Explanation of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “Say: Who is it that can protect you from Allah if He intends for you harm or if He intends for you mercy?”

And we say:

Say, "Who is it that can protect you from Allah if He intends for you an ill or intends for you a mercy?"

قُلْ مَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يَعْصِمُكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ إِنْ أَرَادَ بِكُمْ سُوءًا أَوْ أَرَادَ بِكُمْ رَحْمَةً

[Al-Ahzab: 17]. The author said regarding the meaning of:

protect you

يعصمكم

, that it means to protect you, but the correct view is that the intended meaning is

prevents you

يمنعكم

, because *i'smah* is prevention, and from this comes *al-ma'sum*, meaning the one prevented from error. So the correct view is that

protect you

يعصمكم

means He prevents you from Allah.

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