His saying, exalted and majestic is He: "Is he whom the word of punishment has become due to him, so are you to save one in the Fire?" "But those who feared their Lord, for them are chambers above them, built high, beneath which rivers flow. This is the promise of Allah; Allah does not fail in His promise." "Have you not seen that Allah sends down water from the sky, and it becomes springs in the earth, then He brings forth thereby crops of varying colors? Then they wither, and you see them turning yellow, then He makes them into debris. Indeed, in that is a reminder for those of understanding."

The scholar has dropped the sign that is in the action attributed to the word for two reasons: one is the barrier between the action and the doer, and if it were connected to it, that would not be appropriate. The second is that "the word" is not a true feminine, and this is lighter and better than their saying: "The judge today attended a woman"; because the femininity here is true. And a group said: In this speech, there is something omitted which has been shortened for the indication of the apparent meaning. Its estimation is: "Is he whom the word of punishment has become due to him, so are you to regret for him?" Or something similar to this estimation. Then he resumed his saying to the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, as he means to save one in the Fire, meaning: This is not for you. And a group said: The 'alif' in his saying: "So are you" is merely an emphasis added due to the length of the speech, and the meaning of the verse is: "Is he whom the word of punishment has become due to him, so are you to save him?" But he added the second 'alif' as an affirmation for the matter, and he made the pronoun return to highlight these people and to show the lowliness of their positions, like the saying of the poet:

I do not see that death precedes death in anything.

And he made the pronoun apparent as a reminder of the greatness of death, and this is frequent.

Then he began another report with "But," and this is a comparison and encouragement for piety for whoever reflects and refrains. And His saying, exalted is He: "from beneath them" means: from beneath the chambers. And it corresponds to: "Chambers above them, built high" what has preceded from His saying, glorified is He: "For them from above them are canopies of fire and from beneath them are canopies" [Az-Zumar: 16]. And "the chambers" are what is from the dwellings elevated above the ground. In the hadith: "Indeed, the people of Paradise will see the chambers above them as they see the star that is in the horizon." And His saying, exalted is He: "the promise of Allah" is in the accusative as a verbal noun, and its accusative is either by an implied action from its wording, or by what the speech has contained before of the meaning of the promise, according to the differences that grammarians have in that.

Then He addressed His Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, regarding a consideration of His creatures, and the address is to the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, and every human is included with him in its meaning. And Al-Tabari and others said: He referred to the rainwater, and they said: The springs are from it, and that is because they flow when it is present and dry up when it is absent. And Hasan ibn Muslim ibn Yanqaq said: The reference is to the springs, and the springs are not from the rain, but their water descends from the sky. Al-Shabi said: And every sweet water on earth has descended from the sky. And the two sayings are close. And "He made it flow" means: He caused it to run, and from it is the saying of the poet:

Until they traversed the path among them in a grasp, from the offspring of the wanderer of horizons, is a cradle.

And from it is the saying of Imru' al-Qais:

We stab them with a sharpness and a cleft... like a sudden attack upon the swift.

And one of the springs: a spring, and it is the eye for which a building was constructed, an exaggeration from the source. And 'the crop' here refers to everything that is cultivated. And a group said: 'Its colors': its characteristics from redness and yellowness and others. And 'it withers': it dries up. The plant and the crop wither when they dry up. And from it is the saying of Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, in the hadith found in the Ghareeb of Ibn Qutaybah: 'My pledge is a guarantee, and I am responsible for it that the crop of a people does not wither upon piety... the essence of the hadith.' And 'the debris': the dry, crumbling matter. And the meaning of His saying, 'for a reminder' (Q: 37) is: for the resurrection from the graves and the revival of the dead according to what this mentioned example implies.