His saying - glorified and exalted is He -: "O assembly of jinn and mankind, did not messengers come to you from among yourselves, recounting to you My signs and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours?" They said, "We bear witness against ourselves." And the life of this world deceived them. And they bore witness against themselves that they were disbelievers." "That is because your Lord would not destroy the cities unjustly while their people were unaware." "And for each are degrees from what they have done, and your Lord is not unaware of what they do."

His saying, exalted is He: "O assembly of jinn and mankind"; this is included in the saying on the Day of Gathering; and the pronoun in "from among you"; Ibn Jurayj said: it was generalized by its apparent meaning to the two groups; and the intended one is singular as a figure of speech; and this is found in the speech of the Arabs; and among it is His saying, exalted is He: "From both of them emerge pearl and coral" [Ar-Rahman: 22]; and that is only from the salty water; and Al-Dahhak said: the pronoun refers to the two groups; and among the jinn are messengers from them.

Qadi Abu Muhammad - may Allah have mercy on him - said: and this is weak; and Ibn Abbas said: the pronoun refers to the two groups; but the messengers of the jinn are the messengers of mankind; they are messengers of Allah, exalted is He, through them; as they are the messengers of His messengers; and they are the warners; and "recounting" is from "al-qasas"; and Abdur-Rahman Al-A'raj read: "Did not messengers come to you" with the 'taa' for the feminine form of the word messengers.

And their saying: "We bear witness"; is an acknowledgment from them of disbelief; and a confession; meaning: "We bear witness against ourselves of negligence"; and His saying, exalted is He: "And the life of this world deceived them"; is a clear turning point that indicates that their disbelief was in the most disgraceful manner for them; and it is the deception that no sane person would engage in; and "And the life of this world deceived them"; it may mean: "It satisfied them; and fed them with its sweets"; as it is said: "The bird deceived its chick"; and His saying, exalted is He: "And they bore witness against themselves that they were disbelievers"; there appears between it and what is in the Quran from the verses that necessitate the denial of the polytheists of polytheism, a contradiction; and the combination between them is either groups or a single group in various locations; or perhaps He means by His saying here: "And they bore witness against themselves"; the testimony of the hands; and the feet; and the skins; after their denial with their tongues.

Qadi Abu Muhammad - may Allah have mercy on him - said: and the wording here is far from this.

And His saying, exalted is He: "That is because it was not"; the verse; "That is"; it is valid to be in a position of raising; as a subject; and the predicate is omitted; its estimation is: "That matter..."; and it is valid to be in a position of accusative; with the estimation: "We did"; and "that" is an object for it; and "the cities"; the towns; and the intended is the people of the cities; and "unjustly"; it is directed in it two meanings: one of them is that Allah - glorified and exalted is He - would not destroy the cities without warning; so it would be unjust for them if He did not warn them; and Allah, exalted is He, is not unjust to the servants; and the other is that Allah - glorified and exalted is He - did not destroy the people of the cities unjustly; as they wronged; without having warned them; and this is the clear strong one; and Al-Tabari - may Allah have mercy on him - mentioned both interpretations.

And His saying, exalted is He, "And for all are degrees"; this verse is a notification from Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, that the believers in the Hereafter have degrees of superiority according to their deeds and the favor of Allah, exalted is He, upon them. And the polytheists also have degrees of punishment.

Al-Qadi Abu Muhammad, may Allah have mercy on him, said: But every believer is pleased with what has been given to him to the utmost degree of satisfaction.

And the congregation read, except for Ibn Amir, "They work"; based on the wording of "all"; and Ibn Amir alone read: "You work"; addressing with the feminine form.