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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Discussion of the interpretation of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “Is he upon whom the word of punishment has become a reality, then will you save the one who is in the Fire? But those who fear their Lord, for them are rooms above which are rooms, built, through which rivers flow, and the promise of Allah; Allah does not break His promise.”

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Yes, from whom?
The student: From a relative pronoun.

The Shaykh : There is no other opinion in it.
The student: It is conditional.

The Shaykh : Or conditional, okay.

The Shaykh : What is meant by His saying
can you save one who is in the Fire? أفأنت تنقذ من فى النار
[Az-Zumar 39:19]
? To whom is the address directed?
The student: The address is directed to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

The Shaykh : Yes
The student: The interrogative is for negation.

The Shaykh : For negation, like the first one.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Okay, is the second hamza original and foundational, or is it extra for emphasis?
The student: It is extra.

The Shaykh : There is no other opinion in it.
The student: There is another opinion: the sentence “We created or We made…” specifically…

The Shaykh : Well done. Okay, His saying
But those who feared their Lord لكن الذين اتقوا ربهم
[Ali 'Imran 3:198]
, this is a corrective statement, isn’t it, Khalid? What is its benefit?
The student: Conjunction.

The Shaykh : Yes, conjunction, but the corrective statement is from what?
The student: The corrective statement clarifies that the punishment befalls some people, and the correction excludes the people…

The Shaykh : Meaning, when He said
Then, is one who has deserved the decree of punishment أفمن حقت عليه كلمة العذاب
[Az-Zumar 39:19]
, He corrected by saying
But as for those who fear لكن الذين اتقوا
, meaning that it did not become a reality for them. Okay, what is the grammatical parsing of “those who feared,” Abdullah?
The student: The parsing of “those who feared.”

The Shaykh :
But as for those who fear لكن الذين اتقوا

The student: “Feared.”

The Shaykh : The ones
The student: “Those” is a demonstrative pronoun.

The Shaykh : “Those” is a demonstrative pronoun?
The student: But.

The Shaykh : But “but” is a particle of correction, but “those.”
The student: “Those” is a demonstrative pronoun.

The Shaykh : A demonstrative pronoun “those”? A demonstrative pronoun is this, this, these.
The student: “Those.”

The Shaykh : Have you not read grammar?
The student: “Those” is a relative pronoun, built on the fathah, in the position of a nominative subject.

The Shaykh : Yes, “those” is a relative pronoun, built on the fathah, in the position of a nominative subject. Okay, where is its predicate, Abdullah? The predicate of “those.”
The student: “Feared.”

The Shaykh : No, “feared” is the relative clause.
The student: ...

The Shaykh : And where is the prepositional phrase its predicate, or not, my beloved?
The student: The prepositional phrase.

The Shaykh : The prepositional phrase appears to be opposed. Yes, the sentence “for them are rooms” — “for them are rooms” is a prepositional phrase, a predicate placed before “rooms.” Okay, let us take the benefits here.
The student: ...
Source alathar.net

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