And when He concluded the verse by describing the might and wisdom appropriate to its beginning with allegiance and its follow-up with the verse of jihad, and that was after the promise of mercy in general, He followed it with what is more closely related to it, clarifying the mercy and detailing it to encourage the believers by bestowing upon them all that the hypocrites sought with their hypocrisy in this worldly life. He increased them by stating that it is everlasting, and He informed that this is the victory, nothing else, so He said: ﴿Allah has promised﴾ meaning the truthful promise, which has all perfection ﴿the believers and the believing women﴾ meaning: those firmly established in belief in all that the Messenger ﷺ brought to them ﴿gardens beneath which rivers flow﴾ meaning: they remain green, full of delightful beauty; and when the bliss cannot be complete except with permanence, He said: ﴿abiding therein﴾ the gardens are not pleasing except with spacious dwellings and homes and places of rest, He said: ﴿and pleasant abodes﴾ and when some of the gardens are higher than others, and the highest of them is that which is honored by the description of nearness indicating closeness to His abode, which confirms the meaning of permanence, He said: ﴿in gardens of Eternity﴾ meaning: a permanent abode and happiness, health of body, and a good dwelling and homeland and place of growth. And this is as He said regarding their opposites ﴿a lasting punishment﴾ [At-Tawbah: 68] and how appropriate is the mention of this paradise in the context of the expression with the description indicating firmness; for it has been reported in the hadith that it is exclusive to the Prophets, the truthful, and the martyrs. And when that cannot be free from disturbance with the allowance of a type of anger, He began indicating the utmost glorification: ﴿and the pleasure﴾ meaning: a pleasure that cannot be reached by the description of any describer by what the form of exaggeration indicates, even if it is in the slightest ways, by what the tanween conveys ﴿from Allah﴾ meaning: the one who is greater than anything else to them ﴿is greater﴾ meaning: absolutely, for it is greater than all of that because His pleasure is the cause of every victory, and the joy that is the greatest bliss cannot occur except by the pleasure of the Master. And if the little of it is greater, then what do you think of the much?

And when this was completed in the best manner in contrast to what He described their opposites with, He said, describing it as an increase in encouragement towards it: ﴿that﴾ meaning: the matter of high rank ﴿is﴾ meaning: specifically, nothing else ﴿the great victory﴾ meaning: which makes everything else from the matters of this world and the Hereafter seem small in comparison. And in the fact that this is a promise for those who possess the qualities for which they are described, there is encouragement for the jihad that is commanded after it, as it is one of the aspects of enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil and the greatest call to allegiance.