Tafsir Asma Allah al-Husna li-al-Sadi - Abd al-Rahman al-Sadi’ - (225)

Tafsir Asma Allah al-Husna li-al-SadiAbd al-Rahman al-Sadi’

74 - The Most Generous1:

He, may Allah Most High have mercy on him, said: “The Most Generous2: His goodness is abundant, embracing the grateful and the ungrateful alike. Yet gratitude for His blessings brings more of them, while ingratitude brings about their loss”3.

75 - The Most Subtle4:

The author, may Allah Most High have mercy on him, said: “Among His most beautiful names is ‘the Most Subtle’: His knowledge is so subtle that it encompasses hidden things and concealed secrets, all that hearts contain, and the seeds hidden within the earth. He shows subtle kindness to His close and chosen servants, easing their way to good and keeping them from hardship. He makes easy for them every path leading to His pleasure and honor, and protects them from every means leading to His wrath, in ways they perceive and ways they do not. He decrees for them things they dislike so that He may grant them what they love. He shows them subtle kindness in their own persons, treating them with His customary goodness and generous favors. He also graciously arranges circumstances beyond them that bring them every good, well-being, and success. Thus, the meaning of the Most Subtle is close to those of the All-Aware, the Most Compassionate, and the Most Generous5.

Among the ways He shows subtle kindness to His servant and close friend—for whom He wishes to perfect His goodness, whom He wishes to embrace with His generosity and raise to lofty ranks—is to ease his way to good, keep him from hardship, and subject him to various trials that he dislikes and finds burdensome, although they are precisely what brings about his well-being and leads to his happiness. Thus He tested the prophets with persecution from their peoples and with striving in His cause, as Allah relates concerning Joseph

(1) Allah Most High says: “Whoever gives thanks does so only for his own benefit; and whoever is ungrateful—my Lord is indeed Self-Sufficient, Generous” (al-Nahl 16:40). (2) Further explanation of this name has already been given alongside His name al-Barr (the Beneficent). (3) Al-Tafsīr, 5:580 and 5:622. (4) Allah Most High says: “Vision cannot encompass Him, but He encompasses all vision, and He is the Subtle, the All-Aware” (al-An‘ām 6:113). (5) Tawdīh al-Kāfiya al-Shāfiya, p. 123; Al-Tafsīr, 5:625.

٧٤ - الكريم١: قال رحمه الله تعالى: "الكريم٢: كثير الخير يعم به الشاكر، والكافر، إلا أن شكر نعمه داع للمزيد منها، وكفرها داع لزوالها"٣. ٧٥ - اللطيف٤: قال المؤلف رحمه الله تعالى: "ومن أسمائه الحسنى "اللطيف": الذي لطف علمه حتى أدرك الخفايا، والخبايا، وما احتوت عليه الصدور، وما في الأراضي من خفايا البذور ولطف بأوليائه، وأصفيائه، فيسرهم لليسرى وجنبهم العسرى، وسهل لهم كل طريق يوصل إلى مرضاته وكرامته وحفظهم من كل سبب ووسيلة توصل إلى سخطه، من طرق يشعرون بها، ومن طرق لا يشعرون بها، وقدر عليهم أموراً يكرهونها لينيلهم ما يحبون، فلطف بهم في أنفسهم فأجراهم على عوائده الجميلة، وصنائعه الكريمة، ولطف لهم في أمور خارجة عنهم لهم فيها كل خير وصلاح ونجاح، فاللطيف متقارب لمعاني الخبير، الرؤوف، الكريم٥. ومن لطفه بعبده ووليه الذي يريد أن يتم عليه إحسانه، ويشمله بكرمه ويرقيه إلى المنازل العالية فييسره لليسرى، ويجنبه العسرى، ويجري عليه من أصناف المحن التي يكرهها وتشق عليه وهي عين صلاحه، والطريق إلى سعادته، كما أمتحن الأنبياء بأذى قومهم وبالجهاد في سبيله وكما ذكر الله عن يوسف

١ قال الله تعالى: ﴿وَمَنْ شَكَرَ فَإِنَّمَا يَشْكُرُ لِنَفْسِهِ وَمَنْ كَفَرَ فَإِنَّ رَبِّي غَنِيٌّ كَرِيمٌ﴾ (النحل:٤٠) ٢ سبق زيادة بيان لهذا الاسم مع اسمه تعالى "البر". ٣ التفسير (٥/ ٥٨٠ و ٥/ ٦٢٢). ٤ قال الله تعالى ﴿لا تُدْرِكُهُ الأَبْصَارُ وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ الأَبْصَارَ وَهُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ﴾ (الأنعام: ١١٣). ٥ توضيح الكافية الشافية (ص١٢٣) والتفسير (٥/ ٦٢٥).