And when this acknowledgment was an increase in their harm, it would only have been beneficial for them had they said it in the abode of action and regretted it and ceased from it. His saying caused this, combining - with what has preceded of the torment of their souls by the hatred of the angels for them, then their hatred of themselves - the hatred of Allah for them: ﴿So they acknowledged﴾, meaning they exaggerated, gathering to the hatred of Allah and His angels for them, their hatred of themselves in the acknowledgment, which is the confession out of knowledge.

And when that which brought them to destruction was the disbelief from which all sins branched out, He singled out and said: ﴿By their sin﴾, meaning in the abode of recompense, just as they used to exaggerate in denial in the abode of action, so it did not benefit them due to the passing of its time, or that it did not gather the sin, indicating that they were all in exaggeration in denial on a single level, as He said: ﴿Thus, no messenger came to those before them except that they said, 'A magician or a madman'﴾ [Adh-Dhariyat: 52] ﴿Did they advise one another to this? Rather, they are a transgressing people﴾ [Adh-Dhariyat: 53] or that the singling out is more severe in warning than many sins, whether few or insignificant or great.

And when they had excelled in both abodes in distancing themselves from the places of mercy and degrading themselves to the state of wrath, this resulted and caused His saying: ﴿So woe﴾, meaning distance in the direction of the low, which is a supplication against them that is answered ﴿for the companions﴾, and it clearly indicates the greatness of its intensity and its fury and its threat, so He said: ﴿the blazing fire﴾, meaning that which their deeds have decreed for them by being in it.