Commentary
So when they settled near her, they requested that she guide them. So she brought her mother. [So we permitted her to nurse him.] He took her breast and they said: Stay with us. She said: I cannot bear to be separated from my home. If you are pleased for me to care for him in my home, then it is fine, otherwise I have no need for it. And she showed a desire for asceticism in it, denying any accusation. They agreed to that, so she returned with him to her home. [And the verse from the interweaving is: He mentioned the prohibition first as evidence for the permissibility second, and the questioning of his sister second as evidence for their questioning her first. And its secret is that mentioning the more strange of his matter is the clearest evidence for the ability.] (p-251) And for this reason, he caused his previous statement: ﴿So We returned him﴾ to mean: With this apparentness in revealing its secret which causes suspicion in his matter, and with what has preceded from the signs that one could almost conclude with that he is from the Children of Israel, among them being his being cast into the sea in that manner, and among them [is] that the indication for his nursing is from the Children of Israel, and among them is that he accepted her breast without others from the Copts and others, by our hands which no hands can resist, nor can anything from cunning or plotting approach its domain, from the hand of the enemy who has not slaughtered a child except in hope of falling upon him, and deliverance from what was decreed in previous knowledge to him ﴿to his mother﴾. And it was from the command of Allah - and Allah is dominant over His command - that He used for Moses - as Al-Razi said - his enemy in his guardianship while he kills the world for his sake; then he justified it by saying: ﴿So that her eye may be comforted﴾, meaning: to cool and settle from the longing in seeking him in every direction and to sleep with his nursing and guardianship in her home, secure and not afraid. And the comfort of the eye is in her returning him and her sleeping contrary to her previous heat and her wakefulness from the continuous turning of him. His eye was comforted, it comforts - with the kasra and the fatha - comfort, and it is included, and comforters: it became cool with joy and her weeping ceased, or she saw what she had been longing for. And may Allah comfort his eye and with his eye, and a comforting and settled eye. (p-252) It comforted her with what it comforted with. And to settle in the place means to be established and to remain. The origin of the comfort of the eye is from the coolness, meaning: it became cool and became healthy and slept contrary to the heat of his eye. And it is said: from the settling, meaning: my eye has settled. And they said: The tear of joy is cool, and the tear of sorrow is hot. So the meaning of may Allah comfort your eye from joy and make it hot from sorrow. And this is the saying of Al-Asma'i. And Abu Abbas said: It is not as Al-Asma'i mentioned, but every tear is hot. So the meaning of may Allah comfort your eye: it encountered joy and slept and her wakefulness went away, and it encountered what pleases you, meaning: may Allah grant you your utmost desire until your eye is comforted from looking at others, being self-sufficient and content with what is in your hands. They said: And the meaning of their saying: He is the comfort of my eye: it is the satisfaction of my soul, so she is comforted and settled by being near him and does not long for others ﴿and not﴾ meaning: and so that ﴿you do not grieve﴾ meaning: from being separated from him ﴿and to know﴾ meaning: knowledge that is the eye of certainty, as she was knowledgeable of it with the knowledge of certainty, and the knowledge of testimony as she was knowledgeable of the knowledge of the unseen ﴿that the promise of Allah﴾ meaning: the matter which the Most Great King promised her, who has all perfection in His preservation and sending ﴿is true﴾ meaning: it is in the utmost stability in matching the reality of it.
And when knowledge is the light that, by its absence, no action is correct, and no intention is organized for it, he said, emphasizing what you estimate: So she knew that with certainty of sight after the knowledge of certainty: ﴿But most of them﴾ that is, most of the people of Pharaoh and others ﴿do not know﴾ that is, they have no knowledge at all. So how do they claim what they claim of divinity and greatness against one who Allah is with?
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