And when He, glorified and exalted is He, urged towards jihad and inspired longing for it by stating that it is a profitable trade, and hinted at the warning by encouraging with glad tidings, the souls prepared to engage in it and were stirred up, meaning they were energized. He urged it with a necessity that entails reward or punishment. He said, calling out with a tool of distance and expressing what indicates the lowest ranks, admonishing that one cannot be devoid of the description of faith except when it is coupled with deprivation, in a way that incites and endears: "O you who have believed," meaning acknowledge that and submit to this admonition with utmost submission. I commanded the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, to say to you: "Be helpers of Allah," meaning with all your effort, "as you have been firmly established in the description of assistance and in the highest peak of steadfastness in supporting the One who has absolute wealth, so that you may be - as indicated by the reading of the congregation with the addition - by striving in that as if you are all His helpers. For you are more honorable than the people of Jesus, may peace and blessings be upon him, and He, glorified and exalted is He, did not call you to His support except to honor you by accompanying His messengers, who are the elite of His creation, upon whom be peace and blessings. So say, 'We have heard and we obey. We are the helpers of Allah.' And Nafi' and Ibn Kathir and Abu Amr read with the tanween and the lam of jar meaning: 'Be some of His helpers.' It is similar that what is commanded in this reading is steadfastness in faith, even if in the lowest degrees, and in the reading of the majority, it is firmly established therein.

And when the estimation was in a description that is of steadfastness and speed in the description of the disciples, He expressed that by saying: "As" meaning be for the sake of My having called you without an intermediary and I have delighted you with My speech just as the disciples were helpers of Allah when "Jesus, the son of Mary," said when I sent him to the Children of Israel, abrogating the law of Moses, may peace and blessings be upon him, "to the disciples," meaning his pure companions and his special ones among them: "Who are my helpers?" while they were proceeding in the stations of conduct, dealings, stages of struggles, and contests "to Allah," meaning the One who encompasses all things, and we are returning to Him as we were initiated by Him.

And when the listener's longing for their response intensified, He clarified that by saying: "The disciples said," indicating that they were truly earnest in that, with no further increase, acting in what He called them to as the action of the one who arrives, not one who is merely passing by, knowing that His response is the response of Allah because He does not speak from desire; thus, His words are only from Allah: "We are," meaning all of us, "the helpers of Allah," meaning the Most High King who is free of need of us and capable of completing our victory. Even if our enemy were all the people of the earth, we would support Him now with action, needing no small training nor looking to anything other than our being present for all that a human can possess of His attributes of majesty, beauty, and perfection. Therefore, they expressed openly and did not conceal.

And when the decree was: Then they called upon those who opposed them from the Children of Israel and confronted them. His saying: "So a group believed" means by it "in Him"; "a group" means people among them who are capable of turning back due to their multitude from the Children of Israel, meaning their people. "And a group disbelieved" means among them. The origin of "group" is a piece of something. "So We supported" means We strengthened after the raising of 'Isa, blessings and peace be upon him, "those who believed" means those who affirmed with sincere faith among them and others in word and deed, and We made their hearts strong "against their enemy" those who opposed them because of their faith. And when victory is with the beloved [the most beloved thing] when it is at the beginning of the day, it resulted from His support His saying: "So they became" means they became after what they were in of humiliation "dominant" means high, prevailing, and overpowering in their words and actions, fearing no one except Allah and not being contemptuous of Him. For support sometimes comes by knowledge and sometimes by action. "Taught by one of tremendous power" [An-Najm: 5] so his knowledge became in the utmost precision, and it was followed by a strength that is in the utmost completeness, because it arises from knowledge derived from strength; otherwise, he would have said: His knowledge is abundant knowledge. "Said the one who had knowledge of the Book: I will bring it to you before your glance returns to you" [An-Naml: 40] a strength derived from knowledge. The apparent meaning is as it is apparent in His saying, the Exalted: "And I will make those who follow you superior to those who disbelieve until the Day of Resurrection" [Aali 'Imran: 55] and others that the support of the believers by Him was after His raising was easy when the disciples appeared and spread in the lands calling to Allah with what He had given them of the signs, so the people followed them. But when time passed and the disciples, may Allah be pleased with them, died, the people separated and corruption spread to them, so the people of falsehood prevailed and the people of truth weakened until they were at the time of the sending of the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, as if they were non-existent or in the state of non-existence, as indicated by the story of Salman the Persian, may Allah be pleased with him. The end of the surah returns as you see to what occurred from the purification of what the elevation of the disbelievers might imply of deficiency in the victory of His allies and the subjugation of His enemies. And from the matter, among what was reported at the beginning is that He loves it from fighting in His cause, urging it and enticing it towards it - at its beginning. And it is connected to what He has given glad tidings to those who believe, even if on the least aspects of faith from honor, connecting it to its source, with what has been removed of the causes that led him to compromise and the matters that placed him in compliance with the disbelievers and competition with them. This necessitated the firmness of faith and the attainment of perfection, which requires the purification in action from every blemish of deficiency, and Allah is the One who grants success to what is right, and upon Him is the reliance.