وَٱصْبِرْ نَفْسَكَ مَعَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُم بِٱلْغَدَوٰةِ وَٱلْعَشِىِّ يُرِيدُونَ وَجْهَهُۥ ۖ وَلَا تَعْدُ عَيْنَاكَ عَنْهُمْ تُرِيدُ زِينَةَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا ۖ وَلَا تُطِعْ مَنْ أَغْفَلْنَا قَلْبَهُۥ عَن ذِكْرِنَا وَٱتَّبَعَ هَوَىٰهُ وَكَانَ أَمْرُهُۥ فُرُطًا
Wasbir nafsaka ma'al lazeena yad'oona Rabbahum bilghadaati wal'ashiyyi yureedoona Wajhahoo wa laa ta'du 'aynaaka 'anhum tureedu zeenatal hayaatid dunyaa wa laa tuti' man aghfalnaa qalbahoo 'an zikrinaa wattaba'a hawaahu wa kaana amruhoo furutaa
Content yourself with those who pray to their Lord morning and evening, seeking His approval, and do not let your eyes turn away from them out of desire for the attractions of this worldly life: do not yield to those whose hearts We have made heedless of Our Quran, those who follow their own low desires, those whose ways are unbridled.
And hold yourself steady alongside those who call upon their Lord morning and evening, seeking his face. Do not let your eyes pass beyond them, desiring the adornment of this worldly life. And do not obey the one whose heart we have made heedless of our remembrance, who follows his own desire, and whose affair has slipped into excess.
Ṣabara first meant to hold a thing in place, to confine it, so the Prophet is told to bind himself to the company of believers who pray at dawn and at dusk, most of them poor. Commentators connect the command to men of standing who would sit with him only if those companions were sent away. The parable that comes next, of a proud owner of two gardens and the poorer friend he looks down on, shows the same choice from the other side.