And when He, glorified and exalted is He, established His comprehensive knowledge and complete power in this world, He equated it with what is necessitated by such in the Hereafter. Thus, the result of what has passed from the questioning is: Do people think that We cannot overpower them or that We do not know their conditions in this world? Or do they think that this will not be in the Hereafter, so their oppression in this world and their neglect of Allah's command and their arrogance over His servants would be for nothing? Would Our creation of them be mere play without wisdom in it? Rather, the wisdom lies in leaving it. This second point is the meaning of His saying, denying, 'Or do they think?' Or it could mean that when He denied the general assumption of people regarding negligence, He knew that the people of evil were more deserving of this judgment. Thus, the denial against them was more severe. He equated the hamzah with 'Or' in the context of denial, just as He equated it with it in His saying: 'Did you take a covenant with Allah?' [Al-Baqarah: 80]. So He said: 'Or do they think?' meaning: He thought a thought that he walks with and continues upon, so it does not clarify for him his ignorance in it regarding a matter he assumes and does not confuse him in any way. 'Those who commit sins' means: those which We have prohibited them by the evidence of transmitted texts supported by the proofs of reason - among them is the prohibition against them. He placed the position of the two objects what included a subject and a predicate from His saying: 'That they may outstrip us,' meaning: they may surpass us in the manner of one who precedes another, so they may overpower us, and We cannot overpower them in this world by executing what We have decreed upon them of good and evil in the times We have set for them. And in the Hereafter, by bringing them to life after We have caused them to die, then gathering them to the place of recompense, small and humbled, so We will reward them for what they have done and take retribution for those whom they have wronged among them, and Our attribute of justice will manifest in them.

And when He denied this, He marveled at those who harbor such thoughts in their hearts, magnifying the denial. He said: 'How evil is what they judge!' meaning: how bad is that which they have passed judgment upon themselves, for the weakest of them in intellect would not be pleased for his servants to wrong one another, then not to be just among them. So how do they think of Us what they would not be pleased with for themselves?