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قُلْ آمِنُواْ بِهِ أَوْ لاَ تُؤْمِنُوۤاْ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ ٱلْعِلْمَ مِن قَبْلِهِ إِذَا يُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ يَخِرُّونَ لِلأَذْقَانِ سُجَّداً
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-Al-Isrâ’ ( الإسراء )

Kashani Tafsir

Say: 'Believe in it or do not believe: in other words, your existences are tantamount to non-existence from Our point of view. The purpose of this [QurÌān] is not to guide you since your hearts are [already] imprinted [with disbelief], having no place with God or in existence since you are devotees of the land of contigent existence, bereft of entific essence. It is those who have knowledge who are considered here, those who possess existence before God in the world of subsistence, those who are [ever] the exemplars in the [revealed] messages. See how they are when it is recited to them and when they hear it: they fall down, that is, they yield to it, acknowledge it and know the truth of it by virtue of their knowledge of it and their familiarity with it through the luminosity of [their] preparedness and correspondence to it and through the light of their perfection, by virtue of their disengagement and their knowledge that it is a promised book from God and that it could only be it [the QurÌān] when they found it to correspond to what they had believed out of certainty, as true belief can only be one;