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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Meaning of His (peace and blessings be upon him) Saying: "I am the barefoot warner"

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Question:
His saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
I am a naked warnerإني أنا النذير العريان
Sahih al-Bukhari 6482
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Answer:
It means exaggerating in the warning. For some warners, if they feared that people would not pay attention to them, they would remove their cloak from their bodies and twist it around like this until people noticed them. That is why he had nothing on his body; he had only the lower garment (izar). His urgency to remove even the lower garment was such that he took his lower garment and twisted it.
The point is that he
the barefoot warnerالنذير العُريان
, meaning: he exaggerated in the warning. His intense urgency to remove the garment he was wearing and twist it was: "Beware, beware, escape, escape."
Source binbaz.org.sa

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

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