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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: (Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds, they are the best of creation)

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Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: (Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds, they are the best of creation)]

And when Allah mentioned the ruling for these disbelievers, namely the Jews, the Christians, and the polytheists, He mentioned the ruling for the believers, saying:
Indeed, they who have believed and done righteous deeds - those are the best of creatures.إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ أُولَئِكَ هُمْ خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ
[Al-Bayyinah: 7], and the Noble Qur'an is a repetition in which meanings are doubled; the meaning and its counterpart are brought, the people of the Fire and the people of Paradise are brought, and verses of warning and verses of encouragement are brought, and so on; so that the person may proceed toward Allah the Mighty and Majestic between fear and hope, and so that he does not become bored; for gathering styles and gathering topics undoubtedly gives the soul strength and momentum, unlike if the speech were on a single note, in which case the person may become bored and his soul may not be moved.
Indeed, they who have believed and done righteous deeds - those are the best of creatures.إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ أُولَئِكَ هُمْ خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ
[Al-Bayyinah 98:7]
And they are in four levels which Allah distinguished in His saying:
And whoever obeys Allah and the Messenger - those will be with the ones upon whom Allah has bestowed favor of the prophets, the steadfast affirmers of truth, the martyrs and the righteousوَمَنْ يُطِعِ اللَّهَ وَالرَّسُولَ فَأُولَئِكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاءِ وَالصَّالِحِينَ
[An-Nisa: 69], these four levels are the levels of the believers, the highest of which is the level of prophethood, and the highest of the levels of prophethood is the level of messengership, then after that -Meaning: after prophethood - the level of the truthful ones (Siddiqin), and at the head of the truthful ones is Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him),And the martyrs, it was said: they are the people of knowledge,And it was said: they are those who were killed in the cause of Allah, and the verse allows for both meanings without contradiction, and what is required of the exegete of the Qur'an is that if a verse allows for two meanings without contradiction, he should take it to include both meanings, so the martyrs are the people of knowledge, and they are those who were killed in the cause of Allah, and all of them have a high rank above all the followers of the messengers except the truthful ones,Allah the Exalted said:
and the righteousوَالصَّالِحِينَ
and they are the lowest of the levels, so those who have believed and done righteous deeds, in their various levels,
those are the best of creatures.هُمْ خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ
[Al-Bayyinah 98:7]
are: the best of what Allah the Mighty and Majestic has created of creation.
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