Tarikh (al-Tabari) 363
the accounts of past peoples from the Israelites and others
قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: وَأُحِيطَ بِثَمَرِهِ أَيْ: جَاءَهُ أَمْرٌ أَحَاطَ بِجَمِيعِ حَوَاصِلِهِ، وَخَرَّبَ جَنَّتَهُ، وَدَمَّرَهَا فَأَصْبَحَ يُقَلِّبُ كَفَّيْهِ عَلَى مَا أَنْفَقَ فِيهَا وَهِيَ خَاوِيَةٌ عَلَى عُرُوشِهَا أَيْ: خَرِبَتْ بِالْكُلِّيَّةِ، فَلَا عَوْدَةَ لَهَا، وَذَلِكَ ضِدُّ مَا كَانَ عَلَيْهِ أَمَّلَ حَيْثُ قَالَ: وَمَا أَظُنُّ أَنْ تَبِيدَ هَذِهِ أَبَدًا وَنَدِمَ عَلَى مَا كَانَ سَلَفَ مِنْهُ مِنَ الْقَوْلِ الَّذِي كَفَرَ بِسَبَبِهِ بِاللَّهِ الْعَظِيمِ، فَهُوَ يَقُولُ: يَا لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أُشْرِكْ بِرَبِّي أَحَدًا قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: وَلَمْ تَكُنْ لَهُ فِئَةٌ يَنْصُرُونَهُ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ وَمَا كَانَ مُنْتَصِرًا هُنَالِكَ أَيْ: لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ أَحَدٌ يَتَدَارَكُ مَا فَرَطَ مِنْ أَمْرِهِ، وَمَا كَانَ لَهُ قُدْرَةٌ فِي نَفْسِهِ عَلَى شَيْءٍ مِنْ ذَلِكَ، كَمَا قَالَ تَعَالَى: فَمَا لَهُ مِنْ قُوَّةٍ وَلَا نَاصِرٍ [ الطَّارِقِ: 10 ]. وَقَوْلُهُ: الْوَلَايَةُ لِلَّهِ الْحَقِّ وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَبْتَدِئُ بِقَوْلِهِ: هُنَالِكَ الْوَلَايَةُ لِلَّهِ الْحَقِّ وَهُوَ حَسَنٌ أَيْضًا، كَقَوْلِهِ: الْمُلْكُ يَوْمَئِذٍ الْحَقُّ لِلرَّحْمَنِ وَكَانَ يَوْمًا عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ عَسِيرًا [ الْفُرْقَانِ: 26 ]. فَالْحُكْمُ الَّذِي لَا يُرَدُّ وَلَا يُمَانَعُ وَلَا يُغَالَبُ - فِي تِلْكَ الْحَالِ وَفِي كُلِّ حَالٍ - لِلَّهِ الْحَقِّ. وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ رَفَعَ ( الْحَقِّ ) جَعَلَهُ صِفَةً لِ ( الْوِلَايَةَ ) وَهُمَا مُتَلَازِمَتَانِ. وَقَوْلُهُ: هُوَ خَيْرٌ ثَوَابًا وَخَيْرٌ عُقْبًا أَيْ: مُعَامَلَتُهُ خَيْرٌ لِصَاحِبِهَا ثَوَابًا، وَهُوَ الْجَزَاءُ، وَخَيْرٌ عُقْبًا ; وَهُوَ الْعَاقِبَةُ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ.
Translation
✧ Allah, may He be exalted, said: “And his fruit was encompassed” — that is, there came to him a command that encompassed all his possessions, ruined his garden, and destroyed it. So he began to turn his hands over what he had spent on it, while it had collapsed upon its trellises — that is, it was utterly ruined, with no return for it. This was the opposite of what he had hoped for when he said: “And I do not think that this will ever perish.” He regretted what had preceded from him of the speech by which he had disbelieved in Allah the Almighty. So he was saying: “Oh, would that I had not associated anyone with my Lord.” Allah, may He be exalted, said: “And there was no company for him to help him besides Allah, nor could he defend himself.” That is, he had no one to repair what had occurred of his affair, and he had no power in himself over any of that, as He, may He be exalted, said: “Then he will have no strength nor any helper” [al-Ṭāriq: 10]. And His saying: “Sovereignty belongs to Allah, the True.” Among them, there are those who begin with His saying: “There, sovereignty belongs to Allah, the True,” which is also good, like His saying: “The sovereignty on that Day will be the True, belonging to the Most Merciful, and it will be a difficult Day for the disbelievers” [al-Furqān: 26]. For the judgment that is not rejected, not resisted, and not overcome — in that state and in every state — belongs to Allah, the True. Among them, there are those who read “the True” in the nominative, making it an attribute of “sovereignty,” and the two are inseparable. And His saying: “He is best in reward and best in outcome” — that is, dealing with Him is best for its owner in reward, which is the recompense, and best in outcome, which is the final result in this world and the hereafter.
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