Commentary
(p-156) And when this speech was made, and with the reaching of the end in the goodness of arrangement, and the human has confined these two categories as a profound example for the disbelievers of the Arabs and their believers. The first is for the believers who follow the religion of Ibrahim, blessings and peace be upon him, who brought it by the greatest of His noble prophets, Muhammad, blessings and peace be upon him. The second is for the disbelievers who oppose their greatest ancestor, Ibrahim, blessings and peace be upon him, whom they know from the transmission they inherit from their forefathers, and an astonishing Qur'an as if they heard it from their Creator that He is One in Allah, acknowledging the resurrection, warning of its dangers. And He had begun, glorified and exalted is He, the discourse about them with what He mentioned regarding their disbelief in the blessed ones, and they deserved both of the two evils: the disgrace of this world and the punishment of the Hereafter. He informed about them what resulted from their denial of the promise of their Lord and their disobedience to their parents, truly or by teaching with His saying: ﴿Those﴾ meaning the distant ones [from] reason, nobility, and all good. ﴿Who have been proven﴾ meaning: established and obligatory. And when this was a warning, He indicated it with the tool of elevation, saying: ﴿Upon them is the saying﴾ meaning: the complete one in its category that they are the lowest of the low. And this contradicts what was said: that it was revealed regarding Abd al-Rahman ibn [Abu] Bakr, may Allah be pleased with both of them; for he embraced Islam and became one of the greatest of the companions, may Allah be pleased with them all, and paradise was established for him. (p-157) And when He established for them this disgrace, He made known the multitude of those who shared in it, saying: ﴿In﴾ meaning: existing in ﴿Nations﴾ meaning: creatures who were where people would seek them and some would follow others ﴿They have passed﴾ those nations. And when the judgment was upon some of the predecessors, He included the neighbor, saying: ﴿Before them﴾ so they were their role models ﴿From the jinn﴾ He began with them because the Arabs hold them in great esteem and seek refuge with them; and that is because they would show off to them and harm them, and their harm and dominance over them, outwardly and inwardly, was not cut off except by the Qur'an; for it burned them with its lights and expelled them from that land with its clear signs. ﴿And mankind﴾ and their multitude did not benefit them, nor did their strength avail them. Then He explained the rights of the matter upon them or began with His saying, affirming the denial of the assumption of this category in which the speech is that the truth is with the majority: ﴿Indeed, they﴾ meaning: all of them ﴿Were﴾ meaning: by nature and disposition and character, they could not detach from it ﴿Losers﴾ meaning: deeply entrenched in this description.
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