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“Whoever Allah guides is rightly guided; but whoever He leaves astray, you will never find for them protectors besides Him. On the Day of Resurrection, We shall gather them face down, blind, dumb, and deaf. Their abode will be Hell; whenever its flames subside, We shall intensify for them the blaze.” (97)

The Exalted says: “Nothing prevented people from believing when guidance came to them except that they said,” out of ignorance on their part, “Has Allah sent a human being as a messenger?” That is, the disbelievers used to say, “We will not believe you because you are a human being. Why did Allah not send down an angel to us?” Allah Most High answered them:

“Say, ‘Had there been angels on earth, walking about in peace and security—settled there as residents—We would surely have sent down to them an angel from heaven as a messenger,’” one of their own kind, for the heart is more inclined to its own kind than to what is unlike it.

“Say, ‘Allah is sufficient as a witness between me and you,’” that I am Allah’s Messenger to you, “for indeed, He is fully aware of His servants and sees them all.”

214/a The Exalted says: “Whoever Allah guides is rightly guided; but whoever He leaves astray, you will never find for them protectors besides Him”—to guide them—“and on the Day of Resurrection We shall gather them face down.”

Ahmad ibn Abd Allah al-Salihi informed us; al-Hasan ibn Shuja al-Sufi, known as Ibn al-Mawsili, informed us; Abu Bakr ibn al-Haytham informed us; Jafar ibn Muhammad al-Saigh narrated to us; Husayn ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Sufyan narrated from Qatada, from Anas, that a man said, “O Messenger of Allah, how will the disbeliever be gathered face down on the Day of Resurrection?” The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Surely, the One who made him walk on his two feet is able to make him walk on his face.” (2)

It is also related in the hadith: “They will shield themselves with their faces from every rise in the ground and every thorn.” (3) “Blind, dumb, and deaf.”

(1) In manuscript B: “that I am His Messenger to you.” (2) Recorded by al-Bukhari in the Tafsir of Surah al-Furqan, chapter: “Those who will be gathered upon their faces to Hell,” 8/492; and by Muslim in the Book of the Hypocrites, chapter: “The disbeliever will be gathered upon his face,” no. 2806, 4/2161. (3) Recorded by al-Tirmidhi in the Tafsir of Surah al-Isra, 8/579, who said: “This is a hasan hadith”; by Ahmad in al-Musnad, 2/354, 363; and by al-Tabari in his Tafsir, al-Bayhaqi, and Ibn Mardawayh. See al-Durr al-Manthur, 5/341.

﴿وَمَنْ يَهْدِ اللَّهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِي وَمَنْ يُضْلِلْ فَلَنْ تَجِدَ لَهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِنْ دُونِهِ وَنَحْشُرُهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَلَى وُجُوهِهِمْ عُمْيًا وَبُكْمًا وَصُمًّا مَأْوَاهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ كُلَّمَا خَبَتْ زِدْنَاهُمْ سَعِيرًا (٩٧) ﴾ قَوْلُهُ ﷿: ﴿وَمَا مَنَعَ النَّاسَ أَنْ يُؤْمِنُوا إِذْ جَاءَهُمُ الْهُدَى إِلَّا أَنْ قَالُوا﴾ جَهْلًا مِنْهُمْ ﴿أَبَعَثَ اللَّهُ بَشَرًا رَسُولًا﴾ أَرَادَ: أَنَّ الْكُفَّارَ كَانُوا يَقُولُونَ لَنْ نُؤْمِنَ لَكَ لِأَنَّكَ بَشَرٌ وَهَلَّا بَعَثَ اللَّهُ إِلَيْنَا مَلَكًا؟ فَأَجَابَهُمُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: ﴿قُلْ لَوْ كَانَ فِي الْأَرْضِ مَلَائِكَةٌ يَمْشُونَ مُطْمَئِنِّينَ﴾ ﴿قُلْ لَوْ كَانَ فِي الْأَرْضِ مَلَائِكَةٌ يَمْشُونَ مُطْمَئِنِّينَ﴾ مُسْتَوْطِنِينَ مُقِيمِينَ ﴿لَنَزَّلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَلَكًا رَسُولًا﴾ مِنْ جِنْسِهِمْ لِأَنَّ الْقَلْبَ إِلَى الْجِنْسِ أَمْيَلُ مِنْهُ إِلَى غَيْرِ الْجِنْسِ. ﴿قُلْ كَفَى بِاللَّهِ شَهِيدًا بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكُمْ﴾ أَنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ إِلَيْكُمْ (١) ﴿إِنَّهُ كَانَ بِعِبَادِهِ خَبِيرًا بَصِيرًا﴾ ٢١٤/أقَوْلُهُ ﷿: ﴿وَمَنْ يَهْدِ اللَّهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِي وَمَنْ يُضْلِلْ فَلَنْ تَجِدَ لَهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِنْ دُونِهِ﴾ يَهْدُونَهُمْ ﴿وَنَحْشُرُهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَلَى وُجُوهِهِمْ﴾ أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الصَّالِحِيُّ أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ شُجَاعٍ الصُّوفِيُّ الْمَعْرُوفُ بِابْنِ الْمَوْصِلِيِّ أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ الْهَيْثَمِ حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّائِغُ حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ أَنَّ رَجُلًا قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَيْفَ يُحْشَرُ الْكَافِرُ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ؟ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: "إِنَّ الَّذِي أَمْشَاهُ عَلَى رِجْلَيْهِ قَادِرٌ عَلَى أَنْ يُمْشِيَهُ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ" (٢) . وَجَاءَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ: "إِنَّهُمْ يَتَّقُونَ بِوُجُوهِهِمْ كُلَّ حَدَبٍ وَشَوْكٍ" (٣) . ﴿عُمْيًا وَبُكْمًا وَصُمًّا﴾

(١) ف "ب": أني رسوله إليكم. (٢) أخرجه البخاري في تفسير سورة الفرقان باب "الذين يحشرون على وجوههم إلى جهنم": ٨ / ٤٩٢، ومسلم في المنافقين، باب يحشر الكافر على وجهه برقم (٢٨٠٦) : ٤ / ٢١٦١. (٣) أخرجه الترمذي في تفسير سورة الإسراء: ٨ / ٥٧٩، وقال: "هذا حديث حسن" وأحمد في المسند: ٢ / ٣٥٤،٣٦٣، والطبري في التفسير، والبيهقي، وابن مردويه. انظر: الدر المنثور: ٥ / ٣٤١.