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Aya 72
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وَقالَت طائِفَةٌ مِن أَهلِ الكِتابِ آمِنوا بِالَّذي أُنزِلَ عَلَى الَّذينَ آمَنوا وَجهَ النَّهارِ وَاكفُروا آخِرَهُ لَعَلَّهُم يَرجِعونَ

Yusuf Ali

A section of the People of the Book say: “Believe in the morning1 what is revealed to the believers, but reject it at the end of the day; perchance they may (themselves) Turn back;
  • Wajh here has the sense of “beginning”, “early part”. The cynics who plotted against Islam actually asked their accomplices to join the believers and then repudiate them.