Commentary
And when it was known that whoever turns away from the judgment of Allah has certainly turned towards the judgment of Satan, which is the essence of desire, which is the religion of the people of ignorance, those who have no guiding Book nor a regulating law, this has caused them to deny it by saying: ﴿Is there a judgment of ignorance?﴾; meaning: specifically; while its judgments are not accepted by any sane person, because there is no Book that calls to it; rather, it is merely whims. And they are people of a Book; ﴿They seek﴾; meaning: they want by turning away from Your judgment, despite what their Book has called them to follow You; and Your Book has testified to their inability to oppose it, from the necessity of Your message to all of creation; and the reading of Ibn 'Amir with the turning to the address is more indicative of anger.
And when the goodness of judgment is dependent on its perfection; and its perfection is based on the attributes of completeness, from the fullness of knowledge and the comprehensiveness of ability, and other than that; He said - informing that His judgment is the best of judgments, referring to what He has decreed: "So who is more misguided than them?!" -: ﴿And who﴾; and it is permissible that the sentence is a state of the 'waw' of "They seek"; meaning: they want that while it is said: who is ﴿better in judgment than Allah﴾; meaning: the one who possesses the attributes of completeness; ﴿in judgment﴾; then He increased in reprimanding them by the density of their natures and the rigidity of their minds and the stagnation of their understandings; by saying - expressing with the 'lam' of clarification, indicating to the one addressed by this speech -: ﴿for a people﴾; meaning: in them is an awakening and a strong attempt for what they desire; ﴿who are certain﴾; meaning: certainty exists among them one day; and as for others, they are not worthy of the address; so how about the reprimand?! Indeed, His reprimand is of severe punishment; and in that is also the ultimate reproach for them; and the ugliness upon them; from the fact that they have continuously described the people of ignorance as misguided; and that their religion has not been sent down by Allah with any authority; and they have deviated in these judgments towards it; leaving all that Allah has revealed from their Book; and the Book that abrogates it; for they have certainly committed misguidance without doubt; knowingly; and they have abandoned the agreed-upon truth.
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