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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Al Mizan an Exegesis of the Quran (volume Seven) Volume 7: Surah Ale-imran, Verse 200 0 you who believe! be patient and help each other in patience and remain lined up; and fear (the wrath of ) Allah, that you may be successful (200). COMMENTARY This final verse is like the sum total, giving a gist of all that has been said in this chapter. It ends the chapter with a summary of its main theme. QUR'AN: 0 you who believe!
be patient and help each other in patience: The order is unrestricted. The clause, "be patient", covers every type of patience: Patience in hardships, patience in the obedience of Allah, and patience against the disobedience of Allah. However, it refers to individual's patience, as the next clause shows. "al?Musabarah" translated here as helping each other in patience, literally means vying with one another in being patient. It implies collective patience ?
when individuals bear a common hardship together and each one's patience is augmented by others' steadfastness. In this way, their strength is enhanced, their patience redoubled and its effect multiplied. This phenomenon may easily be experienced, if we first look at an individual as a single person, and then look at his behavior in a group when he becomes a part of a collective whole, each one acting on and reacting towards the others.
We shall describe this topic in detail, God willing, in its place. QUR'AN: and remain lined up; and fear (the wrath of) Allah, that you may be successful: "al?muraba'tah” is more comprehensive than al?Musabarah (vying with one another in patience; helping each other to be patient), because al?muraba’tah* implies people's linking up with one another in their powers, faculties, and activities in all affairs of their religious life ? in time of ease as well as in difficulties.
As the main aim of these orders is to let the believers attain the reality of happiness of this world and the next ? otherwise only partial worldly happiness can be achieved which obviously is not the real happiness ? these orders have been followed by the words, "and fear (the wrath of) Allah, that you may be successful", i.e., you may achieve total and real happiness and success. TRADITIONS as-Sadiq (a.s.) said about the words of Allah, O you who believe!