A question regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted: {Then after that, your hearts became hard, like stones, or even harder. And indeed, from the stones there are some from which rivers gush forth, and from them}
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The questioner : His saying, Blessed and Exalted is He: [Al-Baqarah 2:74] How do you reconcile between "from them" (min) and "from them" (minha)?
The Shaykh : "Min" indicates partiality, may Allah bless you. "Min" indicates partiality, meaning all of it, some of it is such and some of it is such. How?
The questioner : From it and from them...
The Shaykh : I mean, do you intend "from it" and "from them"? I did not understand.[Al-Baqarah 2:74]
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Yes, that is right. Recite the verse. Recite the verse.
The questioner :[Al-Baqarah 2:74] .
The Shaykh : What is in it? There is no difference.
The student: ... and from them (minha)
The Shaykh :[Al-Baqarah 2:74] .
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I mean, "and from the stones" refers to the one that splits open, it returns to the one whose time has ended.
The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon the noblest of the prophets and messengers, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
As for what follows: Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said in the book *Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim*: "And when Allah forbade imitating those whose hearts had become hard, He also mentioned at the end of the surah the state of those who innovated monasticism" .
The Shaykh : Yes, how?
The student: He mentioned...
The Shaykh : When he mentioned it.
The student: And when Allah forbade imitating those whose hearts had become hard, He also mentioned.
The Shaykh : I have not found it yet. I have many omissions in my copy. Look at what I have at the beginning of the page: "So the truth prevented them from much of their desires, until they cast the Book of Allah behind their backs, as if they did not know" .
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Immediately before it.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : What comes after it?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, that is right, you have it.
The student: We read this in the previous lesson, may Allah reward you, and we ended with his saying: And this is from the words of Ibn Mas'ud.
The Shaykh : .
The student:.
The Shaykh : This is it.
The student: This is, yes, that is right.
The Shaykh : Do we start from here?
The student: We start from after it, "And when Allah forbade," one line after it.
The Shaykh : Yes, do you have it, Shaykh?
The student: I have it.
For indeed, there are stones from which rivers burst forth, and there are some of
وإن من الحجارة لما يتفجر منه الأنهار وإن منهاThe Shaykh : "Min" indicates partiality, may Allah bless you. "Min" indicates partiality, meaning all of it, some of it is such and some of it is such. How?
The questioner : From it and from them...
The Shaykh : I mean, do you intend "from it" and "from them"? I did not understand.
For indeed, there are
وإن من الحجارةThe questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Yes, that is right. Recite the verse. Recite the verse.
The questioner :
For indeed, there are stones from which rivers burst forth, and there are some of them that split open and water comes out, and there are some of them that fall down for fear of Allah. And Allah is not unaware of what you do.
وإن من الحجارة لما يتفجر منه الأنهار وإن منها لما يشقق فيخرج منه الماء وإن منها لما يهبط من خشية الله وما الله بغافلٍ عما تعملونThe Shaykh : What is in it? There is no difference.
The student: ... and from them (minha)
The Shaykh :
For indeed, there are
وإن من الحجارةThe questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I mean, "and from the stones" refers to the one that splits open, it returns to the one whose time has ended.
The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon the noblest of the prophets and messengers, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
As for what follows: Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said in the book *Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim*: "And when Allah forbade imitating those whose hearts had become hard, He also mentioned at the end of the surah the state of those who innovated monasticism" .
The Shaykh : Yes, how?
The student: He mentioned...
The Shaykh : When he mentioned it.
The student: And when Allah forbade imitating those whose hearts had become hard, He also mentioned.
The Shaykh : I have not found it yet. I have many omissions in my copy. Look at what I have at the beginning of the page: "So the truth prevented them from much of their desires, until they cast the Book of Allah behind their backs, as if they did not know" .
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Immediately before it.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : What comes after it?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, that is right, you have it.
The student: We read this in the previous lesson, may Allah reward you, and we ended with his saying:
And it is sufficient for a man, when he sees an evil that he cannot change, to let Allah know from his heart that he hates it
وبحسب امرئ يرى منكرا لا يستطيع أن يغيره، أن يعلم الله من قلبه أنه له كارهThe Shaykh :
And he had companions who visited him, so when he died, they dug up his grave and found the horn, and they found in it
وكان له أصحاب يغشونه، فلما مات نبشوه فوجدوا القرن، فوجدوا فيهThe student:
They found in it the book, and they said: "Do you not see his saying: 'I believe in this, and why should I not believe in this?' He only meant this book. So the Children of Israel differed into seventy or so sects, and the best of their sects were the followers of Dhu al-Qarnayn. 'Abdullah said: And indeed, some of you who remain will see an evil
فوجدوا فيه الكتاب فقالوا : ألا ترون قوله : آمنت بهذا، وما لي لا أومن بهذا ؟ إنما عنى هذا الكتاب، فاختلف بنو إسرائيل على بضع وسبعين ملة، وخير مللهم : أصحاب ذي القرن. قال عبد الله : وإن من بقي منكم سيرى منكراThe Shaykh : This is it.
The student: This is, yes, that is right.
The Shaykh : Do we start from here?
The student: We start from after it, "And when Allah forbade," one line after it.
The Shaykh : Yes, do you have it, Shaykh?
The student: I have it.