And when He, glorified and exalted is He, informed about the conditions of the disbelievers in physical deeds, and their dominance was unlikely despite their multitude and strength, He informed about what brings them closer, clarifying their financial deeds. He said: "Indeed, those who disbelieved" meaning: despite their multitude, because they have covered the insights of their minds, which is the human being in reality, thus they have diminished in a way that cannot be comprehended. "They spend their wealth" meaning: they are determined to spend it on what is to come "to obstruct" meaning: by their claim to themselves and others "from the path of Allah" meaning: from following the path - which its greatness cannot be matched in greatness with its vastness, clarity, and ease. "So they will spend it" meaning: by a compelling decree upon them that they cannot escape from. "Then it will be" meaning: after spending it for a period, and He expressed it in a clear statement regarding its harm, saying: "upon them" and emphasized this by placing the source upon it, saying: "a regret" meaning: for its loss and lack of effect. "Then they will be defeated" meaning: as happened to them in Badr, whether they spent with multitude and strength, it did not benefit them at all from what Allah intended for them. Rather, it was a burden upon them, for it was a cause for their boldness until they looked at the present and fell short regarding the unseen like animals, thus they perished. And this was a strength for the believers, so what was in reality was only for them. And this statement applies to what was the cause of the revelation of the verse and to everything similar to it. That is because when they were defeated in Badr, Abu Sufyan said to them: 'It is appropriate that you spend the wealth of that caravan - meaning the one that was with him - and we encourage to fight Muhammad.' So they responded and spent it on the battle of Uhud, and they achieved some victory therein, then it was followed by regret and defeat in Badr, the appointed time, and everything after it. Then He revealed their description which they deserved for that, linking the judgment to it and generalizing it, warning them of what is more severe than that. He said: "And those who disbelieved" meaning: it has been decreed for them to remain in their disbelief generally, whether they increased in disbelief by doing what has preceded or not "to Hell" meaning: not to anything else.

And when the meaning of 'the one who is to be gathered' is the gathering itself, not being from a specific entity, he built for the action his saying: ﴿They will be gathered﴾, meaning: after death they are in constant disgrace in this world and the Hereafter. It is permissible that Hellfire is used metaphorically for its causes, so the meaning would be that they are led directly by the causes to it and are carried in this world upon it. And these verses - while they indicate what they have in this world and what they have in the Hereafter, that their ultimate outcome in this world is dominance, as time has revealed, a sign from the signs of Prophethood, and in the Hereafter is Hellfire - are clarifying their lies in their saying: ﴿If We had wished, we could have said something like this﴾ [Al-Anfal: 31]. For if they were truthful in their claims, they would have said something like it. Then they said: If this is the truth and nothing else, we would not have said something like it, the place of their saying: ﴿If this is the truth﴾ [Al-Anfal: 32] until the end. As for the verse of mockery and derision, it is as if it says: This Qur'an is at the highest level of eloquence, and you are not qualified - despite your claim of precedence in eloquence - to oppose it with anything that has the qualification of eloquence. Rather, you have descended to the sounds of mute animals in reality. There is no clearer statement than this regarding what you have claimed of falsehood and slander. And as for the verse of spending, it is saying: If you had the ability to oppose it with the spending of words, you would not have turned away from it to the spending of wealth, which leads to enduring horrors and the corruption of bodies, and the demise of what contains of souls, leading to eternal humiliation with everlasting punishment.