Commentary
'In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful' 'By the hands of scribes' means writers who display writing with what it contains of strange news and lofty rulings in every case. If what is related to the jar is with a fathah, then it is true that they are angels who write it from the preserved tablet. Or it could be a plural of safir, either meaning the book or the traveler, meaning the cutting of distance, or the ambassador who is the reformer, as they are ambassadors between Allah and His prophets. Through them, the affairs of religion and the world are set right. And if it is with a kasrah, then it is a metaphor, as whoever engages in the writing of the remembrance will be refined in state or in outcome in most cases. And the composition of a book for revelation.
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