Commentary
And when the estimation was: that you do not do that, or they do not do it - according to the two readings, he connected his saying with the address in the reading of the group to the turning that indicates the end of [anger], alerting to the dealings due to the fourth remedy, which is the expulsion by negating the vices and evils by condemning what should be distanced from it and urging what must be attained for the sake of good care: ﴿Rather, you prefer﴾ meaning you choose and specify that in a manner of oppression, O wretched ones, and with the unseen according to the origin with Abu Amr ﴿the worldly life﴾ meaning the lowly one with the present destruction, even though it is [evil and] transient, engaging in it for the sake of its presence like the animals that are bound by the tangible, so your engagement with it has consumed your times and prevented you from the remembrance of [the name of] Allah, which is forbidden to the remembrance of Allah and prepares for it, and from purifying your souls. So that has caused you to fall into the disease of the belly, which is the stomach, and the disease of the bear, which is the private part, and the love of wealth leading to the evil deeds, and you abandon the Hereafter.
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