336- And I was narrated from al-Minjāb ibn al-Ḥārith, he said: Bishr ibn ʿUmāra narrated to us, from Abū Rawq, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk regarding His statement "painful", he said: It is painful punishment. And everything in the Qur'an that is described as painful is painful. (1)

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The discourse regarding the interpretation of His statement, High is His praise: {Because they used to lie. (10)}

The reciters differed regarding the recitation of that. (2) Some of them recited it: {because they used to lie} (bimā kānū yakdhibūn), with an un-doubled dhāl and a fatha on the yāʾ, which is the recitation of the majority of the people of Kufa. And others recited it: "yukadhdhibūn", with a damma on the yāʾ and a doubled dhāl, which is the recitation of the majority of the people of Medina, the Hijaz, and Basra. (3)

And it is as though those who recited that with a doubled dhāl and a damma on the yāʾ considered that Allah, High is His praise, only made the painful punishment obligatory for the hypocrites due to their calling His Prophet—Peace and blessings of God be upon him—and what he brought a lie, and that lying, were it not for calling [the truth] a lie, would not entail even a slight punishment for anyone, so how could it entail painful punishment? But the matter in that regard, in my view, is not as they said. That is because Allah, Mighty and Majestic, informed about the hypocrites at the beginning of the news about them in this Sura that they lie in their claim of faith and their displaying that with their tongues, deceiving Allah, Mighty and Majestic, His Messenger, and the believers, for He said: {And of the people are some who say, "We believe in Allah and the Last Day," but they are not believers. They seek to deceive Allah and those who believe}