And when He magnified this noble reward by clarifying what is for its people at the time it occurs, He magnified it by what is for their opposites from punishment. So He said, changing from the first context: ﴿The Day when it will be said﴾ meaning a renewed saying regarding what compels them to the great and difficult matters. ﴿The hypocrites and the hypocritical women﴾ meaning those who are adept at showing faith while concealing disbelief. ﴿To those who have believed﴾ meaning outwardly and inwardly. As for those who are above this age among the believers and those above them, it is apparent that they do not see them so that they may aspire to their calling, 'And where is the Pleiades from the hand of the taker?' ﴿Wait for us﴾ meaning wait for us by remaining in your place so that we may catch up with you. And it is as if the action was stripped in the reading of the congregation due to the necessity of brevity by which the capacity can reach out of fear of missing out, because the questioned ones rush to Paradise like the fleeting lightning. And the meaning is confirmed by Hamzah's reading with the cutting of the hamzah and the breaking of the dhad, meaning delay us in walking and be patient with us and give us time, do not demand speed from us, but remain in your place so that we may consider our matter how we can catch up with you. The result is that they counted their delay in walking and their hesitation to catch up with them as a waiting for them. ﴿Let us take﴾ meaning let us take and light and seek illumination ﴿from your light﴾ meaning this which we see for you and nothing of it reaches us, just as we were in the world seeing your faith by what we see of your outward appearances, and we do not relate from that anything as a recompense in accordance with it. The reason for this saying is that they are given with the believers a light as a deception for them due to what they deceived in the world, so that the hardship of its loss may be great upon them, for it will not be long before Allah sends upon them a wind and darkness that extinguishes their light and they remain in darkness. And to this refers the believers' saying: ﴿Complete for us our light﴾ [At-Tahrim: 8] meaning do not extinguish it as you extinguished the light of the hypocrites.

And when the one who is causing them harm is merely the response from any speaker, he built his saying for the acted upon: ﴿It will be said﴾ meaning to them as a response to their question, a saying of rejection, reprimand, mockery, and condemnation: ﴿Return behind you﴾ meaning in all directions behind which are the farthest from good, just as you were in the world, you kept turning back on your heels from what deserves to be accepted and sought after. ﴿So seek﴾ due to that return ﴿a light﴾ and it is valid to intend by behind the world, for this light is indeed from it due to what they did in it of pure deeds and clear knowledge. And for this, Imam Al-Ghazali, may Allah have mercy on him, said in the Book of Love from the Revival: This verse indicates that the lights must have their origin renewed in the world, then it increases in the Hereafter in brightness; as for it being renewed there, no.

And when the estimation was: they returned or they remained in darkness, it caused a consequence and followed his saying: ﴿So it was struck﴾, built on the passive form, in a manner similar to the first, and to indicate that the striking was done with utmost speed and ease. It is permissible that the 'fa' (so) is a consequence of what came before it without estimation ﴿between them﴾, meaning in [all of] the distance that is between those who believed and their opposers at the time of their saying this.

And when the intended meaning was that his striking was done with utmost speed, he did not perform the action and came with the 'fa' to indicate that it was as if a stick was struck against the ground with one blow. He said: ﴿with a wall﴾, meaning an enclosing wall that separates between Paradise and Hell, from which none of them can stray, nor can anyone from others surpass it to them. ﴿For him is a gate﴾, entrusted with a veil that they do not open except for whom Allah has permitted from the believers, by what He guides them to of their light that is before them for intercession or something similar. ﴿Its inner part﴾, meaning that wall and gate, which is from the side of those who believed, as a reward for their faith which is unseen. ﴿In it is mercy﴾, which is what they have of honor in Paradise, which is concealed within those in it by its trees and its means, just as their inner parts were filled with mercy. ﴿And its outer part﴾, meaning the wall or gate that appears to the people of Hell, beginning ﴿from its side﴾, meaning facing that outer part and its side and direction, and at it ﴿is the punishment﴾ from the Fire and its preliminaries, for the restriction of its people to the outer parts without them having access to the inner parts, and the opposite of what they intended by preserving their outer appearances in this world while their inner parts were corrupt. And it indicated what the expression with the present tense in 'he says' has understood from the repetition by his saying as a resumption: