Commentary
And when these verses produced all of them, that they are obstinate against their Lord, and that they want by these questions to mislead His path, to belittle His status, and to waste His rank, it is known with certainty that He will inhabit them in the abode of misery. This was further evidence that they are the blindest of people from the tangible paths, let alone the known examples, and the representation of the obscure understandings. They are the most despicable of people because no one belittles the virtuous except one who is deficient, and no one speaks except about one who is better than him. He said, equating it with his saying: "The companions of Paradise that Day are better" [Al-Furqan: 24], describing what has preceded that he made it evident in the place of concealment from his saying: "Those who disbelieved" [those who will be gathered], meaning they will be gathered by force, walking turned upside down "on their faces" or being dragged "to Hellfire" as they were in this world, they were acting as if they were with Him, not seeing nor having any control over themselves, driven by the devils. Indeed, the Hereafter is a mirror of this world; whatever is done here is seen there, just as this world is the farmland of the Hereafter; whatever is done in it, its fruits are harvested there. Al-Bukhari narrated from Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, that a man said: O Prophet of Allah! How will the disbeliever be gathered on his face on the Day of Resurrection? He said: "Is not the One who made him walk on two legs in this world capable of making him walk on his face on the Day of Resurrection?" Qatadah said, meaning the narrator from Anas: Yes, by the might of our Lord.
And when he described the obstinate ones regarding the Quran with this description, he began to inform that they are characterized by what they were obliged to, that bringing the Quran in parts is placing something in a place other than its proper place. He said: "Those are" meaning the distant, the hated, "the worst" meaning the worst of creation, "in position and more astray in path" where they were blind to the path of Paradise, which is the clearest and widest, and they took the path of Hellfire, which is the narrowest and most difficult. They were blind to the fact that the revelation of the Quran in stages is more appropriate for what has preceded of subtleties and others that only Allah, glorified and exalted is He, encompasses. "And a path" is a distinguishing feature transformed from the doer, its original form being: Their path was misled, and the attribution of misguidance to it is from the metaphorical attribution.
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