Al-Qawl al-Mufid ala Kitab al-Tawhid — Volume 3 (القول المفيد على كتاب التوحيد) — Page 100

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التَّكَلُّمِ وَلْيَقُلْ: سَيِّدِي وَمَوْلَايَ، فَفَهِمَ الْمُؤَلِّفُ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ -كَمَا سَيَأْتِي فِي الْمَسَائِلِ- أَنَّ فِيهِ إِشَارَةً إِلَى أَنَّهُ إِذَا كَانَ الْغَيْرُ قَدْ نُهِيَ أَنْ يَقُولَ: لِلْعَبْدِ أَطْعِمْ رَبَّكَ فَالْعَبْدُ مِنْ بَابٍ أَوْلَى أَنْ يُنْهَى عَنْ قَوْلِ هَذَا رَبِّي أَوْ لِرَبِّي، وَلَا يَقُلْ أَطْعَمْتُ رَبِّي، بَلْ يَقُلْ سَيِّدِي وَمَوْلَايَ.

speaking, and he should say: 'My master and my lord.' The author, may Allah have mercy on him, understood—as will come in the issues—that there is an indication in this that if others have been forbidden from saying to a slave, 'Feed your lord,' then the slave is even more deserving of being forbidden from saying, 'This is my lord' or 'for my lord,' and he should not say, 'I fed my lord,' but rather he should say, 'My master and my lord.'

وَأَمَّا إِذَا قُلْنَا: بِأَنَّ أَطْعِمْ رَبَّكَ خَاصٌّ بِمَنْ يُخَاطِبُ الْعَبْدَ لِمَا فِيهِ مِنْ إِذْلَالِ الْعَبْدِ بِخِلَافِ مَا إِذَا قَالَ هُوَ بِنَفْسِهِ: سَأُطْعِمُ رَبِّي فَإِنَّهُ يَنْتَفِي الْإِذْلَالُ فَإِنَّهُ يُقَالُ: إِنَّ الرَّسُولَ -صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ- لَمَّا وَجَّهَ الْخِطَابَ لَمْ يَتَكَلَّمْ فِي شَأْنِ الْعَبْدِ، بَلْ وَجَّهَ الْخِطَابَ إِلَى الْعَبْدِ نَفْسِهِ فَقَالَ: «وَلْيَقُلْ سَيِّدِي وَمَوْلَايَ».

As for if we say that 'Feed your lord' is specific to someone addressing the slave because of the humiliation of the slave it contains, unlike if he says it himself, 'I will feed my lord,' for then the humiliation is negated, it is said: When the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, directed the address, he did not speak about the status of the slave, but rather he directed the address to the slave himself, saying: 'And he should say, my master and my lord.'

وَقَوْلُهُ: «سَيِّدِي»:

And his saying: 'My master':

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Vocabulary · المفردات (14 verbs · 28 nouns)

• تَكَلَّمَ — to speak
• قَالَ — to say
• فَهِمَ — to understand
• تَكَلُّمٌ — speaking
• سَيِّدٌ — master
• مَوْلًى — patron