[Pooya/Ali Commentary 17:11] Aqa Mahdi Puya says: This verse refers to the following situations: (i) Helplessness produces worry and anger. Losing the sense of equilibrium, sometimes man, in such a situation, feels disgusted and curses himself and his people as sincerely as he prays for good and blessings. (ii) Ignoring the ultimate consequences, sometimes, man prays for immediate gains and advantages . (iii) He also prays for forbidden things as he prays for lawful things. In all such circumstances, if Allah accepts the prayers directed to Him, there will be unnecessary destruction, chaos and disorder, which He, as the most merciful and all-wise Lord, does not will.

1. Every act, good or evil, remains a record for exposition on Reckoning Day. Better get it recorded to please you on Day of Judgment, by penance, if evil. 2. With wealth, luxury increases and calls for a revolution, ending in Divine wrath. 3. Prosperity in world and eternity depends on earnestness and hard work, worldly prosperity is transitory and subject to accounting, unlike eternal, which is unaccountable and permanent. Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties which contribute causes for patience, endurance to overcome pains, strength to overcome weakness, bravery to face danger, sustenance to entertain hope, lightness of difficulties. Man should trust in God, and God shall fulfil it as per His Will, and he should labour, as earnestly and sincerely, as if he himself did it, leaving to none what pertains to him, praying to god to help him in his endeavours. It may be noted actions have three phases: those of inanimate object having external agency, those of animals having motives but void reason, those of man govern reason, hence freedom of human action restricts this freedom within bounds of rationality, bearing in mind object of his creation. Destruction of civilization starts with cities, where glory and pomp flourish and abound.