Commentary
So, by which of the favors of your Lord do you doubt? The address is to the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, or to mankind in general. He has enumerated blessings and punishments and has called them all favors. This is because of what is in the punishments from warnings and admonitions for those who reflect. This Qur'an is a warning from the warnings of the first ones, meaning a warning of the same kind as the warnings that were given to those before you. Or this Messenger is a warner from the first warners. And he said: The first one is interpreted by the community as 'The approaching event has drawn near,' which is described as being near in His saying: 'The Hour has drawn near.' There is no soul that can reveal it, meaning clarify when it will occur, as in His saying: 'None can reveal it for its time except Him.' Or it means that there is no soul that can reveal it, meaning able to disclose it when it happens except Allah, but He does not disclose it. Or there is not now a revealing soul due to the delay. It is said that 'revealing' is a source meaning the act of revealing, like health. Talhah read: 'There is no revealing from what they invoke besides Allah,' and it is a terrible covering over the wrongdoers.
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