Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted, "But the one who fears [Allah] will be reminded," to His saying, "Then he will not die therein nor live," from Surat al-A'la.

The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment.
As for what follows:
This is the fifty-fourth session of our weekly gatherings with our brothers every Thursday. This day was the third of Dhul-Qa'dah in the year 1414 AH. The topic of the introduction to this session is discussing the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, in Surat al-A'la: and so on. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, commanded His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) to remind, so He said: Then He said: Thus, the Exalted clarified that people are divided into two categories after the reminder.
The first category is the one who fears Allah, Mighty and Majestic, meaning he fears Him with a fear based on knowledge of the greatness of Allah, the Creator, Exalted and Majestic is He. So when such a person is reminded with the verses of his Lord, he is reminded, as Allah the Exalted said in describing the servants of the Most Merciful: So whoever fears Allah and is afraid of Allah, when he is reminded and admonished with the verses of Allah, he takes heed and benefits.
As for the second category, He said: meaning: he avoids this reminder and does not benefit from it. The most wretched (al-ashqa) here is a superlative form of wretchedness (shaqaw), and it is the opposite of happiness (sa'adah), as in Surat Hud: So the most wretched, may Allah protect us from that, who is characterized by wretchedness, avoids the reminder and does not benefit from it. The most wretched is the one who has reached the peak of wretchedness, and this is the disbeliever. For the disbeliever is reminded but does not benefit from the reminder. For this reason, He said: the one who will burn in the Fire described as the Greatest, which is the Fire of Hell (Jahannam), because the fire of this world is small in comparison to it. It is authentic from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) meaning: the Fire of the Hereafter exceeds the fire of this world by sixty-nine parts.
The intended meaning is: the fire of this world in its entirety, it is not a specific fire, but the most severe of the fire of this world. For the Fire of the Hereafter exceeds it by sixty-nine parts. For this reason, He described it by saying: Then when he burns in it, he will not die therein nor live. The meaning is: he will not die a death that brings him relief, nor will he live a happy life. Otherwise, they are alive in reality, but they are alive being tormented as Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said, and they call out and he is the keeper of the Fire meaning: let our Lord kill us and relieve us from this torment but there is no relief, and it is said to them: .
This is the meaning of His saying: because it may be difficult for some people to understand how a person can be neither alive nor dead. A person is either alive or dead. It is said: he will not die therein a death that brings him relief, nor will he live a life in which he is happy. So he is, may Allah protect us from that, in torment, hellfire, and severity. He wishes for death but it does not come to him. This is the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted: .
We have previously discussed the saying of Allah the Exalted: and we clarified that the intended meaning of His saying: is: in his own soul, meaning He purified it and brought it out from the filth of shirk (associating partners with Allah) to the purity of tawhid (the oneness of Allah). The rest of the discussion on the remainder of the surah will come, if Allah wills, in order to make room for the brothers who are asking questions. So we begin with the right side.