إِنْ أَحْسَنتُمْ أَحْسَنتُمْ لِأَنفُسِكُمْ وَإِنْ أَسَأْتُمْ فَلَهَا فَإِذَا جَاءَ وَعْدُ الْآخِرَةِ لِيَسُوءُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَلِيَدْخُلُوا الْمَسْجِدَ كَمَا دَخَلُوهُ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَلِيُتَبِّرُوا مَا عَلَوْا تَتْبِيرًا
[saying,] ‘If you do good, you will do good to your [own] souls, and if you do evil, it will be [evil] for them.’ So when the occasion for the other [prophecy] comes, they will make your faces wretched, and enter the Temple just as they entered it the first time, and destroy utterly whatever they come upon.
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 17:7
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 17:7] The Jews again showed a stiff-necked resistance to Allah's message in the time of prophet Isa; and the inevitable doom followed in the complete and final destruction of the temple under Titus in 70 A.D, when they rejected the message of Isa. See Matthew 23: 37 to 39 and 24 I and 2. The opening sentence of this verse lays down the cardinal principle of the religion of Islam-man has full freedom to do what he chooses to do, shouldering full responsibility of his actions. If he does good, he does it for himself; and if he does evil, he does it for himself. There is no compulsion or determinism-it is strictly followed by the followers of the school of Ahl ul Bayt. Also see al Baqarah: 48, 123, 254; An-am: 165; Bani Israil: 15; Ankabut: 12 and 13; Fatir: 18; Zumar: 7 ; Ha Mim: 46 ; Jathiya: 15 ; and Najm: 38.