Taysir al-Latif al-Mannan fi Khulasat Tafsir al-Quran - Abd al-Rahman al-Sadi’ - (الكتاب/395)

Taysir al-Latif al-Mannan fi Khulasat Tafsir al-QuranAbd al-Rahman al-Sadi’

A point of benefit—indeed, of many great benefits—lies in mentioning some of the means that Allah has set forth in His Book, means that lead to the loftiest aims:

There is no doubt that, out of His wisdom and mercy, Allah has made His servants dependent on securing religious and worldly advantages and on warding off religious and worldly harms. His unchanging way decrees that these varied benefits—especially the greatest of them—cannot be attained except by pursuing their proper means, and that harms cannot be removed except by taking the means that repel them. In His Book He has explained those means with the utmost clarity and has guided His servants to them. Whoever follows them gains what he seeks and is delivered from all that he dreads.

• The root of all means is faith and righteous action. Allah has tied every good of this world and the next, and its attainment, to the extent that a servant fulfills these two matters. The Quran contains a great many verses on this, and something of it has already been mentioned in this book when speaking of the benefits of faith.⦗1⦘

• Allah has made the fulfillment of servitude and reliance on Him a cause for His sufficing the servant in all his needs, as in His words: “Whoever puts his trust in Allah, He will be enough for him” [al-Talaq: 3], and, “Is not Allah sufficient for His servant?” [al-Zumar: 36]—that is, for the one who outwardly and inwardly fulfills his servitude.

• Allah has made mindfulness of Him, coupled with effort and movement, a cause for provision, as He says: “Whoever is mindful of Allah, He will make for him a way out (2) and will provide for him from where he could never imagine” [al-Talaq: 2–3]; and, “So walk in its paths and eat from His provision” [al-Mulk: 15].

• Allah has made godfearingness, faith, and repeatedly invoking the supplication of Dhu al-Nun a cause for deliverance from every distress, constriction, and hardship. This is borne out by the previous verse and by His words: “And Dhu al-Nun, when he went away in anger and thought We would have no power over him, but he cried out in the darknesses, ‘There is no god but You; glory be to You! Truly I have been of the wrongdoers’ (87). So We answered him and saved him from grief, and thus do We save the believers (88)” [al-Anbiya: 87–88].

(1) See p. 55 of this book.

* فائدةٌ -بلْ فوائدُ عظيمةٌ- في ذكرِ شيءٍ من الأسبابِ التي ذكرَها اللهُ في كتابهِ، موصلة إلى المطالبِ العاليةِ: لا ريبَ أنَّ من حكمةِ اللهِ ورحمتهِ أنهُ جعلَ العبادَ مفتقرينَ إلى جلبِ المنافعِ الدينيةِ والدنيويةِ، وإلى دفعِ المضارِّ الدينيةِ والدنيويةِ، فاقتضَتْ حكمتهُ وسنتهُ التي لا تتبدلُ أنَّ هذهِ المنافعَ المتنوعةَ -وخصوصًا الأمورَ العظامَ- لا تحصلُ إلا بالسعيِ بأسبابِها الموصلةِ إليها، وكذلكَ المضارُّ لا تندفعُ إلا بالسعيِ بالأسبابِ التي تدفعُها، وقدْ بيَّنَ في كتابهِ غايةَ التبيينِ هذهِ الأسبابَ، وأرشدَ العبادَ إليها، فمن سلكَها فازَ بالمطلوبِ، ونجا من كلِّ مرهوبٍ. • فأصلُ الأسبابِ كلِّها: الإيمانُ والعملُ الصالحُ، جعلَ اللهُ خيراتِ الدنيا والآخرةِ وحصولَها بحسبِ قيامِ العبدِ بهذينِ الأمرينِ، وقدْ ذكرَ اللهُ في القرآنِ من هذا شيئًا كثيرًا جدًّا، وقدْ تقدَّمَ في هذا الكتابِ شيءٌ من ذلكَ عندَ ذكرِ فوائدِ الإيمانِ (١). • وجعلَ اللهُ القيامَ بالعبوديةِ والتوكلِ سببًا لكفايةِ اللهِ للعبدِ جميعَ مطالبهِ، شاهدهُ قولهُ تعالى: ﴿وَمَنْ يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُ﴾ [الطلاق: ٣]، ﴿أَلَيْسَ اللَّهُ بِكَافٍ عَبْدَهُ﴾ [الزمر: ٣٦] أي: بمن يقومُ بعبوديتهِ ظاهرًا وباطنًا. • وجعلَ اللهُ التقوى والسعيَ والحركةَ سببًا للرزقِ، شاهدهُ قولهُ تعالى: ﴿وَمَنْ يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ مَخْرَجًا (٢) وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ﴾ [الطلاق: ٢ - ٣]، وقولهُ: ﴿فَامْشُوا فِي مَنَاكِبِهَا وَكُلُوا مِنْ رِزْقِهِ﴾ [الملك: ١٥]. • وجعلَ اللهُ التقوى والإيمانَ وتكرارَ دعوةِ ذي النونِ سببًا للخروجِ من كلِّ كربٍ وضيقٍ وشدةٍ، شاهدهُ الآيةُ السابقةُ، وكذلكَ قولهُ: ﴿وَذَا النُّونِ إِذْ ذَهَبَ مُغَاضِبًا فَظَنَّ أَنْ لَنْ نَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ فَنَادَى فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ سُبْحَانَكَ إِنِّي كُنْتُ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ (٨٧) فَاسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُ وَنَجَّيْنَاهُ مِنَ الْغَمِّ وَكَذَلِكَ نُنْجِي الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (٨٨)﴾ [الأنبياء: ٨٧ - ٨٨].

(١) انظر: (ص: ٥٥) من هذا الكتاب.