Is the intended meaning of Allah’s saying: “None touches it except the purified” the Preserved Tablet?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, father, the questioner asks: In the saying of Allah the Exalted,[Al-Waqi'ah 56:79], is the intended meaning the Preserved Tablet?
Answer:
Yes, it is the well-known view that the intended meaning is the Preserved Tablet, and that the purified ones are the angels (peace be upon them). However, Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned in his classification of the Qur'an that there is an indication in it that human beings also do not touch the Qur'an. If only the purified ones touch it in the Preserved Tablet, then there is an indication that human beings also do not touch it except in a state of ritual purity. This is also mentioned in the hadith:Muwatta Malik 15:1 as in the hadith of 'Amr ibn Hazm. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, father, the questioner asks: In the saying of Allah the Exalted,
None touch it except the purified.
لَّا يَمَسُّهُ إِلَّا الْمُطَهَّرُونَAnswer:
Yes, it is the well-known view that the intended meaning is the Preserved Tablet, and that the purified ones are the angels (peace be upon them). However, Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned in his classification of the Qur'an that there is an indication in it that human beings also do not touch the Qur'an. If only the purified ones touch it in the Preserved Tablet, then there is an indication that human beings also do not touch it except in a state of ritual purity. This is also mentioned in the hadith:
no-one should touch the Qur'an unless he was pure
لا يمس القرآن إلا طاهر
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [747- 4717] هل المقصود بقوله تعالى:(لا يمسه إلا المطهرون) اللوح المحفوظ؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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