The Verse of the Throne

The second verse there opens with spending, and an encouragement to it:

Spend of what We have given you. We gave it to you in the first place; you are merely told to spend of what We have given — before a day comes in which there is no more trade, no more friendship and no intercession, and in which you will stand in real need of it.

Then, māshāʾAllāh, after these, Allah (swt) grants us one of the most profound verses of the Qur'an, one of its mightiest — and there is a reason why it should be so — the āyat al-kursī, the verse of the Throne:

It is made up of some fifty words — fifty words, taken all together — and they may be gathered into ten clauses. That one long verse divides into ten clauses, ten points made; and that, as said, in fifty words. Within it Allah (swt) is mentioned seventeen times: seventeen times, whether directly or indirectly, whether by allusion to Him or expressly by one of His names.

Such is the verse. There are numerous faḍāʾil and virtues belonging to it, besides its being a source of protection. In a great many Muslim families about the world it is probably, after some of the short sūrahs, the first long verse that children commit to memory. The reason, presumably, is that we wish our children to be protected. There is a great and very moving account of how it came to be known that this āyah is a very secure protection against every evil abroad: jinn, evil influences, and other things of that nature. So parents like their children to know it first, and it has become a tradition. If one's children do not yet know it, they should certainly be set to memorise it. It is a beautiful verse, deeply moving and lyrical, and in shāʾ Allāh it will be a great source of protection.