What is the meaning of the statement: (that what befell you may befall you)?
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The questioner : ... Perhaps there is a difficulty in the hadith.
The Shaykh : When such words or this phrase come to you, you must apply them to the principles of the Shari'ah. That is, perhaps Allah Mighty and Majestic punished them when they passed through these places, as if it were a leisure trip, and this is an error. Or it is said that perhaps a person is stripped of faith until he becomes a disbeliever, in which case what befell them befalls him.
That what befell you may befall you
أن يصيبكم ما أصابكمThe Shaykh : When such words or this phrase come to you, you must apply them to the principles of the Shari'ah. That is, perhaps Allah Mighty and Majestic punished them when they passed through these places, as if it were a leisure trip, and this is an error. Or it is said that perhaps a person is stripped of faith until he becomes a disbeliever, in which case what befell them befalls him.