فَإِذَا كَانَ كَذَلِكَ كَانَ آمِناً مِنْ عَذَابِ جَهَنَّمَ...

فَإِذَا كَانَ كَذَلِكَ كَانَ آمِناً مِنْ عَذَابِ جَهَنَّمَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ قَالَ قَتَادَةُ لَا جَرَمَ وَ اللَّهِ لَا فَسَّرْتُهَا إِلَّا هَكَذَا فَقَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عليه السلام) وَيْحَكَ يَا قَتَادَةُ إِنَّمَا يَعْرِفُ الْقُرْآنَ مَنْ خُوطِبَ بِهِ Qatada said, ‘No offence. By Allah -azwj , I will not explain it except like this’. So Abu Ja’far -asws said: ‘Woe be unto you, O Qatada! But rather, you should understand the Quran from the ones -asws who have been Addressed by it’.

[45] The ‘Blessed Apparent Towns’ محمد بن العباس: عن الحسين بن علي بن زكريا البصري، عن الهيثم بن عبد الله الرماني، قال: حدثني علي بن موسى، قال: «حدثني أبي موسى، عن أبيه جعفر (عليهم السلام)، قال: دخل على أبي بعض من يفسر القرآن، فقال له: أنت فلان؟ و سماه باسمه، قال: نعم.

قال: أنت الذي تفسر القرآن؟ قال: نعم Muhammad Bin Al-Abbas, from Al-Husayn Bin Ali Bin Zakariyya Al-Basry, from Al-Haysam Bin Abdullah Al-Ramany, (It has been narrated) from Ali -asws Bin Musa -asws , said, ‘Musa -asws narrated to my father, from his -asws father -asws Ja’far -asws having said: ‘One of the commentators of the Quran came up to My -asws father -asws , so he -asws said to him: ‘You are so and so?’, and named him by his name. He said, ‘Yes’.

He -asws said: ‘You are the one who interprets the Quran?’ He said, ‘Yes’. قال: فكيف تفسر هذه الآية: وَ جَعَلْنا بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَ الْقُرَى الَّتِي بارَكْنا فِيها قُرىً ظاهِرَةً وَ قَدَّرْنا فِيهَا السَّيْرَ سِيرُوا فِيها لَيالِيَ وَ أَيَّاماً آمِنِينَ؟ قال: هذه بين مكة و منى He -asws said: ‘So how is the interpretation of this Verse: And We Made between them and the towns which We had Blessed therein, apparent towns, and We Apportioned the travelling therein: “Travel in these during nights and days in security” [34:18] ?’ He said, ‘This is in between Makkah and Mina’.

فقال له أبو عبد الله (عليه السلام): أ يكون في هذا الموضع خوف و قطع؟ قال: نعم، قال: فموضع يقول الله عز و جل: آمن، يكون فيه خوف و قطع؟! قال: فما هو؟ قال: ذاك نحن أهل البيت، قد سماكم الله أناسا، و سمانا قرى So, Abu Abdullah -asws said to him: ‘Does not fear and being cut-off (by bandits) occur in this place?’ He said, ‘Yes’.

He -asws said: ‘So the place for which Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic is Saying: in security , can there occur therein fear and being cut-off (by bandits)?’ He said, ‘So what is it?’ He -asws said: ‘That is us -asws , the People -asws of the Household. Allah -azwj has Named you as people, and Named us -asws as towns’.

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