And when He described Him with Lordship, He indicated it by His saying: ﴿He is﴾ meaning alone [not another]. ﴿The One who sends down﴾ meaning gradually and successively according to need. And since the address in this surah is to the sincere, He added to His pronoun not coupled with what indicates majesty and greatness ﴿upon His servant﴾ meaning the one who is most deserving of being in the presence of His beauty and honor because he has never worshiped anyone other than Him. ﴿Signs﴾ meaning signs that are from their manifestations truly worthy of being referred to and adhered to [by them]. ﴿Clear﴾ [Fatir: 40] indeed regarding what He has of attributes that are in the utmost clarity. ﴿To bring you out﴾ meaning Allah, meaning His servant, by what He has sent down to him, although he is a human like you. The kind is more inclined to his kind and more accepting of him, especially if he is close and intelligent. ﴿From the darkness﴾ in which you are immersed from the desires and deficiencies that humanity is created with, and from heedlessness and forgetfulness, which lead to the accumulation of ignorance. So whoever has been granted knowledge and faith by Him, glorified and exalted is He, has indeed brought him out of these darknesses that have befallen him ﴿to the light﴾ which was a description of his spirit and his original sound nature. (p-266) And when the estimation is: So indeed Allah is subtle and All-Aware by it, He coupled with it His saying, affirming for the sake of the earthquake of those who are prolonged by affliction from the believers and the denial of the disbelievers: ﴿And indeed Allah﴾ meaning the one who has the attributes of perfection ﴿with you﴾ He placed the preposition first because His great mercy for this nation necessitates counting His blessing upon others as non-existent in comparison to His blessing upon us. ﴿Surely He is Kind and Merciful﴾ meaning you were, in regard to His specific mercy which is for the completion of the blessing, of two types: among you is one who has a connection with it by what he does in his days of ignorance from good deeds such as spending in the way of what is known. And he expressed by spending because it is [good] not for show and similar to it [in it] like the truthful one, may Allah be pleased with him, who returned to him, after the general mercy of the statement, with a specific great mercy that brought him to the highest degrees of knowledge. And among you is one who has gone far in following desires, so he began after the general mercy of the statement with a specific mercy that guided him to the deeds of the gardens, and it is less than what came before it in the scale. And above it in terms of it being without a cause from the one who is shown mercy.