Does the word "forgetting" sometimes carry the meaning of turning away, as in the hadith (he learned a verse and then forgot it)?
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The student : The hadith in which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said, meaning: "My Ummah's deeds were presented to me, and I did not see a greater sin than a person who learned a verse and then forgot it." I do not know... meaning, did the hadith say he forgot the verse, or did he forget the Qur'an entirely?
The Shaykh : The answer comes from two angles. The first angle is the one you asked about, and the other angle is the one you should have asked about before the first. Do you understand the answer up to this point? The answer to your question comes from two angles. The first angle is the one you asked about, and the other angle is the one you did not ask about, and it would have been better to start with it and then follow up with the first one, which is the second one for me.
The student : May Allah reward you with good. I did not understand regarding the question.
The Shaykh : I say that the answer to your question is in line with the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Taha 20:124-126]. That is, he turned away from acting upon it. . That is, he will be cast into Hellfire, forgotten and neglected. Our Lord does not forget, but what happens? He casts him into Hellfire as if He had forgotten him. Why? Because he... turned away from acting upon the verses that came to him. So, the intended meaning of "forgetting" in your hadith is the same as the intended meaning of "forgetting" in the verse, namely leaving off the action of what one learned from the verses that Allah mentioned in the Qur'an. This is the answer to your question. As for what you should have asked about, it is that you should always and forever take this as a rule, and this is advice from me to you, and indeed to every Muslim: if you want to ask about a hadith, what is its meaning, what is its jurisprudence, before anything else, ask whether this hadith is authentic or not. If the hadith is not authentic, then the common saying among us in Syria applies: "This dead person does not deserve this condolence." Our hadith here is weak and not authentic. Do you see how I am relieved of it?
The student : May Allah reward you with good. Praise be to Allah. The truth is, it caused confusion for me, because a person forgets, as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:.
The Shaykh : This is correct.
The Shaykh : The answer comes from two angles. The first angle is the one you asked about, and the other angle is the one you should have asked about before the first. Do you understand the answer up to this point? The answer to your question comes from two angles. The first angle is the one you asked about, and the other angle is the one you did not ask about, and it would have been better to start with it and then follow up with the first one, which is the second one for me.
The student : May Allah reward you with good. I did not understand regarding the question.
The Shaykh : I say that the answer to your question is in line with the saying of Allah the Exalted:
(124) And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind." (125) He will say, "My Lord, why have you raised me blind while I was [once] seeing?" (126) [Allah] will say, "Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot them
ومن أعرض عن ذكري فإن له معيشة ضنكا ونحشره يوم القيمة أعمى قال رب لم حشرتني أعمى وقد كنت بصيرا قال كذلك أتتك آياتنا فنسيتهاAnd thus, today, you will be forgotten.
وكذلك اليوم تنسىThe student : May Allah reward you with good. Praise be to Allah. The truth is, it caused confusion for me, because a person forgets, as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
It is the most severe of escapes.
إنه اشد تفلتاThe Shaykh : This is correct.
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