Abu Ja'far said: All of what those whose statements we mentioned have said regarding the interpretation of this verse is close in meaning; for although they differed in describing the "righteousness" that those people were ordering others to perform—whom God described as He described them—they agree that they were ordering people with that in which lies God's pleasure of speech or deed, while contradicting what they commanded them to do through their own actions.
Thus, the interpretation whose correctness is indicated by the apparent wording of the recitation is: Do you order people with obedience to God while leaving yourselves to disobey Him? Why do you not order yourselves with what you order people with of obedience to your Lord? Reproaching them thereby, and making ugly to them what they committed. (1)
And the meaning of "their forgetting themselves" in this context is similar to the forgetting about which He, Majestic is His Praise, said: {They forgot God, so He forgot them} [Surah al-Tawba: 67], in the sense that they left obedience to God, so God deprived them of His reward.
The discourse regarding the interpretation of the statement of the Exalted: ﴿while you recite the Book?﴾
Abu Ja'far said: He means by His statement: {you recite}: you study and read. Just as:
847- Abu Kuraib narrated to us, saying: 'Uthman ibn Sa'id narrated to us, saying: Bishr narrated to us, from Abu Rawq, from al-Dahhak, from Ibn 'Abbas: {while you recite the Book},
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