Muhammad al-Ameen ash-Shanqeetee (d1393H), may Allaah have mercy on
him, said in his tafseer concerning this verse:
"They don't understand the truth with their intellects, they
are nothing but the likes of cattle. They are like camels, cows and sheep with regards to
their inability to hear the truth or comprehend it. Rather, they are more astray than
cattle; in other words they are farther away than cattle in their understanding of the
truth and its comprehension.
az-Zamakhsharee said (in his tafseer):
'So if you say: How were they made to be more astray than the
cattle?
I say: Because cattle submit and yield to their masters that feed
them and attend to them. Cattle know those who do good to them and those who do not. They
seek that which is beneficial for them and avoid that which is harmful for them. They find
and are guided to their places of grazing and drink. As for those people, they do not
submit and yield to their Lord and they don't even know the difference between His
goodness towards them and Satan's evildoing while he is their greatest enemy! They don't
seek (their Lord's) reward that is the greatest of benefits and they don't protect
themselves from (His) punishment which is the worst of harms and destruction!...'"
Ash-Shanqeetee then continues by saying:
"If you have known what this verse is referring to then know
that Allaah has explained it in more than one place (in the Qur`aan), like His
saying in Sooratul-A'araaf (8:179) and His saying in Sooratul-Baqarah (2:171)."
That is the end of what he said concerning this issue and Allaah
knows best.
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