Malik said: “I believe he said the same regarding hatred.” (1)

Hiram ibn Hayyan said: “Whenever a servant turns his heart toward Allah, Allah turns the hearts of the people of faith toward him, until He grants him their affection.” (2)

“So We have made it easy in your tongue only that you may give glad tidings thereby to the righteous and warn thereby a fiercely contentious people. And how many generations before them have We destroyed! Do you perceive any one of them, or hear from them even a faint sound?” (97–98)

The saying of Allah, “So We have made it easy in your tongue,” means: We have made the Quran easy in your language, O Muhammad, “that you may give glad tidings thereby to the righteous,” meaning the believers, “and warn thereby a fiercely contentious people,” that is, those vehement in disputation; it is the plural of al-aladd, one who is fiercely contentious.

Al-Hasan said: “Deaf to the truth.” (3)

Mujahid said: ⦗10/b⦘ “Al-aladd is the wrongdoer who does not remain upright.” (4)

Abu Ubaydah said: “Al-aladd is one who does not accept the truth and asserts falsehood.” “And how many generations before them have We destroyed! Do you perceive”—that is, do you see; and it was also said: do you find—“any one of them, or hear from them even a faint sound,” meaning, a sound. Rikz is a faint sound. (5) Al-Hasan said: “They all perished; not a soul or trace of them remained.” (6)