[2:43] And establish prayer, and pay the alms, and bow with those that bow.
'Keep in mind the good manners of presence (ḥa?ra), for the preservation of good manners is the most perfect type of service'. The allusion in giving alms is to the almsgiving of aspirations, just as you fulfill the almsgiving of wealth. The one who spoke for them said:
Everything has
an almsgiving to be paid.
The almsgiving of beauty
is a mercy like Mine.
He causes the increases in one's aspirations and the subtleties of one's vision to flow over those who pursue and seek with that which invigorates them, and their states become bewildered.
'And bow with those that bow, following the traditions of the pious forefathers (salaf) in what they used to do, avoiding the practice of isolation, for being in a dense congregation (ghumār) is sounder than being separated from people'.