The Meccan Revelations: Page 38 from Volume Two

They maintain ties with what God has commanded to be connected, that is, with ties of kinship, and they connect the believers whom they have cut off with whatever they can of peace upon them and what is above it in terms of goodness. They are not held accountable for the crime for which He has pardon and overlooked. They do not cut off anyone from God’s creation except those whom the Truth has commanded them to cut, so they cut him off, believing that cutting off an attribute does not. Cutting themselves off, for the attribute of cutting off in relation to these people is always characterized by whoever is described, so they are waiting for God’s mercy to include him, and connection is the opposite of cutting .