Al-Tafsīr al-Qayyim - Ibn al-Qayyim - (143)

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the worlds.”

It is well known that they did not equate them with the Lord of the worlds in creation or lordship; rather, they equated them with Him in love and veneration.

Such is the state of the believer’s heart: affirmation of Allah’s oneness and remembrance of His Messenger are inscribed within it, never to be erased or removed. Frequent remembrance of something sustains love for it, whereas forgetting it causes that love to disappear or weaken. Allah, glorified is He, alone deserves His servants’ utmost love together with their utmost veneration. Indeed, the association of partners with Him that Allah does not forgive His servant is to associate others with Him in love and veneration: to love and venerate a created being as one loves and venerates Allah Most High. Allah Most High says:

2: 165 “And among mankind are those who take rivals besides Allah, loving them as they love Allah. But those who believe are stronger in their love for Allah.”

He thus tells us that the one who associates partners with Him loves the rival as he loves Allah Most High, whereas the believer loves Allah more than anything else. The people of the Fire say, while in the Fire:

26: 97, 98 “By Allah, we were clearly astray when we equated you with the Lord of the worlds.”

It is well known that they equated them with Him, glorified is He, only in love, deification, and worship. No one has ever said that an idol or any other rival is equal to the Lord of the worlds in His attributes and acts, in creating the heavens and the earth, or even in creating its own worshipper. Their equating them with Him concerned only love and worship.

Also among these—and worse still—are those who equate everything with Allah, glorified is He, in existence, and regard Him as the very existence of every being, perfect or imperfect. If Allah has judged those who equate idols with Him in love to be astray and wretched, even though they acknowledge the difference between Allah and His creation in essence, attributes, and acts, then what of those who equate Allah with existing things in all these respects? Indeed, what of those who regard their Lord as all these existing things, and claim that whoever worships a stone, a tree, or an animal worships none but Allah in every object of worship?

[Surah al-Baqarah (2): Verse 171]

“The example of those who disbelieve is that of one who calls out to what hears nothing but calls and cries. Deaf, mute, and blind, they do not understand.” (171)

الْعالَمِينَ ومعلوم أنهم لم يسوهم برب العالمين في الخلق والربوبية، وإنما سووهم به في المحبة والتعظيم. هذا حال قلب المؤمن: توحيد الله وذكر رسوله مكتوبان فيه، لا يتطرق إليهما محو ولا إزالة. ولما كانت كثرة ذكر الشيء موجبة لدوام محبته، ونسيانه سببا لزوال محبته أو ضعفه. وكان الله سبحانه هو المستحق من عباده نهاية الحب مع نهاية التعظيم، بل الشرك الذي لا يغفره الله لعبده: هو أن يشرك به في الحب والتعظيم، فيحب غيره ويعظم من المخلوقات غيره كما يحب الله تعالى ويعظمه قال تعالى: ٢: ١٦٥ وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَتَّخِذُ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ أَنْداداً يُحِبُّونَهُمْ كَحُبِّ اللَّهِ، وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَشَدُّ حُبًّا لِلَّهِ فأخبر سبحانه أن المشرك يحب الند كما يحب الله تعالى، وأن المؤمن أشد حبا لله من كل شيء. وقال أهل النار في النار: ٢٦: ٩٧، ٩٨ تَاللَّهِ إِنْ كُنَّا لَفِي ضَلالٍ مُبِينٍ، إِذْ نُسَوِّيكُمْ بِرَبِّ الْعالَمِينَ ومن المعلوم: أنهم إنما سووهم به سبحانه في الحب والتأليه والعبادة، وإلا فلم يقل أحد قط: إن الصنم أو غيره من الأنداد مساو لرب العالمين في صفاته وفي أفعاله، وفي خلق السموات والأرض، وفي خلق عابده أيضا. وإنما كانت التسوية في المحبة والعبادة. وأيضا من هؤلاء وأسوأ حالا من سوّى كل شيء بالله سبحانه في الوجود، وجعله وجود كل موجود، كامل أو ناقص، فإذا كان الله قد حكم بالضلال والشقاء لمن سوّى بينه وبين الأصنام في الحب، مع اعتقاد تفاوت ما بين الله وبين خلقه في الذات والأوصاف والأفعال، فكيف بمن سوّى الله بالموجودات في جميع ذلك، بل كيف بمن جعل ربه كل هذه الموجودات؟ وزعم أن من عبد حجرا أو شجرا، أو حيوانا فما عبد غير الله في كل معبود. [سورة البقرة (٢) : آية ١٧١] وَمَثَلُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا كَمَثَلِ الَّذِي يَنْعِقُ بِما لا يَسْمَعُ إِلاَّ دُعاءً وَنِداءً صُمٌّ بُكْمٌ عُمْيٌ فَهُمْ لا يَعْقِلُونَ (١٧١)