Explanation: Then he recited: ((O David, We have made you a successor on the earth, so judge between people with truth and do not follow desire, for it will mislead you from the path of Allah. Indeed, those who stray from the path of Allah will have a severe punishment because they have forgotten the Day of Reckoning.))

The Shaykh : Then he recited: "We have made you" means "We have appointed you" a successor on the earth. A successor to whom? To Allah. Not to inform Allah of what His servants do, but to carry out the Shari'ah of Allah on the earth of Allah. Do you understand? It was also said that he is a successor to the people before him, but the first meaning is stronger due to His saying: which is what Allah the Exalted has approved. Who is being addressed? He says: So Allah the Exalted has no kinship with the creation, even with His messengers, who He addresses with such severe and harsh speech. He said to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him): And He said to him: If you had inclined toward them even a little This is how Allah addresses His messengers and prophets, so how about us? We ask Allah for pardon and well-being. This is an independent foundational explanatory clause: everyone who strays from the path of Allah will have a severe punishment because they have forgotten the Day of Reckoning, meaning because of their forgetting of the Day of Reckoning. The forgetting here does not mean the heart's distraction from a known thing, but rather it means abandonment, as Allah the Exalted said: And He said: meaning abandonment. He says "because they have forgotten," meaning because they abandoned the Day of Reckoning and did not act for it.