And when the religion was completed by mentioning the three fundamentals: the origin, the return, and prophethood, and the preliminaries of the Resurrection and its conditions, [and some of its characteristics and what may occur from its terrors], and that is the completeness of what relates to the fundamentals of the religion in ways that are most encouraging and most terrifying, this encouragement and terror necessitated for every listener to say: So what should we do [and whom should we worship]? So the addressed one responded to him with this revelation. The one commanded to convey these comprehensive matters, the caller to whoever hears it, the guide for whoever follows it, that he does not approve for him what he approves for himself, and that is what his Lord commanded him. So he said: ﴿Indeed, I have been commanded﴾ [meaning: by the command of one whose command cannot be rejected], and it is not far-fetched that it could be a substitute for his saying: ﴿All praise is due to Allah, and peace be upon His chosen servants﴾ [An-Naml: 59], and its place is to be established by saying, (p-227) [and he magnified the commanded matter by placing it in the position of the main point, saying]: ﴿To worship﴾ meaning: with all that He has commanded you with ﴿your Lord﴾ meaning: the one who is obligatory, the planner, and the king; and he specified the intended meaning and identified it [and brought it closer] in honor and respect by saying: ﴿This city﴾ meaning: Mecca, from which the beast emerges and every one who sees it is frightened, then it assures the people of happiness, I specifically worship Him with that, I do not worship anything that you have equated with Him, glorified is He, and you claimed that they are partners, and they are among all that He created; then he described the object of worship, who has not commanded the worship of anyone other than Him, with what is necessitated by the description of lordship, and the specification of the city which he referred to with the tool of proximity for its presence in the minds due to its greatness and the strong familiarity with it and its desire for the land from which the beast emerges, so it became such that when the term 'city' is mentioned, it is directed to it, and it is known that it is Mecca. So he said: ﴿The one who made it sacred﴾ reminding them of His grace, glorified is He, upon them and His nurturing of them by having settled them in the best of His lands, and made them thus a source of awe in the hearts of His servants, by what He cast into the hearts that it is a sanctuary, [where no blood is shed,] and no one is wronged, and no hunting is permitted, and its trees are not cut down, and He specified it with that from among all His lands, while people are being taken away from around them and they are safe, nothing from their fright and terror reaches them. (p-228) And when its addition to Him is merely for the sake of honor, he said, guarding against what might be presumed: ﴿And to Him belongs everything﴾ meaning: from other than it, from what you have associated with Him and other than it, in creation, ownership, and dominion, and it is not like the kings who have nothing except what they have taken from others.

And when they might say: And we worship Him with the worship of those whom we hope will bring us closer to Him, the religion by which worship is to be performed was specified, so he said: ﴿And I have been commanded﴾ meaning: with the command of worshiping Him alone, [and he magnified the commanded action by placing it as the main point of the speech by putting it in the position of the subject, saying]: ﴿To be﴾ meaning: a being that is in the utmost firmness ﴿of the Muslims﴾ meaning: those who submit to all that He commands in His Book with the utmost submission, firmly established upon that with the utmost steadfastness.