Tafseer of The Family of Imraan · Aal-i-Imraan · 3:87
Those - their recompense will be that upon them is the curse of Allah and the angels and the people, all together,
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"They are the ones whose recompense": that is to say: these who became unbelievers after their belief, and after they had borne witness that the Messenger is truthful — "their recompense", that is to say: their reward for the work they performed, "is that upon them rests the curse of Allah", that is to say: that there befalls them, on the part of Allah, removal and banishment, "and that of the angels and of mankind", that is to say: the calling down of that which will harm them by way of punishment, "all together", that is to say: of all of them, not merely of a part of those whom He — exalted is His praise — has mentioned among the angels and mankind, but of all of them. And He — exalted is His praise — has only made this the reward for their work, because their work was unbelief (kufr) toward Allah.
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And we have already expounded elsewhere the description of "the curse of mankind" upon the unbeliever (kāfir), in a manner that relieves us from repeating it.
