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الباب الخامس والتسعون وأربعمائة في معرفة حال قطب كان منزله: ﴿ومن يَرْتَدِدْ مِنْكُمْ عَنْ دِينِهِ فَيَمُتْ وهُوَ كافِرٌ﴾ [البقرة: ٢١٧]

من يرتدد منكم عن دينه ويموت

فإنه كافر بالدين أجمعه

لأنه أحدي العين ليس له

مخالف جاءه من غير موضعه

و إن إتيانه بالكل شرعته

بذا أتى الحكم فيه من مشرعه

الضمير في «أنه» يعود على الدِّين^[86] قال الله تعالى: ﴿لِكُلٍّ جَعَلْنا مِنْكُمْ شِرْعَةً ومِنْهاجاً﴾ [المائدة: ٤٨]. فالمراد هنا بضمير «منكم» ليس إلا الأنبياء ع لا الأمم، لأنه لو كان للأمم لم يبعث رسول في أمة قد بعث فيها رسول إلا أن يكون مؤيِّدا لا يزيد ولا ينقص، وما وقع الأمر كذٰلك.

فإن جعلنا الضمير في قوله: «منكم» للأمم والرسل جميعا، تكلفنا في التأويل

Chapter Four Hundred and Ninety-Five: On Knowing the State of a Pole Whose Abode Was ‘Whoever among you turns back from his religion and dies an unbeliever’ [al-Baqara 2:217]

Whoever among you turns back from his religion and dies

Is an unbeliever in religion in its entirety,

For it is one in entity, and has no

Opponent that came to it from outside its proper place.

Its coming with the whole is its prescribed law;

Thus came the ruling concerning it from its Lawgiver.

The pronoun in ‘that it’ refers to religion^[86]. God said, exalted is He: ‘For each of you We have appointed a law and a way’ [al-Ma’ida 5:48]. What is meant here by the pronoun ‘of you’ is only the prophets, peace be upon them, not the communities. For if it referred to the communities, no messenger would be sent to a community to which a messenger had already been sent unless he confirmed him, neither adding nor subtracting. The affair has not occurred thus.

If we made the pronoun in His saying ‘of you’ refer to both the communities and the messengers, we would force interpretation into