Commentary
And when he knew the focus of the mind of the aware questioner, he resumed his saying, confirming a reference to the fact that their punishment is something that is relished and succeeded by it. This is a compulsion for those who distance themselves from the single advice by doing something like that. It also informs that the ability to punish those who denied, as with others, is like the ability to punish them, so there is no meaning to the denial: "Indeed, we" with what we have of greatness, "sent" a great sending. And it indicated that it is a punishment by His saying: "upon them a cry" and he belittled their status in relation to the greatness of their punishment by His saying, glorified and exalted is He: "one." Gabriel, blessings and peace be upon him, cried it out upon them, and this cry, which is one, was not a force. Their shouting vanished when they called their companion to slaughter the she-camel. And when their destruction resulted from it, he said: "So they were" a great being "like the chaff of the gatherer," meaning: shattered like the dry trees that the shepherd and those like him make something to shelter and preserve his livestock at a time when it is not said, and it is his pen, meaning: something circular that prevents at that time anyone who enters it, so it shatters and breaks a lot of it while he works it. Then the sheep trample it, and it breaks first and foremost, and everything that falls from it that the sheep trample was shattered, as if it were the dry fodder that the owner of the pen gathers for his livestock.
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