Commentary
﴿We would have seized﴾ meaning, by Our greatness, a seizing of strength, anger, domination, and destruction. This is emphasized to inform about the severity of anger towards falsehood and the extreme ugliness of it.
And when His seizing is a seizing that makes every seizing vanish before Him, for whoever fabricates against kings does nothing but that, He said: ﴿from Him﴾ meaning, specifically ﴿by the right﴾ meaning, that which is the stronger member; in it, His might will be, so We will remove him with the intensity of Our might. Or, the right from Us, and it would be a metaphor for Our seizing him with utmost strength, for the strength of everything is in its right side. It is said: when the king intends to humiliate a person, he says: 'Seize him, O so-and-so,' and he seizes him with his right hand; this is a metaphor for humiliation. It is also said: this depicts the killing of the patient in the most heinous form. For when the king intends to ease the burden on the one he is killing, he orders the executioner to seize his left side with his left hand and strikes with the sword from behind him, for the neck from behind is wider, thus it is quicker to cut, and the one being killed does not see the glint of the sword. [And if he intends torture and exaggeration in humiliation, he takes his right hand with his left hand and strikes him while he is facing him, seeing the glint of the sword -], and perhaps the strike may fall due to the narrowness of the space from the front on his jaw, requiring a second and a third strike, which is more severe.
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