Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Sciences in 30 Days Part 27 Story Telling in the Qur’an
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The Quran's title, the Quran's references to the past and future events, and its importance in shaping people to think about and react to events is discussed. The title is viewed as a reference to the message of Islam, and the use of "has been" in various aspects of life is emphasized. The story of the woman who was killed by a man with the same name is also discussed, as it is used to indicate that people have the right to do what they want. The transcript concludes with a discussion of the origin of the Quran's story and how it has caused confusion among people.
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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh My dear brothers and
sisters, our dear friends hamdulillah we've reached the 27th
in the series on Al Quran and there was so much apprehension and
anticipation when we started and now we nearly towards the end of
it how fast the 27 days have passed Subhan Allah may Allah
subhanaw taala give us the best of it we start with some recitation
of the Quran
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in the 27th, the our 27th topic today is actually Alkis autofill
Quran Altis, autofill Quran which means stories in the Quran
storytelling in the Quran, the purpose of stories in the Quran
narratives accounts what why does Allah subhanaw taala bring so many
stories, what are the purposes behind them how he does it and the
style in which it is done? Now for a detailed understanding of that
you would have to actually pick up the Quran and start reading the
stories and you will come across the story of Musa alayhis salam in
Surah Al Baqarah, then you'll come across his story again in many,
many other sources and then you can start seeing the differences
between them. So the detailed study of that will be left to you
what we're going to do today is going to provide Inshallah, an
understanding of the purpose of them some other framework, points,
methodologies, and why Allah subhanaw taala has brought stories
there in the first place, inshallah that will enrich our
reading of the Quran, but inshallah you will in sha Allah,
once you've understood this of the purposes of that, we may have been
reading the Quran, but without looking for these purposes or
these significant points and inshallah you will, you will be
able to find them. In sha Allah, once you hear, inshallah every bit
of information is more valuable, it becomes valuable when you, you
know, regarding the Quran, for a book, to
clear the record
to provide
definitive
evidences
regarding past events, that's no small thing. There's a lot of
research that needs to be done to unearth and to discover the
details of past people. Because things change within five years
and 10 years events change in the sense that people don't
necessarily remember, especially if it's an oral tradition. And if
stories have not been written, people don't remember the stories
people don't remember the exact details, they suddenly become
exaggerated in many cases. And so many stories, even of maybe events
that you know, you'll hear it sometimes mentioned from someone
else, something that happened 20 years ago, 30 years ago, maybe
even in your lifetime, maybe even to you, you'll hear it from one of
your relatives or your auntie's, or uncle's or somebody and it may
have been exaggerated. Right? Some details added in like that is not
what happened. So this is this is what happened. And
when we're talking about really setting the record straight, the
Quran is an amazing document, in that sense, a historical document
in that sense, because there is so much history in the Quran. So you
could say that there's a huge aspect of historic historical
aspects in the Quran, right regarding especially unseen
matters, you know, from times where there was probably no, no
tradition to record these things, you know, clearly in detail to
record these things. And that's number one.
Number two, there's a lot to learn from past stories because they
were humans like us. And if things happen to them, they can happen to
us as well, the way they reacted the way we react, what their
eventual conclusion was, what their eventual punishment, what
was their reward. And we can also refer to the same kind of thing.
This benefits a lot of people it benefits the believer, it benefits
the rejecter. Right to see how denial and what denial did, it
will, it will help somebody like that as well.
It also helps people whether they just want the surface aspect of
the story, the apparent meaning of the story, they want to go deep,
and they want to analyze, reasoning for why things happen in
the way they did happen, why it happens in cycles, why is the same
kind of result that many other rejecters have, or communities
that rejected prophets, what they incurred, you know, over and over
and over again. So there's a lot in there, whether somebody wants
to just casually read something, or whether somebody wants to
actually do some analysis, and they want to provide better
understanding of these things. That's why the Quran has a huge
focus on stories, huge focus on stories and accounts of the past.
And that really, really helps the Dawa, there's a real big purpose
of helping the invite. The Quran is inviting the same people as the
previous prophets, invited, right, similar kinds of people that have
been invited. So there's a lot of parallels, a lot of reflections, a
lot of similarities that we can learn from them.
So let's look at this in a bit more detail today.
So when a person is going to undertake a study of the Quran,
and you start looking into it more deeply, you start understanding
its meaning. And you will find that the stories are very, very
prominent in the right, so what are the purposes for the stories?
You know, is it just to give you a story, just to give you raw bits
of information, juicy bits of information? Or is it to
really
give you some other benefits, the most important of these targets,
and you can say outcomes the Quran is looking for the first one I
would probably say is to establish and emphasize and fully ground,
the prophecy of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to
prove that he is a prophet. That is you could say probably one of
the biggest of the benefits. Or you can say objectives, rather, of
the stories mentioned in the Quran, that this this person who
is bringing this news to you and these accounts to you, he is a
prophet. And this is why he and revelation that is that is coming
down to you. It's why it's revelation that Allah subhanaw
taala is sending down to him otherwise, how else would he have
had this information?
The reason is that as we said earlier, much of the knowledge of
the past had had with it had disappeared, right and there was
just remnants of small bits of information here and there about
Ibrahim Ali salaam Ismail Ali Salaam. And about Musa
disallowance on people who have may have heard their names, but
they didn't really know the stories in, in detail. That's
regarding the stories of the past. The Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
now is the only who's not recite who's not read. He's not studied
in that sense. He's not formally set the, you know, at the feet of
teachers and, and been studying things and, you know, researching
and reading books and taking exams, he's not done any of that.
In fact, not just him, but much of the people that are Omis right
because they stayed was even they were just a practical people
outside, just getting getting way through their farming, trading and
things like that. They were only people majority of them had not
studied as well.
Also, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is in Makkah
macabre, there is not much a holy Kitab there, you have to remember
that when we talking about Al Kitab. The people of the book,
they were in Madina Munawwara they were further north. Right. So they
were the Jews in Madina, Munawwara and then they were the Christians
further up in Nigeria and etc, or down south, right? There was
nobody in Macomb County there's hardly anybody in Makaha you know,
if there was anybody that thought different in Makkah Makara they
were few who had kind of given up the religion of Sheikh given up
this ideology of polytheism. And they had started to believe in one
God or something and maybe there was a few other people otherwise
they were hardly you know, any people of the book in Makkah
Makara Rama there was obviously no school there was no madrasa. As
such, there was no seminary there was no college there was no
nursery, nothing of that case. So the prophets of Allah some did not
was not brought up among the People of the Book either. Right
and neither did he even have access to for example, the Torah
or the Cebu or the NGO or anything of that nature because he just
wasn't part of that. That's not a book that was there that they were
reading there were no doesn't seem
Like, there are too many people even facilitating or, you know,
trying to invite towards those faiths in those countries in those
areas, actually. So the prophets also never dealt with any of that
at all. So now when he started providing knowledge that was only
seem to have been, you know, with the people of the book, but more
knowledge than that, and he had not been in touch with these
people, you could see how much of a massive impact and astonishment
that created that where is he getting this wrong? Just imagine
somebody in your family or in your circle, right, who doesn't read
much, and hasn't studied much has no degree nothing hardly studied,
you know, just doing other things, and then suddenly starts coming
and telling you these amazing stories, and they can't actually
sound right, they're not made up, you're going to think, where is he
getting this stuff from? You know, you're gonna say, Oh, now he
started reading books that he's going on to these websites, or
whatever the case is. But in those days, you could tell what somebody
else was doing. And there was no way that he could have received
this from anywhere. He had some direct download. You know, in
those days, there was no internet, but this person had a direct
download from Allah, it looked like he had an internet
connection. So it was just mind boggling for them. They just
couldn't understand it. That's why it made it so astonishing and a
bigger miracle in that sense as well.
Then what's interesting is that the stuff he was saying and what
he was mentioning, actually made sense. And number two, when they
would go and ask that whole Kitab about it. It made sense. It was
completely in line what with the information that they had, and in
fact it was even more precise.
You see, Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, Musa they call Lima
Bina Yachty, he me Nikita we were more Haman and nowaday, this
Quran, it confer it conforms. Sorry, it confirms rather it
confirms to that which they already have. Meaning the people,
the Christians and the Jews and others what they already have of
the book. It confirms that and one more Haman and Eliane on top of
that what he does see the word bohemian comes from the concept of
Haman. Haman a means to control to God, to to hold in trust almost.
So Mohammed Ali is saying that the Quran is a controller or a safe
keeper or a guardian over those stories, in the sense that in
those stories, the exaggerations and other things, the Quran comes
to set it right so the Quran is now the gatekeeper of this
information, and it's being uttered at the tongue of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
Okay, another point that's very significant here is that the
scholars of the Al Kitab, they weren't freely offering the
stories, even among their own people. So while they were, you
know, there was a lot more information that the people have
the book in general had, then the people in maca, maca, Rama, for
example, but they did not have that depth of knowledge because
their alma it would be seen as the domain of their scholars. Right?
So it's not something that they would be preaching and telling
these stories, and you can find them on YouTube and all the rest
of it. Right. So now what's happening is this man from maca,
maca, Rama, this man from Makkah, right, who has not read anything
was not studied anything, he suddenly starts giving all of
these really, really infant informative stories. And people
are probably hearing them, you know, through the grapevine or
whatever it is, and then suddenly, they ask their scholars about the
stories, anything Who told you that? Like, which rabbi is talking
to you about that, or which, you know, priest is telling you about
that? Say, No, this is actually this man in Makkah Makarova and
they totally astonishing piques their curiosity, because they're
like, this information is completely irrelevant to what we
know as well. And that's kind of the missing section. Yeah, we
didn't know that aspect of, you know, maybe this part was more
exaggerated or whatever, or we had a bit of doubts about this. So for
example,
Allah subhanaw taala tells us this, right? And Allah confirms
this in many places after telling the story, this is what Allah says
for example, if you look at source la Milan, verse 44, Allah subhana
wa Taala says, After discussing I mean the famous during Surah to
Saudi Arabia Imran, there's a famous story mentioned about the
karate Salaam and his looking after Maria Maria Salaam and so
on, right so at the end of that story, it says the Alikum in
Illinois we know he like wanna go taller than him is your gonna
color my home? Are you home yet? Follow Millennium on Google
telling him is he after see moon? These this is all the knowledge of
the Unseen
These are all the accounts of the unseen which We have revealed to
you which we reveal to you. You are not there Allah says we're not
going to validate him you are not there when they were throwing the
casting their pens into their pens or their their scribing pens Yes.
Into the water to see who is going to be the guardian of Maria Maria
Salam, right? You are not there when they were disputing about
that Subhan Allah What a beautiful way that Allah subhanaw taala is
saying you are not there in the heavens but we're telling you the
stories even though you are not present they were giving you this
direct information.
So what that was, is that
in order to pick lots because Maria Madison um, who's going to
now look after her the story is well known and you know, you'll
hear it during the Christmas period generally people you know,
the the owner must speak about the story then. So the caveat is that,
um, you know, he was a relative, but in order they picked lots so
what they did was they threw the pens into the water and they said
that whoever's pen floats and doesn't sink was the other way
around. They're the one who's going to be looking after Maria
Maria Salaam. So there you go. Allah subhanaw taala says this is
from the unseen news that we're providing you thereafter that
Allah subhanaw taala again says in Surah, to hood against the hood is
full of stories. Allah says in verse 49, of that, they will come
in,
in a way we know he, he like Morocco that there are them who
will come in Kabul,
Morocco Monaco, the Dynamo Tawana como Camille Kaveri Harada Fosbury
in libertarian mode talking, again, this similar similar, this
is the news of the unseen that we are revealing to you, you did not
know about it. Neither you neither your pure people had any
information about this right from before. So, now that you know
these stories, first Baron, and this is going to tell us another
purpose of these stories. Now be patient and steadfast, right be
steadfast, because the final end, the beautiful end is for the
righteous ones. So again, Allah subhanaw taala says how he's doing
this.
So that's the first point, the purpose of it is to establish and
is to is to provide the idea that this is something that probably
could not have gone from and gotten from anywhere else. And
it's from Allah subhanaw taala. The second purpose is very simple.
It's to support
his profits.
It's to show how Allah subhanaw taala supports, assists,
completely and defends his profits, and at the end of the
day, they will succeed. That's a huge aspect of the stories to be
told over and over again, about the people of the past that
history. Okay, right now we're just dealing with our situation,
right? Where Muslims are suffering in Palestine, they're suffering in
France and in other places, right? But eventually, this is what will
come out of it. Right? So because this is what happened, and Allah
subhanaw taala always defends his prophets, and his messengers, and
the disbelievers they perish, those who deny those who aggressed
they perish,
then you can imagine the psychological benefit this is
going to have on the heart of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam,
you know, to be able to draw that parallel and think that if that is
what happened to them, we can hope for the same thing as well. How
that is going to strengthen the hearts, mashallah of the believers
as well.
Right? And how it's going to cause a lot of
you know, when the stories are told, obviously, it's going to
cause when when the disbelievers hear it, it's going to make them
think as well that hey, we we are like those disbelievers we are
like those people who went were like Pharaoh, in a way like the
people of Pharaoh.
So this is going to have a huge effect in the hearts of people.
And that's very, very much needed. So that's why Allah subhanaw taala
then didn't put the story in one place as well. Right? He put it
over so many different places, and it's constantly mentioned what
happened, for example, what happened to the magician's and so
on. That's why yet Hawala on a biannual nostril, meaning they are
incessantly continuously receiving the information about how
believers were supported in the past, how they were helped by
Allah subhanaw taala, will headline will caffeine and how the
how the rejecters were were humiliated. So when you're
constantly hearing that and you're in that same kind of a case, it
really helps. That's why anybody who's feeling depressed about the,
you know, situation that takes place in the world in different
places. What you've got is the Quran, you read the Quran, and it
just fills you with a lot more hope otherwise you feel extremely
depressed and you feel like everything's been forsaken. That's
why the Quran really, really helped that eventually the hack
will be established the battle
The falsehood will,
will be read it will be done away with and mashallah the flag of
Justice will be raised in sha Allah and the
all the
strength of oppression. Even though it looks so strong today
where you got nothing to do just like it happened Mocha, mocha Rama
insha Allah that is going to happen as well.
So look at this now, and I'm not making this up. I mean this is
what Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran himself. So let me show
you the first verse is from surah two hood Verse 100 And verse
100 203. Allah subhanaw taala says
that he came in
ill Quran nakasu Who are they coming? Emu? hasI on Columna
humara que one Mo? Who's at home?
And whom? To whom allottee the rune Emil, do we need Hemu che la
robic woman's do Humala, you know that we work together and he got
bigger either a huddle Kurosawa he have Alima in the hole early amo
Shadi
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says, this is all the information and the
news of the past communities that we are relating to you. Some of
them are still standing while others have been destroyed and
have perished. So Allah subhanaw taala says that right? Then he
says, Allah subhanaw taala says, we did not oppress them, but they
oppressed themselves because they did not do right. So they
oppressed themselves, by going against the prophets and the
messengers and doing the wrong and doing the mischief. And whatever
else it was. So their gods that they used to worship their idols
and so on, were not able to help them at all. Those gods that they
used to call upon besides Allah subhanaw taala were not able to
help them at all in any way.
When the Command of your Lord arrived, when you're when your
Lord's command arrived, that they had to be punished, or they have
to be taken to task and they had to be seized, then the gods were
not able to help them. What does that do Murata three, in fact,
their gods just increased them in their destruction.
And this is exactly how your Lords grip is when he grips a community
while it is oppressive, your Lord.
His grip is very severe indeed. So that's what Allah subhanaw taala
says. Now, obviously, this gives the purpose of why he tells the
stories of the past. Likewise, when you look at surah Taha fear,
Allah subhanaw taala mentioned the story of Musa alayhis salam in
there, and it's a really, that part is a very intellectual
movement. It's a really, really interesting account between Musa
Elisa and Pharaoh, which is mentioned in other places, but in
this one, it's got some different detail. Right. And it discusses
the oppressing the oppression of the people of Pharaoh and how
Allah subhanho wa Taala eventually gives delivery to the people of
Musa alayhis salam, and he does.
He completely destroys Pharaoh Allah subhanho wa Taala then says
at the end of it, you can check this up in verses 51 and 52 of
surah Taha fear, Allah says, in Surah, Solana Latina Manorville
hayati, duniya ye Oh my aku ash, yo, Mara yo, Feroz loi, the mean
amount of zero to whom are the human Lana to what or whom Sue
would
we will certainly assist and help our messengers and those who
believe in this world, in this life, life of this world. And also
on the Day of Judgment, we will assist them in both times, that
will be the day when no oppressor will be benefiting from his
excuses. And for him will be absolute curse and damnation and
for them will be the worst of abodes. So that, you know gives
you an idea that when somebody is persecuting you like that, you
know it feels good that you know that they're eventually going to
be destroyed for what they're doing because people inherently
human beings have this idea of revenge, right or of delivery from
the wrong. That's the second purpose. So the first purpose of
the stories in the Quran when you read the Quran with its
translation, and you start pondering the first story, sorry,
the first objective of it was to show that a prophet saw some is a
prophet. He's got news from beyond where you could never have got it.
And number two, it's telling you
it's to strengthen the believers and to show how the issue is with
the disbelievers and with those who reject number three.
Within the stories, what Allah subhanaw taala is showing also in
the little details in the story, Allah subhanaw taala is proper
Getting in there and establishing the foundations of the dean of the
faith. Right? Religious people, good people, people in suffering
but righteous people. What do they do? What do they believe? What's
their attitude Sobor for example, Shakur, thankfulness of Allah
subhanaw taala, assisting one another, you know, defending one
another, fighting against the enemy. All of these things,
there's lots of little little lessons that you draw from it,
that Allah subhanho wa Taala wants to tell us through the stories. So
these stories are not just for one purpose, they're for multiple
purposes. There's lots of little little advices and councils that
you're going to get from the stories as well that if you're
listening carefully, you will be able to pick them up and make them
relevant to you. These are not just stories of the past, or hey,
that's a really nice story of the past. It's about how that applies
to me and how that applies to you. So there's a lot of stories in
there a lot of little points in there that you will find the point
you see the purpose of create some inspiration in you that look, this
is what they did, you should do the same thing as well. Or it's to
warn that look, this is what happened to them. So you should be
careful as well. Right? Because if you hear about a story of the boy
who cried wolf, right, for example, I'm speaking to the
children here, right? If you hear about the story of the boy who
cried wolf, everybody knows that story, then you're you're not
going to you're going to try to avoid being the the kid who cried
wolf in your Fs, because sometimes people do these kinds of things,
right?
You don't want to be a kid that cried wolf, did you?
You want to have to be trusted. So these are lots of lessons that we
draw from the stories. Now look at this. I mean, one of my favorite
stories in the Quran is this sort of to have it, especially the
story at work on a regular minimum, hourly, for own and the
advice is he gives now Allah subhanaw taala in this story
doesn't use a prophet story. Meaning it's not the Prophet who's
speaking or giving the advice in this one, which is really
interesting. Because you know, some people who are reading it
might think, oh, it's prophets who are giving the stories and his
prophets who are giving these advices? Well, obviously, because
prophets are special, and they're gifted, and they have a direct
connection from Allah subhanho wa taala. So the person giving the
advice in order to have a lot of the advice is the believer
himself. That's why the surah is considered the moment as well. So
to have it all sorted to movement.
So it says, work on minimum mean, and if you'd like to more Iman who
attack or to ruin or Julen any corner of being a law worker, they
can build by Unity me, Rob become.
And it's beautiful. I mean, we could we could spend, you know,
just the next half an hour discussing what this person who
was the secret believer, he now it says that the this believing
person from the family of Pharaoh, from the people of Pharaoh who was
hiding his faith, he started saying them as though, you know,
he's giving them an objective advice. He's saying, Are you just
gonna kill meaning moosari Salaam Are you just gonna kill him?
Because he says that my Lord is Allah. Whereas he's actually
brought evidences to you. He's trying to talk to them rationally.
He's brought evidences to you. So why are you going to kill him for
like, you know, what, fight evidence with evidence, why do you
have to kill somebody for and then he carries on? Yeah, we'll have to
do this at another time, if you can do it, this is we don't have
time to go into all of that story. I would love to go into that
story. But he says, I'm wanting you like, you know, there's people
of the past who are warned. And he gives his whole advice. Now, that
for me, really benefits me because this is not a prophet speaking,
for example, it is just another person, it could have been me in
sha Allah, you know, it could have been me that could be I could be
this person, right to help people like this, a person who's become
Muslim, you know, he could be this person. Okay, the fourth, the
fourth benefit of stories in the Quran, then, right after this
third one, is to provide responses for many of the accusations
against believers and against faith. And, you know, maybe some
people were praising disbelief and all the rest of it. So this is to
provide responses to this as well, through the stories. One of the
ideas that people had, of the people of the past, is that these
were cavemen. Right. And they were living in jungles, they were
completely wild and crazy, like, you know, and then, you know, a
whole evolution theory nowadays supports this kind of idea that
they were just absolutely primitive individuals who had no
idea, you know, no concept, no intelligence, they used to just
live at the peaks of mountains on in valleys and things like that.
And eventually, I mean, there's this idea that eventually it's
fear of something or the other, you know, of looking at natural
phenomena.
I like fires and tsunamis and storms and hurricanes and things
of that, that they, what that did was that when you see a hurricane,
then you think the wind is the God because it's the hurricane. And
when there's a storm and you think the wind or the sea is God, so
then you start making those things into Gods. So they're trying to
say that the people of the past had no God, like had no belief in
Allah subhanaw taala Allah did not exist for them. Rather, they had
made
the ocean into their God, they had made the wind as their god they
had considered maybe the mountain as they got wherever they saw some
benefit or some fear coming from they just made that into God and
while there have been people like that who've done that, but the
faith in Allah subhanaw taala has been there since man came on to
this world.
Right so when man otherwise Islam was in this came to this world,
that is when faith also came with it either Madison was a believer
and there's been believers since then other Muslim was not
believing in something else. He believed in Allah subhana wa Tada.
And how do we learn that? Well, we learned that through the story. So
for example, you know, Allah Subhan Allah the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said regarding the Quran, fee he never Omaka Anna
Kubla Khan Wahab Roma back there come so this is the famous Hadith
that Imam Timothy has transmitted in his book it says in it is news
of those people before you and also the news of the witches to
come after you. The Quran encompasses all of that. So Allah
subhanaw taala gives us answers in the Quran about these weird
concepts and ideas and misunderstandings people have. So
for example, Allah subhanaw taala says regarding other money salam
after the whole issue with IBLEES in a way Iblees did not prostrate
he became a cursed one he misled and caused them to eat. So then
Allah subhana wa Tada says, Bulla to mean Hi Jimmy, the Maya, TN
Nico Minnie hood, feminine Tabby, I Hooda your father hold on adding
him what or whom Yeah, has unknown. We said to them, you all
now go down onto the earth, you're not in paradise anymore. Because
remember, we were supposed to be in paradise first. Now all of you
go down descend to the earth. Now when from me the guidance comes to
you, then whoever will follow my guidance, there will be no fear on
that person. And those people will never be grieving. So Allah
subhanaw taala is promising guidance. So these people are the
mighty Salaam and his, you know, initial progeny, initial children
and so on as they are going to be on the earth thereafter that
you see that all the prophets that are mentioned in the Quran, the
whole story of each of these prophets is generally to do with
the belief in God, belief in one God, and going against the wrongs
that people are doing. That's a constant theme. From nearly in
every prophet story, there is usually some story, and in many,
many other stories. So
all of these stories have to do with destroying some mischief,
destroying some wrong destroying some bad tradition, some evil
tradition, all of them have got to do with that. So if believers only
came later, then how is it that all of these prophets that have
been coming from before every single one of them is calling
towards virtue and goodness? This is another point that Allah
subhanaw taala establishes through the stories of the accounts of the
past people, that faith is as old as humanity itself. Let's take a
few examples of this, right? We're Not Making This Up. Let's take a
few examples of this. Allah subhanho wa Taala says in Surah
Zakharov verse 23. What are the Nika Olson mu communica in Korea
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likewise, we sent before you
to every place
we sent before you to every area, every locality, we sent a warner.
Every time we sent a warner there, excessive people and their
mischief mongers and so on. They, their response was, we found our
forefathers upon a certain way and that is the way we are going to
follow so we're not going to follow you because we are doing
duck lead and blind following of our forefathers who on idol
worship or whatever the wrong faith was. So now this is telling
you that this was a constant thing. This isn't just about Musa
alayhis salam this isn't just about Eastside Islam, but this is
about all the prophets before Allah saying that every time we
sent a one, this is what the people were doing. So you know, we
Allah subhanaw taala sending people before that. Now, what does
this do is
You can see from here that all the prophets, their main call was that
stopped following your forefathers who were wrong. Stop following the
wrong traditions, just because you know you have this corrupt
tradition, it doesn't mean you need to continue to follow it free
your mind. So the prophets were all calling towards the proper
freedom, right freedom of following their forefathers, right
and to get insight so that they can benefit from it. Number two,
what we, what else we learned from in this regard is all of this is
to do with rejecting the objections, right all of this has
to do with rejecting, rejecting miscommunicated misconceptions,
clarifying misconceptions and so on. So the first one was about
saying that all the prophets before us were, what do you call
it were people who know all the people before it had no faith and
they had faith in weird things and and so on. And this, you know,
belief and so on is is a later idea, right. Now, let us look at a
few verses in which when the Gambia when the prophets are
speaking, the evidences that they're providing and that
benefits other people who come later so for example, Allah
subhanaw taala says in Surah, two new Verse 15 And verse 15 to 18 lm
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Luhan a Salam saying, do not see how Allah subhanho wa Taala has
created the seven heavens in layers. And he's created the moon.
In those seven layers, he has created the moon as a light, Allah
subhanaw taala has then created a son as a lamp as well. Right? And
Allah subhanaw taala has allowed you to grow in this world. And
then after that, he will bring you back. Right? He will return you
back into the world. And then he will remove you. So Allah subhanaw
The this is the prophet telling them. So we're learning from the
message of these prophets as well. We're learning from the message of
these prophets. Then you look at Ibrahima, this
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he was challenged by the tyrant. So Ibrahim and Islam had to
respond to him and said, My Lord is the one who brings people to
life and who gives death as well. So then the guy said, I also do
the same thing. And he had somebody who was supposed to be
free and had him killed. There was another person who was supposed to
be killed because he was imprisoned, he got him any
freedom. And he says, Look, I do the same thing. So then Ibrahim
Hassan responded with his second part, he says, but look, my Lord,
he brings the sun from the east to the west, because the sun rises in
the east every morning, and it sets in the west. Now you go and
show it coming from the west. That's when that person said when
the first
when the first proof or the first challenge. The person was a bit
absurd, you know, in responding to it in the way he responded to it
the second chance so this tells you how they the proofs that they
used as well. Likewise, when it came to Musa alayhis salam,
Pharaoh challenged him it says Carla Femara boo Kuma Musa, Who is
your Lord Oh Musa said cholera buena Larry che outdoor coalition
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My Lord is the one who basically at our coalition Hall Kahuta,
Mahara. Milord is the one who actually gives everything its
creation, and then He guides them right showing the power of Allah
subhanaw taala the Quran is full of this, the Quran is full of
this. For example, Allah subhanaw taala says, Lo que en Fe Hema
Lehighton in love Allah who will ever say that for so behind Allah
He or Bilbao Shem you'll see foon Had there been many, many gods in
the heavens and earth besides Allah or other than Allah or in
place of Allah, they would have both been in chaos. Right? They
would have both been in chaos. But you see that the earth and the
heavens they are working in a perfect system, because there's
only one God who is looking after them. And purified is Allah
glorified? Is Allah the Lord of the Throne? From everything that
they say Allah is beyond everything that they describe him
and thereafter Allah subhanaw taala says in another place, and
who do you call him in the lady che in am humble Hardy, who
When were they created from nothing? Like were they just
created from the just appeared in this world? Or are they the
creators themselves? What's going on here? Were they created from
nothing? And you can tell the atheist to say the same thing
today where they created from nothing? Or were they created from
nothing? Or are they the creators? Were they created from nothing? Or
are they the creators?
There's many, many other. So the constant discourse of the stories,
what they're telling us is they're providing evidences, answers,
responses, understanding, insight, and so on. That's where Allah
subhanaw taala tells anybody else that look, if you've got an issue,
then call her to Bahasa Come In Kuntum Sadiki. This is exactly
what some of the prophets said as well, that okay, you bring your
evidences if you're truthful, the Quran is providing its evidences.
There were there were groups of people who had started, even those
people who had actually heard the story. So you had a whole group of
people who had never heard these stories, or who did not know much
about the stories property. But then you had this other group of
people who started to doubt these stories. Right? So you had a whole
group of people who started out these stories, why did they doubt
these stories is because as an over the course of history, while
the stories were correct stories to begin with, in their
foundation, the main points of the stories were correct. But over the
centuries, what had happened was people started exaggerating,
adding spice to the stories and making up additional parts to it.
Or Musa also do did this and, and Jesus Eastside Islam, he, this is
also what happened. And he said to this, he said, This thing to that
person, and so on, you know, just to kind of magnify and dramatize
it a bit more. So what that did was it created confusion, because
there were contradictions, you know, somebody gave a story about
Musa some like this, and another person gave it like this, there
was contradiction. So people started to deny these stories,
they started to reject these stories, right? So there was a
whole confusion about these stories as well. That's another
thing. That's why the Quran also came to set the record straight,
that the story we're telling you are the absolute correct stories,
we're not making anything up, we've removed all the fluff from
there, all the spice from there all the drama from there. And this
is exactly what it is. That's why
there's people who like to Muslims, you know, Muslim writers
who like to write storybooks. So one is if you make up your own
story of a fictitious fictitious character, that's completely fine,
you're allowed to do that, as long as you know, you're trying to give
a good message. And I would, I would actually encourage our
brothers and sisters there who like to write, to write good
stories, you know, to replace things like Harry Potter, and so
on, right, and to make them so gripping. But with good points in
there, rather than, you know, promoting and glorifying magic to,
you know, glorify something else. The career you're gonna write
stories.
Yeah, so you need to write those kinds of stories. Okay. So now,
what some people have done is they take the stories of some Sahaba,
or some prophets. And while all the main points are in there, they
had a lot of other fluff, and that there was a beautiful day, and
they were rolling mountains around there. And, you know, there was a
squirrel jumping around, like, how do you know that?
You know, I don't think that's allowed. Because you're changing
the discourse, you have to be very careful. Right now, if there's
clearly something in the story in the sources, that shows you that
it was a very bright day, how'd you know, it wasn't a dull day?
You know, what I'm saying? I have an issue with this, because this
is going to basically sullied the record. At the end of the day,
that kid who's growing up, I know, you might say, well, this is
harmless stuff in there. Now, I'm not specifically giving a photo of
the specific details here. But I'm saying you need to be very careful
about how you do that. I personally would never do that. I
would, I would mention the facts straight. If I had any analysis to
add to that, or any conclusions to draw from that. I would do that
and make sure that their conclusion is not that that was
the case, you know,
oh, when they were a few goats during or, you know, around in the
area, or whatever the case is, I mean, unless you can prove that
there were goats there, right.
So there was a lot of this interpolation, a lot of
modification, a lot of this corruption happened in the story.
So there was a lot of people who didn't believe in the stories and
they thought they were just made up by people. Right? They were
just made up. So
Allah subhanaw taala, sets the record straight in that case, as
well to show that No, these are true stories. And there's a big
role for these stories to play in our lives as well. Right? Because
the story of Ibrahim Ali salaam, the story of Musa alayhis salam of
a Saudi son, it has a very transformative role to play in the
lives of human beings. I mean, if you ask the children I mean,
haven't you benefited from the lives of the prophets and their
stories when they were read to you and you're young? Right? Don't you
didn't you enjoy them and benefit from them? Right. So that's,
that's where it tells us
inshallah tomorrow we continue with this discussion
about then the way that Allah subhanaw taala tells the stories
we've discussed today the purposes for which these stories have been
told why their stories in the Quran and why they are such a
prominent feature in the Quran. Tomorrow we want to and this will
be inshallah beneficial for us when we're looking at the stories
itself of the way Allah subhanaw taala tell the stories and then
we're gonna have some other additional aspects now we have
just about three days left for this inshallah and we're hoping
that either on most likely on Tuesday, we'll have our general
kind of question and answer session regarding this meaning any
questions that have come in so far, we're going to try to answer
them on that day. And we're also going to try to answer any live
questions that anybody have, we will try to answer them as well,
Inshallah, and again, if you have any other suggestions because
there's a lot more themes of the Quran to discuss a lot more
Sciences of the Quran to discuss Imams God has a huge book on this
subject. Imam zirconias a huge book on this subject what we've
chosen is a very specific points that we thought were relevant. So
may Allah subhanaw taala accept this. And again, if you have any
questions, please email them to us through zum zum Academy and
inshallah we will try to deal with them on the Tuesday otherwise, to
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