And when this is an indication of their guidance, the meaning is: We have not sent you except for their happiness and sufficiency in conveying to them the gardens of bliss. He added what clarifies the reason for the delay in fulfilling what those who do not worship seek to hasten from the punishment, saying: "And We have not sent you" meaning by Our greatness in general, in a state of states, "except" in a state of your being "a mercy to the worlds" all of them, the inhabitants of the heavens and the inhabitants of the earth, from the jinn and mankind and others. Their obedient ones with reward, and their disobedient ones with the delay of punishment, [which we used to eradicate nations by], so We give them respite and treat them gently, showing your honor and elevating your status, until we clarify that they, despite their multitude, strength, and fierceness, and the severity of their collusion against you, will not reach what they desire from you. Then we will return many of them to your religion, and we will make them among the great supporters and mighty helpers of yours, after a long period of their committing misguidance, and their confusion in the snares of impossibility, and their being lost in argument and impossibility. It is known with certainty that there is no supporter for you except Allah, who knows the saying in the heavens and the earth. Among the greatest manifestations of this honor in the general mercy is during the great intercession on the day when the first and the last are gathered, and the angels stand in rows, and the two creations are among them, and they surge against one another from the intensity of what they are in, seeking someone to intercede for them to be judged so they may find relief from that distress, either to a garden or to a fire. They will approach the greatest of the prophets, one prophet after another, blessings and peace be upon them, and greetings and honor. Some of them will refer others to one another, and each of them will say: I am not fit for this, until they come to him ﷺ and he will say: I am fit for this, [and he will stand -] and with him is the banner of praise, and Allah will grant him intercession, and this is the praised station which the first and the last envy him for. I have already mentioned much of this in Surah Ghafir at the verse: "And there is no intercessor who is obeyed" [Ghafir: 18].