A Difficulty in the Story of the Samiri and the Calf, and the Meaning of: "No Touching"
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The questioner:
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 Musa taking the calf, in that Allah ordered the Children of Israel to kill themselves so that He would accept their repentance, and yet he says that the Samiri, who made the calf for them and prostrated to it and ordered them to worship it, Musa said to him, "What is the matter with you?" Then he ordered him to go away and said, "No touching." What is the point of that in the hadith of the Messenger of Allah?
The Shaykh:
That is, no one can withstand the punishment and pain within it. Allah sent down upon him, saying: "You have [been given]..."[Taha 20:97] from the pain within it, and it afflicted him. Yes.
The questioner:
O Abu Rashid.
The Shaykh:
The interpretation of "la massas" in the Surah of al-Nisa is "istarkh." 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 Musa taking the calf, in that Allah ordered the Children of Israel to kill themselves so that He would accept their repentance, and yet he says that the Samiri, who made the calf for them and prostrated to it and ordered them to worship it, Musa said to him, "What is the matter with you?" Then he ordered him to go away and said, "No touching." What is the point of that in the hadith of the Messenger of Allah?
The Shaykh:
That is, no one can withstand the punishment and pain within it. Allah sent down upon him, saying: "You have [been given]..."
And indeed, it is [decreed] for you in [this] life to say, 'No contact.'
فَإِنَّ لَكَ فِي الْحَيَاةِ أَن تَقُولَ لَا مِسَاسَThe questioner:
O Abu Rashid.
The Shaykh:
The interpretation of "la massas" in the Surah of al-Nisa is "istarkh." Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 63 — youtube.com (56:37)
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