The Meaning of General Selection and Special Selection
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. A questioner says: Regarding the Shaykh’s (may Allah have mercy on him) statement, “This general selection in this world is among the greatest signs of His Lordship,” and so on until the end of his words. The question is: What is general selection and what is special selection?
Answer:
General selection is the selection of the angels, and the selection of the messengers in general. Then He also selected from among those who were selected those who have a distinction. So the selected ones also differ in their selection; some of them are better than others,[Al-Baqarah 2:253], and they are all selected.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. A questioner says: Regarding the Shaykh’s (may Allah have mercy on him) statement, “This general selection in this world is among the greatest signs of His Lordship,” and so on until the end of his words. The question is: What is general selection and what is special selection?
Answer:
General selection is the selection of the angels, and the selection of the messengers in general. Then He also selected from among those who were selected those who have a distinction. So the selected ones also differ in their selection; some of them are better than others,
Those messengers - some of them We caused to exceed others.
تِلْكَ الرُّسُلُ فَضَّلْنَا بَعْضَهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [17\ 3436] معنى الاختيار العام والاختيار الخاص | الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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