Commentary
And when the decree was: this is because you did not believe. So whoever among you and among others believes and is sincere, We have permitted for him Paradise and silk. He then turned to his saying, generalizing: "And whoever does not believe" among you and among others "in Allah" [meaning] the One who truly has no existence besides Him, "and His Messenger" meaning: the one whom He sent to manifest His religion, which is the truth in relation to Him, expressing it with the greatest name. And for the increase in His glorification and the belittling of His adversary and the nullification of his schemes, He turned to the position of speaking with the appearance of greatness and said: "So indeed, we" meaning: based on what we have of greatness, "have prepared" for him or for them. Thus was the original, but He said, linking the judgment to the description, indicating that whoever does not combine belief in both of them is a disbeliever. And indeed, "the blazing fire for whoever" has his disbelief firmly established. So He, the Exalted, said: "for the disbelievers" meaning: those who do not combine belief in the sender and the messenger, and thus they will be disbelievers by that, and they will continue to be described as disbelievers because they were created upon it. "A blazing fire" meaning: a fire that is intense in burning and blazing, for it is of great heat that causes madness and ignites the inner self with hunger, such that its owner does not become satisfied, and spreads with every evil. For the indefiniteness here is for the purpose of exaggeration and magnification. And this verse, along with what the context has guided to in its relation to those who believe, indicates - even though it is in the context of condition - that most of them will purify their faith after that.
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