His second question asks: What is the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “Indeed, We offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they declined to undertake it and were afraid of it, and man assumed it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant.”
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The questioner : His second question asks: What is the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted [Al-Ahzab 33:72] and what is meant by this trust?
The Shaykh : What is meant by the trust is what Allah entrusted to His servants in the form of His obedience. Indeed, Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, obligated them to obedience by complying with His command and avoiding His prohibition. They committed to this through the covenant between them and Him, through the faith in Him and acknowledgment of Him that He created in their nature, through the intellect He gave them, and through the messengers He sent to them. Here is the nature, here is the intellect, and here is the message. Through these three things, man assumed the trust and was charged with it. He must fulfill this trust and recognize its magnitude, as it was offered to the heavens, the earth, and the mountains, but they declined to undertake it and were afraid of it. However, man assumed it and carried it. Therefore, he must fulfill it, and it is the obedience of Allah the Exalted by complying with His command and avoiding His prohibition, in what concerns His worship and in what concerns the rights of His servants. Yes.
The questioner : This is a question from a female listener, uh, from Irbid, Jordan.
Indeed, we offered the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant.
إنا عرضنا الأمانة على السماوات والأرض والجبال فأبين أن يحملنها وأشفقن منها وحملها الإنسان إنه كان ظلوماً جهولاThe Shaykh : What is meant by the trust is what Allah entrusted to His servants in the form of His obedience. Indeed, Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, obligated them to obedience by complying with His command and avoiding His prohibition. They committed to this through the covenant between them and Him, through the faith in Him and acknowledgment of Him that He created in their nature, through the intellect He gave them, and through the messengers He sent to them. Here is the nature, here is the intellect, and here is the message. Through these three things, man assumed the trust and was charged with it. He must fulfill this trust and recognize its magnitude, as it was offered to the heavens, the earth, and the mountains, but they declined to undertake it and were afraid of it. However, man assumed it and carried it. Therefore, he must fulfill it, and it is the obedience of Allah the Exalted by complying with His command and avoiding His prohibition, in what concerns His worship and in what concerns the rights of His servants. Yes.
The questioner : This is a question from a female listener, uh, from Irbid, Jordan.