وَذَٰلِكُمْ ظَنُّكُمُ ٱلَّذِى ظَنَنتُم بِرَبِّكُمْ أَرْدَىٰكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُم مِّنَ ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ
Wa zaalikum zannukumul lazee zanantum bi-Rabbikum ardaakum fa asbahtum minal khaasireen
And that was your assumption which you assumed about your Lord. It has brought you to ruin, and you have become among the losers."
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41:23Ayah 154
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And that wa-dhālikum the subject supposition of yours zannukum substitutes for it which you supposed of your Lord alladhī zanantum bi-rabbikum a descriptive clause; the predicate is the following ardākum has ruined you that is it has brought about your destruction. So you have become among the losers’.
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I reached him (the Prophet (ﷺ) ) while in the shade of the Ka`ba; he was saying, "They are the losers, by
the Lord of the Ka`ba! They are the losers, by the Lord of the Ka`ba!" I said (to myself ), "What is
wrong with me? Is anything improper detected in me? What is wrong with me? Then I sat beside him
and he kept on saying his statement. I could not remain quiet, and Allah knows in what sorrowful state
I was at that time. So I said, ' Who are they (the losers)? Let My father and mother be sacrificed for
you, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)!" He said, "They are the wealthy people, except the one who does like this and
like this and like this (i.e., spends of his wealth in Allah's Cause).
When a person says that people are ruined he is himself ruined. Abu Ishaq said: I do not know whether he said" ahlakahum or ahlakuhum.
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