What is the meaning of Allah’s statement regarding the Samiri: (He said, “Go, then for you in life is the saying, ‘No touching’”)?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I am confused by the events that occurred in the story of the people of Moses making the calf. On one hand, Allah ordered the Children of Israel to kill themselves so that He would forgive them, and on the other hand, regarding the Samiri, who made the calf for them, prostrated to it, and ordered them to worship it, Moses said to him, “What is the matter with you?” Then he ordered him to go, commanding him to go and saying “no touching.” What is the point of that?
Answer:
Meaning, he is able to forget the pain of the punishment that Allah inflicted upon him, as He said:[Taha 20:97] from the pain that is in it and that has befallen him. Yes. He says. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I am confused by the events that occurred in the story of the people of Moses making the calf. On one hand, Allah ordered the Children of Israel to kill themselves so that He would forgive them, and on the other hand, regarding the Samiri, who made the calf for them, prostrated to it, and ordered them to worship it, Moses said to him, “What is the matter with you?” Then he ordered him to go, commanding him to go and saying “no touching.” What is the point of that?
Answer:
Meaning, he is able to forget the pain of the punishment that Allah inflicted upon him, as He said:
And indeed, it is [decreed] for you in [this] life to say, 'No contact.'
فَإِنَّ لَكَ فِي الْحَيَاةِ أَن تَقُولَ لَا مِسَاسَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3923- 4717] ما معنى قول الله عن السامري:(قال فاذهب فإن لك في الحياة أن تقول لا مساس)؟ -صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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