The Meaning of the Poet's Saying: "And if you revile us with impossibilities, we revile you with proofs and the argument of one who possesses clear evidence, exposing your disgrace and tearing off your veil, revealing your ignorance along with your transgression, O how far is the distance between your reviling of us with this, and your reviling of us with lies and tyranny. Whoever reviles with proof is not a wrongdoer, and wrong is reviling the servant with falsehood."
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The Shaykh :"And if you revile us with impossibilities, we revile you with proofs and the argument of one who possesses clear evidence"
"If you revile us with impossibilities, we revile you with proofs" What is the meaning? It means if you revile us by saying that this is impossible and that affirming it is ascribing a body to Allah, then how do we revile you? With proofs, because you have not affirmed what Allah has affirmed for Himself, and there is a difference between the two affirmations.
He said: "exposing your disgrace and tearing off your veil, revealing your ignorance along with your transgression,
O how far is the distance between your reviling of us with this, and your reviling of us with lies and tyranny,
Whoever reviles with proof is not a wrongdoer, and wrong is reviling the servant with falsehood"
This verse should be a principle: whoever reviles with proof is not a wrongdoer, because he has proof. But the wrongdoer, the wrong is reviling the servant with falsehood. May Allah have mercy on him, he is truthful. So whoever reviles another with evidence is not a wrongdoer, and whoever reviles another without evidence is a wrongdoer.
"If you revile us with impossibilities, we revile you with proofs" What is the meaning? It means if you revile us by saying that this is impossible and that affirming it is ascribing a body to Allah, then how do we revile you? With proofs, because you have not affirmed what Allah has affirmed for Himself, and there is a difference between the two affirmations.
He said: "exposing your disgrace and tearing off your veil, revealing your ignorance along with your transgression,
O how far is the distance between your reviling of us with this, and your reviling of us with lies and tyranny,
Whoever reviles with proof is not a wrongdoer, and wrong is reviling the servant with falsehood"
This verse should be a principle: whoever reviles with proof is not a wrongdoer, because he has proof. But the wrongdoer, the wrong is reviling the servant with falsehood. May Allah have mercy on him, he is truthful. So whoever reviles another with evidence is not a wrongdoer, and whoever reviles another without evidence is a wrongdoer.