Commentary
And when the evidence concluded that their hearts were in denial out of arrogance; and what relates to it; He concluded it with what He revived the hearts with, through faith; and knowledge; after their death through disbelief; and ignorance; and the greatest intended purpose of the Qur'an was to establish four fundamental principles: divine matters; prophethood; resurrection; and the affirmation of destiny and fate; and action by choice; and the most noble of these purposes is divine matters; He began with the evidence of oneness; and power; and action by choice; which necessitates the ability to resurrect; in a manner that is not prior; so that it may be known that the evidence for that is more than the leaves of trees; and clearer than the brightness of the day; so He turned to His saying: "And Allah knows what you conceal and what you declare" [An-Nahl: 19]; His saying - gathering in evidence between the upper world; and the lower world -: "And Allah"; meaning: the One to whom belongs all command; "He sends down from the heavens"; at the time He wills; "water"; with rain; and snow; and hail; "and He revives the earth"; the dry; and when His habit with that is continuous; and the context is to affirm the foundations of religion; and the revival with water still has its effect in crops; or trees; in some lands; it stripped the context of the neighbor; because the meaning therein is more eloquent; so He said: "after its death"; with dryness; and barrenness; and the disintegration of the plants fundamentally; and at the root.
And when what He established upon that in this surah from the evidences has reached a limit that the rational listener does not need with it to hear more than what has been heard; He said (the Exalted): "Indeed, in that"; the water that has an effect; by His management; this great effect; "is a sign for a people who listen"; this indication in this style that includes what has passed from the analogy; so they may know that He sends down from His command what He wills; and He revives with it the bodies of the servants; after their death; just as He revived the bodies of the plants with water; after their death; and the souls of the spirits with knowledge; after their death; and the result is that these evidences do not require with the senses a great effort of the heart; other than submission to the truth; and abandoning obstinacy and ignorance; for it is from the hearing of the ear; and what arises from it of the response; using the thing in its reality and metaphor; and perhaps He did not conclude it with "they see"; so that it would not be assumed that this is from insight; and it would be thought that it requires a great deal of thought; thus missing what was intended from the indication of the clarity.
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