Call upon Me; I will respond to you.
“Call upon Me; I will respond to you.”
O people, your Lord said: “Call upon Me alone and worship Me alone, and do not associate any partner with Me. Those who are too arrogant in worshipping Me alone will enter the fire on the Day of Judgment, low and disgraced”.
The plain meaning, from Al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir
وَقَالَ رَبُّكُمُ ٱدْعُونِىٓ أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ عَنْ عِبَادَتِى سَيَدْخُلُونَ جَهَنَّمَ دَاخِرِينَ
And your Lord says, "Call upon Me; I will respond to you." Indeed, those who disdain My worship will enter Hell rendered contemptible.
What does Quran 40:60 mean?
The invitation has a second half that is rarely quoted with it: those too arrogant to worship Me will enter the Fire brought low. Put together, the two halves show how the Qur’an classes supplication — not as a favour asked of Allah but as worship owed to Him, so that not asking is not modesty, it is pride. Ibn Kathir preserves Sufyan ath-Thawri’s words on this verse: that the servant most beloved to Allah is the one who keeps asking Him.
Written from Al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir