al-Ṣaffāt

قَالَ تَاللَّهِ اِن كِدتَّ لَتُرْدِينِ

وَلَوْلاَ نِعْمَةُ رَبّـِي لَكُنتُ مِنَ الْمُـحْضَرِينَ

56. “He says: ‘By Allah! You had almost caused me to perish;”

57. “And had it not been the bounty of my Lord, certainly would I have been brought into (the Hell)’.”

The Qur’anic term /turdin/ is derived from /’ida’/ in the sense of ‘to fall from a height which is accompanied with destruction’. In these two verses the Qur’an implies that he addresses his deviated friend and:

And also it was nigh that your temptations would affect on my pure heart and bring me into the same deviated path that you were in. The verse says:

It was the Divine success which helped me in my way and it was the grace of Allah that came to me and guided me aright.