Commentary
And when He, glorified and exalted is He, established after that by affirming the visible and audible signs and by honoring His allies and humiliating His enemies without any concern for anything nor incapacity for anything, while having complete knowledge and power over everything, it necessarily resulted from that His saying, the Most High: "So to Allah" meaning: the One to whom belongs all command. "Praise" meaning: the encompassing of all attributes of perfection. And when He, glorified and exalted is He, clarified that this is established for Him by His essence and not for anything else, He affirmed that it is not by kindness and management, so He, the Most High, said: "Lord of the heavens" meaning: the One of exaltedness, vastness, and blessings. And when the context was to affirm the exclusivity of perfection, and they had made for Him, glorified and exalted is He, what indicated that they have no doubt in their worship of Him by limiting their matter to desire, He repeated the mention of the Lord for emphasis and to inform that He has in each of the two horizons secrets that He does not have in the other. Therefore, the nurturing is varying according to that, and the conjunction affirmed to inform that the perfection of His power in His Lordship for the upper and lower is equal in a way that dispels the assumption that His judgment in the upper is more possible due to the assumption of needing distance, so He, the Most High, said: "And Lord of the earth" meaning: the One of acceptance for what comes to it.
And when He specified the two horizons as a reminder to consider what is in them of signs for their appearance, it indicated that He has beyond that of creation what only Allah, glorified and exalted is He, knows. So He said, dropping the conjunction due to the lack of need for it after establishing the equality of the two realms, the upper and lower, in His judgment in terms of knowledge and power to be free from distance. And nothing from creation escapes Him because it must either be upper or lower. "Lord of the worlds" thus gathered what is singular in it that is exalted over all events because the world is everything other than Allah. This is a reminder of its types and a clarification of them, and to inform that what is intended by it is its literal meaning, not part of it by the indication of inclusion. And He repeated the mention of the Lord as a reminder that His preservation of creation and His nurturing of them has different forms according to the affairs of creation. So His preservation of this part is in a way that differs from His preservation of another part, and His preservation of the whole in terms of it being a whole is in a way that differs from the preservation of each part in its own right, while the whole is in relation to the completeness of power equally.
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