An interesting contrast is that God says there trade didn't benefit them when they bought misguidance for guidance and this a contrast to those who guard and are truly successful.
In then turns to a people who in majority case aren't disbelievers or believers, but are yet to make a decision:
2:21 O ye people! Worship your Lord who created you and created those before you, that you may guard.
Guarding is a level of worship of God but it includes guarding against evil that we may afflict to others. Other verses emphasize to guard so that we maybe grateful/thankful, and this state is the highest form of worship of God, but it's also the best way to value others, that is to appreciate them, and to appreciate oneself is also a key part in this.
Another verse in the same Surah will emphasize if we forget God, we forget ourselves. Thus, God, who is needless of us realizes the most how much we need him.
This advise in the flow comes as a call to all humans and invitation to walk the path of guarding against evil and says the way to do that is to worship our Lord.
In then turns to a people who in majority case aren't disbelievers or believers, but are yet to make a decision:
2:21 O ye people! Worship your Lord who created you and created those before you, that you may guard.
Guarding is a level of worship of God but it includes guarding against evil that we may afflict to others. Other verses emphasize to guard so that we maybe grateful/thankful, and this state is the highest form of worship of God, but it's also the best way to value others, that is to appreciate them, and to appreciate oneself is also a key part in this.
Another verse in the same Surah will emphasize if we forget God, we forget ourselves. Thus, God, who is needless of us realizes the most how much we need him.
This advise in the flow comes as a call to all humans and invitation to walk the path of guarding against evil and says the way to do that is to worship our Lord.
