and Allah and His Messenger are to be pleased:

“Allah and His Messenger have a greater right that they should seek His pleasure.”

Giving, too, is attributed to Allah and His Messenger:

“If only they had been content with what Allah and His Messenger had given them.”

As for “worship” and related acts, such as reliance, fear, and the like, these are for Allah alone, as He Most High says:

“Say, ‘O People of the Scripture, come to a word that is common between us and you: that we worship none but Allah and associate nothing with Him’”—up to His words: “But if they turn away, then say, ‘Bear witness that we are Muslims.’”

He Most High also says:

“If only they had been content with what Allah and His Messenger had given them and had said, ‘Allah is sufficient for us. Allah will give us of His bounty, and so will His Messenger. To Allah alone we turn with longing.’”

Thus, giving is attributed to Allah and the Messenger, as in His words:

“Whatever the Messenger gives you, take it; and whatever he forbids you, refrain from it.”

As for sufficiency, it is Allah alone who suffices, as He Most High says:

“Those to whom people said, ‘The people have gathered against you, so fear them,’ but this only increased them in faith, and they said, ‘Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs.’”

He Most High also says:

“O Prophet, Allah is sufficient for you and for those believers who follow you.”

That is, Allah is sufficient for you and sufficient for those who follow you. Whoever supposes that the meaning is, “Allah, together with the believers, is sufficient for you,” has made a grave error, as we have explained at length elsewhere. He Most High also says:

“Is Allah not sufficient for His servant?”

To explain this precisely: the word “servant” may mean “one brought into subjection”—one whom Allah has subjected and humbled, and whose affairs He has governed