And when He, glorified and exalted is He, firmly established what He had promised them after He judged their arguments to be invalid, and He does not firmly establish anything except for one whose command is decisive and whose judgment encompasses all, He indicated that it is so. He clarified what allows one to know the strength of the proofs and their invalidity, which necessitates the anger of Allah that leads to punishment, by His saying, drawing attention to the greatest name as a reminder of the greatness of the One informing about it: ﴿Allah﴾, meaning the One to whom belongs all of the dominion. ﴿The One﴾ and He referred to the expression of sending down to indicate that what is meant is the entirety of the Book, of which there is no doubt in anything. He said: ﴿He sent down the Book﴾, meaning its sending down is His alone and no one else’s. ﴿With the truth﴾, meaning it is accompanied (p-281) by the most complete forms of the established command that cannot be altered, and due to the true general action for the sayings, actions, and beliefs, so that you may know the established proofs from others.

And when the Book commands justice, both in saying and in being, and among the tangible commands of it is the estimation by precise measures, He specified, expressing it in its most upright form, indicating that the Book is the most just of all justice according to reason and clearer than the scale for the senses: ﴿And the scale﴾, meaning the command by it is intended in its essence truly, and all of it, rather all of the justice that was previously mentioned in 'There is no justice among you' metaphorically. And when it was established that whoever argued about it, his proof would be invalid if he were held accountable at the hour, he would be punished. And the estimation by what the context has guided to is a consolation for him ﷺ in what he endures in executing what he has commanded regarding justice in all his sayings and actions and his patience with their harm: So whoever resorts to the Book in meanings and to the scale in realities and builds his matter on the realization of justice in both of them, he succeeds; and whoever neglects that fails, and his proof is invalidated and falls at a quarter of his status. And what would make you know? Perhaps there is a neighbor who hastens in this world to take due to the fact that his appointed time, which the word has preceded in delaying it to him, has arrived. He added to it his saying, directing the address to the highest of creation, magnifying the matter: ﴿And what would make you know﴾ (p-282) O most complete of creation ﴿Perhaps the hour﴾ which was alluded to in this verse by His saying ﴿With their Lord﴾ [Ash-Shura: 16] after He had explicitly stated it in other verses. And when the feminine form of the hour is not literal since it means time, He mentioned it and said: ﴿Near﴾, thus making it understood that it is of the nature of hardships and that its hardships are the male hardships. And that its nearness is quicker than the flash of lightning due to its stability in truth, or He mentioned it intending the cause, meaning it is of closeness, or by omitting a supplement, meaning its coming. In any case, it indicates its greatness, meaning you are in a state of proximity to the Day of Resurrection, and what they were promised will occur, which should be feared. In it, justice will manifest with the scales of equity for all deeds, a manifestation in which no one will doubt, so the one who fulfills will be honored, and the one who transgresses and is harsh will be disgraced.