Commentary
Then he magnified all that has passed of the prohibitions and the opposites of the commandments by His saying (glorified and exalted is He): "All of that"; meaning: the matter that is far from the noble qualities; "was"; meaning: a state that is not similar. And when the evil has become in the ruling of the names, like 'sin' and 'wrongdoing', and the ruling of the attributes has been removed from it, it was carried on the masculine form and described with it. So He said (glorified and exalted is He): "His evil"; and He increased its ugliness by His saying (glorified and exalted is He): "with your Lord"; meaning: the one who does good to you with a goodness that should not be met with anything but gratitude; "disliked"; meaning: he treats it as something disliked from the prohibition against it, and the blame for its doer, and the punishment. And the wise person does not do what the one who does good to him dislikes, out of shyness from him. If not, then it is out of fear of cutting off his goodness, and submission to the might of his authority. And it may be that what is intended by this specification is the Prophet - blessings and peace be upon him and his family - indicating that no one other than him is capable of fulfilling this meaning as it should be, because no one knows the knowledge as he is upon it equally; and because when the head is addressed with something, the followers of it are more receptive; and this is what I mean.
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