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The Statement of Allāh : تعالى: “(They will say) Our Lord! Remove the torment from us, really we shall become believers!” (V.44:12)

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Darussalam · Volume 6

65 - THE BOOK OF COMMENTARY:(Interpretation of the Qur'an)

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الحديث: 4822 ¦ الجزء: 6 ¦ الصفحة: 131

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4822. Narrated ‘Abdullāh: It is an aspect of knowledge that, when you do not know something, you say: ‘Allāh knows better.’ Allāh said to his Prophet ﷺ: “Say (O Muhammad ﷺ): No wage do I ask of you for this (the Qur’ān), nor am I one of the Mutakallifūn (those who pretend and fabricate things which do not exist).” (V.38:86) When the Quraish troubled and stood against the Prophet ﷺ, he said, “O Allāh! Help me against them by sending on them seven years (of drought-famine) like the seven (years of drought) of Yūsuf (Joseph).” So they were afflicted with a year of drought (famine) during which they ate bones and dead animals because of too much suffering, and one of them would see something like smoke between him and the sky because of (hunger) exhaustion. Then they said: “Our Lord! Remove the torment from us, really we shall become believers.” (V.44:12) And then it was said (to the Prophet ﷺ by Allāh), “If We remove it from them they will revert.” So the Prophet ﷺ invoked his Lord, Who removed the punishment from them, but later they reverted (to heathenism), whereupon Allāh punished them on the day of the battle of Badr, and that is what Allāh’s Statement indicates: “Then wait for the Day that the sky will bring forth a visible smoke... (up to) ...Verily, We will exact retribution.” (V.44:10-16)

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4822 - حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، قَالَ: دَخَلْتُ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ مِنَ العِلْمِ أَنْ تَقُولَ لِمَا لاَ تَعْلَمُ اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ، إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَالَ لِنَبِيِّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: {قُلْ مَا أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ أَجْرٍ وَمَا أَنَا مِنَ المُتَكَلِّفِينَ} إِنَّ قُرَيْشًا لَمَّا غَلَبُوا النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَاسْتَعْصَوْا عَلَيْهِ، قَالَ: " اللَّهُمَّ أَعِنِّي عَلَيْهِمْ بِسَبْعٍ كَسَبْعِ يُوسُفَ فَأَخَذَتْهُمْ سَنَةٌ أَكَلُوا فِيهَا العِظَامَ وَالمَيْتَةَ مِنَ الجَهْدِ، حَتَّى جَعَلَ أَحَدُهُمْ يَرَى مَا بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ كَهَيْئَةِ الدُّخَانِ مِنَ الجُوعِ، قَالُوا: {رَبَّنَا اكْشِفْ عَنَّا العَذَابَ إِنَّا مُؤْمِنُونَ} [الدخان: 12] فَقِيلَ لَهُ: إِنْ كَشَفْنَا عَنْهُمْ عَادُوا، فَدَعَا رَبَّهُ فَكَشَفَ عَنْهُمْ فَعَادُوا، فَانْتَقَمَ اللَّهُ مِنْهُمْ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ، فَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى: {فَارْتَقِبْ يَوْمَ تَأْتِي السَّمَاءُ بِدُخَانٍ مُبِينٍ} [الدخان: 10] إِلَى قَوْلِهِ جَلَّ ذِكْرُهُ {إِنَّا مُنْتَقِمُونَ} [الدخان: 16]

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