这一章是在第61章"列队"之后降示的。两章虽然主题相同，但本章采取了不同的方式，运用了不同的风格和不同的表达效果。它旨在使麦地那的穆斯林群体深刻认识到，他们已被选中承担神圣信仰的责任。它希望穆斯林群体明白，处于这样一个托付的地位，是真主赐予他们的一大恩惠。它还希望他们明白，真主从阿拉伯人中选择了祂最后的使者，这同样是另一项大恩典，理应以恰当的感恩之心来回报真主。在此背景下，本章规定了那些响应真主使者并接受这一托付的人所必须履行的义务。这一群体和这份托付都要世代延续，毫无缺失，因为真主已经注定，先知所播下的种子将继续成长。穆斯林群体接过了以色列后裔所抛弃和忽视的托付。他们断绝了与天的联系，却像驴子背负书卷一样背负着《讨拉特》。

This surah was revealed after Surah 61, The Ranks, and whilst both deal with the same theme, the current chapter nonetheless takes a dif ferent approach, using a different style and different effects. It aims to drive home to the Muslim community in Madlnah that it has been chosen to undertake responsibility for the divine faith. It wants the Muslim community to understand that to be in such a position of trust is a great favour God has bestowed on it. It also wants them to understand that by God choosing His last Messenger from among the Arabs is yet another great favour, one that merits a proper expression of gratitude to God. In this context, the surah provides certain duties that must be fulfilled by the people who responded to Gods Messenger and who accepted the trust. Both the community and the trust are to continue across generations, without fail, because God has determined that the seed planted by the Prophet will continue to grow. The Muslim community has taken over the trust abandoned and neglected by the Children of Israel. They severed their relation with heaven so as to carry the Torah in the same way as an ass would carry books.