Al-Ahqaf • EN-TAFSIR-AL-TUSTARI
﴿ يَٰقَوْمَنَآ أَجِيبُوا۟ دَاعِىَ ٱللَّهِ وَءَامِنُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَغْفِرْ لَكُم مِّن ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُجِرْكُم مِّنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍۢ ﴾
““O our people! Respond to God’s call, and have faith in Him: He will forgive you [whatever is past] of your sins, and deliver you from grievous suffering [in the life to come].”
�O our people! Respond to God�s summoner...�He said:None can respond to the one who summons, except he who has heard the call (nidāʾ), and then has been granted success to do good things, and has attained certainty (yaqīn). Otherwise, who can respond well to the call?And he further said:Truly, in the heart of every believer there is one who summons him to his right course (rushd). The fortunate person is he who is attentive to the call of that summoner, and follows it up.His words, Exalted is He: