The Meaning of the Poet's Words: And among the wonders is that with their own weapons *** He cast them down to the lowly depths. Our forelocks were in their hands, so *** none of us was anything but a captive slave.

The Shaykh :"And among the wonders is that with their own weapons *** He cast them down to the lowly depths"
This is correct. This is one of the wonders: He took their weapons from their hands and made them fight with them, because all the things they used as arguments became evidence against them. So much so that he said at the beginning of the book *Al-Aql wa al-Naql* (Reason and Revelation): "I am ready and committed to the fact that no person who argues with a verse or an authentic hadith for his falsehood will I not make it evidence against him, turning the evidence. He takes the evidence he used to argue for falsehood and makes it evidence against him, because the Qur'an and the authentic Sunnah can never indicate falsehood. Therefore, he said:
And among the wonders is that with their own weapons *** He cast them down to the lowly depths
Our forelocks were in their hands, so *** none of us was anything but a captive slave
So their forelocks became in our hands, and *** "
The situation reversed. At first, they were the leaders, and they were the ones who held the word, and the forelocks of the people were in their hands. Then, after Allah revealed this man and supported the truth through him,
"So their forelocks became in our hands, and *** they do not meet us except with a rope of safety"
How?
The student: ...

The Shaykh : It is carried in our understanding, so the meaning is the same.
"and *** they do not meet us except with a rope of safety"
This means that they do not stand up against us unless we give them safety, and that is due to their humiliation and fear.