Commentary
And when He, glorified and exalted is He, mentioned from their conditions that are included in the conditions of this entire type what is evident by the witness of existence, that there is no stability for them, especially in times of hardship, as a notification of their deep-rootedness in ignorance and incapacity, it indicated both matters together in a way that no rational person can deny, that they do not allow what is possible, so they prepare for it what will please them based on the estimation of its occurrence. So he ﷺ commanded him to mention that as a sign of turning away from them, indicating the culmination of anger: "Say, have you considered?" meaning inform me, "if this Qur'an that you have set up to oppose it, even by turning away from listening to it with the frivolity during its recitation, from whistling and clapping and other than that, and that is not from you based on a decisive proof in its matter that you have completed with certainty, but rather it is from your lightness and lack of contemplation that it is "from Allah" who has encompassed all attributes of majesty and beauty, so He does not oppose.
And when disbelief in Him, based on this estimation, is at the utmost distance, and the purpose of the surah revolves around knowledge, it was alerted to that with the tool of delay, indicating that this was only from them after long contemplation. So they were obstinate until they descended from the highest ranks of speech to the sounds of mute animals. Then he said: "Then you disbelieved in it," meaning after deep reflection in it and verifying that it is the truth, so you were in that in a schism that is at the utmost distance from being appropriate for one who has always been appealing to you with His beautiful actions, and has turned you back with His noble words, and others have believed in it because it is from Allah. "Who is more misguided" than you - thus was the original, but he said: "from one who is in schism" meaning from the allies of Allah, "far away" as a warning that they have become like that, and that whoever has become like that has exposed himself to the might of Allah, glorified and exalted is He, which from its reality will certainly perish, and who is more guided than one who is in close Islam, and he is the one who has believed because he has made peace with Allah, and whoever makes peace with Him, everything makes peace with him, so he is saved from every danger - thus the verse is from the intertwining: it mentioned disbelief first as evidence for faith second, and misguidance second as evidence for guidance first, and it pleased him that the mention of harms is more piercing to the heart, so it is more beneficial in preaching.
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