Commentary
And when He, glorified and exalted is He, mentioned the consolation by refuting these factions after mentioning the refutation of Quraysh and establishing the conclusive evidence against what they denied and the invalidity of their denial, He concluded with the rights of the warning which had been witnessed in its beginnings by their destruction. Thus, the truth of the messengers was established and the ability to do all that He, glorified and exalted is He, intends with this creation of bringing into existence and annihilation was affirmed. He denied their denial and reproached them for it, confirming the rights of the warning. He said, causing them to reflect on their denial after it was mentioned that He created all existence: "Did We tire of creation?" That is, did We become exhausted from the greatness that We possess? It is the incapacity due to creation in any of its existence or annihilation. "The first" refers to the heavens and the earth and what is between them when We began it as an invention from nothing. And He who created man and all other animals anew, then at every moment in the observed stages according to these usual gradations after We created its origin in that manner from that which has no origin in life. And in its annihilation after its creation altogether, like these nations or gradually like others, so that they might think due to the incapacity of the first creation, which is more difficult in the course of customs than the repetition, that We would be incapable of the second repetition. It is said: "He was unable to understand the matter," if he did not find guidance for his matter or the direction of his intention or was unable to do it, and he could not bear its enforcement.
And when the determination was cut off by what the hamzah of denial indicated: We did not intend that, but We created it with the utmost precision for the circumstance and the circumstanced, and they know that and do not deny it, and they acknowledge the completeness of the ability over it, [and within it] is the acknowledgment of resurrection while they do not realize it. He turned away from it due to their words which contradict their belief in it. He said: "Rather, they are in confusion," that is, in severe mixing and a doubt [necessitating] the speaking of mixed words that have no coherent meaning. Rather, silence about it is more appropriate. Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, said: "O neighbor, indeed it is confused for you; know the truth and you will know its people." And the devil has confused them with his temptation that resurrection is outside of the norm, so they abandoned the correct analogy and the ruling by the first way "for the sake of" "new creation," that is, the repetition.
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