Commentary
Then he followed this denial with another denial of the content of a confirmed sentence that completed the emphasis. This indicates that their action is something that the describer understands, and no one with intellect can believe that anyone would do it. He said, specifying what he had obscured: "Are you truly coming?" And he said: "the men," as a warning of their distance from what they are coming to. Then he justified it by saying: "for desire," lowering them to the rank of animals, which have no intention of offspring or chastity. And he said: "from among," meaning: beginning to come from without, or a lower rank than the rank of "women," indicating that they have erred from both sides in action and omission.
And when his saying: "for desire" might imply that they are in need of coming to the overwhelming desire, but that the women are not sufficient for them, he negated this by saying: "But" meaning: that you do not come to them for a needful desire, but "you are a people." And since the aim of the surah is to manifest knowledge and wisdom, and they have contradicted that either by action or by their actions of extravagance and others, which are the actions of the ignorant, he said: "You act ignorantly," meaning: you do that to show off with the adornment of desires, the action of those who are excessive in ignorance, who have no type of knowledge in openly committing abominations, with malice and predominance of the morals of animals, along with what Allah has granted you of intellects which you have neglected until desire has dominated them.
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