But what they concealed before has [now] appeared to them. And even if they were returned, they would return to that which they were forbidden; and indeed, they are liars.
Tafseer
قال تعالى: { بل } للإضراب عن إرادة الإيمان المفهوم من التمني { بدا } ظهر { لهم ما كانوا يخفون من قبل } يكتمون بقولهم (والله ربنا ما كنا مشركين) شهادة جوارحهم فتمنوا ذلك { ولو ردوا } إلى الدنيا فرضا { لعادوا لما نُهوا عنه } من الشرك { وإنهم لكاذبون } في وعدهم بالإيمان .
He says: but the strike of the will of faith in the concept of wishful thinking seemed back to them what they were hiding by conceal saying (and God our Lord what we were heathens) certificate wholeheartedly, then long it even responded to the minimum obligatory to have returned to the forbidden it Shirk of and they are liars in the promise of faith.