And when He, glorified and exalted is He, made the contradiction between saying and action ugly, and portrayed its possessor in the image of a donkey in the previous form, and warned against that by which He prepared the rational person for the response to the continuity of obedience after He clarified that all beings acknowledge His comprehensive dominion by what they have of glorification with the tongues of their states, and the standing in His desires with the utmost compliance. The rational person is therefore deserving of hastening to the ultimate glorification with the tongue of speech. He concluded with a warning about the reporting on the Day of the Greatest Gathering with all deeds. He said, in the manner of inference from what has passed of encouragement and warning, calling upon them - to be the allies of Allah - to the mentioned purification, which is the fruit of the message, with its outcome being the complete turning towards Allah and the complete turning away from the world, so that the accountable person may combine between adorning themselves with virtues and discarding vices. He specified among the virtues the greatest glorification that the rational person can perform during the days of the week, which is hastening to the great gathering on the Day of Friday, which corresponds to the gathering in response to the caller on the Day of the Greatest Gathering. Then, the greatest turning towards is the act of [the prayer of] Friday, which is the secret of the day that was lost by [the Jews], and they replaced it with what was the cause of their punishment with a torment that no one among the worlds has been punished with, as He made the outcome of the previous surah the call to guidance towards faith and the jihad [that necessitates] safety: ﴿O you who have believed﴾ meaning they acknowledged with their tongues the faith and He incited them with the tool of distance - indicating their need for purification - to hasten towards the turning to what follows that from the commands: ﴿When the call is made﴾ meaning from any caller who is among the people of the call ﴿to prayer﴾ meaning for the purpose of attending it and to him when the imam sits on the pulpit for the sermon.

And when the response is sufficient in its obligation by the call at the known time for the call, it is not a condition for it to encompass the entire day. He came with the preposition and said: "From the day of Friday," meaning the day that was presented to those before us, and they rejected it. They were like a donkey carrying books. Allah has reserved it for us and granted us success in accepting it. They were our followers while we were delayed from them in time. It was named thus due to the obligation of gathering for prayer in it. It is a noun with a silent ending, and a name is added for the action done, like laughter for the one who is laughed at. If its 'm' is opened, it means the time of gathering, like laughter for much laughter. From its gathering is that in it the creation of Adam, blessings and peace be upon him, gathered with all of creation. It is masculine by the day of resurrection and the gathering in which the deeds will be reported. In it, the majesty and beauty will manifest clearly and completely: "On the day when the caller calls from a near place" [Q: 41]. And in it, the Hour will arise. Malik reported from Abu Huraira, may Allah be pleased with him, from the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him: "The best day on which the sun has risen is the day of Friday. On it, Adam was created, blessings and peace be upon him, and on it, he was descended, and on it, he died, and on it, he was forgiven, and on it, the Hour will arise. There is no creature except that it is apprehensive on the day of Friday from the time it becomes morning until the sun rises, fearing [the Hour], except for the jinn and mankind. And in it, there is an hour that a Muslim servant does not coincide with while he is praying and asking Allah, the Exalted, for something except that He gives it to him." At the end of the hadith, Abdullah ibn Salam, may Allah be pleased with him, said: "Indeed, it is the last hour of the day of Friday." And the beginning of the prayer is what is more general than performing it and waiting for it, according to the saying of the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him: "Whoever sits in a gathering waiting for the prayer, he is in prayer until he prays it." The call was in the time of the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, at the door of the mosque when he ascended the minbar. When he descended after the sermon, the prayer was established. And likewise in the time of Abu Bakr and Umar, may Allah be pleased with them. But when Uthman, may Allah be pleased with him, came and the people increased and the homes became distant and the ambitions diminished, he added another caller at his house which is called al-Zawra. When he sat on the minbar, the second caller called the call that was in the time of the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him. When he descended from the minbar, the prayer was established. And why would anyone criticize Uthman for the addition of the first call when they knew that it is from the Sunnah as the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, directed when he said: "Adhere to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided caliphs after me."

And when the intention was to establish the meaning decisively without hesitation, while cutting off all relation without turning to anything other than what the legislator has excused for, he expressed it by saying 'strive'. This is the meaning of Al-Hasan's statement that it is striving with intention, not with the feet. He said: "So strive" meaning to be allies of Allah and do not be negligent in that, so that you become His enemies like the Jews. "To the remembrance of Allah" meaning the sermon and the prayer mentioned with the greatest King, whoever is cut off from His service is doomed. This is the intended meaning of striving; it is not a reality but rather it is something that is prohibited as he said, blessings and peace be upon him: "When the prayer is established, do not come to it running, but come to it with tranquility. What you catch, pray, and what you miss, complete."

And when he commanded to hasten to the trade of the Hereafter, and the pursuit of profits being the greatest obstacle to the matters of the Hereafter, as it is its ultimate goal, and since trade is the noblest of that to specify the benefit in it, and because it is what the people of the markets engage in the most due to the abundance of those coming to the cities on Friday from the towns and their gathering for trade at the height of the day, he prohibited trade of the world and everything that hinders from the Friday prayer, expressing it by it because it is the greatest of them: "And leave off trade" meaning abandon it even if it is in the most disgraceful, humiliating, and lowest of its states. Thus, the prohibition implies that it is more so for others. The time of prohibition is from noon until the completion of the prayer. If one contradicts and sells, the contract is valid despite his disobedience, for the prohibition is not for its essence nor for what is included in it nor for what is outside it and necessary for it, but for a matter that is concomitant by way of agreement, which is what he is in from distraction from the obligatory. It is like praying in a usurped house, and wearing usurped clothing, and performing ablution with usurped water.

And when he commanded with what is difficult for the souls, expressing it with the sickly action in wording and meaning, he encouraged it by saying: "That is for you" meaning the high-ranking matter of striving and leaving off engagement in the world. "It is better for you" because the one who commanded you with it has all authority, and He intends to purify you in your religions, your bodies, and your wealth, and in His hand is your happiness and your misery. He incited towards that and increased in urging it by saying: "If you know" meaning by what is for you like your nature, "you will have knowledge" meaning knowledge will renew for you on a day of days, so you will see that as good. If you know it as good, you will turn to it, and that will be good for you. The Friday prayer is an individual obligation upon everyone who has reached maturity, sanity, freedom, maleness, and residence if he has no excuse from what the jurists have mentioned. He expressed it in this way indicating that a rational person cannot afford to abandon what he knows to be the highest of good deeds. And whoever is not obliged to attend the Friday prayer, if he attends and prays with the Imam, a duty from the noon prayer is lifted from him, and he does not complete the number of the Friday prayer except for the one with an excuse, for if he attends, he completes the number.