Before they speak, the verse before says of them: “And We remove whatever rancour is in their breasts.”
And they say: “Praise be to Allah, who guided us to this. We would not have been guided had Allah not guided us.”
Read the order: rancour removed, praise to Allah, and only then the call. They claim no merit before they speak.
And the companions of the Garden call out to the companions of the Fire: “We have found what our Lord promised us to be true.
Have you found what your Lord promised to be true?” They say: “Yes.”
Then an announcer announces among them: “The curse of Allah is upon the wrongdoers.”
Ibn Kathîr explains: these words are spoken as reproach and rebuke, once each has settled in his place.
Now the two halves. “We found what our Lord promised us true.” “Did you find what your Lord promised true?”
Wa'adanâ: promised us. Wa'ada: promised. The second time, there is no “you”.
Az-Zamakhsharî asks it himself: why not “promised you”? First answer: dropped for lightness, “us” already shows it.
His second: left open, the promise covers all Allah promised: resurrection, reckoning, reward and punishment.
Ibn 'Âshûr: the object is left out for brevity only; the meaning is “what your Lord promised you”, of punishment.
And hear it: “promised us” sounds like a gift received. To them, the sentence does not say “you”.
Those who turned people away from the way of Allah and sought to make it crooked, and who denied the Hereafter.
The curse is on “the wrongdoers”, and the next verse says who: those who barred Allah's way and denied the Hereafter.
The Qur'an names no one here: not a people, not a person. It names a deed, and leaves the rest unsaid.
These words were said once in this world. At Badr, the Prophet ﷺ stood at the well where the slain of Quraysh lay.
He called them by name: “We have found what our Lord promised us true. Have you found what your Lord promised true?”
The same two halves as the verse: “promised us”, then “promised”, with no “you”.
'Umar asked: “Do you speak to bodies without souls?” He ﷺ answered: “You do not hear what I say better than they do.”
On that Day, the people of the Garden call out to the people of the Fire.
Their statement and their question are almost the same. One small word is missing from the question.
Before they call out, they say: we would not have been guided had Allah not guided us.
Tonight, say it for yourself: al-hamdu lillâhi alladhî hadânâ li-hâdhâ. And ask Him to keep you on it.