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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Continuation of the explanation of the saying of Allah the Exalted: (( ... Woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the remembrance of Allah. Those are in manifest error )) .

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Allah the Exalted said:
Then woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the remembrance of Allah فويل للقاسية قلوبهم من ذكر الله
[Az-Zumar 39:22]
"Wail" is the subject, and "those whose hearts are hardened" is its predicate. So, "Woe to those whose hearts are hardened." As for "Wail," according to the stronger opinion, it is a word of warning, a word of warning. It has also been said that it is a valley in Hellfire, but the most correct view is that it is a word of warning. The permissibility of beginning with it, although it is an indefinite noun, is due to it being a word of warning, due to it being a word of warning. It may also be said that it is permitted to begin with it, although it is an indefinite noun, because it indicates a severe description, meaning "a great wail" or "a severe wail" for those whose hearts are hardened against the remembrance of Allah. And His saying:
to those whose hearts are hardened للقاسية قلوبهم
Hardness is extreme firmness, such that if you touch a thing, it does not compress under your pressure, like, for example, this stone. And Allah the Mighty and Majestic likened the hardness of the heart to stones, saying:
Then your hearts became hardened after that, being like stones or even harder ثم قست قلوبكم من بعد ذلك فهى كالحجارة أو أشد قسوة
[Al-Baqarah 2:74]
Here, the questioner asks: Why did He not say "so they are like iron," since iron breaks stones and stones do not break iron? The answer to that is: We say, what does iron soften with? By heating it over fire. Stones do not soften. Therefore, the hardness of hearts was likened to hard stones. "Those whose hearts are hardened" means those whose hearts became hard and did not soften for the truth. We ask Allah for well-being. And His saying:
the remembrance of Allah من ذكر الله
[Az-Zumar 39:22]
"From" has been said to mean "from" (indicating separation) for "those whose hearts are hardened from." But the more apparent view is that it is in its original sense, and the meaning is that their hearts harden from the remembrance, instead of softening. It was supposed that they would soften. Indicating this meaning is His saying:
(124) And whenever a surah is revealed, there are among the hypocrites those who say, "Which of you has this increased faith?" As for those who believed, it has increased them in faith, while they are rejoicing. (125) But as for those in whose hearts is disease, it has [only] increased them in evil [in addition] to their evil. And they will have died while they are disbelievers. وإذا ما أنزلت سورة فمنهم من يقول أيكم زادته هذه إيمانا فأما الذين آمنوا فزادتهم إيمانا وهم يستبشرون وأما الذين فى قلوبهم مرض فزادتهم رجسا إلى رجسهم
[At-Tawbah 9:124-125]
meaning it increased them in hardness and firmness. And based on this, we say: "Those whose hearts are hardened from the remembrance" means that whenever Allah is mentioned, their hearts harden. This is the opposite of the believer, for whenever he mentions Allah, his heart softens. Allah the Exalted said:
Has the time not come for those who have believed that their hearts should become humbly submissive at the remembrance of Allah ألم يأن للذين آمنوا أن تخشع قلوبهم لذكر الله
[Al-Hadid 57:16]
These are those whose hearts were hardened from the remembrance of Allah.
Those are in manifest error أولئك فى ضلال مبين
"Those" refers to those whose hearts are hardened. He referred to them with the demonstrative of distance to emphasize their lowliness and the degradation of their rank. And because the demonstrative of distance sometimes indicates a high rank and sometimes indicates a low rank. So in His saying: "That is the Book," here? It indicates a high rank. And in His saying here:
Those are in manifest error أولئك فى ضلال مبين
it indicates a low rank. So if someone asks: These meanings differ while the word is the same; what determines one of the two meanings? We say: The context and the state of the one being spoken about determine it, because the context and the circumstances, each of them, determines the intended meaning.
Those are in manifest error أولئك فى ضلال مبين
"In error": Error means being lost and not hitting the truth. So these are in error, meaning they are lost and have not hit the truth. And "manifest" here can be from the intransitive verb "aban" or from the transitive verb "aban." Stay with us. In the two words "ban" and "aban," is "ban" intransitive or transitive?
The student: intrinsic

The Shaykh : Intransitive. You say "ban al-amr" (the matter became clear), "ban al-subh" (the dawn became clear), "ban" meaning with the hamza. It is valid for it to be transitive and for it to be intransitive according to the context, according to the context. You say, for example, "aban al-fajr" meaning "ban," i.e., it appeared. And you say "aban al-rajul al-haqq" meaning he made it clear. So here,
Those are in manifest error أولئك فى ضلال مبين
is it from the intransitive or the transitive? The apparent view is that it is from the intransitive, meaning "in manifest error," apparent.
Source alathar.net

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