And when He affirmed by His saying ﴿And surely, He will increase﴾ [Al-Ma'idah: 64]; that they were disbelievers before the coming of this Messenger - blessings and peace be upon him -; and He repeated what He had prepared for them of everlasting disgrace; in a manner similar to what their Book informed them of; and He admonished them; and He hoped for them - glorified and exalted is He -; to draw them in; so that they would not despair of the mercy of Allah; according to His usual practice in His mercy towards His servants; and His compassion for them; by His saying (the Exalted) - adding to what is determined: "If only they would refrain from these great crimes, their minor sins would have vanished; and they would have had no evils" -: ﴿And if only﴾; and when misguidance from the scholar is the most abhorrent; He said: ﴿People of the Book﴾; meaning: the two groups among them; and when faith is the foundation of all deeds; He presented it as a notification that there is no salvation for anyone except by believing in Muhammad ﷺ; this is while it is true that He is deserving of great care for them; due to their exaggeration in concealing what they had of him ﷺ. So He said: ﴿Believe﴾; meaning: in this noble Prophet; and what has been revealed to him of this guidance; ﴿And be conscious of﴾; meaning: what they were threatened with in their Book for abandoning faith in him; according to what their Book called them to; as in the story of Isma'il; and others; until the last thing that Moses - blessings and peace be upon him - parted with them in the end of their Book was the explicit mention of his prophethood - blessings and peace be upon him - and the indication that following him is more rightful than following them; so he said: (Our Lord came from Sinai; and shone forth from Seir; and appeared from the mountains of Paran - so he added the Lord to them; and made the coming from the mountains of Paran - which is Mecca; there is no dispute among them in that - an appearance and manifestation; meaning: there is no concealment of it in any way; nor a manifestation more complete than it; ﴿We would have certainly forgiven﴾; and he indicated their great audacity with the manifestation of greatness; ﴿Their evils﴾; meaning: those which they committed before his coming; and they are of what is grievous; meaning: the self's denial of it intensifies; or its aversion to it; and he indicated the vastness of His mercy; and that it does not narrow for anything He wills with the manifestation of greatness; so he said: ﴿And We would have admitted them﴾; meaning: after death; ﴿Into the Gardens of Bliss﴾; meaning: instead of what they are in of this misery which no misery can compare to.