Commentary
And when the breadth of the chest with knowledge and wisdom is the beauty of the gathering of virtues, and that is accompanied by bearing what is of the greatest distress, and beauty in the gathering of virtues is not complete except when it combines beauty with majesty by the removal of vices. And the interrogative negation, when it is combined with denial, becomes affirmation, because it has been denied for the sake of denial. He said, adding to it what is only added with affirmation: 'And We placed' meaning We lowered, and We dropped, and We invalidated a lowering that has no return to it and no way in it due to the greatness that We have. Exceeding 'from you your burden' meaning your heavy burden that cannot be borne. And for that reason, he described it by saying:
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