The benefits of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “Is he to whom Allah has opened his breast to Islam, so that he is upon a light from his Lord, the same as he whose heart is hardened against the remembrance of Allah? Those are in manifest error.”

Then He, the Exalted, said: to the end of it. In this verse, He negated the equality between the two groups: the one to whom Allah has opened his breast to Islam and the one to whom He has not, because the interrogative particle here carries the meaning of negation. What is the meaning of the negation?
And among its benefits is that guidance is in the hand of Allah, as He said: A corollary of this benefit is that when a person knows that guidance is in the hand of Allah, he does not turn to anyone other than Allah in seeking guidance. Also, when he knows that the One who gives guidance is Allah, he does not become proud of himself if he is guided. Rather, he says to himself: “If it were not for the guidance of Allah, I would have been astray.” So he does not say, “What I have been given is due to the knowledge I possess,” or “This is for me.” Rather, he acknowledges the favor of Allah upon him and that if it were not for the guidance of Allah, he would not have benefited, meaning until the Day of Judgment.
We open our summer sessions this year on this day, Saturday, the eighteenth of the month of Muharram, in the year one thousand and forty-three. We ask Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, to bless us in our work, in our knowledge, and in our studies, which are varied, including tafsir, hadith, fiqh, tawhid, and usul al-fiqh. They are distributed among the days, except for tafsir, hadith, and fiqh, for these three are fixed every day.
The student: I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Shaytan. أَفَمَنْ شَرَحَ اللَّهُ صَدْرَهُ لِلْإِسْلَامِ فَهُوَ عَلَى نُورٍ مِنْ رَبِّهِ فَوَيْلٌ لِلْقَاسِيَةِ قُلُوبُهُمْ مِنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ أُولَئِكَ فِي ضَلَالٍ مُبِينٍ 22 اللَّهُ نَزَّلَ أَحْسَنَ الْحَدِيثِ كِتَابًا مُتَشَابِهًا مَثَانِيَ تَقْشَعِرُّ مِنْهُ جُلُودُ الَّذِينَ يَخْشَوْنَ رَبَّهُمْ ثُمَّ تَلِينُ جُلُودُهُمْ وَقُلُوبُهُمْ إِلَى ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ ذَلِكَ هُدَى اللَّهِ يَهْدِي بِهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَمَنْ يُضْلِلِ اللَّهُ فَمَا لَهُ مِنْ هَادٍ 23 أَفَمَنْ يَتَّقِي بِوَجْهِهِ سُوءَ الْعَذَابِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَقِيلَ لِلظَّالِمِينَ ذُوقُوا مَا كُنْتُمْ تَكْسِبُونَ 24 كَذَّبَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَاهُمُ الْعَذَابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ 25 فَأَذَاقَهُمُ اللَّهُ الْخِزْيَ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَلَعَذَابُ الْآخِرَةِ أَكْبَرُ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ Is he to whom Allah has opened his breast to Islam, so that he is upon a light from his Lord, the same as he whose heart is hardened against the remembrance of Allah? Those are in manifest error. 22. Allah has sent down the best statement, a Book similar, in repeated verses, at which the skins of those who fear their Lord shiver, then their skins and their hearts soften at the remembrance of Allah. That is the guidance of Allah, by which He guides whom He wills, and whom Allah leaves astray, for him there is no guide. 23. Is he who guards himself against the evil of the punishment on the Day of Resurrection, the same as he who is told, “Taste what you used to earn,” the same as the wrongdoers? 24. Those before them denied, so the punishment came to them from where they did not perceive. 25. So Allah made them taste humiliation in this worldly life, and the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.

The Shaykh : I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Shaytan. Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said: The hamza here is for interrogation, and the fa is a conjunction, and what is conjoined is what preceded it, according to one of the two views among the scholars of grammar. It was also said that the fa is a conjunction to an implied word after the hamza, and the implied meaning is: “Have you not neglected, so that you did not perceive this matter?” So, he to whom Allah has opened his breast to Islam is upon a light from his Lord, not like the one who was not so. And we...
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The Shaykh : I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Shaytan. Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said: