The downpour of a heavy rain did wrong to the wide watercourses, ... so the clear waters became pure for him shortly after the rain ceased. (1)

And its doing wrong to it means: its coming at other than its time, and its pouring into other than its pouring place. And from it is: "The man did wrong to his camel," which is his slaughtering it without a cause. That, according to the Arabs, is placing slaughter in other than its proper place.

And injustice (al-ẓulm) branches into meanings that would make the book too long if enumerated, and we shall clarify them in their respective places when we reach them, if God Almighty wills. And the root of all that is what we have described: placing a thing in other than its proper place.

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The discourse regarding the interpretation of the statement of the Exalted: {So Satan caused them both to slip therefrom}

Abū Jaʿfar said: The reciters (2) differed in the recitation of that. Most of them recited it: "fa-azallahumā" with a doubled lām, in the sense of: he caused them to slip, from your saying "a man slipped (zalla) in his religion": when he stumbled in it and erred, committing what he was not permitted to commit in it. And someone else "caused him to slip" (azallahu): when he caused for him that on account of which he slips in his religion or his worldly affairs. For that reason, God—exalted be His mention—attributed to Iblīs the exit of Adam and his wife from Paradise, saying: "and he removed them both"—meaning Iblīs—"from that wherein they had been," because he was the one who caused for them the sin for which God punished them by expelling them from Paradise.

And others recited it: "fa-azālahumā", in the sense of removing a thing from a thing, which is displacing it from it.

And there has been narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās regarding the interpretation of His statement: "So he caused them both to slip," that which:-