The Shaykh : That is why Abu Dharr said: From the Prophet, from Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - , He said, our Lord - Blessed and Exalted is He - :

The Shaykh: That is why Abu Dharr said: From the Prophet, from Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - , He said, our Lord - Blessed and Exalted is He - : . Abu Idris - who is one of the narrators of this hadith - would kneel on his knees when he narrated this hadith. The end of the hadith: And Abu Idris, the narrator of the hadith, knelt on his knees to indicate the importance of this qudsi hadith. It is the state of a person when he is surprised by something; he stands like this on his knees, as if stunned and overwhelmed. So this hadith, in reality, in addition to being from the speech of Allah - Mighty and Majestic - and the speech of Allah has an effect as you all know, but it also contains a clarification that He is the One who is free of need from all the worlds, and that He is the One who bestows favor upon all His servants. So He details in this qudsi hadith something of His majesty - Blessed and Exalted is He - and His greatness. First of all, He addresses His servants and says: : In this first paragraph, there is a very broad discussion related to tawhid (the oneness of Allah) on one hand, and on the other hand to what they call the science of theology (kalam), because the saying of Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - : contains an explicit statement of two things, one of which many people may not pay attention to. As for the fact that injustice is something from which Allah - Mighty and Majestic - is free, this is a matter agreed upon by all Muslims, and there are many, many verses in this regard. But the philosophy of the prohibition is related to the science of theology. We hear and read in this hadith this expression that did not come in the Noble Qur'an. Our Lord in the Qur'an declares His freedom from injustice toward people in any way, and there is no doubt in that. But the hadith explicitly states something else, saying: : And this means that within the power of Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - , if He willed, He could be unjust to people. Where do we take this from? From His saying: In it is a very strong indication that injustice is within the reach of the power of Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - and that He is capable of everything, including being unjust to people if He willed. But Allah - Mighty and Majestic - in this hadith alerts us that from His perfection, He has elevated Himself above being unjust to people in any way, and He is able to do so, but far is it from Him to be unjust to people in any way. Therefore, He came with this explicit Arabic expression: . As for what is related to the science of theology, it is to clarify what is meant by injustice, or in other words, what is the meaning of injustice linguistically: "In the language, injustice is placing a thing in a place other than its appropriate place." Injustice in the language is: placing a thing in a place other than its appropriate place. And the phrase of one of the great scholars of language, in the exact same text, al-Raghib al-Asbahani said: " - that is, injustice in the language - placing a thing in a place other than its specific place, by deficiency or excess, or deviation from its time or place." This is the definition of injustice. So our Lord - Mighty and Majestic - when He explicitly states in this hadith that He has forbidden injustice upon Himself, it means that He does not place a thing in a place other than its befitting place, He does not place a thing in its appropriate place deficient or excessive, or similar to that which contradicts the attribute of perfection. This is injustice, and this is what our Lord - Mighty and Majestic - has declared His freedom from.