Al-Hadid Verse 8 | 57:8

وَمَا لَكُمْ لَا تُؤْمِنُوْنَ بِاللّٰهِ ۚوَالرَّسُوْلُ يَدْعُوْكُمْ لِتُؤْمِنُوْا بِرَبِّكُمْ وَقَدْ اَخَذَ مِيْثَاقَكُمْ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُّؤْمِنِيْنَ ( الحديد: ٨ )

wamā

وَمَا

And what

lakum

لَكُمْ

(is) for you

lā

لَا

(that) not

tu'minūna

تُؤْمِنُونَ

you believe

bil-lahi

بِٱللَّهِۙ

in Allah

wal-rasūlu

وَٱلرَّسُولُ

while the Messenger

yadʿūkum

يَدْعُوكُمْ

calls you

litu'minū

لِتُؤْمِنُوا۟

that you believe

birabbikum

بِرَبِّكُمْ

in your Lord

waqad

وَقَدْ

and indeed

akhadha

أَخَذَ

He has taken

mīthāqakum

مِيثَٰقَكُمْ

your covenant

إِن

kuntum

كُنتُم

you are

mu'minīna

مُّؤْمِنِينَ

believers

Wa maa lakum laa tu'minoona billaahi war Rasoolu yad'ookum lituu'minoo bi Rabbikum wa qad akhaza meesaaqakum in kuntum mu'mineen (al-Ḥadīd 57:8)

Sahih International:

And why do you not believe in Allah while the Messenger invites you to believe in your Lord and He has taken your covenant, if you should [truly] be believers? (Al-Hadid [57] : 8)

1 Mufti Taqi Usmani

What is wrong with you that you do not believe in Allah, while the Messenger invites you to believe in your Lord, and He has taken your covenant, if you are to believe?

2 Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

3 Ruwwad Translation Center

4 A. J. Arberry

5 Abdul Haleem

6 Abdul Majid Daryabadi

7 Abdullah Yusuf Ali

8 Abul Ala Maududi

9 Ahmed Ali

10 Ahmed Raza Khan

11 Ali Quli Qarai

12 Ali Ünal

13 Amatul Rahman Omar

14 English Literal

15 Faridul Haque

16 Hamid S. Aziz

17 Hilali & Khan

18 Maulana Mohammad Ali

19 Mohammad Habib Shakir

20 Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

21 Muhammad Sarwar

22 Qaribullah & Darwish

23 Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

24 Wahiduddin Khan

25 Talal Itani

26 Tafsir jalalayn

And why should you not believe -- an address to the disbelievers -- in other words, there is nothing to prevent you from believing, in God when the Messenger is calling you to believe in your Lord, and a pledge has been taken from you (reading [it as] ukhidha mthqukum; otherwise akhadha mthqakum, `He has taken a pledge from you') concerning it -- that is to say, God took this [pledge from you] in the world of atoms when He made them bear witness against themselves; `Am I not your Lord?' They said, `Yea, indeed' [Q. 7;172] -- if you are believers?, that is to say, if your intention is to believe in Him, then apply yourselves to this [duty of faith].

27 Tafseer Ibn Kathir

وَمَا لَكُمْ لَا تُوْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ

وَالرَّسُولُ يَدْعُوكُمْ لِتُوْمِنُوا بِرَبِّكُمْ

And what is the matter with you that you believe not in Allah! While the Messenger invites you to believe in your Lord;

meaning,

what prevents you from believing, while the Messenger is among you calling you to faith and bringing forward clear proofs and evidences that affirm the truth of what he brought you?

And we have reported the Hadith through different routes in the beginning of the explanation on the chapter on Faith in Sahih Al-Bukhari, wherein one day the Messenger of Allah said to his Companions,

أَيُّ الْمُوْمِنِينَ أَعْجَبُ إِلَيْكُمْ إِيمَانًا

Who do you consider among the believers as having the most amazing faith?

They said, "The angels."

He said,

وَمَا لَهُمْ لَا يُوْمِنُونَ وَهُمْ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ

And what prevents them from believing when they are with their Lord?

They said, "Then the Prophets."

He said,

وَمَالَهُمْ لَا يُوْمِنُونَ وَالْوَحْيُ يَنْزِلُ عَلَيْهِمْ

What prevents them from believing when the revelation comes down to them?

They said, "Then us."

He said,

وَمَالَكُمْ لَا تُوْمِنُونَ وَأَنَا بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِكُمْ وَلكِنْ أَعْجَبُ الْمُوْمِنِينَ إِيمَانًا قَوْمٌ يَجِييُونَ بَعْدَكُمْ يَجِدُونَ صُحُفًا يُوْمِنُونَ بِمَا فِيهَا

What prevents you from believing, when I am amongst you Actually, the believers who have the most amazing faith, are some people who will come after you; they will find pages that they will believe in.

We mentioned a part of this Hadith when explaining Allah's statement in Surah Al-Baqarah,
الَّذِينَ يُوْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ
(who believe in the Ghayb (unseen), (2;3)

Allah's statement,

وَقَدْ أَخَذَ مِيثَاقَكُمْ

and He has indeed taken your covenant,

is similar to another of His statements,

وَاذْكُرُواْ نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَمِيثَـقَهُ الَّذِى وَاثَقَكُم بِهِ إِذْ قُلْتُمْ سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا

And remember Allah's favor to you and His covenant with which He bound you when you said;"We hear and we obey." (5;7),

which refers to giving the pledge of allegiance to the Prophet.

Ibn Jarir said that the covenant mentioned here, is that taken from mankind, when they were still in Adam's loin.

This is also the opinion of Mujahid, and Allah knows best.

إِن كُنتُم مُّوْمِنِينَ

if you are real believers.

Allah said