Allah commands His believing servants to remember their Lord much. Who has bestowed upon them all kinds of blessings and favors, because this will bring them a great reward and a wonderful destiny.
Imam Ahmad recorded that 'Abdullah bin Busr said: "Two bedouins came to the Messenger of Allah and one of them said: 'O Messenger of Allah, which of the people is best?' He said:
and in health, in secret and openly, in all situations and circumstances. And Allah says:
}And glorify His praises morning and Asila.}
If you do this, He and His angels will send blessings upon you." [1] There are very many Ayat, Hadiths and reports which encourage the remembrance of Allah, and this Ayah, urges us to remember Him much. People such as An-Nasa'i and Al-Ma'mari and others have written books about the Adhkar to be recited at different times of the night and day.
}And glorify His. praises morning and Asila} in the morning and in the evening. This is like the Ayah:
}So glorify Allah, when you come up to the evening, and when you enter the morning. And His are all the praises and thanks in the heavens and the earth; and in the afternoon and when you come up to the time, when the day begins to decline.} (30:17-18).
}He it is Who sends Salah on you, and His angels too,}
This is encouragement to remember Allah, i.e., He will remember you, so remember Him. This is like the Ayah:
}Similarly, We have sent among you a Messenger of your own, reciting to you Our Ayat and purifying you, and teaching you the Book and the Hikmah, and teaching you that which you used not to know. Therefore remember Me. I will remember
}that He may bring you out from darkness into light.}
means, by means of His mercy towards you, His praise of you and the supplication of His angels for you, He brings you forth from the darkness of ignorance and misguidance into the light of guidance and certain faith.
}And He is Ever Most Merciful to the believers.}
means, in this world and in the Hereafter: in this world He guides them to the truth of which others are ignorant, and He shows them the path from which others have gone astray, those who call for disbelief and innovation, and their followers among the wrongdoers. His mercy towards them in the Hereafter means that He will save them from the greater terror (of the Day of Resurrection) and will command His angels to greet them with the glad tidings of Paradise and salvation from the Fire, which will only be because of His love for them and His kindness towards them.
Imam Ahmad recorded that Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, said: "The Messenger of Allah and a group of his Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, passed by a young child in the road. When his mother saw the people, she feared that her child may be crushed by the crowd, so she rushed forward, crying, "My son, my son!' She ran and picked him up, and the people said, 'O Messenger of Allah, she would never throw her child in the Fire.' The Messenger of Allah convincingly said:
"No, and Allah will not throw His beloved in the Fire." [1]
Its chain of narrators meets the conditions of the Two Sahihs, although none of the authors of the Six Books recorded it. But in Sahih Al-Bukhari it is recorded from the Commander of the faithful 'Umar bin Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Messenger of Allah saw a woman among the prisoners of war picking up her child, clasping the child to her breast and nursing him. The Messenger of Allah said:
«Do you think that this woman would throw her child into the Fire even though she is (physically) able to do so?»
They said, "No." The Messenger of Allah said:
«By Allah, Allah is more merciful towards His servants than this woman is to her child.» [1]
}Their greeting on the Day they shall meet Him will be "Salam"}
The apparent meaning - and Allah knows best - is that their greeting, from Allah on the Day that they meet Him, will be Salam, i.e., He will greet them with Salam, as He says elsewhere:
}(It will be said to them) : Salam - a Word from the Lord, Most Merciful .} (36:58)
Qatadah claimed that the meaning was that they would greet one another with Salam on the Day when they meet Allah in the Hereafter. [2] This is like the Ayah:
}Their way of request therein will be 'Glory to You, O Allah,' and 'Salam' will be their greetings therein! and the close of their request will be 'All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all that exits.'} (10:10)
}And He has prepared for them a generous reward.}
means Paradise and everything in it of food, drink, clothing, dwellings, physical pleasure, luxuries and delightful scenes, such as no eye has seen, no ear has heard and has never entered the mind of man.
[1] At-Tabari 20:280.
[1] Ahmad 3:104.
[1] Fath Al-Bari 10:440.
[2] At-Tabari 20:280.