A promise placed inside a verse about fasting
It interrupts a passage about Ramadan without explanation.
وَإِذَا سَأَلَكَ عِبَادِى عَنِّى فَإِنِّى قَرِيبٌ ۖ أُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ ٱلدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ ۖ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا۟ لِى وَلْيُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِى لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشُدُونَ
Wa idhā sa'alaka ʿibādī ʿannī fa-innī qarīb, ujību daʿwata-d-dāʿi idhā daʿān, fa-l-yastajībū lī wa-l-yu'minū bī…
“And when My servants ask you, [O Muḥammad], concerning Me - indeed I am near. I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me. So let them respond to Me [by obedience] and believe in Me that they may be [rightly] guided.”
Source
The Qur'an · 2:186
Qur'an
- Qur'anic text in the Uthmani script via Quran.com; translation: Saheeh International