and the bearers of glad tidings,” just as he said:

“No one is more jealous than Allah, and because of His jealousy He has forbidden shameful deeds, both open and secret.”

He thus identified Allah’s love of an excuse as the reason He sent warners, and His love of praise as the reason He praised Himself and promised His servants Paradise. This establishes that love and jealousy are the cause of the aforementioned statements, not those statements themselves—namely, the promise, the sending, the praise, and the prohibition.