Commentary
And when it was from what drew these stories and these admonitions their denial of what they are promised of the punishment resulting from the denial of the resurrection mentioned in His saying, "And if you say, 'Indeed, you will be resurrected after death'" [Hud: 7] - the verses. He, exalted is He, pointed to the realization of the matter of the Hereafter and that it is something that should be given attention, responding to the excerpt at the beginning, and informing that there is no difference between it and what has been realized in the occurrence of punishment of these nations in His ability to do so by His saying, confirming for the sake of their denial that there should be in anything of what has passed a sign for it in some way: "Indeed, in that" meaning the great news and the stories and the admonition mentioned "is a sign" meaning: a great sign and a clear indication. And when the existence of something is nonexistence in relation to that which has no benefit for it, He said: "For whoever fears the punishment" of the Day of the Hereafter, because it is a specific benefit for him. And it was a sign for him because when he looks at His destruction of the wrongdoers with a general destruction because of their wrongdoing and His saving of the believers, he knows that He is capable of what He wills, and that there must be a recompense for everyone according to what they have done. So if he sees that many of the wrongdoers die without vengeance, he knows that there must be a day in which He will recompense them, and it is the day that His messengers informed about. And He increased in the indication of its terror by repeating the demonstrative pronoun in His saying: "That" meaning the great day in which there will be the punishment of the Hereafter "is a day" and He indicated - to the ease of resurrection and its simplicity for Him and that it is [an established matter] that must happen - by the passive form of His saying: "Gathered for it" meaning: to manifest justice in it (p-376) and virtue "the people" meaning: everyone who has the capacity for movement and disturbance, and there is no day other than it that will have this description at all.
And when there has not preceded it a day in which all of creation from the jinn, humans, angels, and all living creatures are gathered, and that was a justification for the testimony of others to be considered nonexistence, He, exalted is He, said: "And that" meaning the great day "is a witnessed day" meaning: it is itself for them and for others from all of creation, so its nunation is for glorification indicating the status, or it may mean that it is worthy of being witnessed, and the motives for its presence are abundant due to what is in it of the wonders of affairs and the great terrors and the difficult situations, so there will be no occupation except for observing what is in it and encompassing its events out of fear of loss and hope for salvation; and the verse: the great sign for what is in it of the statement about the great matter; and fear: the disturbance of the soul by the expectation of evil, and its opposite is security, which is the tranquility of the soul by the expectation of good; and punishment: the continuation of pain.
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