Commentary
And when the action was comprehensive of all the movements of the limbs; from the heart; and the tongue; and all the other parts; He said - indicating His knowledge by hearing what they said; surpassing the abyss of miserliness; to the depths of ugliness; intending to create doubt for the people of Islam by what they bring forth of doubts; by analogy to what they know of themselves; that he - as previously mentioned - only seeks what is needed -: ﴿Indeed, Allah has heard﴾; meaning: the One who possesses all perfection; ﴿the saying of those who said﴾; meaning: from the Jews; ﴿Indeed, Allah﴾; meaning: the Greatest King; ﴿is poor﴾; meaning: for His seeking a loan; ﴿and we are rich﴾ for the fact that He seeks from us; and this is a return from Him - glorified and exalted is He - to complete what He had alerted to before this story; of the hatred of the people of the Book for the people of this religion; and their envy of them; and their desire to create doubt in it; to turn away from it; by the most excellent methods; and the highest means.
And when the souls longed for their recompense for this greatness; and the kings, if they knew of the diminishment of one of them while they are able; would hasten to him; for what they have of the lack of harm by anger; He said - glorified and exalted is He - threatening them; indicating that He is not in that -: ﴿We will write﴾; meaning: upon our greatness; to establish the proof against them; for what they are accustomed to in this world; ﴿what they said﴾; meaning: of this disbelief; and similar to it; and the 's' is for emphasis; and it may be that it is on its original meaning of delay; to urge towards repentance before the completion of the ranks of testimony; and more clarification will come in 'Az-Zukhruf'.
And when this was an act of transgression against the Creator; He followed it with their transgression against the noblest of creatures; so He said - indicating; by adding the source to their pronoun; and with the plural broken form indicating the multitude; that they are the most rebellious of people; and the most accustomed to committing great sins; and that the transgression against the greatest types of disbelief has become their nature -: ﴿and killing the prophets﴾; meaning: those whom We established among them; to renew what they had destroyed of the foundation of their religion; and when there was no doubt at all in their killing; He said: ﴿without right﴾; for it is a greater blame than what preceded it from the expression with the present tense; in His saying: ﴿and they kill the prophets without right﴾ [Al-Imran: 112]; then He joined His saying: ﴿We will write﴾; with His saying: ﴿and We will say﴾; meaning: with what We have of majesty; ﴿Taste﴾; meaning: with what We will afflict you with of calamities in this world; and punishment in the Hereafter; as you used to taste the foods which you were miserly with; so you do not fulfill its rights; ﴿the punishment of the blaze﴾; as a recompense for what you have burned with it the hearts of Our servants;
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