Commentary
The traitor: a description of the glance. Or a source meaning betrayal, like health meaning being healthy. What is meant is stealing a glance at what is not permissible, as the people of suspicion do. It is not appropriate to mean the traitor from the eyes, because His saying, "And what the breasts conceal" does not support that. [Mahran said: "The traitor is either a description of the glance or a source like health." He said: "And it is not appropriate to mean the traitor from the eyes," because the saying of Allah, the Exalted, "And what the breasts conceal" does not support that. Ahmad said: It does not support that because the traitor of the eyes, in this interpretation, means the treacherous eyes. The breasts are what opposes the eyes, not what the breasts conceal, unlike the first interpretation, for what is meant by it is the glances of the eyes, which corresponds to the hidden things of the breasts.] If you say: What is the connection of His saying, "He knows the treachery of the eyes"? I say: It is a news from the news of Him in His saying, "He is the One who shows you," like "He casts the spirit." However, "He casts the spirit" was explained by His saying, "To warn of the Day of Meeting." Then He digressed to mention the conditions of the Day of Meeting until His saying, "And there is no intercessor who is obeyed," so it is distant from its sisters.
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