What is your opinion regarding the claim that the meaning of (even if you were to bite into the trunk of a tree) is that this tree is interpreted in the Book of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) as the good word, which
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The questioner : What is your opinion regarding the statement of one who says: that the meaning of "bite" , and that this tree is interpreted in the Book of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) as the good word, which Allah (Mighty and Majestic) used as an example [Ibrahim 14:24-25] and that this tree is La ilaha illa Allah, so you isolate yourself from all these sects and bite into La ilaha illa Allah, which is the summary of the Book and the Sunnah. Is this interpretation close or is it a distant interpretation?
The Shaykh : It is very distant.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : Yes, the hadith does not command biting. It says: sects, so it is an exaggeration in isolating oneself from all the sects.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you.
Even if you were to bite into the trunk of a tree
ولو أن تعضَّ على جذع شجرةan example, [making] a good word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and its branches [high] in the sky? (25) It produces its fruit all the time, by permission of its Lord.
مثلًا كَلِمَةً طَيِّبَةً كَشَجَرَةٍ طَيِّبَةٍ أَصْلُهَا ثَابِتٌ وَفَرْعُهَا فِي السَّمَاءِ * تُؤْتِي أُكُلَهَا كُلَّ حِينٍ بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهَاThe Shaykh : It is very distant.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : Yes, the hadith does not command biting. It says:
Even if you were to bite
ولو أن تعضَّThe questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you.
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