Commentary
(p-105) Surah Al-Mu'minun
Its purpose is to specify the believers with success, and its name clearly indicates that (In the name of Allah) to whom belongs all command, so there is no repelling of His command (the Most Gracious) whose general mercy is the conveying of the message (the Most Merciful) who has specifically chosen those who believe.
When the pilgrimage was concluded with the call to those who have believed and their command regarding matters of religion, both specifically and generally, and it was concluded with prayer, almsgiving, and the protection by Him, glorified and exalted is He, as described, this necessitated the expectation of the callers to every good. Thus, this began with what yields adherence to Him, glorified and exalted is He, in prayer and other aspects of religion in both abodes. He, the Exalted, said, beginning with the letter of expectation (Certainly) which is a negation of what is affirmed by the expected and brings the past closer to the present and of what it negates (has succeeded) meaning he has won and attained now all that he desires, and has gained everlasting permanence in goodness (the believers) and expressed by the name as an indication that whoever acknowledges faith and acts upon what he was commanded in the last of what preceded it, has deserved the fixed description because he has been pious and spent from what he was provided, so he has succeeded. 'And whoever is protected from the stinginess of his soul, they are the successful ones.'
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