4220 In n. 2818 to
22:40, I have explained the full import of "Aziz as a title applied to Allah, and I have expressed two of the leading ideas involved, in the two lines here. The argument in this Surah turns upon the contrast between earthly Power and the Divine Power: the one is impotent and the other is supreme. 4221 Ghaffar is the emphatic intensive form, and I have accordingly translated it as "Forgiving again and again". Cf.
20:82.