Tafsir al-Uthaymin Juz Amma - Ibn al-'Uthaymin - (327)

Tafsir al-Uthaymin Juz AmmaIbn al-'Uthaymin

in Allah—“harshly repulses the orphan,” meaning that he drives him away violently, for repulsing means driving someone away with force. Allah Most High says:

“The Day they are violently shoved into the Fire of Hell.” [al-Tūr: 13]

That is, they will be driven with tremendous force. Thus, when an orphan comes begging him for something or speaks to him about some matter, he looks down upon him and drives him away harshly, showing him no mercy.

The second matter is that they do not encourage others to show mercy: “and does not urge the feeding of the poor.” This man does not encourage anyone to feed the poor person who is needy and requires food, because his heart is hard as stone. Their hearts are like stones, or even harder. Thus, he has no mercy for either orphans or the poor; he is hard-hearted.

Then He—glorious is His majesty—says: “So woe to those who pray.” “Woe” is a word of warning that occurs frequently in the Quran. It means that these people are threatened with severe punishment. “Those who are heedless of their prayer”: they pray, whether together with others or individually, but they are “heedless of their prayer”—that is, neglectful of it. They do not perform it as they should. They delay it beyond its preferred time and fail to perform its bowing, prostration, standing, and sitting properly. Nor do they recite what must be recited in it, whether Quran or remembrance. When one of them begins his prayer, he remains heedless, his heart wandering this way and that. He is therefore heedless of his prayer, and this is blameworthy. There is no doubt that one who neglects the prayer, remains heedless of it, and treats it carelessly is blameworthy.

As for someone who becomes inattentive during his prayer, he is not to be blamed. The distinction is that inattentiveness during prayer means forgetting something: forgetting the number of prayer units, one of the obligatory acts, or something similar. The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace—himself experienced forgetfulness during prayer, although no one was more devoted to his prayer than he was. Indeed, he said: “The delight of my eyes has been placed in prayer” (1). Nevertheless, he experienced forgetfulness during his prayer, because inadvertence while doing something—

(1) Its source citation was given previously; see p. 242.

بالله ـ ﴿يدع اليتيم﴾ أي: يدفعه بعنف، لأن الدع هو الدفع بعنف كما قال الله تعالى: ﴿يوم يدعون إلى نار جهنم دعًّا﴾ [الطور: ١٣] . أي: دفعاً شديداً، فتجد اليتيم إذا جاء إليه يستجديه شيئاً، أو يكلمه في شيء يحتقره ويدفعه بشدة فلا يرحمه. الأمر الثاني: لا يحثون على رحمة الغير ﴿ولا يحض على طعام المسكين﴾ فالمسكين الفقير المحتاج إلى الطعام لا يحض هذا الرجل على إطعامه؛ لأن قلبه حجر قاسٍ، فقلوبهم كالحجارة أو أشد قسوة. إذاً ليس فيه رحمة لا للأيتام ولا للمساكين، فهو قاسي القلب. ثم قال ﷿: ﴿فويل للمصلين﴾ ويل: هذه كلمة وعيد وهي تتكرر في القرآن كثيراً، والمعنى الوعيد الشديد على هؤلاء، ﴿الذين هم عن صلاتهم ساهون﴾ هؤلاء مصلون يصلون مع الناس أو أفراداً لكنهم ﴿عن صلاتهم ساهون﴾ أي: غافلون عنها، لا يقيمونها على ما ينبغي، يؤخرونها عن الوقت الفاضل، لا يقيمون ركوعها، ولا سجودها، ولا قيامها، ولا قعودها، لا يقرأون ما يجب فيها من قراءة سواء كانت قرآناً أو ذكراً، إذا دخل في صلاته هو غافل، قلبه يتجول يميناً وشمالاً، فهو ساهٍ عن صلاته، وهذا مذموم، الذي يسهو عن الصلاة ويغفل عنها ويتهاون بها لا شك أنه مذموم. أما الساهي في صلاته فهذا لا يُلام، والفرق بينهما أن الساهي في الصلاة معناه أنه نسي شيئاً، نسي عدد الركعات، نسي شيئًا من الواجبات وما أشبه ذلك. ولهذا وقع السهو من رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم، وهو أشد الناس إقبالاً على صلاته بل إنه قال ﵊: «جعلت قرة عيني في الصلاة» (١) ، ومع ذلك سهى في صلاته لأن السهو في الشيء

(١) تقدم تحريجه ص (٢٤٢) .