Surah Yunus Tafseer

وَمَا ظَنُّ الَّذِينَ يَفْتَرُونَ عَلَى اللّهِ الْكَذِبَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

And what think those who invent a lie against Allah, on the Day of Resurrection!

What do they think will happen to them when they return to Us on the Day of Resurrection!

إِنَّ اللّهَ لَذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى النَّاسِ

Truly, Allah is full of bounty to mankind,

Ibn Jarir said that Allah's statement:

indicated that the bounty is in postponing their punishment in this world.

I (Ibn Kathir) say, the meaning could be that the Grace for people is in the good benefits that He made permissible for them in this world or in their religion. He also has not prohibited them except what is harmful to them in their world and the Hereafter.

وَلَـكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَشْكُرُونَ

but most of them are ungrateful.

So they prohibited what Allah has bestowed upon them and made it hard and narrow upon themselves. They made some things lawful and others unlawful. The idolators committed these actions when they set laws for themselves. And so did the People of the Book when they invented innovations in their religion