Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qasida Burda (The Mantle Ode) Part 25
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Mookie, the reihen heroine in, in JELA. But the fun for the whole
run.
Now look at where the generosity gets to and they're hospitable
nature.
They're saying to their servant or their slave, their slave rather,
you go and make a fire.
And if your fire brings in a guess then you're free. Bring me guests,
and you're free. Not bring me customers so I can make more
business. And then I'll give you incentive and a commission. Just
bring me guests that I can serve for free and you're free as well.
So that was a poem that needs to say in those days.
Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim.
Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Ramadan who want to start you know
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from here he is starting to speak about the Quran. But it's very
interesting the way he speaks about the Quran. Now you have to
remember, this is not a story that he's telling this is not a normal
book of prose, where it's a very organized kind of exposition or
narrative of something. This is a poem. And in poem, you go many
different places, you talk about different things. It's a very
emotional kind of discussion. It really is a very personal
discussion. It relates to how the poet is feeling at that particular
time. What are the thoughts going on in his mind? What are his hopes
and ambitions and goals? What does he have in his mind in terms of
the subject matter that he's covering? So you have to remember
there is no, there is an organization, no doubt about that.
But it's not the way you would read a normal book. So you have to
keep that in mind. And the other thing is that what you have to
remember is that we, we don't have much time to actually look into
the Arabic in depth and the different
strategies uses in terms of the words and so on, we were mainly
discussing his content. Anyway, from 88. He says, Leave me to
describe his signs, which appeared like a hospitable fire lit by
night on a hilltop.
Now, what does he mean that leave me to describe his signs you don't
get that in a middle of a book, but this is a poem? Essentially,
he's saying that until now, someone who's been listening,
he's listened to all my lines until now, and the person's
probably coming up with a question. Why are you even
bothering to try to describe the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
in this thorough, comprehensive way, when his status cannot be
described, justifiably, he's too high for you to justify for you to
be able to describe him. So why even attempt why even make that
attempt? So then he is responding to this imaginary critic or
imaginary questioner saying, leave me to describe his signs there any
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love who the Herat whichever appeared for him. The Who, what
kind of now, he is talking about the signs that have appeared the
who are not real Kira Leyland either either me now to really
emphasize the kind of appearance that his signs have made, what
kind of appearance so then he uses a comparison
The comparison he uses is something that was very much
beloved to the Arabs, which is nurdle Kira, hospitable fire,
what's hospitable fire, we have no idea. We don't do it in London.
In cities, you can't do it. You meet strangers in the masjid, you
don't even say somebody come to them, that city life. When you're
in a small area, you know who's new, you will speak to them, you
will introduce yourself, you will get to know them. And if somebody,
for example, when I was imam in Santa Barbara, we had 100 people
for Joomla. So I would know when somebody's missing. If somebody
didn't come for Joomla they were out of town or whatever, I'd know.
If there was somebody new, I would know. But in London, it's
impossible. You see so many new faces, they come and they go,
nobody says anything to them. We don't even have a madman, Hana,
place for them to stay or anything of that nature. So what used to
happen there, though,
in the Arab areas is that they used to go and look for the
highest place in town in the city in the village, the highest place
to go and build something there and then put up a light, a fire
habit burning at night, so that anybody who's coming through they,
they were there was no Hilton, or Ibis. So you know, there's no none
of these things. You just went in and hopefully somebody helped you
out. Or you just put up your own tent and just just did your part.
So he says Leave me to describe his signs which appeared like a
hospitable fire lit by night on a hilltop welcoming, light,
welcoming signs.
As a Mustafa, as a traveler, if you see that light, how happy
Would you feel somebody's left a light on from it. Some of these
hotels actually use that as a slogan, we'll leave the light on
for you. Basically, it's that old, traditional style of, we'll leave
the light on for you Don't worry, there'll be somebody there.
Then he says pearls glow more brightly when on a string yet, or
no lo yet are no less precious when they are separate.
And this is in the middle of this poem. So now, this is again about
the poem and what he's doing. So the first part is about what he is
discussing, and the content about the prophecy, the Lotus Notes,
pearls grow more brightly when on a string, yet are no less precious
when they are separate.
Every miracle, every sign every characteristic, and every aspect
of Rasulullah blossoms life is a poll on its own
and pulls up a precious on their own. If somebody says I've only
got one diamond, not the whole necklace, well, one diamond is
still valuable. Two diamonds are valuable. But when you put them
together in a particular way, they suddenly take on a different
beauty.
So they have a different value to it.
With the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, each of his
characteristics and signs and so on features, they are all valuable
on their own. But he's trying to say he is trying to justify why
he's doing this poem. So he's saying, Yes, I know they all value
when you can read up on them. But to string them together in this
beautiful poetry has a different value on its own. So he's
justifying in the middle. He just stopped to justify why he's doing
what he's doing.
Then he says fermata Merle muddy he Isla Murphy him in caramel
o'clock he was sheer me. Then he responds directly to this
imaginary critic. The praise giver reaches the praise giver reaches
high. So who is the who is the praise giver? The poem poet
himself. He is the one who's trying to give the praise to the
Prophet sallallahu sallam, but cannot reach the noble qualities
and graces, which he Yeah, and he Rasulillah Salam displays. So
that's what I'm trying to do. That's what my poem is set out
for. But I know that I can't get there. I know that.
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fertil Mousumi multidomain though they are renewed, though they are
newly originated signs of truth from the merciful proceed time
itself. Their quality is that of Him who is eternal. This one is a
bit more complicated, and I'll explain it when I go into detail.
But most of the commentators believe that he's speaking about
the Quran here, and I'll go into more detail about that later.
Which he then says lung doctor in visa Murnane we're here to Mirana
Arnold mera Deewana Deewan Irani unblinking to time?
They are timeless. The Quran is timeless.
They give us news of Judgment Day
which is some
In the future, so they foretell events. And that's just one event
it's foretelling. But it also gives us news of Iran and Iran,
which are historical aspects. So not only does it tell us about the
future, but it also tells us it tells us about the path the past,
in a way that you could not study in any book. It reveals things of
the path of the past, which
will not be revealed in any book. Well, then the question that
arises there is that if somebody is telling you of the past,
something that you couldn't read in any book, it could be made up
who is there to confirm it? But then no, it can be confirmed by
scholars and researchers who have been looking into this issue for a
while. The way the Quran reveals certain things, they form an
incomplete line with what other bits of information and clues they
already have. It's like the missing piece. So though, it
cannot be proven directly, it's proven by other evidences that
they all know about, and they just couldn't put it together. And then
suddenly, when the Quran said that this is how it was, for them, it
just all clicked together.
This is beautiful way. But what fascinates me most is that this
poem, just gives you a great insight to the depth of this
poet's mind, his comprehensive reach his thought process, how can
you think of so many different things, and put them together like
that, in such a comprehensive and widespread exhaustive way? It's
amazing. So let's look at each one of these in a bit more detail. So
we start off where he says that any well was he is tinleigh, who
the horrid the who are not real Kira Leyland either either me,
leave me alone, leave me to describe his signs which appear
like a hospital fire lit by night on
a hilltop. So what they used to do, the noble people of the area,
the generous people of the area, and certain tribes are known to be
more generous than others. And then, of course, certain
individuals are known to be more generous than others. So they will
try to find the highest point in play in the vicinity.
And then go and have one of their servants put on a fire there at
nighttime, and have somebody maybe even sit there rest there. So if
anybody comes, they'll tell them where to go. So if it wasn't that
their building was there, they would just have a fire. And then
they would actually have somebody there and attendant who if a
traveler came then that attendant would tell them where to go and
send them to the house. So he says
the Hooroo the horror novels, Cara Leila and other anime either me
refers to a mountain or a high place or a treetop or something,
something of that nature. And the thing is that they used to be very
proud of doing this. They used to be really proud of doing this. And
they would vie with each other compete with each other in doing
this. So they would slaughter the animal in the house, whatever it
was that soldier it even it was the last animal that they had,
they would just slaughter it, and they would use it. We don't have
animals these days, but what we have is freezers filled with meat,
you know from the local witches we have Mashallah. So then they would
fulfill the rights of the guest. And that was something really big
for them. Hatem authority from the Kabila of pi. He was known to be
one of the most generous people like that. It's just the way he
did things. He became so famous, there were others as well, but
it's just the way how far he went to, uh, to honor his guests.
That's why it became like them. In fact, there's a poem Oh kid for in
the Laila, Laila Korean worry, Huya Mookie, the reihen heroine
in, in general, but the Fund for the whole run.
Now look at where the generosity gets to and their hospitable
nature.
They're saying to their servant or their slave, the slave rather,
you go and make a fire.
And if your fire brings in a guess, then you're free. Bring me
guests, and you're free. Not bring me customers so I can make more
business. And then I'll give you incentive and a commission. Just
bring me guests that I can serve for free and you're free as well.
So that was a poem that they used to say in those days.
So he's encouraged his, his slave gone find somebody for me. So he
says, Just leave me alone. Let me let me sing his praise. Let me
mention his great signs, and all of these evidences that indicate
the truthfulness of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
Allow me to express myself
To allow me to loosen my tongue, allow me to let go of the reins
allow me to wander as I want. That's what he's trying to say,
don't restrict me at all.
Allow me to do this. So I can take pleasure in mentioning the clear
miracles of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, the evidences and
the clear manifest evidences of his prophethood
which have spread throughout the lands already, and that have
become more famous than the sun. In its clarity. We ask Allah
subhanaw taala to grant us death on the love of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi salam, and that he, he grant gathers us with him
in the in the hereafter.
Then he says Fedora, here's the other person on Oahu, I'm on top
of him. So he continues as let me praise, and I'm praising through
poetry. And then he says, pearls glow more brightly when on a
string. But they are no less precious when they are separate.
So he's not trying to say that my poem is going to give Rasulullah
sallallahu Sama, high status. He's already has a high status
individually, any feature of his is already high. But it just looks
a bit better when you put it together, but they're no less
valuable otherwise, it just a different way to look at it.
So he's got a dump of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, he takes no
credit to himself. His credit is coming from the fact that Ursula
LaSalle Luddism is what is embellishing his poetry.
Because every March is a miracle Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam is so refined, so perfect, so sophisticated, so subtle, and
so far reaching that it's like a pearl, it's like a diamond, it's
like a gem. And when you've got them of that nature, then they
have their individual value anyway. Likewise, the mark desert
and the miracles of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam, I'm gonna
put them together. And when I put them together, it's going to find
the different place in the hearts because it'll have a different
effect.
Because poetry has that effect. When you tie something together,
if you if I've got diamonds in my hand, just showing you in a
bottle, it's not going to be the same as if they are on a necklace,
they look totally different.
However, he is trying to say that when it comes to diamonds and
things like that, their price increases quite a bit when they
have been strung together in a particular way depending on the
design, whereas we just saw allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam The
difference is not that much because each individual
characteristic of his is great on its own anyway. Then he says,
from a TATA model muddy he Ilana fie him in caramel o'clock Eva
Shem. And then he is confessing but as I understand that I have a
very high objective to reach. My purpose is very high. It's
unattainable. Because the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam which
he has mentioned before, that his status is unattainable. The way he
describes the Sunnah allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is
quite amazing in the beginning, when he says the compares him to
the other prophets. And he says that the other prophets were just
like, the,
the dots and the vows. And the Prophet salallahu Salam is like
the lettering.
And the one incident that he mentions as well which just proves
it is the fact that the prophets of Allah Islam was taken to the
ascension, where he met with Allah, that no other prophet was
able to go to, despite Musa Ali Salam desiring that he wasn't
unable, he wasn't able to go there, the promise that our son
was allowed to go there, then not only did he go up to the heavens,
he went beyond where any angel could go. So he's been the
furthest anywhere. So he's trying to say that it is impossible to
describe a sort of loss of Allah Salam, and his height and his
reach his limits you can't, because Allah has given him just
so much that it's beyond us. Because when Allah has given him
something beyond what an angel could get to, then where is the
reach of a human being, our reach isn't even as much as the angel
when he's gone beyond the angel. He is not Allah. Allah is beyond
beyond that. There is a limit, but that limit is much higher than the
limit of an angel as well. So what's the human going to get? How
far is he going to go? So he says, I completely understand that he
says fermata Tawana Maluma de
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try to beat somebody else in height. Dual means height and
Tavella means to mutually try to overcome somebody in high
gets higher than somebody else sees it has this mutual meaning.
Maroon muddy?
Means hopes, desires, goals of the praise giver.
So
he says, I know I can't get, I can't overcome the height or reach
the height, the meaning the praise giver cannot reach the height of
that in which is the noble character and characteristics and
graces that the prophets Allah Psalm describes, we know that I
know it's beyond me. So what he says here, then, is
that I'm I it's some I'm trying to describe something which is close
to not being possible to describe.
Allah can't be described. But for us, all of us are Hindu and say
that he says, that's close to not being able to be described,
because he's not Allah is still lower than Allah, but he's way
beyond anything else. So then, what's the point of trying to
get to all of these characteristics of Rasulullah
sallallahu when it's so high, and when you're trying to get to the
heights of his feet of his characteristics, His miracles,
etc. When it's impossible for you to do that, how can a human being
get there? When Allah subhanho wa Taala is the one who said he is
often Rahim, Allah subhanho wa Taala says about the prophets of
Allah isn't that he is often Rahim Bill many in a row from Rahim,
Rahim. And Rove is also two names of Allah subhanaw taala, which
Allah Himself gives to Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam Bill Momineen
are over Rahim, of course, in different contexts. So Allah gives
him similar names to himself. And
that's not possible.
So he's saying to this imaginary critic, don't try to criticize me
I understand that it's a very high status, but let me just do what I
have to do. That's my objective, and I'll be praised for that. Then
he moves on to this next point, which is the virtues of the Quran
according to what the majority of the commentators say to Hakeem
mean or Rama anymore, the third tone Kadima tone Sefa tell mo Sufi
will keep me very complex to understand this basically is to
harken which means signs are verses of the true one, Huck
Darla, the Allah's Name Huck Mina Rahmani or it could be if to
harken truthful signs, from the Most Merciful One
from the possessor of grace, mercy, more deaths done.
Right. Mark? The 13 means created science originated science. And
then he says Kadima turn,
not created eternal, seems like a contradiction.
In the one line, he's saying they created the new in the other line,
he says they've been here forever. What does he mean by that? See
fertil mo su fibula T dummy, which is the attribute of the one who is
attributed with eternity. What does that mean? This is a
characteristic of the being who has the characteristic of being
being eternally existing.
Alright, let's make that even easier. He's saying these are the
verses of Allah subhanaw taala of the Ramadan, which are created,
but they are eternal.
Because they are the signs of Allah, they are the words of Allah
who is the eternal one. This requires a bit of theology to
understand this. What he's saying here is that the Quran that we
have in front of us, the copy of the Quran, the Quran that we read,
And if la meme vertical kita Bhullar Eva fi, Al hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil Alameen Subhan Allah the SLR, what the, what Allah subhanho
wa Taala revealed to the Prophet sallallahu sallam, and then what
the Prophet said, Allah says, Then read and propagated, and people
memorized it and wrote it down. Now we publish it, we memorize it,
we read it, and so on.
All of that is clearly created. It's not been around forever has
it? The copy of the Quran that we have is not been around forever.
It was published in 2003, maybe, or five or whenever it was, when
we read the Quran, it's new. We've just read it, we've just created
it right. However, all of this, the original Quran
is the speech of Allah
that exists from eternity. Do you understand that exists from
eternity? Allah has had that speech and that Quran in
In the state that it is from, from
eternity it's not, he has not created it. He's always had it.
But just at a particular time, 1400 years ago, he decided to send
it to the Prophet sallallahu sallam. Now, the other thing that
we have to realize, is that Allah speech, Allah, just like he is
without body and limits and features and limbs and so on.
Allah subhanaw, taala, doesn't, Allah is able to hear and see,
without eyes and without ears, we are restricted to seeing with our
eyes and ears, needing light, etc, etc. or Allah subhanaw taala
doesn't need or that he's not restricted in any way. We don't
know how he sees, but we know that he's not restricted by eyes and so
on, to have to see. Okay, we can just say what he's not, we can't
say exactly what he is because we don't know. But because you know,
in the Quran, Allah says laser chemically shape, nothing is like
Allah, then we know that. But then he says he is the listener. But he
doesn't say he has eyes necessarily, right? So based on
that his speech is also without, it's not in English, not in
Arabic. It's not in English, it's not in Hebrew. It's not in any
language. It's divine. When you think of a thought, in your mind,
does it have to be in a language
unless you're preparing a speech, and you're preparing the words
you're going to say that's going to be in a language. But
otherwise, if you're just thinking, what you're gonna do
tomorrow, there is no language that you think and you just think
in your mind, that's what you call internal speech. So you can assume
that the Quran is something of that nature that you don't have to
have speech that is written, right? It's just discussion.
However, because we can't understand and decipher, and
comprehend Allah speech in its form, he revealed a special Arabic
form of it to us and to the to the Bani Israel, he revealed the Torah
in Hebrew.
The oral the original is not in Hebrew, the original is in no
language. But because the Hebrews, they they spoke Hebrew, they
understood Hebrew and Allah subhanaw taala, wanted to send
that speech to them. He had it in Hebrew and gave it to them, with
us like that. So that's why he's able to say at once that it's
created, but it's eternal. What he means by the creative aspect is
what we have in front of us what we read what we have access to,
which reflects the eternal speech of Allah. Right? It reflects the
eternal speech of Allah.
So that's what he's saying here. So he starts off with saying that,
and I think
that there are other opinions about what he's referring to, but
I'll just leave it there. Then he says,
Because Allah says in the Quran, yourself, Maya, T him in the
criminal Rama, Nemo death, in
that
there is no remembrance that there is no remembrance that comes to
them from the Lord that is originate. Meaning the remembrance
that comes to them from the Lord is created mark, Nothing is new.
They've never heard it before. So for them, it's new before Allah
has always had it. So that's how he's able to combine the two.
And of course, Allah subhanaw taala has always been around. Then
he says, lamb doctor in busy man. And so he clarifies that by saying
lamb doctoring busy man, it is not associated with any time.
Because once you have something associated with time, then things
suddenly become past and future, you become restricted in that
particular time.
So he's saying, the Quran is not restricted to any time, past and
present, are all the same and equal to it. But then, the
question is that if Allah subhanaw taala is eternal speech, and Allah
time doesn't apply to Allah.
But in the Quran, we actually do see that there are tenses in the
sense that it says we sent no, it didn't say we're gonna send no
right or we are sending new it talks about him in the past.
And it talks about future events in future tense. So how come there
are tenses here that are past present and future when Allah
doesn't have past present and future because everything is the
same for him?
Because time doesn't apply to him? Well, the reason is that in his
eternal speech in his real internal speech, there's no tenses
there. It's all one same but to make it relative for us, to make
it relevant to us because we came off to New Era salaam after Musa
alayhis salam, he said We sent Musa we sent no hurry Salaam and
because it's before the Day of Judgment, say we will send you to
hellfire. We will do this we will send you to Jana. So it's only
because it's relevant to us. So
He's saying here though, doctor in busy learning,
unlinked to time the Quran is still unlinked to time in a
different way. Now, how is it unlimited time? Well, he had
talked a bit Runa I need Maddie, these signs, these ayat, these
verses, they inform us of mad.
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where we're going to return to the Day of Judgment, the hereafter. So
it informs us of the future of something we can't even see right
now. And also what and I didn't want aremy it also tells us about
the Iran Iran, two major or the major groups of the past that
violated Allah subhanaw taala as rights. So that's there to prove
that the Quran is timeless, it's not linked to any time it does,
it's not only relevant for this time, and it certainly is going to
become irrelevant, because it's telling us of past things that you
would never know about, and a future things that you would have
never known otherwise about. So that's what he's saying here.
So what does he say here in more detail with some examples.
So he tells us about things of the past and future, because all of
that is existing in the knowledge of Allah. Allah is omniscient,
which means he knows everything from before before even occurs. He
knows it before it even occurs. Because he is not there before it
occurs only he is there before it occurs. And he's also the after it
occurs before it occurred.
What does that mean?
That means
for Allah subhanaw taala, everything is as though it's
already occurred or it's still going to occur, it's the same
thing to him.
We can't understand that because for us, everything has to be
starting from here. And then it goes there. We either before it or
after, we can't be both before Allah subhanaw taala that is all
irrelevant.
This side is the same as this side.
So
in a hadith he mentions that Allah subhanaw taala revealed this Quran
as something that will command people and something that will
admonish was so Nitin, highly apt and he will tell you about the
ways of the people of the past. When method and mod Reuben it's
also an example that you can use fee here number kumana
bloomberg.com. In it, it will tell you things about yourself and
about the people that will come after you. I think about all of
this about the Quran, it does all of these things. This is one
Hadith that mentions all of these things in there. It says what
hakama intercom it will also command in those issues that you
have between you will provide you judgments in those issues. Law you
unlock tool and method it will never become worn and old.
Regardless of how many centuries pass Walton call the Uber rule.
Its lessons will never, never cease, to inspire or to or to make
you think and provoke you while at Dafna Ijebu and it's astonishing
facts and features will never end to Astonish, will never cease to
astonish will hold fossil laserable Hustle. It's very clear
cut is not just a joke or a jest. Man call me he sadaqa anybody who
speaks by the Quran will be truthful woman hacker maybe he
either and anybody who commands by the Quran will be just an Angela
Hegira anybody who acts by the Quran, who practices the Quran,
they will be rewarded woman thermos cerca de hoodia Illa Sara
tmos takim and anybody who holds fast to it, he will be guided to
the straight path woman Paula Bell who domine rady Ebola hula,
anybody who tries to seek guidance from other than the Quran, Allah
will cause him to deviate woman Hakka maybe lady Kasana, hula and
anybody who commands by other than the Quran, Allah subhanho wa Taala
will uproot him from from will totally approve approved him. Well
who are the cruel Hakeem it is the firm mention and reminder when
noodle Mubin and very clear and illuminated light was Sarah Thomas
takim and the straight path will have Lulu Hill Mateen and it is
the firm rope of Allah subhanaw taala that you can hope to, to
hold on to for success where a smitten lemon domestica be it is a
source of protection for the one who adheres to it. For the one who
holds fast to it. When ajar totally Manitoba or who and it is
a winning factor for those who follow it. Law. Yeah wedge for
whom it will never become deviant or wrong or crooked that it needs
to be straightened. It is perfect in its own right. What are your
zeal for your startup? Same kind of thing la yesh Berman hula
Obama, the Obama will never be quenched of it they will
constantly be finding new benefits from it. Whether the z will be
hill or
While if you stay close to the Quran, your imaginations, your
opinions, your perspectives will never be can be crooked. Anybody
who continuously reads the Quran properly, Allah will guide them.
They'll never have weird ideas unless they've come in thinking
weird ideas, and they're not sincere in their approach to the
Quran. They're trying to read their own ideas and find their own
proofs from there. But if you open up your heart and let the Quran
speak to you that's different. Well let Teletubbies be Hillel
Sinha. The tongues will not be confused when they speak by it.
And then he says, who Allah de la Mian the hill Jin Hina Samia to
call the jinn when they heard it. This is the Quran that when the
jinn heard it, they couldn't stop themselves from saying from
proclaiming in Samaritan Quran and aija Yeah, de la Rushdie for men.
What a new Shrek when initially can be Rabina ohada That Verily We
have heard an astonishing Quran. We have heard an amazing Quran
that guides to the path of guidance. And we took it for RBD
for Armand Nabi and we will now never commit shirk, and important
to anybody with ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.
There's, of course, many, many fava aid and benefits that are
found in this hadith. But, of course, one of the main things
which our commentator has mentioned, that it tells you of
the past, and it will tell you of the future. And that's, that's
what he said by the Day of Judgment, and he mentioned the IoD
and the Iran.
There's no doubt there's many verses in the Quran that speak
about the hereafter. It's such a major theme in the Quran. But
that's not the only thing that speaks about so many plays. It
talks about the hereafter, gender Jahannam difficulties of the Day
of Judgment, the way that judgment will occur, what will happen to
the world standing in front of Allah, the presentation, the
resurrection, and so on the reckoning tells you about the
bounties, it tells you about the difficulties and so on.
Then it's also tells you, it tells it tells us a number of other
things which have already been confirmed. I mean, the spirit will
only know when we get to the Earth yet how true that was. We affirm
belief that it is, but there are other things that have become
totally true. For example, something that became true very
soon during the professor Lawson's lifetime itself. Allah says in the
Quran, let that hold on Al Masjid Al haram. Insha Allah who Allah
meaning you will soon certainly for sure definitely entered the
Masjid Al haram. In sha Allah if Allah wills Amin
in a state of peace, and they wouldn't you could never believe
that you're being attacked by the people of Makkah. They were
staunch enemies, how could they change their mind, but it was
taken with peace, you will enter it with peace. Aside from a few
skirmishes, that's exactly what happened. Then Allah subhanho wa
Taala speaks about
not the Muslims, but the two major superpowers of the time, the
Romans and the Persians.
The Romans would just overcome by the Persians in a major battle.
During that time, Allah subhanaw taala reveals, well who mean back
the other beat him say that they won't, yes, they've been, they've
been defeated. But after their defeat, they will soon become the
victors in just a number of years. And that's exactly what happened
afterwards, the Romans regain victory.
And then
Allah subhanaw taala, says leovera, who are identical,
he will have this been become manifest over all other religions,
many, many other more specific ones that were mentioned that came
as well. And then of course, there's the past. So this is the
future, the very future, and then the close future. But then there's
also the past. And there's numerous things he just decided to
mention the higher than the Iran. But as mentioned that these are
things that the Quran have mentioned, that you can't find in
any history book. No history book has recorded it.
The history of the worlds that have been written in the past or
the present, what the Quran has mentioned, they're totally new
facts about it, generally speaking.
However,
when the experts in history, when they look at what the Quran is
saying, it just clicks to them. It just fits in with what they had
been thinking all along, but couldn't prove. So that's how they
are able to confirm these things.
So can you deny these facts in the Quran deny these historical facts?
Well, to deny them,
you need some proof, some other solid evidence. When you don't
have any other solid evidence, then
This evidence is as good as any other evidence.
You can't take another speculative evidence that is not definitive
and firm and say that one is superior to this one.
Should you understand because for a person who doesn't believe in
the Quran, it's just another source of in, you know, it's like
just another history maybe for them, it doesn't make a
difference. But for the experts, even though they're not Muslim,
what is being said here just makes sense. It fits in with their
theories, with everything else they know. But at the end of the
day
it's difficult to insist on it except for a believer.
Right? So
when of course then they find drawings in caves or they find
some carbon footprints or carbon dating and you know, there's other
ways to corroborate these facts.
Now, when it comes to there's a hadith in
Buhari, we mentioned the other Mali salaam was created.
Other money Salam was created 60 cubits
60 cubits tall.
And what we mean by 60 cubits tall is that's how he was created to
grow to that size. That's the size that he was, his form was made and
the soul was blown in because otherwise Islam was not created
from an embryonic stage. But he was created in His form, and in
surah, 60 cubits one qubit is about 40 to 640 to 50 centimeters,
about half a meter. So that's about nearly 30 meters tall.
Otherwise, cinemas then he mentions in the Hadith, and people
have
continuously then being continuously than being shrinking.
Right? It says they've been growing smaller and smaller. Now
the thing is that I've been thinking about this for a while,
that if we take Rasulullah Salah lessons time,
the Sahaba then we're not much taller than the people of today.
How do you know that? We know that because we have some remnants from
their time like we have the swords of we have the swords and armor
and few other bits and pieces of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, and
highly been worried or man. And it really alone so on and a standard,
say swords there's only one sword there, if anybody has been to
Turkey, in the holy relic section is only one sword there that is
kind of abnormally sized, which is amazing. It's probably about this
big. And it's about this thick, and that's Jaffa thiar sword. And
there's no way that any one here can wave it around with one hand,
it's impossible. It's like this big huge sheet of metal. Right?
This is just even with two hands, it'd be quite difficult. But that
was an exception, it seems because the other ones are small. So
they've all been and then you have the garment of Rasulullah
sallallahu sallam, you have this garment, his his job, which he
gifted to Gavin Newsom hailed, then that was passed down through
his inheritance to an A margarita on a boat that purchased it of
them huge amount, 20,000 dirhams or something. And then it went
down the Umayyads and then eventually ended up with the
Ottomans. And they have that in Turkey. So it's not an abnormal
site. So we know that there were other similar statutes. 1400 years
have passed since then. We haven't gotten any shorter. Yes, we do
have we, when I was in had you notice people from all over the
world. And what I noticed were the Americans and Australians were the
biggest people there.
And they were not Australians or Americans, these were like
Lebanese, Pakistani, and so on, but they just seemed bigger.
Right? That's probably hormones, or the food that there must be
something that's going on the buffalo hormone put in tomatoes,
tomatoes become this big, or something like that.
hamdulillah in England, it's still kind of normal size, because we
have more restriction restrictions on GM, America is different case.
Everybody's massive.
So you could actually tell them that's abnormal.
So, those are exceptions
1400 years. So that means history has been very long. And you know,
people tell you about the age of the world and humanity is very
long.
So 1400 years is not significant to
you know, to
is not significant enough for that shortening to happen further.
And then other possibility is that he has to get to say something to
get down to where is it has to come down if it does come down.
But one thing that's very interesting is that this hadith
makes it very clear that dinosaurs are not some kind of weird,
strange creatures that were just the size of the humans of the
time. What's the problem? You got a sick a 30 foot
Person people walking around, then they're not going to be dealing
with birds like insects or they, or little animals and so on a
little small ones, they're obviously going to be
Tyrannosaurus, or Stegosaurus or whatever, or the mammoths, or
whatever it is, I mean, that is going to be of their size and
everything just went smooth and swan was a big deal Jurassic Park,
and then they capitalize on over it. So
it's not a it's not a big deal. However, then Allah subhanaw taala
inserted Fajr, which we actually covered here in Ramadan, it says
aroma 30 or Eymard ality LEM, you walk me through her feel better.
They were supposed to be very tall, very strong, extremely
powerful. Iran, that Allah tilam You walk me through half will be
not But Allah says that never have anybody like that been created. So
they were an anomaly.
They were just different. They were not in the grand scheme of
things. So they could have come much later, but they have been as
tall as otherwise they may have been. And strong. But that's just
because they that was just a random. What do they call it
mutation? Right? Just as random different as Allah subhanaw taala
says in the Quran, lamb you block me through Hatfield, Billa. They
were exceptional. So that's who he's speaking about here.
He decided to just pluck one incident from history, which is
this nation. So these are the stories of the prophets of the
past. The people of Iran, they mentioned in the Quran, it's
related that Allah subhanaw taala had given them huge bodies, very
strong, very tough. And they were just able to do these things that
just astonished a lot of people. But when they became tyrannical
when they became when they became aggressors, and they caused a lot
of corruption mischief in the world, Allah subhanho wa Taala
sent to them, who the Alayhis Salam was from their people. Allah
subhanho wa Taala said who that is salaam to them. And they
immediately they denied it because they were too self. They were too
self conceited. They didn't want to listen to people. So Allah
subhanaw taala never punishes anybody until he sends a prophet
to them until he sends a message to them.
So he says, let's give him a chance. He said know who that who
that is. They didn't listen to him. In fact, they messed him
around quite a bit. So then what Allah subhanaw taala did to teach
them a lesson. He prevented the rain from them for three years.
Now, they used to, they used to be farmers, they used to do a lot of
farming and huge trees. And when they used to have huge orchard
orchards, and a lot of cattle and animals, they used to deal with
all of that. What happened is that it wasn't that
it was on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula. A lot of people say
this may have been in in Yemen, or it could have been in northern
Saudi Arabia today. Well, lo I know when the rain was withheld
from them, prices went up. So who daddy Salam
guided them said make a stick for repent to Allah turn back to him.
And he said, If you do that Allah will send you the rain.
Were call Mr. Fierro Rebecca, some to add your silly summer are they
commit Aurora? Where's it come Quwata illa Quwata come this is
what he was promised to him, oh my people.
Repent to your Lord, seek forgiveness, return to Him, repent
to Him and He will send the heavens he will allow them to
shower upon you with abundant rain. And then he will increase
you in your power and your ability you will become even stronger and
better.
But knew how they Salam had done the same thing with his people
before them. But they didn't listen. Instead, the people of who
that is Salam, they sent a group of people to Makkah, because
Morocco was considered a very important and spiritual center,
send people to Makkah looking for rain. Then instead of seeking
forgiveness said go down there. And when those guys got there,
they were just so into the dunya. When they got there they went and
started playing around, just messing around and just enjoying
themselves and started drinking. So they go on a special mission.
Right? And they go and start sleeping around. People do these
weird things. And so the person who was the host he woke up woke
them up.
And he said What's wrong with you guys? Anyway, then, then they
started asking for rain from Allah subhanaw taala then but already
decision had been made. So after all of that, then they started
asking in Makkah, so what happened is Allah subhanaw taala sent
a wind towards the area when they saw it coming
They said that's very good when winds blow rains are going to
come. They got excited, because they said, Ha, read on Tirana,
this set of clouds that will come they will shower us with rain. Now
it came from the direction that they generally would have received
rain from so that was even more deceptive. It didn't come from
some kind of abnormal direction. So this was all for that. When
they saw it, they got extremely happy and satisfied. They got
really excited. But Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, well who
am a Stangel to me?
This is what you have tried to rush for so because
they said to the Prophet, it didn't Irby, bring it on. And he
said that Allah will punish you. They said Bring It On, whatever
you're promising us bring it on, if you're of the truthful, so it's
Rehan V ha urban Aleem to them mural coalition in the Amira beha
for us bajo la Euro Illa Messiah kinome that's what happened to
them. This was a wind hurricane of some great force in nature in
which was a huge punishment to the miracle cache, it will just
totally destroy everything. And they became such that lie Euro
Illa masa Aquino, they became such that the only thing that was left
to be seen were the places of inhabitants. Everything else was
destroyed. What happened is this when this hurricane, the storm, it
just carried them. It just carried them. And of course it carried
them and just flung them left, right and center. The heads were
torn apart. Their places were destroyed. And they were just
totally, totally destroyed.
It's related that the wind used to go through their mouth when they
breathe in, but then used to just wreck everything inside and come
out and used to just totally cut everything in between. Allah knows
best the description of that. They used to be just flung into there.
There was a report the other day that this couple this family were
on a picnic. Certainly they've gone out camping.
And they were not they set up this nice. Would you call it tent? The
kids were sleeping inside they were outside. Suddenly they see
this. What is it wind, a twister. And they saw it suddenly their
whole tent was lifted up and just flung many feet away with their
kids and everything. Like these things, they just don't. There's
nothing that can stop them. We've seen so many of these videos
nowadays of these hurricanes and tsunamis and things like that. May
Allah make the neighborhood for us. That's why the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam used to say whenever he used to see wind
coming he used to say Allahu medalla Rhea, hon. Walter, Allah
Rehan
just significance of that word, because it says that when one wind
comes, it's a single wind for punishment. And when it's multiple
wins, it's a source of mercy. So that's where the progress allows
us to make that DUA and here's this is V one
reason as mentioned in the verse via either one or the to the
miracle Shamia murabaha.
So then he carries on inshallah we'll continue that next week. It
says Domitilla Dana FIRFER kakula more agility min and beginner is
Jurate Welcome to do me, constantly with us this Quran
above every millet miracle of prophets of old which came in
wins. Because the unique feature of the miracle of Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam is that it's still a living miracle. When you
look at the other miracles of the previous prophets, they were very
time specific. They happen at a particular time you had to witness
it to see it. And then they finished with the Quran. It's
constantly living and it constantly guides and impresses
May Allah subhanho wa Taala make us of those who are guided by the
Quran and by Rasulullah sallallahu and Sunnah Allahu manda Salam Inca
Salam debark the other jewellery will Quran Allah Who me Are you
are you bureaux Matthew canister wreath. Allahu Mia Hannah Yemen La
ilaha illa and the Sahara Anika, in condemning authority mean just
Allah one Mohamed Amma who Allahumma salli wa salam ala
Sayyidina Muhammad wa an early say, you know, Mohammed warbird
eco Salam
Allahumma Filon our Hamner or if you know what do you know? What is
O'Connor? Allahumma Hanina Where have you been? Oh I don't know who
the eliminator. Oh Allah treat us with Your Mercy of Allah We ask
that you deal with us with Your Mercy, both in this world. Also on
our deathbed. Also, when we're about to say our last words make
that the Kadima Illa Illa Allah, Oh Allah treat us with mercy in
every stage of the Hereafter. And especially on the day that we
stand in front of you, of Allah make that the best of our days of
our existence, and oh Allah grant us your refuge and grant us your
refuge and grant has generated for those in the company of your
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam send abundant
blessings on him.
and allow us to follow in his footsteps. So why not be
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