Al-Qawl al-Mufid ala Kitab al-Tawhid — Volume 2 (القول المفيد على كتاب التوحيد) — Page 304

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عَزَّ وَجَلَّ كَمَا أَثْبَتَهَا اللَّهُ لِنَفْسِهِ وَأَثْبَتَهَا لَهُ رَسُولُهُ وَهَذَا يَنْصَبُّ تَمَاماً عَلَى أَهْلِ التَّعْطِيلِ وَالتَّحْرِيفِ الَّذِينَ يُنْكِرُونَ الصِّفَاتِ، فَمَا الَّذِي يُخَوِّفُهُمْ مِنْ إِثْبَاتِهَا وَاللَّهُ تَعَالَى قَدْ أَثْبَتَهَا لِنَفْسِهِ.

Mighty and Majestic is He, just as Allah has affirmed them for Himself and His Messenger has affirmed them for Him, and this applies completely to the people of negation and distortion who deny the attributes; so what is it that frightens them from affirming them when Allah the Exalted has already affirmed them for Himself?

وَعَلَى رِوَايَةٍ: (فَرِّقْ أَوْ فَرَقَ) بِمَعْنَى مَا فَرَّقَهُمْ كَقَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: وَقُرْآناً فَرَقْنَاهُ، أَيْ فَرَّقْنَاهُ وَ(فَرَقَ) تَكُونُ فِعْلاً مَاضِياً وَ(مَا) يَحْتَمِلُ أَنْ تَكُونَ نَافِيَةً، وَالْمَعْنَى مَا فَرَّقَ هَؤُلَاءِ بَيْنَ الْحَقِّ وَالْبَاطِلِ، فَجَعَلُوا هَذَا مِنَ الْمُتَشَابِهِ وَأَنْكَرُوهُ وَلَمْ يَحْمِلُوهُ عَلَى الْمُحْكَمِ، وَيَحْتَمِلُ أَنْ تَكُونَ اسْتِفْهَامِيَّةً وَالْمَعْنَى أَيُّ شَيْءٍ فَرَّقَهُمْ فَجَعَلَهُمْ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْمُحْكَمِ وَيَهْلِكُونَ عِنْدَ الْمُتَشَابِهِ؟

According to one narration: (farriq or faraqa), it means 'what has separated them,' like His saying the Exalted: 'And it is a Qur'an which We have separated,' meaning We have divided it; and 'faraqa' can be a past tense verb, and 'ma' can be a negation, and the meaning is that these people did not distinguish between truth and falsehood, so they placed this among the ambiguous and denied it, and did not interpret it in light of the clear; and it is possible that it is interrogative, and the meaning is: what has separated them such that they believe in the clear but perish at the ambiguous?

قَوْلُهُ: يَجِدُونَ رِقَّةً عِنْدَ مُحْكَمِهِ الرِّقَّةُ اللِّينُ وَالْقَبُولُ، وَ(مُحْكَمِهِ) أَيْ مُحْكَمِ الْقُرْآنِ.

His saying: 'They find softness at its clear verses,' the softness is gentleness and acceptance, and 'its clear verses' means the clear verses of the Qur'an.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (21 verbs · 39 nouns)

• عَزَّ — to be mighty
• جَلَّ — to be majestic
• أَثْبَتَ — to affirm
• نَفْس — self
• رَسُول — messenger
• أَهْل — people