وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُمْ لَيَقُولُنَّ إِنَّمَا كُنَّا نَخُوضُ وَنَلْعَبُ قُلْ أَبِاللَّهِ وَآيَاتِهِ وَرَسُولِهِ كُنتُمْ تَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
If you question them [regarding their conduct], they will surely say, ‘We were just gossiping and amusing ourselves.’ Say, ‘Were you deriding Allah, His signs, and His apostles?
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 9:65
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 9:65] Hypocrisy is infidelity. Refer to the commentary of al Baqarah: 8 to 20. The true believers have been described in verses 71 and 72. Tirmidhi, Nisa-i and other traditionists relate that the Holy Prophet said: "O Ali, none will love you save a believer and none will bear ill-will against you save a hypocrite." It is also reported by them that in the lifetime of the Holy Prophet people used to identify the true believers by their love for Ali and the hypocrites by the ill-will they showed against Ali. According to Fat-hul Bari (Sharha Sahih Bukhari), Musnad ibn Hambal, Tarikh al Tabari and others A-isha hated Ali so much that she did not like to mention his name whenever she wanted to make a reference to him, nor she liked any one mentioning his name. At last she organised a revolt against him, fought a battle at Jaml but lost it miserably.