سورة يس

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): "أَوَ مَنْ کانَ مَیْتاً فَأَحْیَیْناهُ [Is he who was dead, then We raised him to life] (al-An'am/122). His death means his mingling with the nature of the disbeliever, and he comes to life when Allah, by His command, separates the two. Likewise, Allah the Mighty and Majestic brings the believer out at his birth from darkness into light, after he had been in it; and He drags the disbeliever from light down into darkness, after he had been in the light. And this is the interpretation of the saying of Allah the Mighty and Majestic: لِیُنْذِرَ مَنْ کانَ حَیًّا وَ یَحِقَّ الْقَوْلُ عَلَی الْکافِرِینَ [That it may warn him who would have life, and (that) the word may prove true against the unbelievers]."

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): حَیًّا means intelligent, and وَ یَحِقَّ الْقَوْلُ means the command of punishment عَلَی الْکافِرِینَ becomes obligatory and confirmed upon the disbelievers.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): لِیُنْذِرَ مَنْ کانَ حَیًّا [that it may warn him who is alive] — so that it may warn the believer whose heart is alive. وَ یَحِقَّ الْقَوْلُ عَلَی الْکافِرِینَ [and the word may prove true against the disbelievers] means the punishment.

The Messenger (peace be upon him and his family): The intellect is a light in the heart by which one distinguishes between truth and falsehood, and in the words of Allah the Exalted it has come: لِیُنْذِرَ مَنْ کانَ حَیًّا [That it may warn him who would have life], meaning that he may warn the one who is alive, and what is meant by "alive" here is the one who possesses intellect and wisdom.

Imam Hasan (peace be upon him): Allah, majestic is His majesty, sent Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) as a mercy for the worlds and a favour upon the believers [and to all mankind, that he might warn him who is alive and that the word may prove true against the disbelievers]. After Allah had, through him, made the truth manifest and destroyed polytheism, He took his soul without any shortcoming or weakness on his part.

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): And by what those three did, room was opened for anyone who would join them in oppression, unbelief and hypocrisy, and he did the like of what they did in seizing the affair of the ummah. Yet, the respite that Allah, Blessed and Exalted, made obligatory for His enemy Iblis will come to its end, and the appointed term will run out, and Allah's word concerning the unbelievers will come true, and the true promise will arrive — the very promise which Allah the Exalted gave in His Book, saying: 'Allah has promised to those of you who believe and do righteous deeds that He will surely make them successors on the earth, just as He made those before them successors' (Nur/55).