Tafsir for verse: 81:25
وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوۡلِ شَيۡطَٰنٖ رَّجِيمٖ ٢٥ ﴿25
25Nor is it the word of an outcast satan (devil).
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Commentary

And when he established for him the trust and generosity after he refuted what they had accused him of, and madness was more evident than the saying of the madman, because some madmen may sometimes speak words that are coherent at certain times, he refuted it for that reason. And the saying of the soothsayer was more evident than soothsaying. He denied the saying and said: ﴿And what is it﴾, meaning the Qur'an which is among the miracles, the informing of the unseen. He emphasized the denial with the confirmation by the preposition, saying: ﴿By the saying of a devil﴾. And when the devil does not cease from being cast out, because its derivation is from 'shatana' and 'shata', which necessitates distance and burning, he described him with what is essential for him, saying: ﴿Accursed﴾, meaning stoned with curses and other things from the shooting stars due to eavesdropping, he is cast away from that. Because the one who said it is not a soothsayer, as you know. And what they said remained, which is magic, and it does not need to be denied because it is not a saying, rather it is a pure action or a saying accompanied by it. And the mixed dreams are therefore clearly flawed, so he did not consider them. Whoever knows these descriptions of the Qur'an and the two messengers who brought it, the angelic and the human, loves him and loves them, and he excels in glorification and reverence, and he engages in its recitation at all times, and he strives in all that it commands and flees from what it forbids, so that he may attain righteousness out of a desire to accompany the one who brought it and to see the one who came from him.

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