Commentary on the poet’s saying: “They made these dwellings populous, but they left *** the regions of knowledge and faith desolate. They preferred the world and the fleeting *** pleasure of its life”
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The Shaykh : The author (may Allah have mercy on him) says:
“They made these dwellings populous, but they left *** the regions of knowledge and faith desolate”
They made them populous, meaning: by the inhabitants of this world who preferred it over the Hereafter.
“They made these dwellings populous, but they left *** the regions of knowledge and faith desolate
They preferred the world and the fleeting *** pleasure of its life over the Gardens and the Pleasure of Allah”
Therefore, righteous deeds and faith do not concern them; rather, what concerns them is their pleasures in this world.
“They made these dwellings populous, but they left *** the regions of knowledge and faith desolate”
They made them populous, meaning: by the inhabitants of this world who preferred it over the Hereafter.
“They made these dwellings populous, but they left *** the regions of knowledge and faith desolate
They preferred the world and the fleeting *** pleasure of its life over the Gardens and the Pleasure of Allah”
Therefore, righteous deeds and faith do not concern them; rather, what concerns them is their pleasures in this world.