And when the decree was: And with Him is a painful punishment for whoever opposes, this caused his saying to be another clarification of what has preceded from the entire surah: ﴿So fear Allah﴾, manifesting without concealment, in glorification of the station and cautioning against any misunderstanding that a type may be restricted. Thus, the manifestation indicates that the meaning is: Make between yourselves and the wrath of the Most High King a protection without regard to any particularity or specificity in anything, by avoiding His prohibitions after complying with His commands. For indeed, when piety stands alone, the intended meaning is to act upon the commands and to abandon the prohibitions. And when it is combined with others, it is intended to avoid the prohibitions only.

And when the matter, when attributed to Him, glorified and exalted is He, is greater than the words of a speaker, no one can truly estimate Him as He deserves. He made it easier by His saying: ﴿What you are able﴾, meaning as long as you are generally capable and able, and the obligation is upon you in the matters of knowledge and actions. Strive with your utmost effort in that regarding the matters of faith for what you have learned of His essence, His rank, and His attributes, glorified and exalted is He, and His actions, and other than that from all your apparent and hidden deeds. The greatest of them is migration and jihad. So do not let your inclination towards it prevent you from that, and piety in what has occurred from the disliked by feeling remorse and ceasing with determination to abandon returning to it, and in what has not occurred by being cautious of its causes. And a person exerts all his effort; that is the true piety. There is no abrogation - and Allah knows best.

And when the manifestation of Islam in it is difficult like the actions, He said: ﴿And listen﴾, meaning listening with submission and acceptance to what you are being advised with and to all His commands. ﴿And obey﴾, meaning affirm that submission by directly performing the apparent actions in the matters of Islam by fulfilling the command of Allah and showing compassion towards the creation of Allah in every matter and prohibition according to your capacity, and removing what is related so that the command is affirmed with every obedience from all and some, and likewise in spending. And when spending is difficult, He emphasized His command by specifying it in mention, saying: ﴿And spend﴾, meaning carry out the spending as He has prescribed for you in what He has made obligatory or recommended, even if it is regarding one whom you know to be an enemy. And spending does not specify a type but rather it is what Allah has provided from the self and the external.

And when the one who is driven by greed is motivated by the necessities that come to mind, the greatest of which is the necessity of the soul, he desires it with what he turns to at the very beginning and encompasses all that has preceded. He said: ﴿Good﴾ meaning that it should be the greatest good that occurs ﴿for your souls﴾. Indeed, Allah gives a greater good than it in this world that purifies the soul, and He reserves for it from the reward in the Hereafter what no one knows its essence. So let not the immediate things deceive you, for it is merely adornment and deception with no benefit beneath it. And when he mentioned what is in spending from good, he included all commands and said: ﴿And whoever is protected﴾. He built it for the passive form to emphasize the encouragement in it for oneself while cutting off the supporter from the doer, meaning that he protects himself from any protector. And he added it to what is all evil from it, saying: ﴿The greed of his soul﴾. So he will act with his wealth and all that he has been commanded with what he is capable of, from what he has been commanded, being certain of it and assured in it until the dangers are lifted from his heart, and he safeguards himself from the bondage of the components. Greed is an inner creation that is a severe disease, the head of the serpent, and every trial is misguidance. And stinginess is an outward action that arises from greed. The soul sometimes is stingy by abandoning desires from sins, so it commits them, and sometimes by giving its limbs in acts of obedience, so it abandons them, and sometimes by spending money. By acting upon what has been prescribed for him, he has exited from greed. And when the protector is none other than Allah, the Exalted, the cause of his protection is His saying: ﴿So those﴾ meaning the high in rank ﴿are﴾ specifically ﴿the successful﴾, meaning those who have attained all their desires by being conscious of Allah in the worldly matters of wealth, children, family, and distractions from all that cuts off.