Note

Know that my method in this tafsīr is to mention, at each verse, whatever meanings occur to me. I do not refrain from mentioning what pertains to later passages merely because I have already mentioned it in earlier ones. This is because Allah described this Book as “a Book of recurring themes”: its accounts, narratives, rulings, and all beneficial subjects are reiterated for profound wisdom. He also commanded that the entire Book be contemplated, because this increases knowledge and understanding, rectifies one’s outward and inward states, and sets all affairs aright (1).