What is the meaning of the reminder in the saying of the Exalted: "Who fears the warning"?

The Shaykh : I do not know who he is.

The questioner : Turk.

The Shaykh : A foreigner, I do not know, by Allah, what his origin is.

The questioner : How was it mentioned in the Surah of al-Qa'ah ? This verse. In my belief, it means that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) reminds the disbelievers and does not remind the believers, or both sides?

The Shaykh : The last one is the correct one.

The questioner : He reminds.

The Shaykh : From two sides.

The questioner : Two sides, yes. Excuse me, are there extensive explanations about this verse?

The Shaykh : First, the verse is not to be taken at its literal surface regarding "who fears the warning," because for the one who reminds, the fear of the warning is unknown, for the one who reminds, it is unknown.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : I mean, in any society, even if it is an Islamic society and the one who reminds gives a reminder about something, there must be some who do not remember. But as for the one who is eager to benefit from the reminder, as the Exalted said in the other verse .
And since the believer who benefits from the reminder is unknown as to whether he fears the warning, the default is to remind absolutely, regardless of whether there is someone who remembers or someone who does not, because the matter is unknown and none knows it except Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He). But perhaps the wisdom of mentioning "who fears the warning," and in the other verse "the reminder benefits the believers," is to encourage and motivate the one who reminds to remind people, because it is not far-fetched that there may be someone who benefits from the reminder and someone who benefits from being reminded of the warning. This is what can be said regarding this occasion. But the reminder, without a doubt, must be general for all people. Otherwise, when the Exalted said , who did He warn? These polytheists who had not yet heard the word of tawhid (the oneness of Allah). It is not possible now to know who among them fears the warning. So, without a doubt, the Messenger (peace be upon him) continued for at least hours, if not days, until Abu Bakr al-Siddiq responded to him; he was the first to embrace Islam. But it is not that as soon as the Messenger (peace be upon him) called them to "There is no god but Allah," they said "I am at your service." A person must use his mind and intellect regarding what he hears of speech. So, whoever seeks the truth, the matter is as the Exalted said and as in the other verse . So this interval between the reminder and the appearance of its effect is necessary, whether it is long or short. And if that is the case, the reminder should not be delayed with the feeling that so-and-so accepts the reminder and takes a lesson, so we direct it to him. No, that is not what should be done, because this is an unknown matter. Therefore, the Muslim caller, if he is truly a caller in knowledge and conduct, does not despair of the call reaching people and its effect appearing among them. Even though people differ from country to country and from caller to caller, until we can imagine two callers exactly identical in their knowledge and sincerity in their call, yet the effect of one appears more than the other. And this is what we mentioned in a recent session, where we narrated the hadith of Imam Muslim in his Sahih that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the horizon. The people of Musa, then he looked another look and saw a greater mass. He asked about it, and it was said, "This is your Ummah." He (may the prayer and peace of Allah be upon him) said
This hadith indicates that all these prophets, but the land in which they planted the call differed from

The questioner : Yes, from piece to piece and from place to place.

The Shaykh : Because these are prophets and not like us; we cannot imagine ignorance of knowledge or ignorance of the style of calling in them, for they gathered all good. But even so, the effects of their calls differed in these varying proportions, completely varying. The most following nations of the call of the Prophet are our Prophet (may the prayer and peace of Allah be upon him) first, then Musa last, considering the presentation that was shown to the Messenger (peace be upon him) and he saw a mass in the two horizons, so he was pleased with the first mass. When he asked, they said, "This is Musa and his people." But when he saw the mass of the Messenger (peace be upon him) and his Ummah, that was undoubtedly greater. But among the times of the prophets, there were those whom no one followed. So the point of this hadith is that it is upon the Muslim to call to and not to care after that whether people responded to him or did not respond. Rather, it is upon him to first care about himself, to be knowledgeable about what he calls to, and not to speak without knowledge as many people do today who come out claiming to call, and may be called the group of calling, and they have no knowledge. So the caller must first look at himself: is he calling with knowledge? And secondly, is he sincere in his call? If these two descriptions are gathered in the caller, then there is hope that his call will bear fruit. But that is not a necessary condition due to the hadith of Ibn Abbas mentioned earlier. So the conveying is necessary without looking at the results. Clear.