If someone were to say to us that your statement (We know you in hardship) means mercy, tenderness, and compassion, then he would be saying that this is diverting the term from its apparent meaning, and you criticize us for diverting the term from its apparent meaning
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The questioner : ... If it were brought up in the context of ...
The Shaykh : Brother Sami al-Aqili brought up the point that if we said that the intended meaning of the statement "He knows you in hardship" is mercy, tenderness, and compassion, and so on, and if someone said that this is diverting the term from its apparent meaning, and that you criticize us when we divert the term from its apparent meaning, what is the answer? The answer is that diverting the term from its apparent meaning is permissible if there is evidence for it. You know this, which is why we say that the meaning of the statement of Allah the Exalted:[An-Nahl 16:98] is that if you intend to read, and according to the established meaning, it is contrary to the apparent meaning of the term.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : If one reads the Qur'an, this contains evidence that the Messenger used to seek refuge when intending to read. What did we say about the evidence? We said that Allah knows the person in hardship and in times of ease. This is from one aspect. The second aspect is that Allah is not described with "knowing" in the sense of discovering after concealment, because the linguistic meaning of "knowing" is disclosure after obscurity, and nothing is hidden from Allah the Mighty and Majestic. Also, "knowing" in the language includes both certainty and suspicion, and suspicion is not applicable to Allah. It is not befitting for Allah to have suspicion, whether from us or from others. And the third aspect is that things are not hidden from them. Yes.
Know Allah in times of ease, He will know you in times of hardship.
تعرف إلى الله في الرخاء يعرفك في الشدةThe Shaykh : Brother Sami al-Aqili brought up the point that if we said that the intended meaning of the statement "He knows you in hardship" is mercy, tenderness, and compassion, and so on, and if someone said that this is diverting the term from its apparent meaning, and that you criticize us when we divert the term from its apparent meaning, what is the answer? The answer is that diverting the term from its apparent meaning is permissible if there is evidence for it. You know this, which is why we say that the meaning of the statement of Allah the Exalted:
So when you recite the Qur'an, [first] seek refuge in Allah
فإذا قرأت القرآن فاستعذ باللهThe questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : If one reads the Qur'an, this contains evidence that the Messenger used to seek refuge when intending to read. What did we say about the evidence? We said that Allah knows the person in hardship and in times of ease. This is from one aspect. The second aspect is that Allah is not described with "knowing" in the sense of discovering after concealment, because the linguistic meaning of "knowing" is disclosure after obscurity, and nothing is hidden from Allah the Mighty and Majestic. Also, "knowing" in the language includes both certainty and suspicion, and suspicion is not applicable to Allah. It is not befitting for Allah to have suspicion, whether from us or from others. And the third aspect is that things are not hidden from them. Yes.