Commentary
'And it is said' means: to them regarding the severing of conditions and their most severe saying, there is no one to refute it. It is as if it is with the tongue of every speaker: 'Today We will forget you.' That is: We will act towards you by leaving you from all that benefits you, the act of the forgotten one, from which we will cut off all our kindness, so that every evil comes to him. 'As you forgot' and he added the source to its circumstance for the elegance and eloquence in it. So He, the Most High, said: 'The meeting of this day of yours,' meaning: that which you acted in regard to it as the act of the one who forgets it. And whoever forgets the meeting of this day has forgotten the meeting of what is in it, by the first way. And Allah, glorified and exalted is He, has reproached them for that with the greatest reproach; because what they did is not from the actions of the wise to leave what its harm is bearable and they do not consider it. Rather, this is the action of the foolish, who have burdens that are of no consequence to them and have no weight. He expressed it with forgetting because their knowledge is ingrained in their natures. And he expressed in his action with the present tense to indicate continuity, and in their action with the past tense to indicate that whoever fell into that at any time, even if it was little, was in great danger by exposing himself to the continuity of turning away from it. And when leaving it in this state necessitates the continuity of punishment, he clarified it for him so that it would not be thought otherwise. So he said, clarifying their state: 'And your abode is the Fire.' You have no escape from it at all, because your deeds have caused you to enter it, and no one will exit from it except whom We have permitted to exit. We have made you among those forgotten, so there will be no relief for you from Us. 'And what is for you' in the very matter, whether you think while you are denying in resisting this day or you leave it as the forgotten one, 'from helpers' who will save you from that with intercession or overpowering.
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