Commentary
And when it is known that whoever is in the grip of this humiliating and disgraceful state is doomed, he has sufficed by saying: 'And We will drag him by his forehead to the Fire.' He described it in a way that indicates this, saying, substituting that the substitute is a description of what brings him closer to knowledge: ﴿naasiyah﴾ meaning, 'the great ugliness' ﴿kadhdhibah﴾ meaning, 'deliberate in lying' ﴿khaati'ah﴾ for it is from it that sin arises from lying and other than it, whether deliberately or not. Most of its conditions are [not] correct, sometimes due to intention and sometimes due to lack of intention. This is only due to the bad nature of its owner, to the point that he hardly performs a righteous deed. Its description, which is for its owner, in the figurative attribution, is an exaggeration in refuting him, in that he cannot prevent the guided one or humiliate him or anything of his harm except if the owner of all affairs permits him in what would be a cause for increasing his elevation. And in deviating from the truth, as if it were said: 'The forehead of a liar is erroneous,' in addition to this metaphor, there is from the eloquence, grandeur, and majesty that which is not hidden.
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