And He has given you from all that you asked of Him. If you were to count Allah’s blessings, you could never enumerate them. Indeed, man is most unjust and ungrateful. (34)

“Tell My believing servants to establish the prayer.” Al-Farrāʾ said: It is in the jussive, as the response to the imperative. “And to spend, secretly and openly, from what We have provided for them, before there comes a Day in which there will be neither trade nor friendship”—that is, intimate companionship and friendship. [Ibn Kathīr, Ibn ʿAmr, and Yaʿqūb recited, “no trade therein and no friendship,” with both words in the accusative, as an unrestricted negation. The remaining reciters read, “no trade and no friendship,” with both words in the nominative and with tanwīn.] (1)

“Allah is the One who created the heavens and the earth, and sent down water from the sky, bringing forth thereby fruits as provision for you. And He has subjected to you the ships, to sail through the sea by His command. And He has subjected to you the rivers.” He made them subservient to you, so that you may sail upon them wherever you wish. (2)

“And He has subjected to you the sun and the moon, each pursuing its course”: they move in that which serves the interests of the servants, without ever slackening. Ibn ʿAbbās said: Their constant course is in obedience to Allah, may He be exalted. (3)

“And He has subjected to you the night and the day”: they alternate in light and darkness, and in decrease and increase.

“And He has given you from all that you asked of Him”: that is, He has given you something from everything you asked of Him. (4) The second occurrence of “something” has been omitted, since the wording itself indicates it; thus, the expression denotes a portion.

It was also said that it is intended for amplification, as when you say, “So-and-so knows everything,” or, “All the people gave him,” while you mean only some of them,