His saying, exalted and majestic is He:

﴿Then his Lord chose him and accepted his repentance and guided him﴾ ﴿He said, 'Descend from it all together; some of you are enemies to others. So if there comes to you guidance from Me, then whoever follows My guidance will not go astray nor will he be unhappy﴾ ﴿And whoever turns away from My remembrance, indeed, he will have a difficult life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind﴾ ﴿He said, 'My Lord, why have You gathered me blind while I was [once] seeing?'﴾ ﴿He said, 'Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot them; and thus will this Day be forgotten.'﴾

"His saying 'chose him' means: He selected him and appointed him. And 'accepted his repentance' means: He brought him back from the state of disobedience to the state of regret and guided him to righteous words and deeds. And He enforced His punishment, exalted and majestic is He, in casting him down from Paradise.

And His saying, 'Descend' is addressed to Adam and Hawwa. Then He informed them by saying, 'all together' that Iblis and the serpent descend with them, and that enmity between them and their offspring will continue until the Day of Resurrection. And 'enemy' is a term that can be used for one, two, or many. And His saying, ﴿So if there comes to you﴾ is a condition, and its response is in His saying, ﴿Then whoever follows My guidance﴾ and what follows it until the end of the second section. Guidance means a call to the Shari'ah. Then He informed them that whoever follows His guidance and believes in it will not go astray in this world nor will he be unhappy in the Hereafter. And whoever turns away from the remembrance of Allah and disbelieves in it will have a difficult life. And 'difficult life' means a hard and distressing life in homes or in places of war and the like. And from this is the saying of Antarah:

........................... And if they descend one day in difficulty, I will descend.

It can be used for one, many, and the feminine. And a group read: 'difficult' which is followed by the description of the word 'life.' And people differed regarding the difficult life; when is the time that it is in. A group said: it is this world, and their meaning is that the disbeliever, even if he is well-off and wealthy, will have with him from greed, hope, and torment due to worldly matters and desire, and the abundance of ease in life will make his life difficult. And a group said: it is a difficulty due to consuming the unlawful. And a group said: rather, the difficult life is in the Barzakh, which is that he sees his place in the Fire morning and evening. And in general, it is the punishment of the grave as it has been narrated regarding it.

The judge Abu Muhammad, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

And the carrying of this group on this interpretation is that the wording of the verse necessitates that the constricted life before the Day of Resurrection is by His saying: ﴿And We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind﴾, and by His saying, glorified and exalted is He: ﴿And certainly the punishment of the Hereafter is more severe and everlasting﴾ [Ta-Ha: 127]. And a group said: Rather, the constricted life is in the Hereafter, which is their punishment in Hell and their eating of the Zaqqum and others. And Allah, glorified and exalted is He, mentioned that as a warning for them. Then He informed about another state that is also on the Day of Resurrection, which is their gathering blind. Then comes His saying: ﴿And certainly the punishment of the Hereafter is more severe and everlasting﴾ [Ta-Ha: 127]. The meaning of what we have mentioned regarding the constricted life and blindness and the like is His punishment in the Hereafter, and it is more severe and everlasting than all that is subject to suspicion and imagination. It is as if He mentioned a type of punishment of the Hereafter, then mentioned that the punishment of the Hereafter is more severe and everlasting.

And a group read: "And We will gather him" with the noon. And a group read: "And He will gather him." And a group read: "And We will gather him" with the ra' being silent. And a group read: "blind" with the alif being opened. And a group read: "blind" with the imalah. And a group said: The blindness here is the blindness of insight from the proof.

The judge Abu Muhammad, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

And if this were not the case, the disbeliever would not feel that, because he dies blind of insight and is gathered like that. And a group said: The blindness is the blindness of sight.

The judge Abu Muhammad, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

And this is the more correct view, although the blindness of insight is present in both cases. As for His saying, glorified and exalted is He: ﴿And We will gather the criminals that Day blue-eyed﴾ [Ta-Ha: 102], whoever sees it "with the eye" must interpret it with this, either that it is in two groups or in two places.

And His saying, glorified and exalted is He: ﴿Thus Our verses came to you﴾, "Thus" refers to the blindness that has befallen him, meaning like this in the world that Our verses came to you and you forgot them. And "forgetting" in this verse means leaving, and there is no place for distraction in this context. And "you will be forgotten" means: you will be left in punishment. It has been narrated that this verse was revealed concerning the Quraysh.