The hypocrite men and hypocrite women are of one another. They enjoin what is wrong and forbid what is right and close their hands.1 They have forgotten Allāh, so He has forgotten them [accordingly]. Indeed, the hypocrites - it is they who are the defiantly disobedient.
وَٱلۡمُنَٰفِقَٰتُand the hypocrite womenwal-munāfiqātu
بَعۡضُهُمsome of thembaʿḍuhum
مِّنۢ(are) ofmin
بَعۡضٖۚothersbaʿḍin
يَأۡمُرُونَThey enjoinyamurūna
بِٱلۡمُنكَرِthe wrongbil-munkari
وَيَنۡهَوۡنَand forbidwayanhawna
عَنِwhatʿani
ٱلۡمَعۡرُوفِ(is) the rightl-maʿrūfi
وَيَقۡبِضُونَand they closewayaqbiḍūna
أَيۡدِيَهُمۡۚtheir handsaydiyahum
نَسُواْThey forgetnasū
ٱللَّهَAllahl-laha
فَنَسِيَهُمۡۚso He has forgotten themfanasiyahum
إِنَّIndeedinna
ٱلۡمُنَٰفِقِينَthe hypocritesl-munāfiqīna
هُمُthey (are)humu
ٱلۡفَٰسِقُونَthe defiantly disobedientl-fāsiqūna
Tafsir
The hypocrites, men and women, are all the same with respect to their states of hypocrisy. They are not like the believers, because they call to evil and prohibit good. They are also miserly with their wealth and do not spend it in Allah’s path. They turned away from Allah and were unmindful of Him, and they only remember Allah a little. Allah therefore left them out of His mercy. The hypocrites are the ones who deviate from following Allah and the path of truth by going towards sin and the path of misguidance.