Allah the Exalted said: << إلا من ظلم ثم بدل حسنا بعد سوء فإني غفور رحيم >
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Otherwise, he who wrongs, then substitutes good after evil
إِلَّا مَنْ ظَلَمَ ثُمَّ بَدَّلَ حُسْنًا بَعْدَ سُوءٍThe author altered the interpretation by saying: "he came with good", because the apparent meaning in reality is what makes the sense coherent: he replaced good with evil. Where is the thing taken? .... But I say, meaning: he replaced good with evil, because "replaced" indicates that there is a replacement and a thing being replaced. So if I say: he replaced good with what?
The student: With evil.
The Shaykh : With evil. So the good is pushed out, and the evil is taken. I replaced my garment with his garment, where is the thing taken?
The student: The latter.
The Shaykh : The latter, right? Or not? So here, "replaced good," if we take its apparent meaning, it means: he left good and took evil.
And for this reason, the author interpreted his saying "replaced" as "came," and the evidence for that is: if the intended meaning of "replacing" were the apparent meaning, it would not have been correct to express it by saying "after evil." If it were so, he would have said: he replaced good with evil; he did not say "after." So when he said: after evil, it is known that "replaced" here means "substituted," and "substituted" means "took."
Would you exchange what is better for what is less?
أَتَسْتَبْدِلُونَ الَّذِي هُوَ أَدْنَى بِالَّذِي هُوَ خَيْرٌAnd the meaning of the noble verse is: that whoever comes with good after evil, then this good erases the evil. And for this reason he said:
indeed, I am Forgiving and Merciful.
فَإِنِّي غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌThe word
indeed, I am Forgiving and Merciful.
فَإِنِّي غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌThe student: ... a conditional noun that necessitates?
The Shaykh : Yes, it is a conditional noun that necessitates, and it is not a relative noun that is excepted, because the exception here is disjoint.
