This is a law and a general divine rule; everyone who believes in Allah (swt) must apply it and prepare to be in compliance with the command of Allah (swt) as he entered into a contract of faith with Him (swt).
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ {you who have believed}: This command is directed to those who believe in Allah (swt) and those who are certain that the matters are in the hands of Allah, Allah’s decree is enforceable, and Allah (swt) is the One Who harms and benefits, gives and withholds….. and what befalls you would not have missed you, and what missed you would not have befallen you. The believer was entrusted and commanded by Allah (swt) to be persevere and endure, remain stationed and fear Allah (swt).
To be persevere means to be patient with what is afflicted you in this worldly life, in fact, faith cannot be fulfilled without patience. That is why the Prophet (saws) said:
“Patience is half of faith”
A person is exposed to all kinds of trials in this world of the changes in which he lives, such as transition from health to disease, from strength to weakness, from youth to old age, from wealth to poverty, from life to death, from happiness to the annoyances, pains and sorrows, and everything that happens to the children of Adam, no one can evade the divine law of trial:
تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ الْمُلْكُ وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ (1) الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيَاةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلًا وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْغَفُورُ
{Blessed is He in whose hand is dominion, and He is over all things competent. (1) [He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed – and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving} (Al-Mulk:1-2)
In this life there has to be tests, and the reward will be after this death, and patience is necessary. If you are not patient, you will not be a true believer at all. As for enduring, it means that you have to be prepared more than your enemy. Remaining stationed is not only with horses, military operation and weapons, stationed is also with science, stationed is when the person is steadfast in front of attacks related to values, morals and religion, and the believers must be aware of this divine lesson and do not make others alienate Islam because of your actions, but how could you make others alienate Islam?
1- When you do not take into account the purposes of Islamic law.
2- When you separate between rituals and purposes.
3- When you say what you don’t do.
4- And when you do evil acts, yet you pray and do the other acts of worship, but they do not prevent you from indecency and evil and do not bring you closer to Allah (swt) and more than that you offend all the other worshipers. So remaining stationed would not be with just words, but rather by steadfastness on values. There are a lot of attacks against Islam these days as a result of what happened and what is happening around us in terms of committing heinous crimes under Islamic slogans and names. So some people began repeating what the enemies wanted saying: Wherever Islam is found, there is backwardness, terrorism, murder and darkness. This is not true. Backwardness and ignorance are not related and have never connected one day to religion, but on the contrary, during a thousand years the first civilization was the Arab and Islamic civilization, and spread sciences all over the countries, so what is the relationship between religion and backwardness!! Religion encourages science and encourages the establish of civilization.
It is necessary to be scientifically advanced in order to present the true image of Islam. When we are backward, we present a dark image of our Islamic religion. When they talk, for example, about human rights, they say: Human rights came with the French Revolution, and this is a mistake. It came much earlier than that One thousand four hundred years ago, Human rights came with Islam, and unfortunately we do not teach the generations this truth, and when they talk about women’s rights, women’s rights came with Islam, and when they talk about the scientific renaissance, it came with Islam as well.
وَاتَّقُواْ اللّهَ {and fear Allah}: So with patience, perseverance, stationed, and steadiness, you must achieve piety.
Piety (fearing Allah) is to make a barrier between you and the Fire, and there will be no barrier between us and the Fire except by one way, which is to obey Allah (swt).
لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ {that you may be successful}: Successful here in Arabic comes from the plowing of the land to prepare it for seed, so that we can get the fruits.
The success (Falah) comes from this word, and a person will be successful if he uses perseverance, endure, remaining stationed and fear Allah (swt) as a weapon in this worldly life.