Commentary
And when He, glorified and exalted is He, informed about what was done to the unjust towns, and warned all who did their deeds with His might in this world and the Hereafter, and commanded to follow His command and to turn away from their differences which He judged and intended, He turned to His saying: ﴿We relate it to you﴾ [Hud: 100] His saying: ﴿And all We relate﴾ means: and We relate ﴿to you﴾ every news; that is: a very great report ﴿of the news of the messengers﴾ along with their nations: their righteous and their wicked. Thus, it was general to emphasize the matter. And since what led to these stories was what preceded from His saying: ﴿Perhaps you will leave some of what is revealed to you and your chest will be straitened by it﴾ [Hud: 12] - the verse. And the one who is settled in the chest is the heart, which is the essence of a person, indeed of an animal, and it is the hottest part of it. Therefore, He expressed it with what is derived from the heart, which means (p-404) burning. And it is a necessity of heat to be disturbed and to fluctuate, from which the heart is derived, so the chest becomes straitened by it. He replaced His saying of
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