The Meaning of the Poet's Saying: "This, and we did not deprive them of a right they have, *** so that this would be a lie and this an aggression. And if you deny His attributes and His exaltation, *** and His speech openly without concealment, they..."
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The Shaykh :"This, and we did not deprive them of a right they have, *** so that this would be a lie and this an aggression"
If the verse were "This, and you did not deprive them of a right they have, so that this would be a lie and this an aggression," it would be because he said, "But you openly proclaimed the slander." This means that even though you did not deprive them of their right and you were not lying in what you said about them.
"And if you deny His attributes and His exaltation, *** and His speech openly without concealment"
"They did not become angry..."
If you deny the attributes of Allah, His speech, and His exaltation.
"They did not become angry, but rather that was in their view the very truth and the requirement of excellence"
Because they are those who deny the attributes; they deny the speech, they deny the exaltation. So whoever affirms them is a misguided innovator, and whoever denies them is the one who has spoken the truth.
If the verse were "This, and you did not deprive them of a right they have, so that this would be a lie and this an aggression," it would be because he said, "But you openly proclaimed the slander." This means that even though you did not deprive them of their right and you were not lying in what you said about them.
"And if you deny His attributes and His exaltation, *** and His speech openly without concealment"
"They did not become angry..."
If you deny the attributes of Allah, His speech, and His exaltation.
"They did not become angry, but rather that was in their view the very truth and the requirement of excellence"
Because they are those who deny the attributes; they deny the speech, they deny the exaltation. So whoever affirms them is a misguided innovator, and whoever denies them is the one who has spoken the truth.