[2:148] Every person has his direction to which he turns, so vie with one another in good works. Wherever you may be, God will bring you all together; surely God has power over all things.
'The allusion in it is to the fact that every people are distracted from Us by something that comes between them and Us. So be you, O believers, for Us and through Us'. One of them recited:
When preoccupation with their concern
distracted me from you,
I made you my preoccupation and
you made me forget my concern.