O Lord, we are helpless in our love for them *** O the scarcity of supporters and helpers (Reading from the commentary)
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The Shaykh :"O Lord, we are helpless in our love for them *** O the scarcity of supporters and helpers"
What does the verse mean?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Did he say nothing? And al-Hirās?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes?
The student: He says: "And how beautiful is the author's excuse to his Lord in the last verse, regarding his inability to fulfill the right of the Qur'an despite preserving it, and despite the scarcity of supporters and helpers in that"
The Shaykh : Yes.
"O Lord, we are helpless in our love for them ***"
It means: that we are helpless even though we love You; it is from the category of attributing the source to its agent, meaning we are helpless despite our love for You, yes.
"*** O the scarcity of supporters and helpers"
The pronoun in his saying: "in our love for them" does not refer to the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes), no, because we do not love the people of ta'til. Rather, he says: we are helpless despite our love for You, O Lord, O the scarcity of supporters and helpers, yes.
What does the verse mean?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Did he say nothing? And al-Hirās?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes?
The student: He says: "And how beautiful is the author's excuse to his Lord in the last verse, regarding his inability to fulfill the right of the Qur'an despite preserving it, and despite the scarcity of supporters and helpers in that"
The Shaykh : Yes.
"O Lord, we are helpless in our love for them ***"
It means: that we are helpless even though we love You; it is from the category of attributing the source to its agent, meaning we are helpless despite our love for You, yes.
"*** O the scarcity of supporters and helpers"
The pronoun in his saying: "in our love for them" does not refer to the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes), no, because we do not love the people of ta'til. Rather, he says: we are helpless despite our love for You, O Lord, O the scarcity of supporters and helpers, yes.