And when the custom has been established that a person does not punish or threaten except to one who has harmed him, as has been previously mentioned regarding their punishment and the ugliness of their deeds, preparing for the question about that, he began his saying, confirming their assumption that they are the dominant party of Allah: "Indeed, those who disbelieved"; meaning: they covered what their minds indicated through the apparent signs of Allah, especially after the sending of the Messenger, who was supported by clear miracles, blessings and peace be upon him. "And they hindered"; meaning: they refrained and prevented others, increasing in their disbelief, "from the path of Allah"; meaning: the clear way that the Greatest King has set forth. And since most of the context is about those who conceal their disbelief, he merged in his saying: "And they opposed the Messenger"; meaning: the one who is complete in his prophethood, known for the utmost knowledge.

And since glorified and exalted is He, He has pardoned the neglect of the rational evidence for the oneness before the sending, He said, affirming the connection, informing that He does not forgive the one who neglects it after the sending, even for the slightest moment: "After it has become clear"; meaning: to the utmost clarity through the miraculous signs, "for them is guidance"; where it has become evident by itself, not needing what the Messenger has shown of the extraordinary events, and among it is what the ancient divine books have informed.

And since the adversaries of the Messenger have indeed opposed the one who sent him, he indicated that by saying, stripping it of the conjunction, indicating the absence of causation, meaning that the absence of this harm exists whether they acted or did not act, whether they found or did not find: "They will not harm Allah"; meaning: the King of kings, and he did not say: the Messenger, "anything"; meaning: neither much nor little of harm by what they have gathered upon themselves of disbelief and hindrance.

And since the estimation is: they have only harmed themselves, resulting from their exhausting it with what has not benefited them at all. He added to it: "And He will nullify"; meaning: He will corrupt and invalidate with a promise that there is no contradiction in it, "their deeds"; meaning: the good deeds that were built on the foundation of hypocrisy, on a basis that is not stable, for he is only showing off with them, and from the openly disbelieving on a basis that is not original at all, so nothing from it will benefit them, and from the schemes that they intend by which to weaken Islam, and we will make their destruction through it in their planning, even if they are meticulous in their execution, it will yield for them nothing but the opposite of their intention.