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The heretics cast doubt upon His words:
“Today We shall forget you just as you forgot the meeting of this Day of yours.”
When Allah addresses the unbelievers with the declaration, “Today We shall forget you just as you forgot the meeting of this Day of yours” (al-Jathiyah 34), yet in another verse affirms, “It is in a Record: my Lord neither errs nor forgets” (Taha 52), they alleged a contradiction and began to question the Quran.⦗2⦘
As for His statement, “Today We shall forget you just as you forgot the meeting of this Day of yours,” it means: We shall leave you to abide in the Fire, just as you abandoned the deeds that would have prepared you for the meeting of this Day.
(2) Al-Shanqiti, may Allah have mercy on him, writes concerning the verse: “Today We shall forget them just as they forgot the meeting of this Day” (al-Araf, 7:51). Other verses of the same tenor are: “They forgot Allah, so He forgot them” (al-Tawbah, 9:67); “And today you will be forgotten” (Ta Ha, 20:126); and “It will be said: Today We shall forget you” (al-Jathiyah, 45:34). These texts do not conflict with the statements: “My Lord neither errs nor forgets” (Ta Ha, 20:52) and “Your Lord is never forgetful” (Maryam, 19:64). The meaning of “We shall forget them” and the like is that Allah will abandon them to the punishment, withholding from them every form of good. Allah knows best. See: Daf‘ Iham al-Idtirab, 1/94.
شك الزنادقة في قوله:
{الْيَوْمَ نَنسَاكُمْ كَمَا نَسِيتُمْ لِقَاءَ يَوْمِكُمْ هَذَا}
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وأما قول الله للكفار:
{الْيَوْمَ نَنسَاكُمْ كَمَا نَسِيتُمْ لِقَاءَ يَوْمِكُمْ هَذَا}
[الجاثية: ٣٤]
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وقال في آية أخرى:
{فِي كِتَابٍ لا يَضِلُّ رَبِّي وَلا يَنسَى}
[طه: ٥٢]
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فشكُّوا في القرآن٢.
أما قوله:
{الْيَوْمَ نَنسَاكُمْ كَمَا نَسِيتُمْ لِقَاءَ يَوْمِكُمْ هَذَا}
يقول: نترككم في النار
{كَمَا نَسِيتُمْ}
كما تركتم العمل للقاء يومكم هذا.
٢ قال الشنقيطي رحمه الله: قوله تعالى: {فَالْيَوْمَ نَنسَاهُمْ كَمَا نَسُوا لِقَاءَ يَوْمِهِمْ} [الأعراف: ٥١] الآية.
وأمثالها من الآيات كقوله: {نَسُوا اللَّهَ فَنَسِيَهُمْ} [التوبة: ٦٧] وقوله: {وَكَذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ تُنسَى} [طه: ١٢٦] وقوله: {وَقِيلَ الْيَوْمَ نَنسَاكُمْ} [الجاثية: ٣٤] الآية. لا يعارض قوله تعالى: {لا يَضِلُّ رَبِّي وَلا يَنسَى} [طه: ٥٢] وقوله: {وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ نَسِيًّا} [مريم: ٦٤] ، لأن معنى {فَالْيَوْمَ نَنسَاهُمْ} ونحوه، أي نتركهم في العذاب محرومين من كل خير، والله تعالى أعلم.
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