The benefits of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “And those who respond to their Lord and establish prayer, and whose affair is [determined by] consultation among them, and from what We have provided them they spend.”

Among the benefits of this noble verse is that one of the characteristics of the believers who place their reliance on Allah is that they respond to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), meaning they answer Him to what He has asked of them. This means hastening and not delaying, because delaying the performance of an obligatory duty is a deficiency in the response. I give you an example of a man who ordered his son to come to him for a need, but the son hesitated and stayed for an hour or two before coming with the need. Can it be said that the son complied fully? No, full compliance is by hastening, and this is the meaning of His saying: .
Among the benefits of the noble verse is the care for establishing prayer. The reason for this is that Allah specified it after the generalization, because His saying: includes prayer and other things. So when He said “they established prayer,” He specified it particularly, and this is evidence of the care for it. And it is a right, by Allah, that it be cared for, because there is no worship that has a stronger connection between you and Allah (Mighty and Majestic) than prayer. A person gives charity but does not feel the connection between him and his Lord. He fasts, he performs Hajj, but the true, legislated prayer is that a person feels that he is in a connection between him and Allah. For this reason, it was named “salah” (prayer) because it is a connection between the person and Allah. When the person says: “Praise be to Allah,” Allah says: “My servant praised Me,” and so on in this dialogue. Then he feels that when he bows, his Lord is above him, magnifying Him, and when he prostrates, he places his noblest limbs in the places where feet tread. Therefore, the care for prayer is where He said: .
Where was prayer made obligatory? Prayer was made obligatory on the night of the Mi'raj, from Allah to the Messenger without an intermediary. This indicates its importance and the care for it. Then it was made obligatory as fifty prayers, and Allah lightened it for the servants by making it five prayers, but in reality it is fifty prayers, meaning that if you pray one obligatory prayer, it is as if you have prayed ten. This is not because a good deed is rewarded with ten times its like, because that applies to all good deeds, but rather it is as if you have prayed, for example, the Zuhr prayer ten times, praying and completing the taslim until you reach ten. And by this, the difference between it and other acts of worship becomes apparent: the reward for a good deed is ten times its like, but this is as if you have actually prayed fifty prayers.
Among the benefits of the noble verse is considering social conditions and that general matters must be discussed through consultation, due to the saying of Allah the Exalted: .
Does the verse indicate that if a person wants to do a specific action that is his own, he should consult? No, it does not indicate this. But consultation is prescribed. If something is difficult for you, you have two things: istikhara (the prayer for guidance in a decision) and consultation. But a general matter must be discussed through consultation. An exception to this is if the matter becomes clear to the one in authority, then there is no need for consultation in it. That is, if it becomes clear to the prince, the president, or the king that there is a benefit in what he wants, there is no need for consultation. Because consultation returns to him when? When there is difficulty and hesitation. But when the benefit is clear, there is no need for him to consult, because consultation at that time only adds difficulty and chaos to the matter. People are not of one opinion. If you want the matter to be torn apart, put it in the hands of ten people, and if you want it to dissolve completely, put it in the hands of twenty people. People must differ. Does “their affair is by consultation among them” apply in its generality, or is something excluded from it? What is excluded from it is what whose benefit is clear to the one in authority, for there is no need for him to consult. And evidence for this exception is the practice of the righteous predecessors. Here is 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), who was among the most concerned of the caliphs for the people, did not consult when the benefit was clear to him, but only consulted when the matter was difficult for him. If you counted what he consulted on, it would not reach more than dozens or less, and he remained ten years in the caliphate. This practice of the predecessors, the Rightly Guided Caliphs, qualifies the saying of Allah the Exalted: . So something is excluded, and there is no need for consultation, because consultation in this case is harm in the execution of the matter and proceeding with it.
Among the benefits of the noble verse is that one of the characteristics of those who believed and on their Lord they rely is spending wealth in obedience to Allah, due to His saying: .
Is a person required to spend all of his wealth? This depends on . Is it for partiality or for the genus? If we say it is for partiality, then the praise is for the one who spent part of his wealth. And if we say it is for the genus, meaning that they spend from this type that Allah provided them, it becomes general. The detail is the foundation, if Allah wills: If a person’s spending does not diminish anything from the obligatory spending on his family, there is no harm in him spending all of his wealth. For example, if a person has one hundred riyals that he does not need for spending on his family and he has nothing else, we say here: spend all the wealth, then earn for spending on your family, as Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) did. But if he needs the wealth for the obligatory spending on his family and he is weak in earning, then here we say: do not spend all of your wealth, hold back some of your wealth for yourself, for it is better for you.