Continuation of the explanation of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “And the Day He will gather them all, then He will say to the angels, ‘Were these the ones who used to worship you?’”

The student: Dropping the first one.

The Shaykh : Regarding the hamzah, meaning the first hamzah of the two adjacent hamzahs, which is the hamzah of *ula'*, the second one, and the hamzah of *iyyakum*. These are three readings, and in which one is the reading anomalous? He says: When? In this world. Allah the Exalted says that as a rebuke and a reprimand to these worshippers who used to worship the angels. And the angels, as has been mentioned to us often, is the plural of *malak*, and the origin of *malak* is *mala'ak*, and the origin of *mala'ak* is *ma'la'ak*, so it has roots, but due to usage it reached this form. The pronoun