‘Just as Our signs came to you and you forgot them, so today you will be forgotten.’” Similarly, He says:

“The hypocrites, men and women, are all alike: they enjoin what is wrong, forbid what is right, and are tight-fisted. They have forgotten Allah, so He has forgotten them.”

They have explained this forgetting as … (1) This forgetting is the opposite of the remembrance mentioned above. In the Sahīh, in the hadith concerning the disbeliever whom Allah calls to account, He says:

“‘Did you think that you would meet Me?’ He replies, ‘No.’ He says, ‘Then today I will forget you just as you forgot Me.’”

This implies that He does not remember him as He remembers those who obey Him. This too is subject to His will and power. He, glorified be He, created this servant and knew what he would do before he did it. When he acted, He knew what he had done and saw his deeds. Thus, this forgetting does not contradict what He, glorified be He, knew of this servant’s condition.

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The fundamental principle of “distinguishing” between truth and falsehood, guidance and misguidance, right direction and error, the path of happiness and salvation and the path of misery and destruction, is to regard what Allah sent His messengers with and revealed in His Books as the truth that must be followed, and through which