Tafsir for verse: 40:10
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُنَادَوۡنَ لَمَقۡتُ ٱللَّهِ أَكۡبَرُ مِن مَّقۡتِكُمۡ أَنفُسَكُمۡ إِذۡ تُدۡعَوۡنَ إِلَى ٱلۡإِيمَٰنِ فَتَكۡفُرُونَ ١٠ ﴿10
10Those who disbelieve will be addressed (by a voice saying): “Allah’s hatred (for you), when you were invited to the true faith and you refused, was greater than your hatred for yourselves (today when you are hating your own selves out of remorse).
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Commentary

And when those who believed completed [their faith], the soul longed to know what was for their adversaries. He said, beginning anew and affirming his denial of their calling by denying its day: "Indeed, those who disbelieved," meaning they committed disbelief even for a moment, "will be called on the Day of Resurrection with a call from whom Allah wills from His armies or in the abode of the highest blessings - that they are preferred by Allah over the poor believers. His statement is affirmed: "The anger of Allah" meaning the greatest King against you for your abandonment. "Is greater than your anger" and His saying: "yourselves" is like His saying, glorified and exalted is He: "Look how they lied against themselves" [Al-An'am: 24]. It is permissible as a form of indication to the purity of the sacred presence from what their actions necessitated of anger. For whoever calls to someone and they turn away from him to another, their turning away is an anger towards the one they turned away from. This anger from them is the cause of Allah's anger towards them, leading them to a punishment by which they will hate themselves. Anger is the greatest form of hatred. Then he mentioned the context of their anger returning upon them with his saying: "When," meaning at the time, and indicated that faith, for the appearance of its signs, should be accepted from any caller. He built the action for what its doer was not named and said: "You will be called to faith," meaning to Allah and what has come from Him. "And you will disbelieve," meaning you will commit disbelief, which is the covering of the signs, the place of their manifestation, and the acknowledgment of them. This is the greatest punishment among those of understanding, for whoever knows that his Lord is angry with him knows that crying will not benefit him, nor will intercession avail him, nor will there be any means of salvation for him in any way.

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