Commentary
And whoever comes with the evil deed, meaning: that which has no evil deed like it, and it is shirk, due to His saying: "So their faces will be thrown down" meaning: with the easiest matter, "in the Fire." Although it has been reported in the authentic narration that "the places of prostration - the most honorable of which are the faces - have no way for the Fire upon them," and the face is the most honorable part of a person. So if it is humiliated, what is besides it is more deserving of humiliation, and the one who is thrown down is turned upside down.
And when they had turned their deeds upside down and reversed them by worshiping others besides Allah, they placed the matter in a place other than its rightful place. They magnified what is rightfully to be belittled and took lightly the matter of the Most High, the Great. The face is the place of the manifestations of modesty and humility, for the emergence of the proof. They had fixed their eyes in defiance and harshness at the time of obstinacy, and they displayed in their faces frowning, scowling, and turning away, based on what is indicated by the intertwining: "And they are in fear on that Day, having no escape except for their evil deeds." "Is it said to them: 'Will you be recompensed'" meaning: by dipping the faces in the Fire; and it was built for the passive form because the desired and the feared recompense is not from a specified one, and an indication that it will be with the easiest matter, for it is known that the one who recompenses is Allah, no one else. "Except for what you used to do" meaning: by what is for you like the innate disposition. "You repeat its action while you claim that it is based on the principles of knowledge, such that every one who sees it testifies that it is equivalent to your deeds, equally. And it also includes the people of the first category. The verse from the intertwining: it mentioned goodness and safety first as evidence for the omission of the like, and fear second, and being thrown into the Fire second as evidence for honor away from it first.
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