OCCASION OF REVELATION (VERSE NO. 90)

      Some commentators understand this to refer to the people of the Book who believed in Mohammad before his advent, but denied him in his mission.

USELESS REPENTANCE

      The foregoing verse pointed to those who repent sincerely, their repentance being accepted, but here the argument runs over those whose repentance have failed:

      ``Those who renounce their belief and increase their blasphemy, and insist upon doing wrong, their repentance which arises from their helplessness, or the fear of death, will not be accepted. Such repentance are mere pretence, and are of no use.''