3فَسَبِّح بِحَمدِ رَبِّكَ وَاستَغفِرهُ ۚ إِنَّهُ كانَ تَوّابًاMir Ahmed AliCelebrate1 then the praise of thy Lord and seek thou His protectionI, (for) verily He is Oft-Turning (merciful)!It is indirectly an ordinance for mankind to celebrate God’s grace and glory, at each event of success in life and seek His grace through prayer and earn the protection through God’s forgiveness of the shortcomings. ’Instighfar’ in the case of a sinful being, means seeking the pardon of God and the same ’Instighfar’ on the part of a sinless infallible one like the Holy Prophet and His Ahlul-Bait who have already been purified by the Lord Himself (33:33) will mean seeking further grace and the greater blessings or the further protection of the Lord against the satanic forces. Here ’Instighfar’ means the Holy Prophet’s asking for the protection of the Lord for himself and his followers against the satanic forces of evil, and seeking pardon of the Lord on behalf of his faithful adherents who might have been the prey of the human weakness as did Moses for his people who had yielded to the worship of the Calf. It is said that this Sura was revealed on the occasion of the bloodless capture of Mecca. The Holy Prophet standing at the entrance of the Holy Ka’ba said, “There is no god but God the One and the Only, He has fulfilled His promise and has helped His servant (the Holy Prophet)” and then entered it, and to each idol which was there in it, he pointed with his staff and the idol fell headlong into pieces and for those which were fixed higher into the walls, he asked Ali to mount up on his shoulders and Ali mounted and put his hand with his miraculous strength and pulled each one of the idols and dashed it to the ground. It is said that even the largest and the most strongly fixed ones also were easily plucked out and even the idols of strong metals, broke into pieces. When the Holy Prophet recited this Sura before his uncle Abbas, Abbas began shedding tears and said that the matter discloses the departure of the Holy Prophet from this world. The Holy Prophet said “It is so my dear uncle!” Two years later departed the Holy Prophet from this world.Rv. 48:2 to note on ’Instighfar’