Tafseer of The Ranks · As-Saff · 61:5
And [mention, O Muhammad], when Moses said to his people, "O my people, why do you harm me while you certainly know that I am the messenger of Allah to you?" And when they deviated, Allah caused their hearts to deviate. And Allah does not guide the defiantly disobedient people.
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Allah, exalted is His mention, says to His Prophet Muḥammad, may Allah's blessing and peace be upon him: and remember, O Muḥammad, إِذْ قَالَ مُوسَى ("when Mūsā said") — the son of ʿImrān — لِقَوْمِهِ يَا قَوْمِ لِمَ تُؤْذُونَنِي وَقَدْ تَعْلَمُونَ ("to his people: O my people, why do you harm me, while you truly know") — in truth — أَنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ إِلَيْكُمْ ("that I am the Messenger of Allah to you").
And His saying: فَلَمَّا زَاغُوا أَزَاغَ اللَّهُ قُلُوبَهُمْ ("So when they deviated, Allah caused their hearts to deviate") means: when they went astray and deviated from the right path, Allah caused their hearts to deviate. He says: Allah inclined their hearts away from it.
Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm related to me, he said: Hushaym related to us, he said: al-ʿAwwām informed us, he said: Abū Ghālib related to us, on the authority of Abū Umāma, concerning His saying: فَلَمَّا زَاغُوا أَزَاغَ اللَّهُ قُلُوبَهُمْ , he said: they are the Khārijites. وَاللَّهُ لا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْفَاسِقِينَ ("and Allah does not guide the wicked people") means: and Allah does not guide to the attainment of the truth the people who have preferred unbelief (kufr) over faith (īmān).
