21st-23rd Lessons from the Book of Tawheed by Shaykhul-Islaam Muhammad bin Abdil-Wahhaab

Lessons 21-23: The Divine Revelation, Angelic Response, and the Truth of Allah’s Decree

21th-23rd Lesson from the Book of Tawheed by Shaykhul-Islaam Muhammad bin Abdil-Wahhaab

بســـم اللــه الرحــمــن الـرحـــيــم

From the commentary on the Book of Tawheed by Shaykhul-Islaam Muhammad bin Abdil-Wahhaab may Allaah have mercy on him, 21th-23rd, Lesson,

By Shaykh, the ‘Allāmah, the Trustworthy Advisor, Abu ‘Abdirrahmān Yahya bin ‘Ali Al-Hajūri – may Allāh preserve him – on the 15th, Jumaadah Al-Aakhirah, 1443H

Chapter: His statement: 

(حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا فُزِّعَ عَن قُلُوبِهِمْ قَالُوا۟ مَاذَا قَالَ رَبُّكُمْۖ قَالُوا۟ ٱلْحَقَّۖ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَلِىُّ ٱلْكَبِيرُ)

"Until when fear is banished from their (angels') hearts, they (angels) say: "What is it that your Lord has said?" They say: "The truth. And He is the Most High, the Most Great."

[Saba’:23]

In the Sahih from Abi Hurairah may Allaah be pleased with him on the authority of the Prophet ﷺ, he said: "When Allaah decrees an affair above the heavens, the Angels flap their wings in humbleness to His statement, as if they were chains on a smooth rock until the end of that. 

(حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا فُزِّعَ عَن قُلُوبِهِمْ قَالُوا۟ مَاذَا قَالَ رَبُّكُمْۖ قَالُوا۟ ٱلْحَقَّۖ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَلِىُّ ٱلْكَبِيرُ)

"Until when fear is banished from their (angels') hearts, they (angels) say: "What is it that your Lord has said?" They say: "The truth. And He is the Most High, the Most Great."

[Saba’:23]

So the ones (devils) who eavesdrop like this on top of each other, – Sufyaan described it with his hand and turned it sidewards and spaced his fingers out and put the fingers of the other hand between them – so they hear a word and pass it on to the one below him, until they pass it on to the tongue of the fortune teller or magician.  And perhaps they are hit by a shooting star before they pass it on, so they add 100 lies. So it is said: “Didn’t he say to us such and such a day such and such?! So that word which was heard from the heavens comes true.”

And from Nawaas bin Sam’aan may Allaah be pleased with him, he said: The Messenger of Allaah ﷺ said: “If Allaah intends to inspire a matter he speaks with the Divine Revelation, the heaven gives a cry – or he said a lightning strike – severe one out of fear from Allaah, so if the inhabitants of the heavens hear that they are overwhelmed, and fall into prostration. So the first one to raise his head is Jibreel, so Allaah speaks to him from His Divine Revelation with what He wills, then Jibreel passes the Angels, so everytime he passes a heaven the Angels of that heaven ask him: “What did your Lord say O Jibreel?” So he says: “The truth, and He is the Most-High the Most-Great.” So they repeat what Jibreel said, so Jibreel ends with the Divine Revelation to where Allaah commands.”

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