At-Tawba (The Repentance)

97. “The Bedouins are more hard in disbelief and hypocrisy, and more apt not to know the limits of what Allah has sent down to His Messenger, and Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.”

This verse attracts the believers’ attention to this matter that the hypocrites of the Bedouins, who lived in deserts and outside of Medina, were more intense than the hypocrites of the citizens settled inside Medina, from the point of disbelief and hypocrisy.

They were also in a lower standard from the point of understanding and perceiving the ordinances and the limits of Allah which had been revealed to the Prophet (S). That was why they opposed more to embrace Islam. The verse says:

“The Bedouins are more hard in disbelief and hypocrisy, and more apt not to know the limits of what Allah has sent down to His Messenger…”

Then, at the end of the verse, the Qur’ān adds that ‘Allah is All-Knowing’, viz., He is aware of the reality of the state of everyone; and He is ‘All-Wise’, viz., the revelations He sends down are all formed upon wisdom and cognizance. It says:

“…and Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.”