TURNING
AWAY FROM THE REMEMBRANCE
SHAYKHUL
ISLAAM IBN TAYMIYYAH
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وَمَنْ يَعْشُ عَنْ ذِكْرِ
الرَّحْمَنِ نُقَيِّضْ لَهُ شَيْطَانًا فَهُوَ لَهُ قَرِينٌ (٣٦)
And
whoever turns away from remembrance of the Most Merciful – We appoint for him a devil, and he is to him a companion.*
And
remembrance of the Most Merciful is the reminder which He has sent with his
Messenger (may the peace and blessings be upon him) the like of the Qur’an, therefore whoever does not have faith in the Qur’an and does not attest to the truthfulness of its message and
does not believe in the obligation of its commandment has turned away from it
(the reminder) as a result a devil will be assigned to him and made to be his
intimate companion.
وَهَٰذَا ذِكْرٌ مُّبَارَكٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ ۚ أَفَأَنتُمْ
لَهُ مُنكِرُونَ(٥٠)
And
this [Qur’an] is a blessed message which We have sent down. Then are you
with unacquainted? [al Anbiyaa’:50]
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وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَن ذِكْرِي فَإِنَّ لَهُ مَعِيشَةً ضَنكًا
وَنَحْشُرُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَعْمَىٰ
(١٢٤)
قَالَ رَبِّ لِمَ حَشَرْتَنِي
أَعْمَىٰ وَقَدْ كُنتُ بَصِيرًا
١٢٥))
قَالَ كَذَٰلِكَ أَتَتْكَ
آيَاتُنَا فَنَسِيتَهَا ۖ وَكَذَٰلِكَ الْيَوْمَ تُنسَىٰ
(١٢٦)
And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind. He will say, "My Lord, why have you raised me blind while I was [once] seeing?" [Allah] will say, "Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot them; and thus will you this Day be forgotten." [Ta-ha: 124-126]
So that
indicates that ‘His reminder’ is ‘His verses which He has
revealed’ and for that reason if the person always remembers Allaah, the
one free of all imperfections and the Most High, night and day, with utmost
abstinence from the worldly pleasures and he worships Him with exertion in his
worship; however he is not from those who follow his remembrance which He has
revealed, and it is the Qur’an, then he is from the
friends of the devil; even if he was to fly in the air or walked on water
because it is the devil who carries him in the air and on the water…
Shaykhul
Islaam Ibnu Taymiyyah, Kitaabul Furqaan, explanation by Saalih Aal Ash Shaykh,
Pp. 93-94
Translated
by Abu Tasneem Mushaf
@Aboo_Tasneem
6/20/16, 11:39 PM
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*Az-Zukhruf: 36 (overlook; see the above 1st ayah mentioned)
