 62; 35: 25-26; and 53: 33-42.