📘 [They will say,] �Truly, before, when we were amid our families, we used to be ever anxious,�He said:That is, in fear and trepidation of an ill decree (sūʾ al-qaḍāʾ) and the spiteful rejoicing of the enemy.His words, Exalted is He:

📘 By the [Much]-frequented House He said:The outward meaning is in what Muḥammad b. Sawwār related in his chain of transmission from Ibn Masʿūd , who stated that the Prophet said, �On the night I was taken up to the heaven, I saw the Much-frequented House (Bayt Maʿmūr) in the fourth heaven (and it is also related, the seventh). Each day seventy thousand angels make a pilgrimage to it, and never return� � to the end of the ḥadīth. In its inner meaning, it refers to the heart; the hearts of mystics are frequented (maʿmūra) by His gnosis (maʿrifa), His love (maḥabba) and intimacy (uns) with Him. It is to this [the mystic�s heart] that the angels make pilgrimage, for it is the House of the Realisation of God�s Oneness (bayt al-tawḥīd).His words, Exalted is He:

📘 And submit patiently to the judgement of your Lord; you are under Our watchful eye�That is, �Whatever pertaining to action (fiʿl) and power (qudra) appears in your character, [know that] it is He who has taken your whole being into His care (riʿāya), protection (kilāya), good pleasure (riḍā) and love (maḥabba), and guarded you from the Enemy.�His words, Exalted is He:�Celebrate the praise of your Lord when you rise,He said:This means: �Perform the prescribed prayer with sincerity for your Lord when you rise for it.�His words, Exalted is He:

📘 and glorify Him at night and at the receding of the stars.He said:That is, �Do not be negligent in remembering the One who is never negligent in His beneficencetowards you, or in giving you His protection at all times, morning and evening.� But God, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows best.His words, Exalted is He:

📘 and the raised canopyThis is the pleasing ⸢and pure⸣ act (al-ʿamal al-murḍī ⸢al-zakī⸣), through which no reward is sought except God, Exalted is He.His words, Exalted is He: