If you say: How does his saying "So when you have finished, devote yourself" relate to what came before it? I say: When he enumerated His past blessings and His promise, he urged him to be grateful and to strive in worship and to devote himself to it. He should connect one act of worship with another, and continue and be keen not to leave any of his times free from it. So when he finishes one act of worship, he should follow it with another. Ibn Abbas said: When you finish your prayer, strive in supplication. Al-Hasan said: When you finish your military campaign, strive in worship. Mujahid said: When you finish your worldly affairs, devote yourself to your prayer. Al-Sha'bi said: He saw a man carrying a stone and said: This is not the way of the one who is free. The sitting of a man idly without work or engaging in what does not concern him in his religion or worldly matters is foolishness of opinion, silliness of mind, and the dominance of heedlessness. Indeed, Umar may Allah be pleased with him said: I dislike to see any of you idle, not engaged in any work of this world or the Hereafter. [I did not find it, but Ahmad, Ibn Mubarak, and Al-Bayhaqi all narrated it in Al-Zuhd, and Ibn Abi Shaybah from the route of Al-Musayyib ibn Rafi' said that Abdullah ibn Mas'ud said: I truly detest a man whom I see idle, not engaged in anything of the work of this world or the Hereafter.] Abu Al-Samal read: "I have finished" with a kasra on the ra, which is not eloquent. Among the innovations is what was narrated from some of the Rawaafid that he read "So devote yourself" with a kasra on the sad, meaning: So devote yourself to Ali for the Imamate. If this were correct for the Rawaafidi, it would also be correct for the Nasibi to read it this way and make it a command for animosity [the word "nusb" in Al-Sahih: I opposed so-and-so with animosity]. Direct your desire to your Lord, and make your desire towards Him specifically, and do not ask except for His bounty, relying upon Him. It was also read: "And desire" meaning: the people desired to seek what is with Him. About the Prophet blessings and peace be upon him: "Whoever recited 'Did We Not Expand for You', it is as if he came to me while I was distressed and relieved me." [Narrated by Al-Thalabi, Al-Wahidi, and Ibn Mardawayh with their chains to Abu ibn Ka'b. It was also narrated by Suleiman Al-Zuhri in Al-Barr from him as a mursal.]}