Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: (They call out to them: “Were we not with you?”)

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-‘Uthaymeen

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Exegesis of His saying, the Exalted: (They call out to them: “Were we not with you?”)

Allah the Exalted said:

They call out to them

يُنَادُونَهُمْ

[Al-Hadid: 14] Who is the one calling? The hypocrites. And who is being called? The believers.

The hypocrites will call to the believers, "Were we not with you?"

يُنَادُونَهُمْ أَلَمْ نَكُنْ مَعَكُمْ

[Al-Hadid: 14] Meaning: In this world, we were with you, praying, giving charity, and remembering Allah.

They said: Yes

قَالُوا بَلَى

[Al-Hadid: 14] Meaning: You were with us, but only in appearance, not in reality. Therefore, they said:

Yes, but you deceived yourselves

بَلَى وَلَكِنَّكُمْ فَتَنْتُمْ أَنْفُسَكُمْ

[Al-Hadid: 14] Meaning: You deceived yourselves.

And you waited and you doubted

وَتَرَبَّصْتُمْ وَارْتَبْتُمْ

[Al-Hadid: 14] You waited for us to be destroyed, for the hypocrites wait for the destruction of the believers.

And you doubted

وَارْتَبْتُمْ

[Al-Hadid: 14] You doubted the matter; you had no faith.

And false hopes deceived you

وَغَرَّتْكُمُ الْأَمَانِيُّ

[Al-Hadid: 14] Meaning: You thought that you were doing good,Because they say:

We intended nothing but good conduct and accommodation."

إِنْ أَرَدْنَا إِلَّا إِحْسَاناً وَتَوْفِيقاً

[An-Nisa: 62] We reconcile between the believers and the disbelievers, and between faith and disbelief.

And when they meet those who believe, they say, "We believe

وَإِذَا لَقُوا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قَالُوا آمَنَّا

[Al-Baqarah: 14] Meaning: They are with the believers.

but when they are alone with their evil ones, they say, "Indeed, we are with you

وَإِذَا خَلَوْا إِلَى شَيَاطِينِهِمْ قَالُوا إِنَّا مَعَكُمْ

[Al-Baqarah: 14] They are with the disbelievers. They thought that through this deception, they had won the battle.

wishful thinking deluded you until there came the command of Allah

وَغَرَّتْكُمُ الْأَمَانِيُّ حَتَّى جَاءَ أَمْرُ اللَّهِ

[Al-Hadid: 14] And that was by their death.

And the Deceiver deceived you concerning Allah.

وَغَرَّكُمْ بِاللَّهِ الْغَرُورُ

[Al-Hadid: 14] (The Deceiver) is Satan, and the evidence for this is the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, about them when Satan whispered to our parents. Allah said about him:

And he brought them down through deception

فَدَلَّاهُمَا بِغُرُورٍ

[Al-A'raf: 22] Therefore, the Deceiver is Satan.

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