Commentary
And 'al-rahiq' means the covering of prohibitions. The meaning is that the humans, by seeking refuge in them, increased them in arrogance and disbelief. This is because a man from the Arabs, when he spent the night in a desolate valley and feared for himself, would say: 'I seek refuge with the lord of this valley from the foolish ones of his people,' meaning the jinn and their leader. When they heard that, they became arrogant and said: 'We are the lords of the jinn and humans,' and that is their 'rahiq.' Or the jinn increased the humans in 'rahiq' by misleading and misguiding them due to their seeking refuge in them. And that they and the humans thought as you thought, and this is from the words of the jinn, which some of them say to each other. It is said that the two verses are part of the revelation. The pronoun in 'and that they thought' refers to the jinn, and the address in 'as you thought' is to the disbelievers of Quraysh.
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