As per His -azwj Words...
As per His -azwj Words: ‘We did not commit cruelty’ [133] but it were them who nurtured animosity against ‘Wali Allah’ (His appointees -asws ) and supported the enemies of His appointees -azwj , that’s why Allah -azwj Says: They are cruel to their souls. [134] Allah -azwj has denied their access to Paradise and made their final destination in hell-fire mandatory.
And Allah -azwj Says: You have been given one thing which is the heaviest’ [135] thus Allah -azwj has revealed various religious instructions, supplications and obligations at different times, like creation of the earth and the skies within 6 days.
However, Allah -azwj could have created these within a fraction of a second but, He -azwj decided to proceed gradually, in order to show these examples to His -azwj ‘Amnar’ and for the purpose of creating examples, making it compulsory for the masses to accept His -azwj ‘Hujjat’.
Thus, the first element which was made mandatory for the believers was the ‘Wahadaniat, Rabubiat and Shahadaat’ (Uniqueness, guardianship and pronouncing (three or more) testimonies but (all these) through the words of ‘la a la ha illillah’.
Thus, upon accepting these, including submission to Prophet -saww , and giving testimonies in the context of Prophet-hood, then other acts, including Salat, Fast, Hajj, Jahad, Ziqaat, Alms as well as the share from the war booty (Malay Fay) [136] were made obligatory unto them.
At this point, the hypocrites asked Prophet -saww , is there anything else which is still to be made obligatory unto to us, if that still exists, let us know about it so that we get peace of mind that there will not be anything else which is going to be made compulsory onto us at a later time.
At that instance, Allah -azwj sent the revelation, ‘Tell them there is one big thing left which is the heaviest’ 136 , meaning ‘Wilayat’ and sent the following revelation: There is no sustainer except Allah who is your Wali, along with His Prophet and those Momineen who establish prayers and offer Ziqaat (Alms) in the state of Bowing’. [137] There is no disagreement among the nation of Islam that on that day no one else but a Single Momin -asws gave Ziqaat (when this verse was revealed).
If his name were mentioned in the verse by Allah -azwj then they would have omitted it as they excluded those names from the Book which were mentioned before.