Gifts of Knowledge

Allaah ﷿ said: “May Allaah pardon you ˹O Prophet˺! Why did you give them permission ˹to stay behind from jihad˺ before those who told the truth were distinguished from those who were lying?” Surah Tawbah 9:43

As-Samarqandī said: “If He had begun His address to the Prophet ﷺ by saying, “Why did you give them permission ˹to stay behind from jihad˺ …” it would have been feared that the Prophet’s heart would have burst open due to the mixture of fear and respect inspired by awe and reverence [haiba] of this Statement of Allaah’s, only that out of His Mercy, Allaah the Most High informed him ﷺ of His Pardon so that his heart ﷺ would settle and then after that He said, “Why did you give them permission ˹to stay behind from jihad˺ before those who told the truth were distinguished from those who were lying?””
Baḥrul-Ulūm, vol. 2, p. 52.

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