Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “A goodly land and a forgiving Lord”

He said: What is the grammatical parsing of ?
The student : ......

The Shaykh : What is the estimation?
The student: This land.

The Shaykh : Or it is a land, yes, there are no wild beasts, no mosquitoes, no flies, no lice, no scorpions, and no snakes in it. A stranger passes through it with lice in his clothes, and they die because of the purity of its air. This is... We only say it is a goodly land. As for the fact that a stranger comes from the desert with lice in his clothes and the lice die because of the purity of the air, that is for Allah to know. But we say, without doubt, that Allah’s description of it as goodly means that it is among the best of lands in its air, its cold, and its heat. It has no severe heat or biting cold, and it has no foulness in the air or water, or anything similar to that. So take whatever you wish of the goodness of a dwelling in everything that is called good. This means he says: By Allah, the Lord is forgiving. Yes, forgiving. Why? Forgiving of sins. So Allah bestowed upon them two blessings: the blessing of dwelling and its goodness, and the blessing of forgiveness. Thus, in the blessing of forgiveness, there is safety from sins and their punishments in the Hereafter, and in the goodly land, there is safety from calamities in this world. “Al-Ghafur” is a form of exaggeration, and its active participle is “Ghafir.” It is derived from “ghufr,” which means covering with protection. From this comes their saying: “al-mughaffar,” which is the helmet a person wears to protect himself from arrows in war. In it is covering and concealment, and in it is also protection. So it is with the forgiveness of sins; its meaning is that Allah covers your sin and protects you from its punishment. Good.