Am lam yaAArifoo rasoolahum fahum lahu munkiroon (surah Muminun: 69)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(23:69) Or, did they not know their Messenger well that they fight shy of him (as if he were a stranger)? *66

Am lam ya`rifoo Rasoolahum fahum lahoo munkiroon

*66) That is, "Do they reject the Message because Muhammad (Allah's peace be upon him) who is inviting them to it, is a stranger among them? No, this is not so, for he was born and bred among them in a noble family: he bears a pure and high character: he has been truthful, upright, trustworthy, honest and morally chaste throughout his life: he is a noble and gentle person, peace-loving and just by nature, honest in word and decd, sympathetic and helpful to the weak and poor. And they themselves testified to all this before he claimed to be a Messenger of AIIah. Then he has been consistently preaching the same Message from the first day of his Mission. Then whatever he has preached he has first practised it himself and demonstrated its truth: there has been no contradiction between his word and deed: he and his followers have faithfully and honestly put into practice the Message of the Qur'an and shown excellent results." For further details, see E.N. 21 of AI-An'am (Vl), E.N. 21 of Yunus (X) and E.N. 105 of Bani Isra'il (XVII).