The Intelligence and Acumen of Some Bedouins

The Shaykh : Here is a story where a man was reciting . A Bedouin heard him and said: "By Allah, there is life behind these graves", because the visitor is not a resident. See how the Bedouin understood. Sometimes the Bedouins come with an understanding that is hidden from many people. A visitor stays with his host for a period and then returns to his country. Is that not so? Here, Allah the Exalted named burial a visit. He said: . So are the graves a place of visitation? A place of visitation. There must be a resurrection. And sometimes the Bedouins come with things that indicate the soundness of the Arab man's understanding. There is also a second story where a Bedouin heard a man reciting the words of Allah the Exalted: and Allah is the Forgiving, the Merciful. The Bedouin said: Recite the verse again. He repeated it, reading without a mushaf. He repeated it. Then he said: . He said: Recite it again. The Bedouin did not accept, by his fitrah, that Allah the Mighty and Majestic would say "cut off their hands" and then say "and Allah is the Forgiving, the Merciful," because forgiveness and mercy necessitate the lifting of the punishment from them. So the man read it the third time and said: . He said: Now you have hit the mark. "Mighty and Wise" means He cut them off, and if He had forgiven and shown mercy, He would not have cut them off. Glory be to Allah! We benefit from this that the conclusion of verses is appropriate to what is mentioned before them.