Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: << و لا يصدنك عن ءايات الله بعد إذ أنزلت إليك وادع إلى ربك و لاتكونن من المشركين >> from Surat al-Qasas
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Was the lam of the verb deleted or not? [An-Naml 27:70] Did the prohibition here have an effect or not? It had an effect, and what did it affect?
The student: ..
The Shaykh : No, the waw, which is the lam of the verb, was deleted from it. In here, the waw that is the lam of the verb was not deleted. Why? He said: "because of its construction". Because it is constructed on the fathah, and the original reason for deleting the lam of the verb is for the sake of sukun. In I told you: its original form is If we had kept the waw and put sukun on the nun, two sukun letters would have met, and this is not permissible in the Arabic language. And when two sukun letters meet and the first of them is a letter of lenition, it is deleted. Therefore, the waw that is the lam of the verb was deleted. As for here, in [Al-An'am 6:14] it was not deleted. The author says: "because of its construction".
And his saying: Shirk, as we have passed over many times, is divided into major shirk, which expels one from the religion, and minor shirk, which does not expel one from the religion. So the major is that one associates with Allah someone in his worship or his lordship. So whoever associates with Allah in His lordship or in His worship is a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah). And what is less than that, which is called shirk, is minor shirk. And the general rule is that minor shirk is either a means to the major, as in the issue of riya' (showing off in worship), because the one who performs the worship and beautifies it for people may end up performing the original worship for people, and thereby become a mushrik with major shirk. And minor shirk may not be a means to major shirk, but rather it relates to other matters that do not relate to disbelief. But in any case, major shirk is that a person believes that Allah has a partner in His uluhiyyah (oneness of worship) or His rububiyyah (oneness of lordship). Do we stop here?
The student:.......?
The Shaykh : It is kufr (disbelief), but the type of this kufr is that it is shirk (associating partners with Allah), because kufr is a general genus that encompasses types.
And grieve not over them or be in distress
وَلا تَحْزَنْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلا تَكُن فِي ضَيْقٍbe
تكُنand do not be
ولا تكنThe student: ..
The Shaykh : No, the waw, which is the lam of the verb, was deleted from it. In
and do not be
ولا تكنand do not be
ولا تكُنْbe
تكُونDo not ever be of the polytheists.' "
وَلا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَAnd his saying:
of the mushrikin
مِن المشركينThe student:.......?
The Shaykh : It is kufr (disbelief), but the type of this kufr is that it is shirk (associating partners with Allah), because kufr is a general genus that encompasses types.