And when it was as if it was said: What is the fitnah in which they fell, so that Hell surrounded them because of it? It was said: "Indeed," meaning: it is their being that they, and it is permissible that it be a reason for Hell's surrounding them. And it is as if they - because they are from the Aws and Khazraj, the Ansar are close to them - specifically targeted the Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him) with enmity and intense anger. Likewise, it was not displeasing to them nor pleasing to them from good or evil except what had an impact - by which the expression of being struck is permitted without touching - not what is less than that, preserving the hearts of their relatives and taking care of the secrets of their women. So he said, indicating that: "It may strike you" meaning: by the decree of Allah that "a good deed" meaning: by victory or otherwise "may displease them" meaning: for what is in their hearts of malice and sickness. "And if a calamity strikes you" meaning: a disaster, even if it is small, as occurred on the day of Uhud, "they say" meaning: joyfully and boasting about their good opinions, "We have taken our matter" meaning: we have disobeyed the one who commanded us and did not submit our leadership to anyone, so we would be like the blind; because the matter is the incident and the opposite of prohibition, and from it the leader, a man of command and authority - with the emphasis on the open 'm' with a broken hamzah, and it is opened: weakness of opinion, agreeing with everyone on what he wants from his entire matter, and he is the blind one, in weight and meaning. "Before" meaning: before this calamity occurs, so we were not taking command of a matter that would strike us, so what struck those who followed him was not. Their matter - if they had been obedient - would have been something realized by the hand of the commander. So when they disobeyed him, it was as if they had taken it from him.

And when their saying was far from uprightness, it was fitting that it should not be said, and if it were said, it would be right that it should be retracted and sought forgiveness for it. Allah, glorified and exalted is He, pointed to their persistence in it and said: "And they turn away" meaning: from their position in which they said that, even if it extended to their families. "And they are joyful" meaning: for your calamity due to their disbelief and for their deliverance from it.