And when He commanded the purification of the self, He followed it with the informing that among it is the purification of others. This is because that is a greater indication of sincerity and more deserving of salvation. As indicated by the example of the ship that the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, struck for those who enjoin good and those who abandon it. He said, "And command your family to prayer," just as your father Ismail, peace be upon him, did, to lead them to every good. "Indeed, prayer prohibits immorality and wrongdoing" [Al-Ankabut: 45]. And He did not mention zakah because it is included in the discouragement in the verse that preceded it.

And when it is difficult for the self and of great benefit, He said, "And be patient" in the form of seeking to act upon it, emptying yourself for it even if it distracts you from some matter of livelihood. For we do not ask you for provision, meaning we do not burden you with seeking it for yourself or for others. For what we have of greatness refuses to burden you with a matter, nor do we suffice you with what distracts you from it.

And when the self is entirely directed towards the matter of livelihood, it is as if it says: From where will the provision come? He said: "We" with the pronoun of greatness, "provide for you" for you and for them what We have decreed for you from any direction We wish from Our vast dominion, even if it is thought to be distant. And the effort of a schemer does not benefit in provision. So fear Allah and be good in seeking, and do not tire yourself in obtaining it and striving for it. For each of those who is diligent in it and those who are negligent will not attain more than what We have divided for him in eternity, nor less. The one who fears Allah and turns to His remembrance is confident in His promise, content and pleased, so he is in the widest of expanses. And the one who turns away is reliant on his own efforts, so he is in toil, hardship, effort, and distress forever. "And the outcome" means the complete one, which is the one that has no outcome in reality other than it. It is the beautiful and praiseworthy state that follows the matters, meaning it will be after them "for the righteous," meaning for its people. And there is no reliance on provision or anything else that equals prayer. For the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, when a matter troubled him, he would hasten to prayer.

This hadith is not narrated from Abdullah ibn Salam except with this chain of narration. It was uniquely reported by Ma'mar. Al-Hafiz Imad al-Din Ismail ibn Kathir said in his Tafsir: Ibn Abi Hatim said: My father narrated to us, Abdullah ibn Abi Ziyad al-Qatran narrated to us, Sayyar narrated to us, Ja'far from Thabit who said: "When the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace be upon him) was afflicted by need, he called his family: O my family! Pray, pray." Thabit said: And the prophets, when something befell them, would hasten to prayer. Al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah both narrated this in the chapter on asceticism - and Al-Tirmidhi said: It is a good strange hadith - from the hadith of Imran ibn Zaidah from his father from Abu Khalid al-Walibi from Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace be upon him) said: "Allah, the Exalted, says: Devote yourself to My worship, and I will fill your heart with richness and I will cover your poverty. If you do not do so, I will fill your heart with occupation and I will not cover your poverty." Ibn Majah also narrated from the hadith of al-Dahhak from al-Aswad from Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him): I heard your Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him) say: "Whoever makes his concerns one concern, the concern of the Hereafter, Allah will suffice him in his worldly concerns. And whoever's concerns are scattered in the affairs of this world, Allah does not care in which valley he perishes." He also narrated from the hadith of Umar ibn Sulaiman from Abdul Rahman ibn Aban from his father from Zaid ibn Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him): I heard the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace be upon him) say: "Whoever has this world as his concern, Allah will scatter his affairs upon him, and He will place his poverty before his eyes, and he will not receive from this world except what has been decreed for him. And whoever has the Hereafter as his intention, Allah will gather his affairs for him, and He will place richness in his heart, and this world will come to him while it is humbled."