Commentary
And when he mentioned the gathering of the disbelievers, he mentioned its reason and said, commenting by saying: ﴿So that Allah may distinguish﴾, meaning: the One who has the attributes of perfection, by that gathering ﴿the vile from the good﴾. That is, He has made for the disbelievers a dwelling that is specific to them and they are specific to it, to manifest justice and virtue by distinguishing the disbeliever from the believer. So He has made for every dwelling a distinction in justice for the disbelievers and a virtue over the believers. Thus, He places the good in a wide and beautiful place ﴿and makes the vile﴾, meaning: the group characterized by this description ﴿some of them upon others﴾. And the stacking is the gathering of a thing, some of it above others. So, it is as if his saying: ﴿Then He will stack them all together﴾ is an additional explanation that confirms what came before it in the intention of the reality, along with understanding the intensity of the connection until all becomes like a single entity, like the stacked clouds. And the result of his saying: ﴿Then He will make it in Hell﴾, meaning: the abode of narrowness, grief, frowning, and worry.
And when this matter has no success with it, he began his saying, gathering it in a general statement: ﴿Those﴾, meaning: the distant, the hated, whom the name of the genus in the vile has made clear ﴿they are the losers﴾, meaning: specifically due to the extremity of their loss, because they have purchased with their wealth the destruction of themselves by that gathering.
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