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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: << ياقوم ادخلوا الأرض المقدسة التي كتب الله لكم ولا تردوا على أدباركم فتنقلبوا خاسرين >

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The Exalted Allah said:
O my people يا قوم
from Musa (peace be upon him),
O my people, enter the Holy Land يا قوم ادخلوا الأرض المقدسة
[Al-Ma'idah 5:21]
The call here, "O my people," includes two things. The first is that it contains an element of their argumentation, and that they would not notice or listen to the address unless it came with a call and the term of kinship. The second is also that he said "O my people" to win their affection, because he distinguished between the addressee being from their people or from other than their people.
enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you ادخلوا الأرض المقدسة التي كتب الله لكم
[Al-Ma'idah 5:21]
The word
Enter the land ادخلوا الأرض
He did not say: "They said" until you enter; he said:
Enter the land ادخلوا الأرض
Then his saying:
which Allah has assigned to you التي كتب الله لكم
[Al-Ma'idah 5:21]
also contains good news that they will prevail. So in these two sentences there are two pieces of good news: the first is "Enter the land," and the second is "which Allah has written for you." The writing here is the writing of divine decree, because writing varies into two types: legislative writing, such as His saying, the Exalted:
decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous - كتب عليكم الصيام كما كتب على الذين من قبلكم لعلكم تتقون
[Al-Baqarah 2:183]
and the writing of divine decree, such as His saying, the Exalted:
And We have already written in the book [of Psalms] after the [previous] mention that the land [of Paradise] is inherited by My righteous servants. ولقد كتبنا في الزبور من بعد الذكر أن الأرض يرثها عبادي الصالحين
[Al-Anbya 21:105]
. And His saying:
that which Allah has decreed for you كتب الله لكم
[Al-Baqarah 2:187]
I said that the writing here is the writing of divine decree, not legislative. If it were legislative, it would exceed the repetition of "He wrote upon them," and the meaning would not be consistent.
and do not turn back ولا ترتدوا على أدباركم
[Al-Ma'idah 5:21]
Meaning, do not turn back after you were retreating from the battle on their rear, because retreating from the rear and turning back is defeat and humiliation. For this reason, there is a severe prohibition against turning one's back on the day of battle.
so that you may return as losers فتنقلبوا خاسرين
Do not turn back so that you may return, and returning implies disappointment. For this reason, he said:
so that you may return as losers فتنقلبوا خاسرين
and "losers" is a state describing the waw in his saying: "you may return." So what was the answer? The answer is as you are hearing now.
Source alathar.net

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

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