What is the interpretation of the saying of Allah the Exalted: "Iram of the pillars"?
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The questioner : What is the meaning of the verse: [Al-Fajr 89:7-8].
The Shaykh : These were a people who were there in Yemen, meaning they were strong giants who dug into the mountains and rocks and built houses in them without pouring cement or concrete, but rather they dug from the mountains themselves. The traces of these people and their like are still present in some countries, including the land of Jordan, in addition to Yemen and those lands.
The questioner : The check replaces the...
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner : The check.
The Shaykh : The check. Keep your question, then, my brother, this statement is useful when they provide us with an alternative. So if we turn away from *Fath al-Bari* by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, well, does the situation work with *Umdat al-Qari* by al-‘Iyni? No, the situation does not work either. And just as he said here,The Shaykh : onAl-Halabi : ...a fortiori. So give us the alternative, people? There is no alternative. Truly, I believe that women have not given birth to anyone like him. I do not say that women will never give birth to such a person, for that would be a presumption about Allah. But in what we know and what our knowledge encompasses, women have not given birth to anyone like this man. So if we want, as is understood from this statement, to warn our Salafi brothers who are students of knowledge to benefit from this book, from which book will they benefit? An explanation of *Sahih al-Bukhari* by al-‘Iyni? Al-‘Iyni is a Hanafi Maturidi, and that is known. And this is better than that. And if we say that this has much evil in it, then this has less evil than that, so you choose the lesser of two evils; this is a fundamental scientific rule. The conclusion is that we do not know of any alternative that can take the place of this book in the world, ever. And therefore we benefit from it and hold fast to its rope, except for what deviates from our righteous predecessors. Yes.
(7) [With] Iram - who had lofty pillars, (8) The likes of whom had never been created in the land?
إرم ذات العماد التي لم يخلق مثلها في البلادThe Shaykh : These were a people who were there in Yemen, meaning they were strong giants who dug into the mountains and rocks and built houses in them without pouring cement or concrete, but rather they dug from the mountains themselves. The traces of these people and their like are still present in some countries, including the land of Jordan, in addition to Yemen and those lands.
The questioner : The check replaces the...
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner : The check.
The Shaykh : The check. Keep your question, then, my brother, this statement is useful when they provide us with an alternative. So if we turn away from *Fath al-Bari* by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, well, does the situation work with *Umdat al-Qari* by al-‘Iyni? No, the situation does not work either. And just as he said here,The Shaykh : onAl-Halabi : ...a fortiori. So give us the alternative, people? There is no alternative. Truly, I believe that women have not given birth to anyone like him. I do not say that women will never give birth to such a person, for that would be a presumption about Allah. But in what we know and what our knowledge encompasses, women have not given birth to anyone like this man. So if we want, as is understood from this statement, to warn our Salafi brothers who are students of knowledge to benefit from this book, from which book will they benefit? An explanation of *Sahih al-Bukhari* by al-‘Iyni? Al-‘Iyni is a Hanafi Maturidi, and that is known. And this is better than that. And if we say that this has much evil in it, then this has less evil than that, so you choose the lesser of two evils; this is a fundamental scientific rule. The conclusion is that we do not know of any alternative that can take the place of this book in the world, ever. And therefore we benefit from it and hold fast to its rope, except for what deviates from our righteous predecessors. Yes.
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