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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Exegesis of the verse: (( Indeed, those who consume the wealth of orphans unjustly, they only consume fire in their bellies, and they will enter the Blazing Fire )) .

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Then Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said:
Indeed, those who devour the property of orphans unjustly are only consuming into their bellies fire إن الذين يأكلون أموال اليتامى ظلما إنما يأكلون في بطونهم نارا
[An-Nisa 4:10]
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Indeed, those who إن الذين
This is a nominal sentence beginning with "in," and the predicate of "in" is His saying:
are only consuming into their bellies fire إنما يأكلون في بطونهم نارا
[An-Nisa 4:10]
meaning they consume nothing but fire
and they will enter the Blazing Fire وسيصلون سعيرا
and in a reading:
and they will enter وسيصلون
with the passive construction, which is the Saba'ite reading. He, Mighty and Majestic, says:
Indeed, those who devour the property of orphans إن الذين يأكلون أموال اليتامى
[An-Nisa 4:10]
they consume it, meaning they destroy it, but He expressed it as eating because it is the most comprehensive of the forms of benefit, for most of what a person does with wealth is for the sake of eating and what is related to it, so He expressed it as eating because it is the most comprehensive of the forms of benefit, whereas other than eating is like it, or perhaps even more severe, such as if one destroys this wealth by burning it or drowning it or the like, that is greater than eating it.
Source alathar.net

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

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