[2] Because of their obstinacy and persistence in disbelief.
[3] i.e., the Qur’an.
[4] See footnote 35:11.
[6] After he was martyred for the sake of Allah. [7] He said so after Allah admitted him into paradise and he saw the pleasures therein.
[10] i.e., all species, all things in pairs.
[11] "Dhurriyyah" (lit., offspring); however, it is used here to denote ancestors (being the offspring of Noah) who were saved from the flood.
[12] Of what awaits you in this life and in the Hereafter, or of the sins of the past and the future.
[13] But they ignored the warning.
[14] The first blast (lit., a cry or a shriek) of the Trumpet will take them by surprise on the Day of Judgment while they will be disputing in their worldly affairs.
[19] Humans are born weak, then they reach their prime when they are young, then they grow physically and mentally weak when they are old.
[23] Trying to prove that there is no life after death.
[24] That we created him from dead matter to such an extent that he became now a clear disputant before Us.
[25] It alludes to the "markh" and "‘afār" trees in Arabia, whose green branches if struck against each other, it produces sparks.