The face of the disbeliever on the Day of Resurrection: “My authority has perished from me,” even though many of them are not holders of authority
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The questioner : Shaykh, may Allah bless you. This verse, which contains “My authority has perished from me,” it is known that not everyone who is given his book in his left hand was a holder of authority on earth. Many of them are poor and were not holders of authority. And Shaykh Lisan al-Tinayyih says: everyone [Al-Haqqah 69:25] this.
The Shaykh : This is the apparent meaning of the verse. Wealth may be abundant or it may be little. Or it can be said: if this is the state of the wealthy holders of authority, what about the others? I mean those who have authority and wealth and can ransom themselves with it, yet it does not benefit them on the Day of Resurrection. So the others have nothing.
The questioner : But will everyone who is given the book in his left hand say this?
The Shaykh : No, no. Does the one who owned that say it?
he who is given his record in his left hand, he will say
مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ بِشِمَالِهِ فَيَقُولُThe Shaykh : This is the apparent meaning of the verse. Wealth may be abundant or it may be little. Or it can be said: if this is the state of the wealthy holders of authority, what about the others? I mean those who have authority and wealth and can ransom themselves with it, yet it does not benefit them on the Day of Resurrection. So the others have nothing.
The questioner : But will everyone who is given the book in his left hand say this?
The Shaykh : No, no. Does the one who owned that say it?
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 603- وجه قول الكافر يوم القيامة: ﴿هَلَكَ عَنِّي سُلْطَانِيَهْ﴾ مع أنّ كثيرًا منهم ليس ذا سلطان — youtube.com
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