Commentary
And when he mentioned that he clarified to the people the path, they divided into a seeing, grateful one and a blind, disbelieving one. He followed it with the recompense of the disbelievers and the grateful ones. He concluded with the pure drink that has the nature to revive the dead of the earth, just as the knowledge whose source is the Qur'an revives the dead of the hearts. And it settled the hearts by the support of the recompense, and he concluded the speech with gratitude just as he began it with it. And what he set up to guide all the people is something that is hardly believable, he said, mentioning what he honored the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, with in this world before the Hereafter. And he made the pure drink a recompense for what is between them of the suitability for the sake of emphasis. He confirmed it again with what provided specification for what they have of denial, and to reassure the souls of his followers with what he urged them to be patient until the time of permission for fighting: "Indeed, We" meaning in relation to what we have of greatness that has no end, nothing else. "We have sent down to you" and you are the greatest of creation in sending down, until what was sent down became a character for you. "The Qur'an" meaning the one that encompasses all guidance, preserving from deviation, just as medicine preserves the health of the healthy temperament, healing what may occur from ailments by what it guides them to of knowledge and action. And he increased in emphasis for their great denial, saying: "A revelation" meaning gradually with wisdom as a response to the questioner and gently with the servants. So he graduated them in the duties of religion gradually in accordance with wisdom, and he did not leave them with any doubt except that he answered it, and he taught them all the rulings that are in it our pleasure. And he came to them with admonitions, manners, and knowledge that filled the horizons, and we have specified you with it as gratitude for your excellent conduct that was before prophethood, and it keeps you away from everything that defiles. So when it was by our revelation, it was encompassing guidance for what we have of comprehensive knowledge and power. So there is no wonder in its being encompassing the guidance of all creation. He did not leave them in anything of the matters with ambiguity, and it is looking to his saying about the resurrection: "Do not move your tongue with it" [Al-Qiyamah: 16] which refers to what is in Al-Muddathir that this is a reminder, looking to "Indeed, We will cast upon you a heavy word" [Al-Muzzammil: 5] which points to what is in Surah Al-Jinn of the Qur'an. Thus, the result is that most of the Qur'an is in affirming the greatness of the Qur'an, for it is the intended matter of the great verse that if it is established, all that is intended from the Shari'ah follows it, and the differentiation of affirming its matter is the most precise in the regulation of its affairs. And this is because the Wise, when He is concerned with something, begins the speech with it. If He sees someone denying it, He transitions to something else according to the law of wisdom. Then He continues to throw it in the midst of that, as if He is not aiming for it, and He continues to do that until His matter is established to the utmost degree of affirmation and is firmly rooted in the soul from where one does not perceive.
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