Tafseer of The Women · An-Nisaa · 4:175
So those who believe in Allah and hold fast to Him - He will admit them to mercy from Himself and bounty and guide them to Himself on a straight path.
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The explanation of His word: As for those who believe in Allah and hold fast to Him, He will admit them into mercy from Him and into bounty, and He will guide them to Himself along a straight path (175).
Abū Jaʿfar said: He, exalted is His praise, means by this: As for those who held Allah to be true and acknowledged His oneness, as well as that with which He sent Muḥammad ﷺ, among the people of the religious communities — "and hold fast to Him," He says: and who held fast to the clear Light which He sent down to His Prophet — as in:
10863 — Al-Qāsim related to us, saying: Al-Ḥusayn related to us, saying: Ḥajjāj related to me, on the authority of Ibn Jurayj: "and hold fast to Him," he said: to the Qurʾān.
"He will admit them into mercy from Him and into bounty," He says: His mercy will reach them, which saves them from His punishment and which grants them His reward, His mercy, and His Paradise (janna), and there will reach them of His bounty what has reached the people of faith in Him and the holding true of His messengers. "And He will guide them to Himself along a straight path," He says: and He will give them the right guidance to attain His bounty, which He bestows upon His close friends, and He will set them upon the straight path to tread the way of those upon whom He has bestowed favors among the people who obey Him, and to follow their footsteps and adhere to their religion. And that is "the straight path," and that is the religion of Allah which He has chosen for His servants, and that is Islam.
And "the straight path" (al-ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm) is in the accusative (naṣb) as a specification (qaṭʿ) referring to the "Him" (the hāʾ) in His word "to Himself."
