The error of the book and modern scholars in interpreting the Dabbah as germs.

The Shaykh : And of this nature is what many contemporary writers or exegetes tend to do: they interpret the Dabbah of the earth in a way that corresponds to their weak faith in the unseen matters. We have long drawn attention to the fact that faith in the unseen is the first condition of faith; it is the first thing that indicates that this Muslim truly believes in Allah. This is because he submitted to the correct report about Him, whether from the Book or the Sunnah, and did not follow his intellect or his desires, but rather followed the text that came to him from Allah and His Messenger. Many of these writers, unfortunately, do not display this faith. Therefore, they always and forever tend to interpret the unseen texts that do not align with real-world events, interpreting them as something ordinary. For example, regarding this Dabbah, we have brought out for them a Dabbah. They said this Dabbah is an expression for germs. What helped them in this was that in the preceding verse it says: .
It speaks to people. They interpreted the speaking here as harming or injuring, and this is linguistically correct. However, the scholars of exegesis, first, and the apparent meaning of the text, second, do not mean harming or injuring, but rather conversation. It did not escape the notice of some traditional exegetes who rely on the Qur'an and authentic reports in their interpretation of the Qur'an, such as al-Hafiz Ibn Kathir al-Dimashqi. This meaning, which some contemporary writers relied upon and adopted, restricting the meaning to it, did not escape his notice: that it speaks to them means it harms them. Al-Hafiz Ibn Kathir mentioned this meaning, but he said: there is no objection to interpreting the speaking in the verse with both meanings. It speaks to them in conversation and addresses them in address, and at the same time, it harms them in harming. They interpret the Dabbah here as a germ or microbe because this has become customary and known, and people believe in it, with no difference in that between the believer and the disbeliever.
As for leaving the verse and the hadiths that came regarding the signs of the Hour on their apparent meaning, this is something their hearts cannot accommodate in believing. We point out that this is a deviation that has affected many of the earlier Muslims in their interpretation of the texts of the Book and the Sunnah, as long as they are far from their own logic. This is a departure from the basic description of the believer that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) described in the first verse of Surat al-Baqarah, saying: . Belief in the Dabbah of the earth, like all the signs of the Hour, must be believed in without any interpretation that leads its holder to denial. Denial means negation. Microbes have existed since before they were known, before people knew them. So how does our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) speak of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) bringing out for people a Dabbah that speaks to them, and this Dabbah, meaning the microbe or germ, always harms people and injures them and may even kill them? Therefore, this term mentioned in the verse and the hadith must remain on its apparent meaning. It is a Dabbah that crawls on the earth. As for the descriptions mentioned, as we mentioned in some books, they are not to be attended to because there is no authentic report regarding them.