والحمد لله الذي لا يُؤدى شُكر نعمة من نِعَمِهِ؛ إلا بنعمة منه توجب على مؤدي ماضي نعمه بأدائها نعمةً حادثةً، يجب عليه شكره بها.
And praise be to God for Whose acts of grace no one can be thankful save through another act of His grace, which, through its bestowal on one giving thanks for past acts of grace, constitutes a new act of grace for which He must be thanked.
وأستغفره لما أَزلفت وَأَخرت: استغفار من يُقر بعبوديته، ويعلم أنه لا يغفر ذنبه ولا ينجيه منه إلا هو.
I seek His pardon for what I will do and for what I have already done, a pardon for one who affirms his own servitude and who knows that none can forgive his sin or save him, save Him.
أحدهما: أهل كتاب بدّلوا من أحكامه، وكفروا بالله، فافتعلوا كذبا صاغوه بألسنتهم، فخلطوه بحق الله الذي أَنزل إليهم.
One class comprised the people of scripture, who exchanged His rulings for others and disbelieved in God. They concocted a lie that they fashioned with their tongues, and mixed it together with the truth that God had revealed to them.