Commentary
Then he resumed with another rebuke, saying, alerting them and repeating the alert, indicating the length of their slumber or the severity of their obstinacy: "Here you are, these" meaning the foolish individuals. Then he clarified that by saying: "You have argued" meaning you aimed to overcome whoever intends to refute you "about what you have knowledge of" meaning a type of knowledge regarding the matter of Musa and 'Isa, blessings and peace be upon them, for the mention of each of them in your book, even though your argument regarding them is contrary to what you know of their conditions out of obstinacy or tyranny. "So why do you argue" meaning why do you contend with what you claim is a proof, while it does not deserve to be called a doubt, let alone to be a proof "about what you have no knowledge of" at all, because there is no mention of it in your book regarding what you have argued about, while it contradicts clear reason. "And Allah" meaning the One who encompasses all things "knows" meaning and you know that your argument in reality is only with Allah, glorified and exalted is He, and you know that His knowledge encompasses all that you have argued about. "And you" meaning and you know that you "do not know" meaning you have no knowledge at all except what Allah, glorified and exalted is He, has taught you. This is on the assumption that the "ha" in "Here you are" is for alerting. Our Sheikh Ibn al-Jazari reported in his book "An-Nashr in the Ten Readings" from Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala and from Abu al-Hasan al-Akhfash that it is a substitute for the hamzah. It was narrated from Abu Hamdun from al-Yazidi that Abu 'Amr said: It is rather "Are you" extended, so they made the hamzah into a ha, and the Arabs do this. Thus, on this assumption, it would be an inquiry whose meaning is astonishment at them and reproach for them.
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