The Meaning and Explanation of the Poet’s Statement: “So by the right of Your grace which You bestowed upon me”
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The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : May Allah reward you. The verse is: “So by the right of Your grace…”
The Shaykh : What?
The student: “So by the right of Your grace”
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: If you could clarify the details…
The Shaykh : Yes, we say: “So by the right of Your grace.” The apparent meaning of the author’s words is that he swore by His action, because the right of grace is gratitude. It is also possible that the intended meaning is “by Your true grace,” which would be an instance of attributing a description to the described. If it is “by Your grace,” then the grace of Allah, which is His bestowing, is from His actions, and there is no harm in swearing by it. The first interpretation has some difficulty in that how can one swear by the gratitude for the grace of Allah, which is an action of the servant? Yes.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : No, it is not permissible to swear by your own action, even if it is an act of worship. If you said, “By my worship of You” or “By my prayer to You,” it is not permissible. Yes.
The questioner : … connected to it …
The Shaykh : This is connected to “which You bestowed upon me,” so it is “by the right of Your grace which You bestowed upon me.” So I say, as an explanation of the author’s words: let us make “right” a description, and the meaning becomes “by Your true, established grace which You bestowed upon me.” In that case, he swore by the grace of Allah. I do not know if it was addressed in the commentary? Did al-Harās or Ibn ‘Isa address it…?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Huh?
The questioner : May Allah reward you. The verse is: “So by the right of Your grace…”
The Shaykh : What?
The student: “So by the right of Your grace”
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: If you could clarify the details…
The Shaykh : Yes, we say: “So by the right of Your grace.” The apparent meaning of the author’s words is that he swore by His action, because the right of grace is gratitude. It is also possible that the intended meaning is “by Your true grace,” which would be an instance of attributing a description to the described. If it is “by Your grace,” then the grace of Allah, which is His bestowing, is from His actions, and there is no harm in swearing by it. The first interpretation has some difficulty in that how can one swear by the gratitude for the grace of Allah, which is an action of the servant? Yes.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : No, it is not permissible to swear by your own action, even if it is an act of worship. If you said, “By my worship of You” or “By my prayer to You,” it is not permissible. Yes.
The questioner : … connected to it …
The Shaykh : This is connected to “which You bestowed upon me,” so it is “by the right of Your grace which You bestowed upon me.” So I say, as an explanation of the author’s words: let us make “right” a description, and the meaning becomes “by Your true, established grace which You bestowed upon me.” In that case, he swore by the grace of Allah. I do not know if it was addressed in the commentary? Did al-Harās or Ibn ‘Isa address it…?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Huh?