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A verse and its Tafsir

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Allah the Exalted says

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“Is he who founded his building upon duty to Allah and His good pleasure better; or he who founded his building on the brink of a crumbling, overhanging precipice so that it toppled with him into the fire of hell? Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.” (9:109)

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Its meaning is

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He established a foundation and a base for its structure

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It is the base upon which things are built

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It is said

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As and asas (foundation)

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The plural of as is asas

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Mufradat al-Qur'an

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By al-Raghib al-Isfahani