The pronoun refers to those whom God Almighty said, “For each of you, We have made a law and a method.” What is meant here by the pronoun “from among you” is none other than the prophets, peace be upon him, not the nations, because if it were for the nations, no messenger would have been sent to a nation in which a messenger had been sent unless it was for life, neither more nor less, etc. The matter also occurred if we made the pronoun in his saying “from you to all the nations and messengers” it would cost us an error in the interpretation that we do not need, so the pronoun being a metaphor for the messengers is closer to understanding and more conducive to knowledge, and the generality of the message and its specificity are included in that, and he, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said, “Whoever changes his religion, kill him.”

So the people disagreed about whether the Jew became Christian and the Christian whether he converted to Judaism - whether he should