Al-Qawl al-Mufid ala Kitab al-Tawhid — Volume 1 (القول المفيد على كتاب التوحيد) — Page 214

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

الثَّانِيَةُ وَالْعِشْرُونَ: أَنَّ الْمُنْتَقِلَ مِنَ الْبَاطِلِ الَّذِي اعْتَادَهُ قَلْبُهُ لَا يُؤْمَنُ أَنْ يَكُونَ فِي قَلْبِهِ بَقِيَّةٌ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْعَادَةِ لِقَوْلِهِ: وَنَحْنُ حُدَثَاءُ عَهْدٍ بِكُفْرٍ.

Twenty-second: When someone turns away from a falsehood their heart was accustomed to, there is a risk that remnants of that habit remain, as indicated by the saying: 'We are new to disbelief.'

وَهَذَا صَحِيحٌ، فَالْإِنْسَانُ الْمُنْتَقِلُ مِنْ شَيْءٍ سَوَاءٌ بَاطِلًا، أَوْ لَا، لَا يُؤْمَنُ أَنْ يَكُونَ فِي قَلْبِهِ بَقِيَّةٌ مِنْهُ وَهَذِهِ الْبَقِيَّةُ لَا تَزُولُ إِلَّا بَعْدَ مُدَّةٍ لِقَوْلِهِ: وَنَحْنُ حُدَثَاءُ عَهْدٍ بِكُفْرٍ

This is true. Anyone moving away from something—whether it is false or otherwise—may still harbor lingering attachments to it, which only fade over time, as the phrase 'We are new to disbelief' suggests.

فَكَأَنَّهُ يَقُولُ مَا سَأَلْنَاهُ إِلَّا لِأَنَّ عِنْدَنَا بَقِيَّةً مِنْ بَقَايَا الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ

It is as if they were saying: We only asked him because we still carry traces of our pre-Islamic past.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (11 verbs · 24 nouns)

• اِعْتَادَ — to be accustomed to
• أَمِنَ — to be trusted/guaranteed
• كَانَ — to be
• ثَانِيَةٌ — second
• عِشْرُونَ — twenty
• مُنْتَقِلٌ — transferee