[al-Sajdah 17]

The believer partakes of these blessings directly; his reward is not merely to be brought near them without partaking of them. Rather, that would be a source of anguish and torment. Thus, the claim that he is honoured merely by being brought near these things without partaking of them is false and without substance.

The eleventh point is that the believer remains within Allah’s mercy in this world and the Hereafter. How, then, can the time of questioning alone be singled out as a time when he is near His mercy, to the exclusion of what comes before and after it?

The twelfth point is this: he continually experiences that through which Allah shows him mercy, both before and after. What benefit is there, then, in describing him as being near something that he continually experiences and from which he is never separated?

The thirteenth point is that, on the plain of resurrection, he encounters terrors and hardship more overwhelming to him, and causing greater fear and pain, than anything before or after. How, then, can his most distressing state be singled out as the one in which he is brought near to that through which he is shown mercy, when, both before and after it, that through which he is shown mercy is closer to him, and he experiences and receives it more fully?

The fourteenth point is that what he has mentioned is undoubtedly an instance of