Commentary
And when he restricted their food to what no one approaches by his own choice, he restricted those who would consume it, expressing about them with the description that necessitated their eating it. He said: "They do not eat it." And the exception has been completed as a reminder that the exception is the intended one, so that it is as if there is no exception from it. He said: "Except the wrongdoers." This means that those who eat it are the ones who deliberately commit sins, and no one else. It is from the mistake of a man, in the sense of 'he rejoiced,' with a hamzah - if he deliberately commits a sin. As for the one who makes a mistake, he is the one who intended good but did not achieve it without intention. "And there is no sin upon you for what you have erred in" [Al-Ahzab: 5], meaning you intended correctness but did not achieve it. And this food washes what is in their bellies from the substances and meanings that constitute the essence of its owner. It is like what they were stingy with from their wealth, which they concealed and stored in their treasuries, and they hoarded it over the weak.
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