O, you who sit, your breaths move *** like the post, not like the slow camel (The grammatical analysis of "O, you who sit," the meaning of the post and the slow camel, and the measure of the post, the farsakh, and the mile)
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The Shaykh : The author (may Allah have mercy on him) says: The time has ended. Yes.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : "There is no god but Allah" or what comes after it, meaning this section, all of it is explained.
The student: ...
The Shaykh :"A section on the facilitation of the journey to Allah for the steadfast monotheists and its impossibility for the deniers of the divine attributes and the polytheists" We did not read this; we read all of it.
The student : No, not all of it, up to his saying: " ... " .
The Shaykh : All right, he says:
"O, you who sit, your breaths move *** like the post, not like the slow camel"
His saying: "O, you who sit" is in the accusative case because it is an indefinite noun not intended for specific address. When the vocative is directed to an indefinite noun not intended for specific address, the vocative becomes accusative. So one says:
"O, you who sit" means O, whoever is sitting. "Your breaths move *** like the post" The post: in the past, they would station a person who would ride on horses to a distance of one post, and there would be a station with other horses waiting for him. He would take the letters with him and then run with them to the next post. How much is a post? Four farsakhs. A farsakh is three miles, and a mile is twelve thousand cubits. Yes, or rather, this is called a post because it is faster than if the journey were made by a single horse. And his saying: "like the post" is because it is swift. "not like the slow camel" The journey...
The student: ...
The Shaykh : "There is no god but Allah" or what comes after it, meaning this section, all of it is explained.
The student: ...
The Shaykh :"A section on the facilitation of the journey to Allah for the steadfast monotheists and its impossibility for the deniers of the divine attributes and the polytheists" We did not read this; we read all of it.
The student : No, not all of it, up to his saying: " ... " .
The Shaykh : All right, he says:
"O, you who sit, your breaths move *** like the post, not like the slow camel"
His saying: "O, you who sit" is in the accusative case because it is an indefinite noun not intended for specific address. When the vocative is directed to an indefinite noun not intended for specific address, the vocative becomes accusative. So one says:
"O, you who sit" means O, whoever is sitting. "Your breaths move *** like the post" The post: in the past, they would station a person who would ride on horses to a distance of one post, and there would be a station with other horses waiting for him. He would take the letters with him and then run with them to the next post. How much is a post? Four farsakhs. A farsakh is three miles, and a mile is twelve thousand cubits. Yes, or rather, this is called a post because it is faster than if the journey were made by a single horse. And his saying: "like the post" is because it is swift. "not like the slow camel" The journey...