Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Sciences in 30 Days Part 8 Tafsir Israelite Traditions
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So the color of NaVi that was just a selection that I recited from
the beginner sort of European, which is a Maki surah. And just to
show you how the verses are, so what we're discussing today,
continuation from yesterday's discussion, is yesterday, we
discussed the contents of the murky and muddy versus how they're
stuck to the different and they both cover different themes,
different points. And the purpose of both is quite different. Now.
Now, one thing that I want to introduce you to today, but we'll
speak about more later on, but I want to introduce you today to is
that the Quran is very specially selected Arabic, it's very
specially selected. Arabic words. This is not something that any
human could have created, designed by Allah, it's composed by Allah
is Allah subhanaw taala speech. And that's why the words that are
used are extremely appropriate. And they're so specially selected
not just to provide the meaning of what Allah intends, but also to
the words that are there to actually help carry the meaning in
terms of the way they sound, the way they're pronounced, and the
way somebody is going to hear them. So the tune of the Surah,
the tune of the words, the tune of the ayat and the Surah, there's
going to be it's going to change according to its meaning. So where
there's a forceful arguments, for example, where there's arguments
that are forceful arguments being put down, then there's going to be
there's going to be a change in the tune to carry that meaningful,
it's going to also provide a cadence to your ear to help you
with the meaning that Allah subhanaw taala is intending by
those words. So it's not just a dry piece of writing that you're
going to read and just focus on it and understand its meaning know,
Allah helps that whole understanding to get to our mind
and our hearts by using certain tunes the words that sound in a
certain way the end versus the end in a particular way. For example,
if you were to just look at sort of tilapia malware like which I
started reading, you can hear there's there's like in some cases
there's an urgency for example, further south dakota Salah whether
you get the water went to Meza Isla he Melco and there's like a
whole cluster of verses like that, then you have, for example, it
changes to Wilkie and I'm an RA was in the whole fear or will
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Now that in itself helps to convey the meaning of that cluster versus
and then it changes again.
So, Allah subhanaw taala uses very, very, very particular words
for their sound and everything, it's like the best choice that you
could ever have. And from every perspective, you know, sometimes
you can have a very comprehensive statement, but it doesn't sound
very welcoming or a very attractive, but in this case with
the Quran, that's why millions of Muslims the world over who do not
understand the Quran still thoroughly, thoroughly enjoy it,
because it has a lyrical quality as a musical quality, right, which
is just so comforting today is it is so beautiful. Tadasana you'd
want to listen to it. There's so many people, many of us here. I
mean, I remember when I was
1415 years old, I used to just love listening to the Quran even
though at that time I did not understanding I was memorizing the
Quran, but it was just this amazing it just just fell in place
it was just perfect tune in is just the ups and downs and the
sounds were just amazing. And I mean, I don't need to go on about
that you obviously know what I'm speaking about. So what are the
differences between the mucky and Madani sore as soon as in
In terms of that as well. So let us look at that today. The choice
of the MKi AC when the contents of the Mk II versus and the purpose
of the Mk II verses are to establish the deen to get people
to understand it and focus and attract them to Islam and make
their religion solid and sincere for Allah subhanho wa Taala there
was a Dawa, right and the Dawa. The invitation is there to people
who are stubborn, who are just don't want to move there. They're
willing to remain in their blind following of the forefathers.
They've got a lot of Joe Healy, Joe Healy, whether you call it
further within them. So you needed versus there that were very
strong, that were powerful, that had forceful arguments, not soft
and relaxed, versus with a more relaxed tone, or more relaxed,
convincing process. It's they're very strong, they use lots of
different things, for example,
there's lots of emphasis that I use, there's lots of oaths, which
I use much of the oath of the Quran is murky versus because the
oaths are there, you know, once the in Madina, Munawwara there was
no need to have all of the emphasis because they believed
already, right? So that's what you that's what you have, there's a
lot of depiction, there's a lot of metaphors, there is a lot of
symbolism, there is a lot of whether you call it
providing examples using different ways, a lot of that you actually
see in the Medina and verses not to say that you won't see any of
this in the medina verses course you will, you'll see some of that
in there as well. And especially the lyrical quality, all of that
in there, but it's a different style in that case, not the
urgent, you know, very strong arguments style of the murky
versus necessarily.
So also in Macau, it was not just talking to believers, he was
talking to the disbelievers as well, whereas in Madina, Munawwara
the primary audience now becomes the believers. Right, and there
are things that they Allah subhanaw taala says about the
monarchy and other people but the primary audience becomes the
believers. It's something that will really really strike the ear.
Let's give a few examples.
There was a Willie ignorable Hira. So Khalid bin Walid his father is
Walid bin Mahira. Now he was a master of Arabic, right? He was
respected for his decisions and his taste and his understanding of
Arabic language. Right? This is quite it's been the leader of the
Allah one whose father
now when he he was an enemy of Islam, right, just like Khalid bin
when he alone was as well at the beginning. Now his father,
firstly, when he when he eventually heard the Quran, he
thought about it, and it just affected him. It just influenced
him. And it looks like he was changing his view. He was changing
his opinion about the Quran, right? He was about to probably
give bear witness that the Quran right is Morges it is inimitable
in terms of its sign language because I don't think anybody can
deny that. So this is what he said. He actually made a statement
this statement that's been recorded, he said, while law he
looked at submitted to Kalam and MA who will be surely will be care
whether Bill CAHA anity. Were in the law. Hula, hula, we're in the
early Hila Tada. We're in the hula booth mill. We're in a cellar hula
move. The women who have been totally butcher, were in who Layer
Layer, Lu, whether you're Allah, that's what he said amazing, like
such an amazing
way to praise the Quran. He said, Wallahi by Allah, I have heard a
speech which is not poetry. Neither is it magic? No, if it's
soothsaying, nothing to do with soothsaying, it has a sweetness,
it has a sweetness, and it has the aura of beauty, the elegance and
charm about it. And when you reach out to the highest levels of it,
it provides fruits it is fruit bearing, and the the lower the
lower tones of it, it is it satisfies the first it is not it
is not the words of a human being. And it is something which
dominates and it's something which is never going to be subordinate.
He made that statement. That's what he said. Now, the problem is
that his friends, the Mushrikeen, they they said, You've messed it
up for us, right? You know, you just made this statement about the
Quran, you need to assist our gods on sort of early Hatena you know,
assist our gods we need, we need defense in it, change your view.
So he wasn't he wasn't willing to immediately say anything. He
wasn't willing to retract immediately. He said, Look, let me
give me some time. Let me think about this. Let me think about my
situation here. The whole politics and the whole culture and
Everything like that. So then he went and then after that he came
back and he said in the Quran a Syrian youth he then what he had
just denied earlier he came in he said in the Quran see her and you
thought yeah who do Mohammed mean? But will it mean that the Quran is
magic just bluntly said that it's Quran is magic and Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi salam has taken it from some people who know
magic. So this is all this is all spells. This is all
witchcraft. That's when Allah subhanaw taala revealed a verse
about him, which is inserted with death here. Obviously this verse
came down later from the beginning versus it is
in HUVEC era workorder. Now, just think about these verses. They're
short, right? In HuFa CARAVACA de cerca de la que if cut the Zoom
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the borrower was about to color in her illness the following year. So
this is a translation. It's not a very good translation, but this is
very, he thought and determined and plotted. So that's when he
went into think about it, for Cotulla gave a cut there, so let
him because how he plotted how he determined this, and once more,
let him because let him be killed, in other words, right. Then he
thought, then he looked into it. Then he frowned. And he looked in
a bad tempered way. He scowled, then he turned back and became
arrogant. So that all that humility that he initially
overcoming went, right. Then he said, this is nothing but magic.
From that of old, these are nothing but the words of a human
being. That's what he said eventually. So Allah says, I will
now cast him into the hellfire.
So this is the tension that the Quran is being revealed. And at
that point, this is what's going on. These are the emotions that
are flying around. So Allah subhanaw taala needed very
specific words and eventually just bowled them all over, and it won
them all over.
You need something very powerful to take people away from a rewatch
from a Daveed from a culture that they've been doing for so long.
And culture is very powerful. As I explained yesterday, culture is
very powerful, but the Quran did eventually change the entire
culture of the sahaba.
So that's what you have when it comes to the Macan. Versus, that's
what you have, right? That's what you have. Now, let us move on.
Let's move into
the money versus right the money versus in terms of their style in
terms of their rhetorical style, the way they composed and so on,
right not just the meaning as we discussed already the meaning
yesterday, you will find number one what you'll find in the
Metheny verses is that majority of the verses will be longer they
won't be the short short verses like your uh, your helmet they
fill the wallet back Africa with the back of Hatha hit these are
all separate verses in a multiverse in a mckeeva is now in
a muddy universities. So it will dakara right levena You may noon
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long long versus That's why even when you get towards the end of
the Quran, you'll see very short sewers and some would have very
long versus the short sewers though. And others which are short
tours very short verses as well. When Laney either Yahushua
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dagger a book called a very, very short verses. So the Madani vs
will have long versus long ayat, and you'll see this sort of Bakara
check it out. So it's sort of it Imran long long versus number two.
They're much softer in their approach, they're much softer in
their sound in the arguments is a softer down there, the the there's
a lot more gentleness in its approach, because they're not
dealing with the Quraysh of Bucha anymore. And it's much more
relaxed in its tone in that sense as well. And obviously the reason
is that is majority of Muslims in that case, they're talking to the
believers. So it requires a more softer approach because they were
already prepared and willing, and they they were the converted
essentially. So the Quran is now speaking to the converted in that
sense. Now, there's a lot of stuff that some of the orientalist who
just couldn't understand is trying to say that these are written by
different authors
and things like that there's a lot of objections like that, which
we're not going to get into, because we've understood the
reason for this and inshallah this will form you late for you
formulate for you an answer to all of these things that without me
having to mention the criticisms and objections about it in sha
Allah. Now, let us move into the topic for today. The topic for
today, the main topic for today is we're jumping a bit there,
somebody Marshall, I've had a few bits of feedback, mashallah, and,
you know, keep them coming in, Allah bless you for, you know, for
the suggestions that have been provided and for the feedback that
I've had on Hamdulillah. Allah bless you all.
So somebody asked about Nassif, Mansukh, that's going to come
later, somebody asked about the Mokum and the Moto Shelby versus
insha Allah that will come later as well. But yeah, if you're
worried about something not being covered, then you know, again, you
can let us know and inshallah we'll, we'll see if it's part of
the discussion, we'll do it we will. Generally a lot of other
books, what they will have dealt with before the topic we're going
to cover today, they would have dealt with the discussion of how
the Quran was compiled. So remember the Quran, the prophesy
center would ask certain scribes to write it for him, but these
will then be placed in different places and eventually they did not
in the beginning have one must have in one place. It was in the
hearts, right? And different people have different parts which
are written some very few had, you know, the entire Quran Quran
written in different ways. So all of that is a very good discussion,
how did it get from there, to the copies that we have today, and
it's order we've already discussed the order anyway. But that will
come later, much later in sha Allah, other books generally, will
have will have produced that topic here, but I'm not going to do it
here. We're going to discuss it later today. Our main discussion
for the next few days actually is about Tafseer of the Quran.
Because I think this is one of the most important topics of Illumina
Quran because this is where you get an understanding how to
benefit from the Quran in terms of understanding the message isn't
that the biggest issue? I mean, you can know about Medina verses
and muddy universities and be able to identify them and get the
benefit of why they are in the way they are and how it affects you
and so on. But eventually, all of that is going to be covered in the
Tafseer right, that I've seen means interpretation in knowing
the meaning of the Quran, understanding the message from the
Quran receiving the words of Allah subhanaw taala and how we are
supposed to understand them and implement them broadly speaking.
So what are the what are first we're going to discuss in sha
Allah, the principles of Tafseer we will discuss just so there's a
lot of people out there to certain movements out there, what they do
is they teach you Quran for like about some weekend, you know, we
can sessions they have for about three months, so maybe for about
10 sessions and then after that, they say you can go ahead and you
can do Tafseer of the Quran. Now, there's a lot of people who have
this extreme view or you know, or the opposite, where some people
think that you know, Allah subhanaw taala has made the Quran
easy to understand to deliberate on to reflect upon, so anybody
should be able to do this, right? There is that view out there? Then
there's another view which is out there is that no it needs to be
very specific sciences must be known to do any Tafseer of the
Quran, okay to do any Tafseer of the Quran. Now, the other ma have
definitely mentioned that for any person to do the Tafseer of the
Quran like proper Tafseer of the Quran, they need to know several
different subjects which will which we will discuss several
different subjects, right. However, there are clearly verses
in the Quran that are about stories and a person can reflect
over them because the Quran is there for reflection, you can't
deny that idea. So there are some aspects of the Quran which can be
understood by a common person as long as they are understanding in
a sound way. Alright, so we are going to try to discuss how we can
benefit from the Quran directly the major series that were written
that you can have access to, and some of them are in English, I'll
explain all of these things. So this is one of the most important
topics because it tells you directly how to benefit from the
Quran, what to be careful about what to avoid, and to see the
pitfalls and to see the weaknesses in the system. Okay. There's lots
of books that have been written on this topic. For example, there's a
makadi mafioso literacy that wha me had written this Kitab tavsiye
Romo Festival, which is more of a recent book last 100 years.
Dr. Sheikh Mohammed Hassan Habib is quite a good book, actually,
I've used it quite quite extensively. Firstly, let's deal
with definitions. First, what does tafsir mean? Okay, what does
tafsir mean? And then there's another word that people use in
this particular case is the word that we'll see is the FSI and this
that we'll so let's look at tafsir first of seed comes from the
Arabic root alphas through Alpha through Farsi and RA. And first,
first
strewn essentially refers to things to return. And number two,
to unveil, to make clear, to unclose, to unveil right to remove
the cover of something. That's why in the Lisanna, Lara, which is one
of our early and great dictionaries listen to a lot of
the language of the Arabs, it's a famous Arabic lexicon. It says
Alpha Albion is to provide clarity by and means to be clear. Right?
So that's, first of all, that's what it means. Another meaning is
yes, to make something clear, to Cashville mohatta to open
something which has been closed, to uncover something that has been
covered. So that's another meaning of it. So that's why Tafseer
essentially is in this context, cashflow Murad, and the love will
Bushkill. It's to uncover or unveil the meaning of a
complicated term, or to a
ambiguous wording to provide clarity in that case. So the
technical definition that they've done here, right, I know some
people find this really interesting, some people find this
boring, but it gives you an understanding of how they define
this. So you know, you have to put yourself in more of a technical
kind of mind. Now, that's the way to benefit from these kinds of
thoughts, okay, is to put allow yourself to be in a technical mind
frame, right mindset, then you'd appreciate that other thing? Oh,
no, this is just too complicated for me tell you some stories or
something. Right? But not that bad, but you know what I mean,
right? So the definition of tafsir is Aleman. You've hermle behavior
dabbawala l minus l Allah and a V Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam were by onomah. Annie, he was the carajo Akademie he will
help me here. This is the more general definition, right? Is the
fsid is that knowledge. So what is the science of FC the science of
FC then, is that knowledge that science from which the book of
Allah that was revealed upon His Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam
can be understood. So anything that will provide clarity and
explanation of the words of Allah subhanaw taala here, that elusive
seed will by Anoma Annie, and providing clarity to its meanings,
and to extrapolate its laws and rulings that I've seen is also
used for that. to extrapolate that's why juris they do see it
all the time. Which means that extrapolating and inferring
rulings from the Quran,
meaning of that wheel, for example, that wheel is a word that
is also used in this context. Some people say some more festive, some
big more festive, which is a common trait of the Quran. I've
actually called the seed that wheel instead of Tafseer. Luba
with that wheel, the kernel of that wheel as opposed to see, so
sometimes it's used in the same meaning, but really, they're
related meanings. The word that wheel comes from Ole, which again
means to return probably to the right meaning, but in a technical
sense, the aim of that wheel is the following. Okay, that we look
beyond Houma you urology, Roe v. Martin Al Quran, B. McDonald, our
ad will not read the cake. So right from this, you can
understand it's a more deeper practice, it's a more deeper
activity, a more profound activity, the exposition,
the exposition and clarity of that, which the meaning and
signification of the Quran eventually returned to eventually
what it means
by the demands of the principles and of deep comprehension or, or
deep study. So, if there's a more apparent meaning that comes about
the journey, and the wording itself, linguistically speaking,
says exactly that, like Aki masala, right, established the
prayer, that's the Tafseer, right? Because anybody can really
understand that once that's explained once you look at the
linguistic meaning the meaning of it, but when you go beyond that,
and say, light here means something else, that this is what
it refers to, when a taco Lahoma off, right? It means everything
else, then you're doing more of that wheel, right, you're doing
more of it that way, you can still call it FC is still broadly
speaking, providing clarity, right, because it's still Tafseer
in terms of that, but that wheel is generally a lot more where the
the wording doesn't necessarily provide that meaning. But you need
to agree with that meaning to make sense of it sometimes or that it's
an additional idea that's coming from there more profound. That's
what that wheel is. But as I said, there's scholars that use the
terms interchangeably, and they say, it's all deaf. See if that
will they use that as well? And that is exactly one of our early
manifestos that we're going to be discussing today is whose book has
been published, and it's one of the earliest studies that have
been published is Imam iblue. Jerry Muhammad YBNL Jerry Tabari.
Okay, and he uses the word weed a lot uses the word that we a lot of
For every verse where he's going to discuss it, he says el Colavita
we call the heater Allah, the, the statement or the opinion with
regards to the interpretation of Allah's words, the following
words, and that's what he says over and over and over again in
his in his Quran. Right? Now, if you're not going to be dealing
with the Arabic of it, I mean, you might say this is irrelevant to
you. But Subhanallah we are learning about the Quran, right?
It is much better than learning about, you know, how many goals a
certain player has scored, or whatever the case is, I mean, that
stuff is all pretty irrelevant, okay, and how it's somebody made
and all the rest of it. This is stuff that inshallah we hope to
benefit from an get some benefit from. So in sha Allah, I will tell
you what this is about soon. Inshallah I'll tell you what this
is about soon. But let us move on from here. Levels of Tafseer. Now,
how deep do you go in the Quran? There's something that when you're
just reading, you're going to understand, right that Pharaoh did
this to Musa Alliston, there's going to be some very apparent
things that anybody with Arabic will understand. You know, most of
us may be just using translations if you don't understand Arabic.
Then after that, there's more deeper ideas and deeper ideas,
right. So how many levels are there of that? So let us ask
Abdullah Abdullah Masuda, the alone who's essentially the leader
of all Buffa Syrians because the products are made special to offer
him. And he said, at Def zero orbera to ojo tafsir is on four
levels, right, a series of four types, which one diary fall out of
boom in Colombia, there's one, one level, which anybody with Arabic
is going to understand whether he's a Muslim, non Muslim, anybody
with Arabic is going to be able to understand is no way you can
escape it, like I'm discussing this. Now, if you're Muslim,
you're going to get a certain benefit. If you're a non Muslim,
there's still going to be things that you're going to understand
from here, right? Because I'm speaking in English, that's why
you're gonna understand it. Now. If I use certain terminology and
whatever, they're not gonna understand, they won't be able to
relate to it, but they're gonna there's gonna be a lot that they
can understand in general, even non Muslims who are listening,
okay? Because it's in English, that's, that's the surface level,
which you're going to get anyway, regardless, because you know, the
language. That's what he said. He said, then what I've seen in law,
your other I hadn't be Johanna T. This is a bit interesting, he
says, then there's a level of Tafseer, which nobody could be
excused for not knowing meaning as a Muslim, as a believer, you
better know that level of it, right? Which means the rules, the
laws that are taken from the, you know, all of that. Number three,
he says what I've seen on Tyler Muhtar, lemahieu algorithm, right,
there's going to be a level which only the owner will know, meaning
those who deeply considered it and studied it from others and have
checked it out. And then there's a word level is beyond that. He
said, there's a fourth level with Tafseer, on layout lemahieu. In
the law, there's also a tafsir, which is not known except to
Allah. Now, in every state in,
in every century, in every time, there's going to be Tafseer, that
nobody knows, but Allah subhanaw taala, and maybe Allah subhanaw
taala will open it up to them, right, for example, in the 14th
and 15th century, for in the 20th century in the 21st century,
right. So there may have been Tafseer some, and it's not the
whole Tafseer of the Quran, but aspects of the Quran, which nobody
had come up with before, because the Tafseer is still yet to be
decided, meaning sorry, it's still there's so much more that the
Quran provides us because the words of ALLAH is infinite. That's
why there's so much more depth that the Quran is there waiting
for people to uncover, and Allah will uncover it whenever he wants
it. Okay, that's why there's still room for tafsir. But of course,
you need to have the background to be able to do this, and so on. So
that's what he says.
Now, that sounds like a very subtle way of somebody who really
knows what he's talking about, right? That he knows there's some
more meaning in there, but I can't understand it. Only Allah subhanaw
taala knows its meaning. I've already explained to you
the first one, which anybody who knows Arabic will be able to
understand directly from the Quran. The second one is
quite clear things that you will understand from the Quran, whether
you know, Arabic or not in your, you know, there's going to be
certain messages like establishing prayer, don't go close to Zina,
etc, that you're going to understand as well. Not a really
big difference between the first two, right? Not a big difference
between the first two levels. The third one, obviously, are those
people by their own lemma who really spend their time to ponder
over the Quran. There was a scholar of the subcontinent, right
you know, 50 years ago, right? Who in Ramadan used to just ponder
over one juice a day? So in 30 days, 30 Jews, and you know, when
I say used to ponder over just one juice a day, not the Tafseer of
it, not the broad Tafseer of it, you know, you can easily do that.
Right? There are syntheses which are written which would take you
more than a day to rest you know, to just read maybe one Jews, right
that's how vast that of Caesar maybe right? But he used to just
ponder over the style of the way the Quran is written the word
choices that
The composition, the grammatical composition that was used just the
rhetorical style in one day, that's what he used to do just one
juice. That's what he that's what he would take time in doing. This
is what you call their own Mr level, right? All the various
different subtleties that are in the various different features of
inevitability of its effective style, its sharpness, and
everything else that's discussed there, or the thick of the Quran,
the jurisprudence of the Quran, the legal aspects of the Quran,
then there's the spiritual aspects of the Quran, there's, it's very
vast, there's many, many subjects that come from the Quran like
that, and that is obviously all that's going to be restricted to
their alma, they're going to understand that. And the fourth
one is obviously, something which is related to, for example, Allah
subhanaw taala, speaks about the angels or speaks about the rule or
speaks about paradise or whatever. You can only know what Allah is
telling us just that much, there's a lot more to it, that only Allah
can only Allah subhanaw taala will, can can tell us in the
future, which are going to be generally regarding the unseen
matters. These are things that nobody is going to be able to
understand today. The Tafseer of those things, only Allah subhanaw
taala knows and of course, then there's like a diff la meme
passing Tassie meme all of that those words as well. Those will
only only Allah subhanaw taala will know as well.
What we're going to do now is we're going to first discuss the
most prominent form of Tafseer in the Quran. Right? Now, when you
look at the books of Tafseer. Today, there's hundreds of books
of Tafseer.
And they are different perspectives that they provide. So
there's going to be juridical RFCs focused on the hokum that are
common the legal matters of the Quran, there's going to be
spiritual disease, there's going to be the the one which is most
famous, you could say, and that generally people go to first is a
Tafseer bill to remember that they've seen Bill Massoud and some
of the most famous taxis that you know, will probably be in this
category. Okay. So
I would probably say that most people are going to probably
mention tafsir Avenue cathedral, right, which is probably one of
the most probably the most famous Tafseer of the Quran that comes
into the category of Tafseer. Bill Matthew, there's another tavsiye
that a lot of people know about FCL Jelani, that is not a suitable
method. Right? The fear of poverty is again, I've seen Bill Matthew,
what is Thor mean? Authority, it comes from the concept of Earther
affirming something which has been transmitted something which has
been narrated, right, that has been passed down, that's my
thought it means that which has been passed down. So it's that
they've saved using that which has been passed down, not using the
opposite of that essentially bit of seed Biragi. They've seen with
your own speculation with your own comprehension with your own
understanding using your rational faculties. So if Allah if the
Allah's Messenger SallAllahu sallam said, this verse means
this, or a Sahabi, explaining, explained that knowing you know,
and you get an understanding that this must come come from the
Prophet sallallahu sallam, this is all Tafseer will thought Tafseer
using what has been transmitted is the safest approach that I've
seen, Bill Mathura is probably the safest of series that you can have
where there's a hadith that explains a verse of the Quran, or
there's another verse of the Quran which explains it. Right, there's
another verse of the Quran that explains that I'll give you a few
examples as well in sha Allah, that is probably the safest I've
seen. It's there's many books in Tafseer about that as well.
They were also the first books of the FSI to be compiled, the first
compilation of the FC word done through the transmitted, the
transmitted and this generally started off by the Mohabbatein.
Right, so in their books of Hadith, they will be translating
because they had to they transmitted the Hadith that they
knew regarding the meaning of the Quran that those were the two
rods, those were that's the plural of muthoot. That is what it was.
So one of the first to do this would have been Imam Malik Rahim
Allah, right. And then after that, soon, very soon after that people
are scholars actually started writing separate books and taking
it away from Hadith collections. So while they were still there in
Hadith collections in many of them, they started writing
separate, right? Or started compiling separate collections of
that C. difficile Bill method, as they say.
For example, in the second Hijiri, the second 100 years right of
Islam, there were numerous RFCs that were written which compiled
together all of including all the statements of the Sahaba regarding
verses of the Quran, and the tabbing. So all of that. There's,
for example, the Tafseer of Sophia and ignore Lena
Tafseer, Sophia and even arena was a big more Hadith as well, that
Tafseer of the big
again, jurist and more Hadith teacher of Imam Shafi student of
Imam Abu Hanifa Rahim Allah, who is now buried in Egypt, working
Good evening, Jarrod Rahima. Hola. Then short about YBNL Hajaj, one
of the big Mohabbatein of, of Basara. Right?
And a number of others. So they started compiling these things
together. All of these have been put together, you can find all of
this iblue Jerry's tafsir Okay, ignore Jerry's stuff. See, I'm
showing you the English version. Right? Now, there's one pitfall in
this. You can say genre of tafsir, doing the FSI through the through
rods, there's one issue, although it could be the strongest, because
there's no opinion in there of anybody. There's one issue
in the first period in during the prophets of Allah some time, and
immediately afterwards, it was quite safe, they weren't too many
people who made up stuff. But when you moved into the time of the
tambourine, which means those who succeeded the Sahaba, then what
you had is there were people who started saying that, Oh, the
Prophet saw some said this, about this, that this versus this, and
they were making up stuff. Now what had happened initially was
that because there was really no need to provide
chains of the Tafseer, to say that this was said, by such and such
from him, and from who, you could just hear it from someone who you
trusted, and you just say, this is what it means. This is what the
promise was said or something like that. However, this created this,
there was a problem created here because people started introducing
things and claiming it to be wrong the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam. Now it was difficult sometimes to determine whether
something was with the Prophet sallallahu Sallam saying or not,
that cause quite a bit of a problem at that time. So then the
whole science was developed, of making sure that
we weed out the bad from the good, the fabricated from the true. Now,
unfortunately, there was probably def see that we probably lost in
that because there was suspicion now, right? So there were probably
some good def C's that we may have lost good understanding that we
may have lost that might be become weak now, because there was a
doubt about it. And, you know, maybe there was somebody in there
who may have not been so strong. So then they said, Okay, we can't
take this to be strong. So this is generally going to be the pitfall
I know this is getting quite technical here. And you're like,
why should we have to know about this? Right? You have to know
about this, because a lot of this stuff still comes down. Right? And
people they quote stuff from the Quran from different FCS, because
a lot of stuff seems to they still have those views in there have
certain views like that, which you have to be careful about. So for
example, this early tavsiye that we speak about, right?
Well, before I talk about the state of Tabari, right, what I
want to mention first is
one of the earliest of the more festivals is Abdullah ignore I
personally Allahu Anhu. And whatever he says about the Quran,
you know, is holy grail because I mean, he's got a special
vouchsafed kind of certification from the Prophet salallahu Alaihe
Salam. Now the problem is that after his time, there were a lot
of people who started saying even Ibis said this and even our bas
said that, so even what what is authentically from him has become
very, very small now after they sifted the oil out. That's why
according to Imam Shafi, he says, Let me get what I need when I
burst in the alone fit FCT Illa, shabby, whom we meet at Hadith
that maybe there's only about 100, or so Hadith that are, you can
say, properly established from abdulai, busca. De Allah, and
there's others, you know, where they may be just some speculation
about, but about 100, which are, maybe for sure. Right? There are
different opinions about this. Now, what is the exact problem
that crept into this? I've explained some of it to you,
number one, the Israeli kept into this, right, it's right here,
which means
while it's right here, which refers to the Israelites, so they
had a lot of discussion going on, right, because they had the Torah
and then they had the Mishnah. And they had, you know, a number of
books in and the, you know, the Jewish tradition is a very story
oriented tradition. There's a lot of stories that are told in that
I've got the books of various different authors in there that
discuss the Torah and discuss their tradition and everything
like that. So now, because the Muslims were dealing with the Jews
at that time, as well, and there were some high profile Jewish
rabbis that had become Muslim, both among the Sahaba and the
tambourine. Now, some of this stuff had to come through right
now, the Quran had an approach the prophets, Lawson had told us how
to deal with Israelite tradition. Now, it didn't have to just be
from Jewish sources. It could have been from Christian sources, but
they just lump it together. And they call it Israelite traditions,
right? Just because that's become the dominant term. The second
problem was what I already explained, which is
initially they decided to not mention the chain from which they
had heard this to which Sahabi they'd heard it in the time of the
taboo in and the third one, which I already explained, is also that
there was a lot of fabrications going on. So let's just deal with
the Israel Israel area today. Right? And then we'll have to deal
with everything else. Tomorrow. Insha Allah in the
Next question. So is he with the sahaba? They were very careful,
they would not ask, they would never ask the Jewish sources of
Christian sources for what something meant. Clearly, you've
got numerous Hadith read, somebody would come to the Prophet said,
Allah, as I'm saying, I think I know what this means a Jewish
individual, because then this is what it means there's one Hadith,
that they came to a shot of the Allah and said that this is what
it means. And she was a bit hesitant when the Prophet said
wasn't getting said, Yes, that's correct. So in some cases, they
will say something, which is correct as well, it wasn't that
they were saying all these wrong things, you know, some things
would tally up with what the Prophet salallahu Salam agreed, as
well. So the Sahaba, they wouldn't really engage in terms of trying
to find out what they what the Jews and others felt about certain
verses in the Quran. Okay. And if they did hear something, they
would be careful about it. Because we have a hadith which says that,
whatever you hear from them, if it conforms to what your tradition
has already something from the Quran, sunnah, then you can agree
with it, because it just corroboration. If something
opposes it, then you need to reject it because it's opposing
and whatever we have now is the final word. But then there's a
category in between, which is that it's neither here neither there.
It doesn't contradict, and neither does it agree. So in that case,
because it doesn't contradict says remain silent, do the work of you
know, abstain, withhold yourself from it. That's our approach. So
let's just say today, somebody tells you something from the
Bible, right? And it goes against something in the Quran, some
principle of Islam, you can reject that thing. I disagree with that.
Right, even though the claim is that the Bible came from Allah,
but we know that there's been interpolations and changes in
there. So that would be your approach. Now, if there's
something that is in there, which is, which corroborates with what
we have from the Quran, and Sunnah, you could say, Yes, that
is correct. I can agree with that. Right? However, if there's
something you're not sure, like, it doesn't agree, it doesn't, it
doesn't go against it, and it doesn't go completely you know, in
harmony with it, then you remain silent because it could be the
word of Allah, you don't know it could be apart from the word of
Allah, but you don't know that and you don't want to deny it, or the
whole Bible is wrong. You can't say that. You can't say the whole
Bible is wrong, because there's going to be parts in there, which,
you know, we're from the original, right and likewise, in the Torah
is going to be the same thing from the Old Testament, that that was
you have to be careful in that approach. That's why
the Prophet sallallahu sallam said LA to San Diego in another version
version, he said LA to San Diego al Kitab, Allah to caribou Waku,
Armand Billa, don't confirm what they say, and don't deny what they
say. But just say, I believe in Allah, when you're not sure,
abstain and just say, I believe in Allah when it's regarding that. So
that's how the Sahaba used to deal with it.
And Saba would never ask them about, you know, concepts of
belief and all that kind of stuff they had they believed they knew
they Akita from the prophets, Allah so that's it. They didn't do
that. However. Subhanallah you know, so, the one Hadith that they
would, there's another Hadith regarding this, the prophets of
Allah some said belly who only will convey from me even if one
verse right convey from me if even one verse because our religion is
a proselytizing religion, we need to convey our faiths to people.
Then the prophets also said well, Hadith one Bani Israel, you can
transmit from the Bani Israel Voila, hydrogen there's no problem
with it. But woman katiba Allah Yamato Ramadan, forget about what
mockery the human and not whoever, ascribe the false falsehood to us,
then he should prepare himself a place in the hellfire. This one is
a permissive one, right? This one is like, okay, you can relate
something from the being side. But you see,
we have the other narration, which I mentioned to you above before,
which is that don't confirm and don't deny. And then the other
one, which is that whatever conforms is fine, whatever opposes
you reject, and then the other ones you abstain from, when you
put it all together, you understand what our methodology
should be, should be. Now what happened is the tie between the
successes after the Sahaba, they were a bit more
they use the they they they were a bit more permissive in this
regard. And some of them did start to take some of listen and to take
some of these ideas and so on. And these were not ideas that
necessarily opposed Islam, okay, these are not a because they would
have to be rejected, nobody could take those. These way you can say
juicy details about the story of Musa alayhis salam. The Quran
mentions only certain details about Musa and Pharaoh right Musa
Islam and Pharaoh it mentioned certain details about Tao that
Islam and Sulaiman Arizona, if you look in the Jewish Mishnah, Jewish
Jewish traditions, you're going to find a lot more detail in that
juicy detail. Right? You know, that really like it makes it a
more, you know, you can say a juicy the spice for the detail. So
it's human thing to want to have some juicy detail, but you have to
be very careful with that. That's where they started. That's where
they started taking some of this stuff. And that's why in some of
those who, you know, we would quote for tafseer from the taboo
in for example, McCarthy YBNL Sudima. And you have to be careful
because no
Not everything that McCarthy didn't say man says is clearly
from the Prophet salallahu Alaihe. Salam, there are Israeli yet,
especially with regards to the stories that he you know, that he
could take now. So they will not they, you know, number one, they
were not being particular about the transmissions. So there were
people fabricating, then there was the Israelis issue. So this is why
a lot of the tafsir corpus became filled with some of the Israelis.
Now, remember, as I said, the Israelis do not necessarily have
to be wrong, right? These juicy details don't have to be wrong.
That's why the later manifested in many, many Tafseer books today.
They're very careful about Israeli, for example, Ibuka
theory, he's very clever. He brings some Israeli traditions,
some, he discusses them, he rejects them. Like, if there's one
that's very well known on everybody speaking about, he will
mention it, and then He will reject it and say, This can't be
true for this reason, right? And those where it is it is possible,
then some of them are fustian allow it and they use it. So it's
nothing like wrong with you know, taking some Israelite traditions
from that. Remember that so don't next time you see when you think,
hey, you know, what's going on here? There's nothing wrong with
it in an absolute sense, in that sense, right? The Tafseer of
Israel at the at the Israelis that are there are of three types.
Okay, some Israelite traditions that we're going to find, you
would know that they're absolutely right and correct, because there's
a hadith sahih. In fact,
the prophets Allah Himself mentioned in the source is the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam where he would say that there was a person
in the nations before you, or among the Jews, there was a people
they were there was somebody who used to do this. That's an
Israelite narration in the sense that it's talking about something
from that time, but it's from the Prophet sallallahu sallam. So
that's clearly fine. Right? Because that's been corroborated
by the voice Hello, some. Likewise, if there's something
within Derek Israelite tradition, which is corroborated by something
that Prophet sallallahu sallam said, completely, that's fine as
well. Number two, is where you know that it's completely a lie.
It's completely opposing the Quran, it's completely anti. See,
it's an antecedent, right? Sorry, it's a antithesis to what the
Quran is saying, then you can not narrate this and you know, you're
not allowed to accept this of course, you can learn to say it's
wrong, but you can't accept this kind of tradition. And the third
is obviously those which there's silence about meaning the Quran
doesn't say anything about it the Hadith, the prophet awesome,
didn't say anything about it. So it's neither completely in
opposition, and neither is it completely in harmony, we're not
sure. So then we're not going to say we agree to it. And neither
are we going to say that we deny it. Generally this third category
this this much, there's no you know, can you generate this can
you generate this type, the all I'ma say, then there is not no
real need for this one because it's not giving you any benefit.
It's not going to give you any benefit. That's, you know, for
your worldly life for your for your it's just details is just
detail, just extra detail. So it's best to avoid these kind of
things. So
La ilaha illAllah. Inshallah, we will continue with this discussion
tomorrow because it's very important discussion about Israeli
at intraday in durations. So inshallah we'll discuss that in
sha Allah tomorrow and we will move on to some of the main
deficits and we will become inshallah better aware of what the
seeds to take and how to do Tafseer and where to be careful of
and anybody who's claiming to do with FC then you don't have to
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