Tafsir al-Uthaymin Juz Amma - Ibn al-'Uthaymin - (235)

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for you than this life.﴾ This sentence is reinforced by the lām—the lām of commencement. The Hereafter is the Day on which people will be resurrected and proceed to their final abode, either Paradise or the Fire. Thus, Allah says to His Prophet—may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace: ﴿And the Hereafter is certainly better for you than this life.﴾ That is because the Hereafter contains what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human heart has ever conceived. Indeed, the space occupied by one of our whips in Paradise is better than this world and all it contains, as was reported from the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace. (1)

For this reason, when Allah gave His Prophet—may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace—the choice, during his illness, between continuing to live in this world and what is with Allah, he chose what is with Allah. He—may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace—announced this in his sermon while standing upon the pulpit, saying: “Allah gave one of His servants the choice between living in this world for as long as Allah willed him to live and what is with Him, and the servant chose what is with Him.” Abū Bakr—may Allah be pleased with him—wept. The people were surprised by his tears and wondered why this had made him weep. Yet he—may Allah be pleased with him—knew the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace—better than anyone else. He understood that the servant who had been given the choice was the Messenger—may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace—that he had chosen what is with Allah, namely the Hereafter, and that this signaled the nearness of his death. (2)

﴿And your Lord will surely give you until you are pleased.﴾ The lām in ﴿And surely﴾ is likewise emphatic and introduces an implicit oath. The word “will” indicates that something will certainly take place, though only after a period of time. ﴿Your Lord will give you﴾ means that He will give you what pleases you, and you will therefore be pleased. Allah has indeed given him—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—what pleases him. On the Day of Resurrection, Allah Most High will raise him to a praised station for which all generations, from the earliest to the latest, will praise him. Even the prophets and the messengers of firm resolve will be unable to

(1) See p. 205 above. (2) Narrated by al-Bukhārī, *Book of the Merits of the Ansār*, chapter “The Migration of the Prophet—may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace—and His Companions to Medina,” no. 3904; and Muslim, *Book of the Merits of the Companions—may Allah be pleased with them*, chapter “The Merits of Abū Bakr al-Siddīq—may Allah be pleased with him,” no. 2382 (2).

لك من الأولى﴾ هذه الجملة مؤكدة باللام، لام الابتداء و ﴿الآخرة﴾ هي اليوم الذي يبعث فيه الناس، ويأوون إلى مثواهم الأخير إلى الجنة أو إلى النار، فيقول الله لنبيه صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم ﴿وللآخرة خير لك من الأولى﴾ أي: من الدنيا، وذلك لأن الآخرة فيها ما لا عين رأت، ولا أذن سمعت، ولا خطر على قلب بشر، وموضع سوط أحدنا في الجنة خير من الدنيا وما فيها، كما جاء ذلك عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم (١) . ولهذا لما خير الله نبيه صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم في مرضه بين أن يعيش في الدنيا ما يعيش وبين ما عند الله، اختار ما عند الله، كما أعلن ذلك صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم في خطبته حيث قال وهو على المنبر: «إن عبداً من عباد الله خيره الله بين أن يعيش في الدنيا ما شاء الله أن يعيش وبين ما عنده فاختار ما عنده» ، فبكى أبو بكر ﵁ وتعجب الناس من بكائه كيف يبكي من هذا، ولكنه ﵁ كان أعلم الناس برسول الله صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم. علم أن المخير هو الرسول صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم، وأنه اختار ما عند الله وهو الآخرة، وأن هذا إيذان بقرب أجله. (٢) ﴿ولسوف يعطيك ربك فترضى﴾ ﴿ولسوف﴾ اللام هذه أيضاً للتوكيد وهي موطئة للقسم، و ﴿سوف﴾ تدل على تحقق الشيء لكن بعد مهلة وزمن ﴿يعطيك ربك﴾ أي يعطيك ما يرضيك فترضى، ولقد أعطاه الله ما يرضيه ﷺ، فإن الله تعالى يبعثه يوم القيامة مقاماً محموداً، يحمده فيه الأولون والآخرون، حتى الأنبياء وأولو العزم من الرسل لا يستطيعون

(١) تقدم صفحة (٢٠٥) . (٢) أخرجه البخاري، كتاب مناقب الأنصار باب هجرة النبي صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم وأصحابه إلى المدينة (٣٩٠٤) ومسلم كتاب فضائل الصحابة ﵃، باب من فضائل أبي بكر الصديق ﵁ (٢٣٨٢) (٢) ..