And when He, glorified and exalted is He, described Himself, the Most Sacred, with what He is worthy of, from the comprehensiveness of power, and the greatness of might and strength, He followed that with evidence that includes that the one who calls them - and he is His Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him - is not in need of them, nor is his victory over them dependent upon them, just as he did not need them - by the protection of the All-Powerful - in what has passed from the migration that he mentioned. And that the benefit of that is only for them by attracting what they have counted and repelling what they have been promised in the two abodes, alluding to that with His saying: "So what is the enjoyment of this worldly life" [At-Tawbah: 38] and His saying: "If you do not go forth" [At-Tawbah: 39]. He said: "If you do not support him," meaning: you, in obedience to the command of Allah, and the pronoun refers to the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, either in the way of using it from the path of Allah; because he is the one clarifying it, the one calling to it, or due to the precedence of his noble name, implied in His saying: "When it is said to you" [At-Tawbah: 38], meaning: from the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, seeking support from him for you, and manifesting in His saying, the Most High: "He is the One who sent His Messenger" [At-Tawbah: 33]. The strength of what is in each sentence is from the relevance that necessitates that it embraces the one that follows it and does not detach from it, the brevity of the separation between the apparent and its pronoun, and the mention of the gas and the companion clarifies the matter. And that is because He, glorified and exalted is He, when He criticized them for taking leaders as lords, the need to clarify that they are in distancing from that to an extent that is not hidden from a contemplator has intensified. So He described them with eating that necessitates physicality, which necessitates need, and that their food is the wealth of others unlawfully, and that they deceive them to divert them from the path whose goodness is not hidden from anyone who has the slightest insight. And when that was a strong provocation for the souls' yearning to ask about the Arabs: Did they do their deeds and follow their tradition? He answered that their action in permitting the postponement for them some of the sacred months and prohibiting some of the months of permissibility and increasing the number of months of the year is equal to their action.

And when he commanded to fight the polytheists altogether and urged them to piety, and some of them had hesitated in that, the situation became more pressing for admonition regarding their reluctance to mobilize. So when this was completed in this exquisite style and high manner, he urged for the support of the Messenger whom He sent to make him prevail over all religion. He said in response to the condition: ﴿Indeed﴾ meaning: if there is no renewed support from you for him, then certainly Allah is capable of supporting him and will support him and will suffice him against you, and you will not harm except yourselves. Indeed, ﴿Allah supported him﴾ meaning: the Greatest King alone, and the matter is of utmost severity. There is no doubt for a rational person that the future for him is like the past ﴿when﴾ meaning: at the time ﴿those who expelled him﴾ and he expressed it in the past tense because among them were those who embraced Islam after that. He said: ﴿They disbelieved﴾ meaning: from Mecca, while they were in utmost conspiracy against him when they consulted about killing him or expelling him or keeping him. So that was a reason for Allah's permission for him to leave from among them while he was ﴿one of two﴾ meaning: one of them is Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, and there was no third to support them except Allah ﴿when they were in the cave﴾ (p-474) meaning: the cave of Thawr which is at the top of the mountain facing the Yemeni corner at the bottom of Mecca, about an hour's journey from it. When we stayed with him for three nights to lessen the pursuit of them, and that was before they reached you or relied on victory over you. ﴿When he says﴾ meaning: the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, ﴿to his companion﴾ meaning: Abu Bakr the truthful, may Allah be pleased with him, with trust in his Lord, not disturbed by anything ﴿Do not grieve﴾ and grief is: a heavy worry that causes the heart to soften. He grieved him and caused him to grieve in meaning; and it was said in the dictionary: or he caused him to grieve: he made him sad, and he grieved him: he made him have grief. Then he justified his prohibition to his companion by saying, expressing with the greatest name, recalling all that he gathered from the beautiful names and the lofty attributes that bow down before them the hardness of necks and crumble with their greatness the towering solid mountains. ﴿Indeed, Allah﴾ meaning: the One to whom belongs all matters ﴿is with us﴾ meaning: with assistance and support, and He is sufficient for every important matter, powerful against repelling calamities. The One who took charge of supporting him with protection at that time was capable of commanding the troops with which He supported him to destroy the disbelievers in every place without you having any say in that or obtaining a reward from it. Just as He was present at that time with His beautiful names and lofty attributes, He is so in this time and every time. It becomes clear as the sun that the benefit in that is indeed specific to you, and that He, glorified is He, did not arrange all of this in this manner except for your victory. In this verse, there is a mention of the status of the truthful one and his precedence and superiority in Islam and the greatness of his position and the magnificence of his matter that only He who granted it to him knows. Abu Hayyan and others said: The scholars said: Whoever denies the companionship of Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, has disbelieved for denying the words of Allah, and this is not the case for all the companions.

And when he was pleased with Allah, he had penetrating insight in divine knowledge. He was firmly established in that station. Therefore, he did not falter from the very beginning in the defiance of all the servants by rejecting the partners. Then he trained in it, progressing for thirteen years. The only thing that troubled him was the fear that harm might come to the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, and that he would be overwhelmed by sadness for that, which would destroy him before his joy in the triumph of the religion and the suppression of the aggressors. And it was not due to doubt or ill suspicion. Since that was the case, he was truly deserving of tranquility when hearing the name of the Most Honorable Lord that indicates that station, reminding of that greatness before which every great thing diminishes and every large thing becomes small. Therefore, this greatest name was mentioned and prioritized, and he associated the Siddiq in companionship and began by forbidding sadness because it is the main objective, while what follows it is a cause for it. As for the Children of Israel, they had no knowledge except what they witnessed of His grace, glorified and exalted is He, to Musa, peace be upon him, by manifesting those signs through him until he rescued them from what they were in. Musa, peace be upon him, alone prevented the assaults of Pharaoh despite his greatness and what he faced from the unpleasant. When they saw his multitude approaching, their state necessitated questioning about that benefactor who manifested those signs: Is he with Musa, peace be upon him, as he was before, to prevent them or not? Therefore, there was denial of perception and then affirmation of companionship specifically for him. He referred to Allah by the name of the Lord, indicating that grace which he was reminded of, saying: "No! Indeed, my Lord is with me" [Ash-Shu'ara: 62]. It was as if it was said: What will he do when the sea is before us and the enemy is behind us? He said, "He will guide me" [Ash-Shu'ara: 62], meaning: to what I should do. This is known by one who is well-versed in the journey and the stories of the Children of Israel as I have mentioned them in Al-A'raf from the Torah. He was mindful that the Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him, when they ascended to the cave, mentioned the watchers and advanced to protect the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, with himself. Then he mentioned the pursuit and delayed, and then he mentioned what was on the right and left and moved towards them, saying to the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him: If I am killed, I am just one man, but if you are killed, the nation is destroyed. He was aware that Allah, glorified and exalted is He, had taken upon Himself the task of manifesting the religion through the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, which included the protection of his noble self before that. Therefore, he had in this day the anxiety that was mentioned, and at the time of the Prophet's, blessings and peace be upon him, death, he was the most steadfast of the people. Therefore, he came with the conjunction in his saying: "Then Allah sent down" meaning: the Greatest King "His tranquility" meaning: the profound calmness that influences worship upon him, meaning: the Siddiq - as Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with both of them, said - because tranquility did not depart from the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him. Then he turned to "And Allah supported him" saying: "And He aided him" meaning: the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him. The difference in pronouns here does not harm, because it is not ambiguous. "With armies you did not see" meaning: from the noble angels. "And made the word" meaning: the call of "those who disbelieved" meaning: those who caused disbelief among those who believed from them and others "the lowest" thus thwarting their efforts and repelling their schemes. Then he began informing about what he has, glorified is He, continuously without interruption at any time, saying: "And the word of Allah" meaning: He who has complete knowledge of everything, and he placed it as a conjunction to what preceded: "It is the highest" meaning: alone, there will be nothing except what He wills, always and forever. Allah is capable of that. "And Allah" meaning: the One who encompasses everything with power and knowledge "is Exalted" meaning: absolutely overcoming everything of that and other than it. "Wise" meaning: it is impossible for anything of His will to be undone due to the causes that no one can resist, so there is no escape from its enforcement.