And when all of this was about those who were tempted and did not strive against themselves, the meaning was: those whom We have tempted and found them to be liars, they have gone astray and have become unable to understand and know, because they were not among the strivers. So he turned to his saying: "And those who strive" meaning: they engaged in striving with the utmost of their effort for what it indicates by the mutual action "for Us" meaning: because of Our right and monitoring, especially by adhering to the acts of obedience, from the striving against the disbelievers and others in all that striving is necessary in, by word and action, in times of hardship and ease, and opposing desires at the onset of trials and the severity of tribulations, being mindful of Our greatness.

And when the disbelievers denied their success, and the successful and victorious in everything is the one who is guided, he said, expressing the cause by the effect: "We will surely guide them" by what We make for them of the light that does not lead astray the one who accompanies it, guidance that befits Our greatness, "Our paths" meaning: there are no paths other than it, in knowledge and action, and We are with them with Our kindness and assistance, because they have excelled in striving, so congratulations to whoever fought in the way of Allah, even if it is the weight of a she-camel for this verse and His saying, the Exalted: "And those who were killed in the way of Allah, He will not waste their deeds" [Muhammad: 4] "He will guide them and amend their condition" [Muhammad: 5]. For this reason, Sufyan ibn Uyaynah used to say: When people differ, look at what the people of the expedition are upon.

And when the doer of good, whenever his share in the station of good increases, his share of this world decreases, the foolish thought that Allah does not care for him, he emphasized the assurance in His saying, [diverting the speech from the style of majesty to a more sublime one by what increased in beauty] "And indeed Allah" meaning: with His greatness, majesty, and all His perfection is with them - this was the original, but He intended to inform them of His accounting and linking the ruling (p-483) with the description and generalization, so He manifested saying: "with the doers of good" meaning: all of them with victory and assistance in their worldly affairs, and reward and forgiveness in their hereafter, because of their striving, for it is gratitude that necessitates increase, and whoever is with Him, glorified and exalted is He, has succeeded in every desired matter. And if the ignorant sees otherwise, he makes their honor behind humiliation and covers their wealth with the veil of poverty, as a protection for them from what the everlasting honor brings of arrogance, and what the great wealth brings of tyranny. How beautiful is what the master Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri transmitted in the Risalah from al-Harith al-Muhasibi that he said: Whoever corrects his inner self with vigilance and sincerity, Allah adorns his outer self with striving and following the Sunnah. And the verse is from the intertwining: it first established striving as evidence for its omission secondly, and secondly: that it is with the doers of good as evidence for the omission of companionship and goodness first. Thus, the beginning of the surah embraced this latter, and it was the greatest focus upon it. So we ask Allah for safety from trials, and striving if trials must come, and to Him is the final return.