Commentary
And when it was as if it was said: What did they say to them in their warning? It was said: They said, "O our people," to their people when they approached them, being gentle with them and concerned for them by mentioning what indicates that they are among them, caring for what concerns them and distressed by what distresses them, as it was said:
And indeed, your true brother is the one who is with you, and whoever harms himself to benefit you.
And when they were - by the descent of what is in the books of the Prophets from the Children of Israel and the Psalms and the Gospel, empty of laws and limits except for a little of that in the Gospel - cutting off or as if cutting off that no book would be revealed that would contend with the Torah in laws and limits and others, their people would sometimes hesitate in reporting the descent of what is more noble than that. They confirmed their saying: "Indeed, we have heard," meaning: between us and the reader is an intermediary. They indicated that nothing had been revealed after the Torah that is comprehensive of all that is intended from it, sufficient for all the books other than this. By that, they knew that it abrogates all the legislations. So they said, clarifying what they heard: "A Book," meaning: a comprehensive mention, not as what was revealed after the Torah to the Children of Israel. "It was revealed," meaning: from whom there is no revealer in reality other than Him, and He is the Owner of the Kingdom and the King of Kings, for upon Him is from the splendor of the divine books that which necessitates the listener's certainty that it is from them. So how if that is combined with the miracle, and they certainly knew by its Arabic that it is Arabic, and that they used to strike the east and the west of the earth and hear the recitation of people for what they would produce of wisdom, sermons, divinations, messages, and poetry. And that it is distinct from all of that that it is close in time to the descent from the place of greatness. So they said, affirming for the neighbor: "After Moses," blessings and peace be upon him. They did not regard what was revealed between this Book and the Torah from the Gospel and what preceded it, because it does not equal the Torah in comprehensiveness, nor does it match this Book in laws and rulings and subtleties and admonitions, with what it added to it of the miracle and others.
And when they informed that it is revealed, they followed it with what testifies to its truthfulness. They said: "Confirming what is before it," meaning: from all the books of the Children of Israel, the Gospel and what preceded it; then they clarified its confirmation by their saying: "Guiding to the truth," meaning: the established matter that corresponds to reality, so that no one can remove anything from what it informs of, complete in all of that. "And to a path," leading to the greatest objective, which is belief in its Revealer, "straight," for it leads with the utmost possible speed, and there can be no deviation in it, so the one traversing it can shorten a path that is a gap for what has curved from it.
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