And when he attributed them to lying in general, he alerted to a specific type of it, which is the most deceitful of lies. He said: ﴿And indeed, among them is a group﴾, meaning they are created for division, so they are always striving for separation. ﴿They twist﴾, meaning they twist and distort ﴿their tongues with the Book﴾ by transferring the tongue to change the letter from one articulation to another. For example, they say in "Worship Allah" [the name of] al-Lat, and in "Do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden except by right" [they say] with the sword, and in "Whoever commits adultery, stone him" [they say] have mercy on him with negligence, or punish him, or flog him - and similar to this.

And when the words of Allah, glorified and exalted is He, due to their sweetness and majesty cannot be confused with anything else except by a weak mind and deficient nature, he expressed it with the saying to turn away from hearing from them and to alert to the distance of what a person hears from others. He said: ﴿So that you may think it﴾, meaning that which has been twisted by the tongue and distorted ﴿from the (p-465) Book﴾, meaning the revealed one from Allah. And when it was known by this that it is not from Him, he alerted that it is in the utmost distance from it. He said: ﴿And it is not from the Book﴾, he reiterated it clearly, stating it generally.

And when their insinuation of this is from the audacity of a place, Allah, glorified and exalted is He, informed that they have exceeded to something greater than it. They explicitly stated what they had insinuated. He said: ﴿And they say﴾, meaning they renew the statement of lying at every moment by saying ﴿It is from Allah﴾, meaning the One who encompasses all attributes of perfection. Then he stated their lying explicitly with his saying - distancing what they twisted with their tongues from having any established truth, manifesting in the place of concealment, for the name that no one has shared in any way is more explicit about the intended meaning and negates all possibility: ﴿And it is not﴾, meaning that which they twisted with their tongues until they diverted it from its reality ﴿from Allah﴾, meaning the One who has general encompassing knowledge. So whatever is not from Him, there is no truth in it in any way, neither by being from the Book nor from anything else.

And when he clarified by this their lying about Allah, glorified and exalted is He, explicitly after he had previously indicated it in the first verse, he informed that this is their habit, they do not stop at counting it, nor do they limit it by a boundary. He said: ﴿And they say about Allah﴾, meaning the One who possesses all greatness, with audacity from them ﴿the lie﴾, meaning the general one, just as they said about this specific lie. And when lying may be applied to what was not intended, but rather occurred by mistake, he guarded against it by saying: ﴿And they know﴾, meaning that it is a lie, they do not doubt it.