Hadith 1

ributed it to the idols in another Verse. The meaning of straying is upon various aspects. From it is what is praised, and from it what it condemned, and form it is what is neither praised nor condemned, and from it is straying of the forgetfulness. The praised straying, it is the one Attributed to Allah-azwj the Exalted, and He-azwj has Stated it; and the condemned, it is Word of the Exalted: and Al-Samiri strayed them! ” [20: 85]; and His-azwj Words: And Pharaoh led his people astray and did not guide [20: 79], and examples of that are many in the Quran. And as for the straying Attributed to the idols, are Words of the Exalted in the story of Ibrahim-as: Lord! Surely these have strayed many of the people! [14: 36] – the Verse; and the idols do not stray and stray anyone upon the reality, and rather the people stray due to these, and they commit Kufr when they worship them from besides Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic. And as for the straying which is the forgetfulness, it is Word of the Exalted: And two witnesses should be bearing witness, from your men. But if there does not happen to be two men, then a man and two women from the ones you are agreeing with from the witnesses. If one of the two errs, so the other one should remind him [2: 282]. And Allah-azwj the Exalted has Mentioned the straying in a place from His-azwj Book. From it is what He-azwj Attributed to His-azwj Prophet-saww upon the apparent wording, like Words of the Glorious: And Found you lost so He Guided? [93: 7]. Its meaning is, ‘We-azwj Found you-saww among a people not recognising your-saww Prophet-hood, so We-azwj Guided them through you-saww’. And as for the straying Attributed to Allah-azwj the Exalted which is opposite of the Guidance, and the Guidance, it is the clarification, and it is meaning of Words of the Glorious: Or, is it not a guidance for them [32: 26]. It’s meaning is, ‘Yes, did I-azwj Not Clarify to them? ’ Like Words of the Glorious: So, We Guided them, but they loved the blindness over the Guidance, [41: 17]. i. e. , ‘We-azwj Clarified to them’. Another aspect, and it is Word of the Exalted: It was not for Allah to Let stray a people after having Guided them until He Clarifies to then what they should be guarding against, [9: 115]. And as for meaning of the Guidance, it is Word of the Mighty and Majestic: But rather, you are a Warner, and for every people there is a Guide [13: 7], and the guide over here is the clarifier of what the warner had come with from the Presence of Allah-azwj. And a group of hypocrites had argued against Allah-azwj the Exalted: Surely Allah has no Reservations from Striking an example [2: 26], and that is because when Allah-azwj the Exalted Revealed unto His-azwj Prophet-saww, and for every people there is a Guide [13: 7], a group of hypocrites said: What is it that Allah which Means by this example: He is Straying many by it and Guiding many by it! [2: 26]. Allah-azwj the Exalted Answered them by His-azwj Words: Surely Allah has no Reservations from Striking an example – (that of) a mosquito or what is above it; then as for those who believe, they are knowing that it is the Truth from their Lord, and as for those who disbelieve, they are saying: What is it that Allah which Means by this example: