Al-Waaqia • EN-TAFSIR-IBN-ABBAS
﴿ وَٱلسَّٰبِقُونَ ٱلسَّٰبِقُونَ ﴾
“But the foremost shall be [they who in life were] the foremost [in faith and good works]:”
(And the foremost in the race) and the forerunners in the life of the world towards faith, migration, jihad, the utterance of the first �Allahu akbar� [Allah is the greatest] as well as towards all good things, these are (the foremost in the race) the forerunners in the Hereafter towards the Garden: