The Meaning of the Gaze in Allah’s Saying: “Look at Us, That We May Borrow from Your Light”
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The questioner:
O Shaykh, the owners of the rain, you mentioned (may Allah preserve you) the saying of Allah the Mighty and Majestic regarding the nation: “Inform us.” Is not the word “inform” (anba’una) meaning to look? And if the intended meaning is to wait, is this hadith better and more appropriate?
The Shaykh:
My brother, no, no. “Look” (unzuru) means “wait” (intaziru). “Look” means “wait.”[Al-Baqarah 2:210], meaning they do not wait and expect anything but the Hour and the coming of Allah to judge between His servants.
O Shaykh, the owners of the rain, you mentioned (may Allah preserve you) the saying of Allah the Mighty and Majestic regarding the nation: “Inform us.” Is not the word “inform” (anba’una) meaning to look? And if the intended meaning is to wait, is this hadith better and more appropriate?
The Shaykh:
My brother, no, no. “Look” (unzuru) means “wait” (intaziru). “Look” means “wait.”
Do they await but that Allah should come to them
هَلْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا أَن يَأْتِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 12/6 شرح كتاب لمعة الاعتقاد : الشريط السادس — youtube.com (1:30:05)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.