Al-Qawl al-Mufid ala Kitab al-Tawhid — Volume 1 (القول المفيد على كتاب التوحيد) — Page 487

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وَإِنِّي سَأَلْتُ رَبِّي لِأُمَّتِي أَنْ لَا يُهْلِكَهَا بِسَنَةٍ بِعَامَّةٍ، وَأَنْ لَا يُسَلِّطَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدُوًّا مِنْ سِوَى أَنْفُسِهِمْ، فَيَسْتَبِيحَ بَيْضَتَهُمْ، وَإِنَّ قَيْصَرَ، وَالْفِضَّةَ عِنْدَ كِسْرَى وَكُلٌّ مِنْهُمَا عِنْدَهُ ذَهَبٌ وَفِضَّةٌ لَكِنَّ الْأَغْلَبَ عَلَى كُنُوزِ قَيْصَرَ الذَّهَبُ، وَعَلَى كُنُوزِ كِسْرَى الْفِضَّةُ.

And I asked my Lord for my nation that He would not destroy it by a widespread famine, and that He would not empower an enemy against them from outside themselves, so that they would violate their sanctuary; and indeed Caesar, and silver is with Chosroes, and each of them has gold and silver, but the majority of Caesar's treasures is gold, and the majority of Chosroes' treasures is silver.

وَقَوْلُهُ: «أُعْطِيتُ» هَلْ هُوَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أُعْطِيَهَا فِي حَيَاتِهِ أَمْ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهِ؟

And regarding his saying: 'I have been given,' was he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, given it during his lifetime or after his death?

الْجَوَابُ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهِ أُعْطِيَتْ أُمَّتُهُ ذَلِكَ، لَكِنْ مَا أُعْطِيَتْ أُمَّتُهُ فَهُوَ كَالْمُعْطَى لَهُ، لِأَنَّ امْتِدَادَ مُلْكِ الْأُمَّةِ، لَا لِأَنَّهَا أُمَّةٌ عَرَبِيَّةٌ كَمَا يَقُولُهُ هَؤُلَاءِ الْجُهَّالُ، بَلْ لِأَنَّهَا أُمَّةٌ إِسْلَامِيَّةٌ، أَخَذَتْ بِمَا كَانَ عَلَيْهِ الرَّسُولُ.

The answer is that after his death his nation was given that, but what his nation was given is like what was given to him, because the expansion of the nation's dominion is not because it is an Arab nation as these ignorant people say, but because it is an Islamic nation that followed what the Messenger was upon.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (11 verbs · 42 nouns)

• سَأَلَ — to ask
• أَهْلَكَ — to destroy
• سَلَّطَ — to empower
• رَبّ — lord
• أُمَّة — nation
• سَنَة — year