And when this was an apparent matter, and mere arrogance towards Allah is disbelief in any way it may be, he turned away from his response without expulsion [which means his descent to the status that is the place of what he requested from its elevation]. So he began his saying ﴿He said﴾, causing it to be due to his refusal to say: ﴿So descend from it﴾, implying the abode in which he was, which is the Garden. For it does not accept a disobedient one. And he expressed by the descent that necessitates the fall of the status without leaving; because the purpose of this surah is warning, and it is more indicative of it. And the reason for his command to descend [which means the descent, and the lowering, and the decline, and the decrease, and the falling into something of it] is his saying: ﴿So what is for you﴾, meaning: it is correct and directed in one of the ways ﴿for you to be arrogant﴾, meaning: to deliberately intend arrogance [and it is the elevation in honor and greatness and tyranny]. And there is no understanding of his saying: ﴿for you﴾ nor of his saying ﴿in it﴾ due to the existence of the explicit statements prohibiting arrogance absolutely ﴿Indeed, He does not love the arrogant﴾ [An-Nahl: 23] ﴿Thus Allah seals upon every heart of the arrogant﴾ [Ghafir: 35] ﴿Those who were arrogant said, 'Indeed, we are all in it'﴾ [Ghafir: 48]. And it was conditioned by that to emphasize the matter, as if it were said: arrogance should not be except for us, and the closer a person is to the place of sanctity, which is the place of the obedient and the humble, the more severe the prohibition of arrogance upon him: 'No one will enter Paradise who has in his heart the weight of a mustard seed of arrogance.' This was narrated by Muslim and others from Ibn Mas'ud - may Allah be pleased with him. And the reason for it not accepting arrogance is his saying: ﴿So exit﴾, meaning: from the Garden, the abode of pleasure. [So it was chosen that the descent be from a high place in the Garden to a place in it that is lower than it]. Then he justified his command to descend and exit by saying, indicating that everyone who shows arrogance is clothed in humiliation: ﴿Indeed, you are among the humiliated﴾, meaning: those who are deserving of expulsion, distance, degradation, and humiliation.