And when it was one of the greatest victories for the eye to acknowledge the vengeance against the enemy, and the enemy who is secretive is more severe than the openly hostile enemy, Allah, the Most High, said: ﴿And He will punish the hypocrites﴾ meaning: He will remove all that they have of sweetness ﴿and the hypocritical women﴾ by what has angered them from the increase of faith ﴿and the polytheists and the polytheistic women﴾ by their hindrance, which was a cause for the disgraceful position that was a cause for the descent of tranquility, which was a cause for the strength of the people of Islam due to the impact of the many who entered into it, which was a cause for the destruction of the people of disbelief, and then after that, the punishment of the fires.

And when He informed of their punishment, He followed it by describing what caused that for them, saying: ﴿Those who think ill of Allah﴾ meaning: the One who encompasses all attributes of perfection ﴿the thought of evil﴾ that He will not fulfill His promise that He will support His Messenger ﷺ and his believing followers, or that He will not resurrect them, or that He will not punish them for opposing His Messenger ﷺ and for the disobedience of his followers. And when He informed, glorified and exalted is He, of their punishment, He explained it by saying: ﴿Upon them﴾ meaning: in this world and the Hereafter by what Allah humiliates them with from the multitude of His forces and His anger towards them and His overpowering them with them ﴿the circle of evil﴾ which they devised and planned for the Muslims, there is no escape for them from it, so they are forsaken in every place, a visible forsakenness that everyone perceives, and an inner forsakenness that is perceived by whom Allah, glorified and exalted is He, wills from the people of insight, as occurred in this Umrah. And evil - with a fatḥa and a ḍamma - is what causes distress, like hatred, except that it has predominated to be attributed to what is intended for blame, and the ḍamma is in the same vein as evil, which is the opposite of good - as stated in al-Kashaf.

And when it is possible that one upon whom evil has befallen may not be angry with him, He said: ﴿And Allah was angry with them﴾ meaning: the greatest King due to His attributes of majesty and beauty, so His anger has risen ﴿against them﴾ and this is an expression that He treats them with the treatment of one who is angry in a way that they have no power to bear. And when anger may not necessitate humiliation and expulsion, He said: ﴿And He cursed them﴾ meaning: He expelled them in a way that they descended to the lowest of the low, so they distanced themselves from all good.

And when He established what they have in both abodes, and it might be thought that it pertains only to this world and does not necessitate the punishment of the Hereafter, He followed it with what pertains to it, saying: ﴿And He has prepared﴾ meaning: He has now made ready ﴿for them Hell﴾ which will meet them with frowning, anger, and gasping, as they used to frown at the servants of Allah, along with what is in it of punishment with heat and cold and burning and other types of hardships. And when the estimation is: how evil is the preparation, He added to it His saying: ﴿And how evil is the destination﴾.