Al-Qawl al-Mufid ala Kitab al-Tawhid — Volume 1 (القول المفيد على كتاب التوحيد) — Page 314

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

ثُمَّ يُلْقِيهَا الْآخَرُ إِلَى مَنْ تَحْتَهُ، حَتَّى يُلْقِيَهَا عَلَى لِسَانِ السَّاحِرِ أَوِ الْكَاهِنِ، فَرُبَّمَا قَوْلُهُ: «وَمُسْتَرِقُ السَّمْعِ هَكَذَا بَعْضُهُ فَوْقَ بَعْضٍ» يُحْتَمَلُ أَنْ يَكُونَ هَذَا مِنْ كَلَامِهِ، أَوْ مِنْ كَلَامِ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَوْ مِنْ كَلَامِ سُفْيَانَ.

Then the other casts it to the one below him, until he casts it onto the tongue of the sorcerer or the soothsayer; perhaps his saying: 'And the eavesdropper is like this, one above the other,' may be considered to be from his speech, or from the speech of Abu Hurayrah, or from the speech of Sufyan.

قَوْلُهُ: «وَوَصَفَهُ سُفْيَانُ بِكَفِّهِ» أَيْ أَنَّهَا وَاحِدٌ فَوْقَ الثَّانِي أَيِ الْأَصَابِعُ فَالْجِنُّ يَتَرَاكَبُونَ وَاحِدًا فَوْقَ الْآخَرِ، إِلَى أَنْ يَصِلُوا إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَيَقْعُدُونَ لِكُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مَقْعَدٌ خَاصٌّ، قَالَ تَعَالَى: ﴿وَأَنَّا كُنَّا نَقْعُدُ مِنْهَا مَقَاعِدَ لِلسَّمْعِ فَمَنْ يَسْتَمِعِ الْآنَ يَجِدْ لَهُ شِهَابًا رَصَدًا﴾.

His saying: 'And Sufyan described it with his palm,' means that they are one above the other, meaning the fingers; for the jinn stack themselves one above the other until they reach the sky, and they sit, with each one having a specific seat, as the Almighty said: 'And we used to sit therein in positions for hearing, but whoever listens now will find a burning flame lying in wait for him.'

قَوْلُهُ: «فَيَسْمَعُ الْكَلِمَةَ فَيُلْقِيهَا إِلَى مَنْ تَحْتَهُ» أَيْ يَسْمَعُ وَ«مَنْ» اسْمٌ مَوْصُولٌ، وَقَوْلُهُ: «تَحْتَهُ» شِبْهُ جُمْلَةٍ صِلَةُ الْمَوْصُولِ لِأَنَّهُ ظَرْفٌ.

His saying: 'So he hears the word and casts it to the one below him,' means he hears, and 'man' (who) is a relative pronoun, and his saying 'tahtahu' (below him) is a quasi-sentence acting as the relative clause because it is an adverb.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (21 verbs · 50 nouns)

• أَلْقَى — to pass on
• حَمَلَ — to bear
• وَصَفَ — to describe
• آخَرُ — other
• لِسَانٌ — tongue
• سَاحِرٌ — magician