أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ يُجَٰدِلُونَ فِىٓ ءَايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ أَنَّىٰ يُصْرَفُونَ · إِذِ ٱلْأَغْلَٰلُ فِىٓ أَعْنَٰقِهِمْ وَٱلسَّلَٰسِلُ يُسْحَبُونَ · فِى ٱلْحَمِيمِ ثُمَّ فِى ٱلنَّارِ يُسْجَرُونَ
"Have you not seen those who dispute about the signs of God? How they are turned away! When, with fetters on their necks and with chains, they are dragged: into the boiling water, then thrust into the Fire…"
This is the fifth and last occurrence of jidāl in the sūra. A table of all five was given in the section on structure.
And in this occurrence the verb changes: annā yuṣrafūn — "how are they turned away?" Root ص-ر-ف: to turn, to make change direction. The verb is passive: the one who turns them is not named.
ٱلْأَغْلَٰل — the plural of ghull: the ring put round the neck. The root was treated in al-Ḥāqqa (fa-ghullūh); I rely on that treatment.
يُسْجَرُون — root س-ج-ر: to fill a hearth and set it ablaze; to fire an oven. The lexicographers also record the word's use for "the sea being made to boil" (al-baḥru'l-masjūr) — this occurred at al-Ṭūr 52/6.
The root م-ر-ح is described by the lexicographers as "gladness overstepping its measure, giving oneself airs"; the word is also used of a strut in one's walk.
And a qualification is put on the first verb: bi-ghayri'l-ḥaqq — "without right". None is put on the second.
I record this as my own reading, and its ground is that qualification: gladness is not condemned in itself — gladness without right is what is condemned. The second verb comes unqualified, because the word maraḥ already carries the overstepping of measure within it.
ٱدْخُلُوٓا۟ أَبْوَٰبَ جَهَنَّمَ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا فَبِئْسَ مَثْوَى ٱلْمُتَكَبِّرِينَ — and the block closes with the sūra's word of diagnosis: al-mutakabbirīn. In the fifty-sixth verse it was said that beneath the dispute lies kibr; here the same root becomes the closing attribute.