Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: (And if they see a piece of the sky falling down)

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-‘Uthaymeen

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Exegesis of His saying, the Exalted: (And if they see a piece of the sky falling down)

Allah the Exalted said:

And if they were to see a fragment from the sky falling, they would say, "[It is merely] clouds heaped up."

وَإِنْ يَرَوْا كِسْفاً مِنَ السَّمَاءِ سَاقِطاً يَقُولُوا سَحَابٌ مَرْكُومٌ

[Surat al-Tur: 44] meaning: if the punishment had descended upon them,And *kisf* is the punishment, as they said:

So cause to fall upon us fragments of the sky

فَأَسْقِطْ عَلَيْنَا كِسَفاً مِنَ السَّمَاءِ

[Surat al-Shu'ara: 187] The word "khasf" means: cutting off the punishment.

And if they were to see a fragment from the sky falling, they would say, "[It is merely] clouds heaped up."

وَإِنْ يَرَوْا كِسْفاً مِنَ السَّمَاءِ سَاقِطاً يَقُولُوا سَحَابٌ مَرْكُومٌ

[At-Tur 52:44]

This indicates that they consider themselves to be in the right and that they do not deserve the punishment, and that this descending "khasf" is merely cutting off the punishment; it is nothing but accumulated clouds. This is like the statement of the people of 'Ad when they saw the wind coming toward them:

They said, "This is a cloud that will give us rain"

قَالُوا هَذَا عَارِضٌ مُمْطِرُنَا

[Surat al-Ahqaf: 24] because these deniers—may Allah protect us from that—are obstinate; they consider themselves to be in the right and that they do not deserve the punishment,So when they saw the punishment, they said: This is an ordinary thing, and we will not fear it, nor will we be afraid of it.

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