[656] Qur’anic ayas.
[657] By holding tight to the surest of ties (al-ʿurwatu al-wuthqā) mentioned in 2: 256, i.e. Islam. Holding tight to al-ʿurwatu al-wuthqā is the surest way of deliverance even long after the Prophet’s (ﷺ) demise. Abū Hurayrah (رضي الله عنه) narrated that the Prophet said: “I leave behind me two things. You will not go astray as long as you adhere to them: the Book of Allah and my Sunnah. They will not separate until they come to the Basin ˹in the Hereafter˺”. (Mālik: 32)
[659] A symbol of the Straight Path (cf. 6: 153) that leads to deliverance, Islam (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī). Zayd Ibn Arqam (رضي الله عنه) narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “I’ll leave with you behind me two grave matters. The first is the Book of Almighty Allah. It is the rope of Allah; whoever follows it is guided and whoever does not has gone astray”. (Muslim: 2408)
[660] After the Battle of Ḥunayn the Prophet (ﷺ) addressed his Anṣār Companions by saying: “Have I not found you: lost and Allah guided you by me? Destitute and Allah made you well-to-do by me? Divided and Allah united you by me?” (Muslim: 1061)
[661] ‘The successful’, al-mufliḥūn, are those who succeed in attaining what they wish for; to be guided by God, and avoiding the evil of what they fear.
[662] The Day of Judgement.
[663] Cf. 10: 26-27, 75: 22-24 and 80: 40.