Commentary
And when he concluded his matter with the necessity of prohibition, he explained the prohibition by saying, belittling it with a reference to the near ones, affirming what they have of obstinacy in criticizing everything that he mentions, blessings and peace be upon him: "Indeed, these" meaning those who are heedless of Allah among the disbelievers and others, have deserved the wrath from Allah. "They love" meaning a love that is renewed for them with their increase at every moment. "The immediate" meaning they take from it and are careless due to what it is surrounded by of desires for a short time because of their limited vision and their fixation on the tangible, which is the source of dullness and deficiency, and the mine of diseases for the hearts that are in the chests. Whoever engages in the causes of disease becomes sick and is called ungrateful, and whoever engages in the opposite of that is cured and is called grateful. They dislike the ultimate hereafter. "And they leave" meaning they abandon from it in a state that is among the ugliest of what grieves them when they see it. "Behind them" meaning in front of them, that is, ahead of them in the manner of encompassing them, and they are turning away from it, just as a person turns away from what is behind him, or behind them because it will inevitably reach them afterward. "A day" meaning of it. And when what has exhausted and troubled a person is heavy, he said: "Heavy" meaning very severe, they cannot bear the burden of what is in it of calamities because they do not prepare for it. The verse is from the intertwining: it mentioned love and the immediate first as an indication of their opposites second, and the leaving and the heaviness second as an indication of their opposites first. The secret of that is that what he mentioned is more indicative of the foolishness of the mind due to the lack of contemplation of the consequences.
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