Commentary
And when he informed about the submission of every soul to the cessation of causes, he informed them of what would increase their terror and stir their desire and fear. This is the result of his decree regarding the dominion. He said: "Today you will be recompensed," meaning you will be judged and rewarded. He built it for the action because the one who is encouraged and frightened is the very essence of recompense, and to clarify its ease upon Him, glorified and exalted is He. "Every soul" will not be left out, for knowledge has encompassed them, and power has surrounded them and encompassed them, and wisdom has prevented the neglect of any one of them. And when the context is for the King and the domination necessitates recompense and reliance on the earning, which is the basis of the obligation of command and prohibition, and necessitates consideration of the causes, for that is the concern of the King, he expressed it by the preposition and the earning: "By what" meaning by the reason of what "they have earned," meaning what they have done, and they think that it benefits them equally by the measure that is measured for them. And when the causation is understood for justice, then the increase will be without cause. He explained, negating what they used to practice of the oppression of some of them to others in this world: "There is no oppression" meaning in any way. "Today" and when the fulfillment of the creatures by recompense is something that cannot usually be controlled, nor can it be delayed in preservation and connection, how if equality is intended in the weights of pearls and what is below them:
With a just balance that does not diminish even a grain, It has a witness from itself that does not lack.
The souls have added from the fear of the extension, so He alleviated it by His saying, informing that their matters are different from what they are accustomed to. And for that, He emphasized and magnified by manifesting the greatest name: "Indeed, Allah" meaning the complete in power, the all-encompassing in knowledge, "is swift in reckoning," meaning very swift in it. He is not preoccupied by the reckoning of one from the reckoning of another at the time of the reckoning of that other, nor is He preoccupied by one matter from another matter, for He does not need to make an effort in counting, nor does He require reviewing a book, nor anything. Thus, there was in that a warning for both groups and a fright, for the oppressor fears the swift taking of punishment, and the believer hopes for the swift extension of reward.
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