Commentary
And when He, glorified and exalted is He, informed that He has obligated upon Himself the sacred statement, and that He has everything, which necessitates the encompassing of knowledge and the completeness of power, He explained that by what He caused from His saying, directing the statement to the stripping of the pronoun from the manifestation of greatness to soften the address to the addressees in distancing the delusion and bringing closer the understanding. He said: 'So I have warned you' meaning I have cautioned you, O you who oppose the path that I have made clear: 'a blazing fire' meaning it ignites and flames with a burning that is of the utmost severity without any burden upon its fuel originally. And no one from its keepers - as indicated by the dropping of the 'ta,' and in the merging there is also an indication that the least of the fire of the Hereafter is likewise so. Thus, the warning of what blazes and what is above that is more deserving.
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