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Is there a wisdom behind the divine order in His Almighty's saying: (On the Day a man will flee from his brother, and his mother and his father, and his wife and his children) even though the mother and son are closer than the brother?

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A large number of exegetes have mentioned that the wisdom behind the verse is to escalate in hyperbole, as if it were said: "He flees from his brother, rather from his parents, rather from his wife and children." Ibn Kathir reported from Qatadah: "The dearest then the dearest, and the closest then the closest." Al-Zamakhshari said: "It began with the brother, then the parents, then the wife and children, because they are closer and dearer." Sheikh al-Islam clarified that beginning with the less significant in this verse is appropriate, because the intent is to show the intensity of fleeing from relatives in a detailed, gradual manner, so that the intensity begins with detachment and then increases. If it had begun with the closest, there would have been no benefit in mentioning the more distant.

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