The questioner : Explaining the saying of Allah the Exalted: << يعظكم الله أن تعودوا لمثله أبدا إن كنتم مؤمنين >.

He said: The author says: "Allah forbids you to return to it". Command and prohibition are admonition, and for this reason Allah the Mighty and Majestic said: Then He said: [Al-Nisa: 58]. Thus, He made the command an admonition because a person is admonished by it. Similarly, here, Allah admonishes you, meaning He warns you through admonition and warning. Warning includes prohibition. Accordingly, we must know that the author's statement "Allah forbids you" is not an interpretation based on the wording, but rather based on what the meaning indicates. Otherwise, admonition is warning that softens the heart through fear or encouragement. So, the meaning of "admonishes you" is that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, warns you not to return to the like of it, meaning that you should never return to the like of it, as long as you are alive, if you are believers. Now, if you are believers, is this a condition for the admonition to admonish you, or is it an independent clause? The implied meaning is: "If you are believers, then be admonished by it." The author says: "If you are believers, you are admonished by it". This clause, in reality, if I say that it is a condition in His saying "admonishes you" , then it is necessary to interpret the admonition here as beneficial admonition, not merely the mention of admonition, because admonition does not benefit except with the condition of faith. However, if we say that the admonition is an explanation of what a person is admonished by, then faith is not a condition for that, for Allah's admonition is addressed to everyone, whether they are a believer or not, but only the believer benefits from it. This is general. [Yunus: 57]. So, the conclusion is that we say: "If you are believers," if it is a restriction in His saying "admonishes you," then the intended meaning of the admonition is beneficial admonition, which is what benefits the believer. And if "if you are believers" is independent of what came before it, or if we say that the admonition is the presentation of what was used to admonish people, whether they benefit from it or not, then His saying is independent, and its answer is omitted, meaning: "If you are believers, then be admonished by what Allah has admonished you with." In this is an indication that only believers benefit from the admonition. In both possibilities, it is a clear indication that only the believer benefits from Allah's admonition, while the non-believer does not benefit.