And when these commands and prohibitions were completed in this most precise manner and the most upright system, it indicated the greatness of its significance and the perfection of its precision by His saying - in a manner of resumption, as a reminder for the listener to ask about it -: ﴿That﴾; meaning: the matter that is very exalted; ﴿from what has been revealed﴾; meaning: sent in secrecy; ﴿to you, your Lord﴾; meaning: the One who is gracious to you; ﴿of wisdom﴾; which cannot be refuted nor can anything like it be brought forth; from the call to good and the prohibition of evil; and from the wisdom of these matters referred to, from the commands and prohibitions, is that they did not accept abrogation in any of the laws; rather, they were thus in every religion.

And when it was clarified that ignorance is the cause of every evil, and that polytheism is the greatest ignorance, He followed it - so that the prohibition against it would be both a beginning and an end, indicating its extreme disgrace - in addition to what has preceded from the prohibitions - with His saying (the Exalted): ﴿And do not make﴾; or it may be estimated what is to be added to it, such as: so adhere to it; and do not make ﴿with Allah﴾; meaning: the greatest King, to whom belongs all command; ﴿a god﴾.

And when they, due to their obstinacy, perhaps made the enumeration of names an enumeration of the named, as was reported in the reason for the revelation of ﴿Say, Call upon Allah or call upon the Most Merciful﴾ [Al-Isra: 110]; He (the Exalted) said - with the understanding of the inclusion of the otherness -: ﴿another﴾; for that is the greatest ignorance, which He prohibited (p-418) from following; ﴿So it will be thrown﴾; meaning: it will be done to you in the Hereafter in confinement; ﴿in Hell﴾; with the hastening in it and the lack of ability to remedy; the action of one who has been thrown from a height; while you are ﴿blamed﴾; meaning: reproached for what you did after the blame; ﴿driven away﴾; meaning: expelled after being forsaken; for these two descriptions are more disgraceful than the descriptions of blame and forsakenness in the first verse; as is His (the Exalted) custom to begin with the lighter, as a consolation for His servants; and indeed, polytheism is the most ignorant of ignorance; for it is clear that a god cannot be but one in essence; so it cannot be divided; and in consideration, it cannot be similar; and from Ibn Abbas - may Allah be pleased with both of them - that these eighteen verses were in the tablets of Musa - peace be upon him -; the first of them: ﴿Do not make with Allah another god﴾ [Al-Isra: 22]; and it is ten verses in the Torah; He made its beginning and its end the prohibition of polytheism; for the oneness of Allah is the head of all wisdom and its essence; and whoever lacks it, his wisdom and knowledge will not benefit him; even if he excels in it over the wise; and if he were to strike the heavens with his forehead; what the books of wisdom have not benefited the philosophers; and they are more astray from the religion of Allah than the cattle.