Bow and prostrate and worship your Lord, and do good, that you may succeed.
“Bow and prostrate and worship your Lord, and do good, that you may succeed.”
O you who have believed in Allah and have acted in accordance to the laws He laid down for you! Bow and prostrate to Him alone in your prayer; do good by way of charity and enjoining family ties, in hope that you succeed in your objective and achieve salvation from the feared.
The plain meaning, from Al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱرْكَعُوا۟ وَٱسْجُدُوا۟ وَٱعْبُدُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ وَٱفْعَلُوا۟ ٱلْخَيْرَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ
O you who have believed, bow and prostrate and worship your Lord and do good - that you may succeed.
What does Quran 22:77 mean?
This closes Surah al-Hajj, and it moves outwards as it goes: bow, prostrate, worship — then “do good,” which the commentators read as charity and keeping family ties. The verse after it says Allah has laid no hardship on you in religion, and calls it the religion of your father Ibrahim. So the demand and the reassurance arrive together.
Written from Al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir