Commentary
'And to your Lord' means the Benefactor to you by what He mentioned in these two surahs specifically. 'So desire' means by asking, for He alone is the One who is capable, just as He was able to nurture you in the past alone. He is the One who is unique in greatness, so there is no power at all except for the one whom He grants what he desires of it. And desire is the hallmark of the servant always in every situation, meaning do that. 'Did We not expand for you, [O Muhammad], your breast?' [Al-Inshirah: 1] This latter is connected to the former in the way that the effect is connected to its cause. And what follows it is also in the same manner, like the relationship of the sun with the moons. The end of this surah indicates striving in worship after finishing the struggle against the disbelievers in the Arabian Peninsula, after the passage of what is equivalent to the number of verses of this surah in years after the Hijrah, which is eight, desiring the Hereafter, which is better than the former, indicating the proximity of the appointed time as indicated by Surah Al-Nasr - as will come, if Allah, the Most High, wills.
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