Al-Qawl al-Mufid ala Kitab al-Tawhid — Volume 2 (القول المفيد على كتاب التوحيد) — Page 84

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النَّبِيُّ اللَّهُ فَمَنْ أَعْدَى الْأُولَى؟ » (١) يَعْنِي أَنَّ الْمَرَضَ نَزَلَ عَلَى الْأَوَّلِ بِدُونِ عَدْوَى، بَلْ نَزَلَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَكَذَلِكَ إِذَا انْتَقَلَ بِالْعَدْوَى فَقَدِ انْتَقَلَ بِأَمْرِ اللَّهِ، وَالشَّيْءُ قَدْ يَكُونُ لَهُ سَبَبٌ مَعْلُومٌ وَقَدْ لَا يَكُونُ لَهُ سَبَبٌ مَعْلُومٌ، فَجَرَبُ الْأَوَّلِ لَيْسَ سَبَبُهُ مَعْلُومًا إِلَّا أَنَّهُ بِتَقْدِيرِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى، وَجَرَبُ الَّذِي بَعْدَهُ لَهُ مَعْلُومٌ لَكِنْ لَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لَمْ يَجْرَبْ وَلِهَذَا أَحْيَانًا تُصَابُ الْإِبِلُ بِالْجَرَبِ، ثُمَّ يَرْتَفِعُ وَلَا تَمُوتُ، وَكَذَلِكَ الطَّاعُونُ وَالْكُولِيرَا أَمْرَاضٌ مُعْدِيَةٌ، وَقَدْ تَدْخُلُ الْبَيْتَ فَتُصِيبُ الْبَعْضَ فَيَمُوتُونَ وَيَسْلَمُ آخَرُونَ وَلَا يُصَابُونَ.

The Prophet [said]: '...Allah, so who infected the first one?' (1) This means that the disease descended upon the first one without contagion; rather, it descended from Allah, the Almighty and Majestic. Likewise, if it is transmitted by contagion, it has been transmitted by the command of Allah. A thing may have a known cause, and it may not have a known cause. The mange of the first one does not have a known cause, except that it is by the decree of Allah, the Exalted, while the mange of the one after him has a known cause, yet if Allah, the Exalted, had willed, he would not have contracted mange. For this reason, sometimes camels are afflicted with mange, then it clears up and they do not die. Likewise, the plague and cholera are contagious diseases, and they may enter a house and afflict some, who then die, while others remain safe and are not afflicted.

فَالْإِنْسَانُ يَعْتَمِدُ عَلَى اللَّهِ، وَيَتَوَكَّلُ عَلَيْهِ وَقَدْ رُوِيَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ جَاءَهُ رَجُلٌ مَجْذُومٌ؛ فَأَخَذَ بِيَدِهِ وَقَالَ لَهُ: كُلْ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ الَّذِي كَانَ يَأْكُلُ مِنْهُ الرَّسُولُ (٢) لِقُوَّةِ تَوَكُّلِهِ عَلَى اللَّهِ.

So a person should rely upon Allah and place his trust in Him. It has been narrated that a leper came to the Prophet (peace be upon him), and he took his hand and said to him: 'Eat from the food that the Messenger was eating from' (2) due to the strength of his trust in Allah.

فَهَذَا التَّوَكُّلُ مُقَاوِمٌ لِهَذَا السَّبَبِ الْمُعْدِي.

This trust is a resistance to this contagious cause.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (28 verbs · 33 nouns)

• أَعْدَى — to infect
• نَزَلَ — to descend
• عَزَّ — to be mighty
• نَبِيٌّ — prophet
• مَرَضٌ — disease
• عَدْوَى — contagion