Tafsir for verses: 37:97, 37:98
قَالُواْ ٱبۡنُواْ لَهُۥ بُنۡيَٰنٗا فَأَلۡقُوهُ فِي ٱلۡجَحِيمِ ٩٧ ﴿97﴾ فَأَرَادُواْ بِهِۦ كَيۡدٗا فَجَعَلۡنَٰهُمُ ٱلۡأَسۡفَلِينَ ٩٨ ﴿98﴾
97They said, “Build for him a structure, and throw him into the blazing fire.” 98So, they intended to bring harm to him, but We made them the lowest (by frustrating their plan).
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Commentary
The Hellfire is the intense fire, and it is said: every fire upon fire and ember upon ember, it is Hell.
The meaning is that Allah, glorified and exalted is He, overcame them in both situations and humbled them before Him: they wanted to overpower Him with argument, so Allah taught him and inspired him with what He would strike them with, and He subdued them, so they resorted to deceit. Allah nullified their deceit and made them the humiliated, the lowest, unable to prevail against Him.
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