Tafsir for verse: 5:55
إِنَّمَا وَلِيُّكُمُ ٱللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُۥ وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ ٱلَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَيُؤۡتُونَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَهُمۡ رَٰكِعُونَ ٥٥ ﴿55
55Your only friend is Allah, then His Messenger and those who believe, who establish Salāh and pay Zakāh and bow before Allah.
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Commentary

And when He negated - glorified and exalted is He - their guardianship; in the sense of love; and in the sense of support; and in the sense of closeness in every regard; this resulted in the restriction of the guardianship of everyone who claims faith in Him; and in His allies; He said: ﴿Indeed, your guardian is Allah﴾; meaning: because He is the One capable of what is necessary for the guardian; and no one else is capable of anything from that; except by Him - glorified and exalted is He -; and when He mentioned the truth of the sincerity of guardianship to Him; informing of the individuals of the beginning that He is the origin in that; and what is besides Him is subordinate; He followed it with whom His guardianship - glorified and exalted is He - is known by their guardianship; beginning with their most rightful; He said: ﴿and His Messenger﴾; and He added him to Him to show His exaltation; ﴿and those who believe﴾; meaning: they have established faith; and they have acknowledged it; then He described them with what confirms their claim of faith; He said: ﴿those who establish prayer﴾; meaning: enabling them to connect with the Creator; ﴿and give zakah﴾; as a kindness to the creation; and His saying: ﴿while they are bowing﴾; it can be that it is conjoined with "establishing"; meaning: and they are among the people of bowing; and it would be a specific virtue for the believing Muslims; and that is because the Jews and Christians do not have bowing in their prayers - as has been explained in "Aal 'Imran"; and it can be a state of the doer of giving; and in the reasons for revelation that it was revealed regarding Ali - may Allah be pleased with him -; a questioner asked him while he was bowing; so he threw him his ring; and he gathered - even if the reason is one - encouragement for similar actions of goodness; and hastening it; so that it is not thought that this is specific to him.

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