You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah ; and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, "We are Christians." That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant.
Tafseer
{ لتجدنَّ } يا محمد { أشدَّ الناس عداوة للذين آمنوا اليهود والذين أشركوا } من أهل مكة لتضاعف كفرهم وجهلهم وانهماكهم في اتباع الهوى { ولتجدن أقربهم مودة للذين آمنوا الذين قالوا إنَّا نصارى ذلك } أي قرب مودتهم للمؤمنين { بأن } بسبب أن { منهم قسيسين } علماء { ورهبانا } عبادا { وأنهم لا يستكبرون } عن اتباع الحق كما يستكبر اليهود وأهل مكة نزلت في وفد النجاشي القادمين عليه من الحبشة قرأ سورة يس فبكوا وأسلموا وقالوا ما أشبه هذا بما كان ينزل على عيسى .
To find their O Muhammad most hostile to those who believe the Jews and who have been involved of the people of Mecca to redouble their disbelief and ignorance and Anhmakem in capriciousness and find their closest affection for those who believe, who said that we Christians so any near affection to the believers that because of them priests Scholars and monks devotees and they are not proud to follow the right as too proud Jews and people of Mecca delegation landed in the Negus of Abyssinia by the next read Surah Yasin Fbkoa and converted to Islam, and said this is more like what was to come down to Issa.
