Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Tafsir of the Whole Qur’an in 30 Hours (Commentary) Part 1
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Oh Dear friends
welcome to this special Ramadan program.
Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, shahada Ramadan Allah the
on Zillow V Hill Quran, Allah Ramadan is the month
in which Allah subhanaw taala revealed the Quran
there's a question as to whether Ramadan becomes special because
Allah's words are revealed during this month, or that Ramadan was
already a special month, which was chosen for the Quran to be
revealed in whatever be the case, we find ourselves
with another Ramadan. And we ask Allah subhanaw taala to bless us
in this regard. So that's why it was decided this year that we
would try to cover as much or as little rather of the Quran as
possible.
During these days, in the time, Allah subhanaw taala will give to
us this Tafseer
synopsis
glimpses you can call it whatever you want.
It is impossible to cover the Tafseer in 30 hours,
in any kind of satisfying way. So be ready that whatever you get
here, it's going to just create greater eagerness and greater
thirst to learn more.
It's just going to be glimpses. In no way is it intended, or can it
ever be satisfying.
If you want to look at just the Tafseer of Surah Al Fatiha as
covered by one of the great and the Lucien scholars Imam, Al Khor
to be that would take the entire Ramadan, and probably more just to
cover the Tafseer of Surah Fatiha. So the idea of this is that in the
one hour that Allah subhanaw taala has given us for this task, it's
not going to be a Tafseer of verse two verse because to be honest, if
you just tried to, if we try to just recite the whole chapter,
that would take at least an hour, approximately about half an hour.
And if we were to learn to just translate it, that would take
probably another half an hour. So just the translation would take a
good half an hour or more. So that's why it's not going to be
verse by verse. And likewise,
what we're going to be doing is we're going to take some of the
major themes,
and selections.
When we say major themes and selections, these are obviously
those that Allah subhanho wa Taala has enabled us to choose, we're
not going to say the most important themes, or they are the
most
salient themes. Because every thing that Allah subhanaw taala
has mentioned, is very, very, very well thought out, planned, chosen,
and it can't be anything greater than that. So we it's very
difficult to say I'm going to mention this and not this. That's
why I'm going to say whatever Allah gives us and enabled us to
choose from it. That's what we're going to be able to do and
whatever time allows inshallah.
So we will not be doing a verse verse translation. What we are
going to try to do though is that because the Quran was actually
revealed in Surah form, so the major divisions of the Quran is
actually based on the sewers, what we can call chapters, if you want
this idea of 3030 sections or 30 parts, which they call a jeiza
Jews a desert or superar or CIPA, or in order in other languages.
That's more for facilitation, that's more of a facilitation.
That's where you have Surah Al Baqarah that starts in one of
those parts and ends in the third part, and that you then have
multiple suitors in some of these ages. But because Ramadan has 30
days and there's already this 30 Day division of the Quran is such
that they've divided up
like that, that's the only reason we're using it for convenience
purposes like that.
So what we're going to try to cover for sure is that we're going
to focus on each Surah as it comes through in those parts, the 30
parts, we're going to definitely try to speak about the connection
between each Surah with the next and with the previous one. The
reason is that that is, according to the majority of scholars
something that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam did, it
wasn't arbitrarily done. So the Prophet SAW, some would say,
although the suitors were not necessarily revealed, were not
revealed actually in the way that we find them in the Quran today,
that is not the chronological revelation, order, but the
prophets Allah, some would say when, for example, certain insulin
was revealed, okay, place it here or place it there, which basically
means that the reasoning that he's going to place it in any single
place, or after a certain sort of before another one is obviously
because there's some harmony between them. There's some
congeniality similarity, there's a connection of the themes, there's
a continuation, sometimes, one surah is sometimes seen as the
precursor, the prelude to the next Surah, right, and the other Surah
provides the greater detail and so on and so forth.
So we will be discussing that, we will, then Inshallah, I mean, zoom
into some verses, and again, that's up to Allah, how he allows
us to choose those. And we'll look at that, this is not going to be
just the stories of the Quran, either. This is not story night,
or story evening, or story day or whatever, right, we want to take a
lot of lessons from this as well. So it won't be just stories, but
there will be some stories, and we won't be able to necessarily
mention complete stories all the time, that's something that you
will have to go and supplement from the various different books
written on those stories and other facets that are more in detail.
Because in one hour, if you just try to talk about the story of use
of at least and and that would be quite challenging. Likewise,
the main objective then for this really, is that going by the rule
and the maximum, which says that what cannot be attained fully,
then you shouldn't abandon it completely over. So that's why
we're thinking this is the month of the Quran, people are really
going to be reading, but we're just trying to facilitate, right
because for everybody to go and pick up a book, or to read the
details of see, it's very difficult, it's not easy, it's it
is quite a momentous task. So we're just facilitating that, we
can give you a bit of a sneak peek, we can give you a bit of a
glimpse, so that that insha Allah creates a greater thirst. And then
in sha Allah, your journey to understand the Quran can begin
there. And we ask Allah subhana wa Tada for Tofik. So it's to create
that eagerness to learn eventually from other detailed service, its
then another thing that I will do is a few minutes at the end, we're
going to spend in trying to understand all the lessons or as
many lessons as possible that we can get, we can gain from the
surah from from the chapter that we're doing the various different
lessons. So I'll stop a few minutes in advance, and then we'll
just go through those, because the main thing is that for us that
Quran needs to become a light for us in our life. And believe me,
anybody who reads it, I'll give you a few examples, you'll
understand what I'm saying. We will mainly focus eventually our
objective of this is to actually derive the lessons. The lessons
from this and the advice is that we can take
those people who've really indle engross themselves in the Quran.
The Quran has satisfied them satisfied in the sense that it's
basically taken them away from everything else. There's one
scholar of the Quran, he would say, as long as I've got the
Quran, I don't even need paradise. So it's an exaggeration, or that's
a reality for him. It doesn't mean that I deny paradise. He's saying
when you've got the Quran, you don't you know what, why do I need
to look out for Paradise? Obviously anybody who's adherent
of the Quran, who loves the Quran like that, they're gonna get to
Paradise anyway. Because the Quran is the way to Paradise that is the
manual of Allah, for human beings and for all creation. So he would
actually say that what's the point of paradise says even if I do get
to Paradise, this is when I do get to Paradise, and one of the
hoodies is a man so he's saying with all the hoodies, when they
come, I'll say to them, Come on you sit down and let's listen
let's let's learn from the Quran. Let's read from the Quran. That
serious love of the Quran.
So
what you have to understand is that the Quran requires a bit of
an effort. It's there for the taking for everybody. Anybody can
access it.
Of course there are higher themes in there which are not easy for
everybody. And the Quran is a bottomless ocean. It can
unfathomable scholars of just the Bulava aspect, just the eloquence
aspect, just the style of its writing. They're saying that
Everything in 1400 years that has been said on this subject is just
literally
a drop in the ocean. So there's just so much more. That's why the
Quran is unsurmountable and that's because it's the words of ALLAH
it's infinite. The thing with the Quran is that the Quran is food
for the spirit, the rule,
whereas other things like music, good singing of anything else, is
generally food for the knifes the soul is the difference between
food for the knifes and the spirit the spirit is a hierarchy. The
knifes can be the mischievous, the evilness as well. So that's why
it's much easier to satisfy the knifes and give it food than the
rule because the knifes is always in between trying to take some
divert a person first. That's why they say that those who really get
to understand the Quran
they will not require anything else. The Quran is going to
satisfy their soul and their spirit, their spirit and their
soul. So they won't need to need to listen to any other thing that
they get engrossed in. But now you see why there's so much addiction
to things like music and things like that. Because if it's the
Quran, once a person gets beyond that level, that learning level
and once a person gets to understand the Quran, then insha
Allah the benefit that they will get will be directly for the
spirit. So I start off with
I start off with just a few words. It's actually the beginning of a
sermon by one of the great scholars and I'm gonna just read
it quickly he says Allah Allah He Allah the lab de da de la, la, la
do Allah to Allah to add water to Casa.
What agenda tofi Italy family Quran, the five mil Quran Elohim
basically saying that the bounties of Allah upon this servant, this
week servant cannot be enumerated and cannot be counted. The
greatest of them is the divine enablement to understand the Quran
Lavi so he's saying that he's got the understanding of the Quran.
Now this is none other than SHA well you Allah, one of the great
scholars Rahim Allah of India, we can't say that, but at least we
can in sha Allah say that may Allah bless us with the love of
the Quran, so that we can inshallah benefit from it.
So, let us start with the first juice which means Surah Fatiha and
circle dakara.
So, firstly, let us start with the first use of the Quran obviously
contains one surah which is total Fatiha and a part of the second
one which is total Bacara. So let's quickly look at sorbitol.
Fatty as I said that FCL sutra fattier is hugely detailed, which
we don't have the time to get into right now. But
certain fats are being placed where it is being called the
Fatiha the opening followed by Surah Al Baqarah.
There's an agreement
of the scholars of Tafseer etc. The Surah Surah Al Fatiha is a
murky surah
and that also very early on in the marking period.
Obviously, I mean these are aspects that most of you will know
so they might sound a bit repetitive seven verses right just
the difference of opinion as to whether 30 is a verse or not. If
it is a verse, Then there's two verses in inside which are
connected together are two parts which are connect together. And
for those like the Hanafi us who do not consider fattier verse or
the central fattier, they just separate the verse at the end into
two verses. So that's why they both get seven verses. So nobody
has eight verses as such, because it's a sub l Muthoni. is the
seventh repeated verses.
Now despite the fact that it's only seven verses just the page
generally most of us have since only a page it takes only a page.
It's considered to be comprising of the fundamentals of the entire
Quran. That's why it's also called Amel Quran, the mother of the
Quran because it actually encompasses the essence of the
Quran. It's also called assess, assess the Quran, which basically
means the foundation of the Quran. What that means is certain Fatiha,
it plays number of roles. It acts as a Moca Dima as an introduction
to the Quran introduction to the themes of the Quran introduction
to the Quran and it also acts as a summary of the Quran. So it's
almost like a summarized prelude of the Quran or introduction of
the Quran.
How do we say that? I mean the sort of use of Al Islam isn't in
there.
Well, it is, but not in detail. It's been alluded to Sirata Latina
and
entirely right?
Essentially, if you look at it from a theme, thematic
perspective, the entire Quran is based on Tauheed result and PM,
the hereafter. So the declaring the Oneness of Allah establishing
the Oneness of Allah recited the prophecy, messenger ship of the
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and Qiyamah and that is
the main those are the major themes. There are other themes as
well you can have several different themes. People have
scholars have divided the Quran into several different types of
themes, lists of themes, but this is kind of agreed upon at least
these three themes. And when you what you see is that you actually
find this in the Quran. So Al hamdu, Lillahi Rabbil Alameen or
Rahman and Rahim er cannot go do a year can Stein all of that so he'd
then you've got Maliki or me, Dean. That's about the Day of
Judgment. So that's piano. Then after that, you've got the
rissalah. Right, that is underscored in a dino Sirata. Musa
team Sirata Latina and untidy Him until the end.
Other than that, there are other themes mentioned in here from the
Quran, the names of Allah subhanho wa Taala are characteristics of
Allah the attributes of Allah subhana wa Tada
concept of worship, which is what's important for us, which the
Quran speaks about in many places. You can do it you can Stein
another major theme of the Quran is is the karma, steadfastness.
Not wavering. Not going to extremes. That's mentioned in here
ADNOC rattle booster team, the straight path. Then, of course,
Doha is a major theme in the Muslims life. So you've got a huge
dua inserted fattier, many people were doing sort of the fact that
they don't realize that when they're reading it so many times a
day, actually making the dua to Allah, if they knew that they
probably try to understand its meaning and put some serious
effort in there.
And put some words even though
the DA is essentially
aside from that, while it also indicates towards the Gambia, the
messengers and the salah Ha, by saying Sirata, Latina and untidy
him The path of those who you've given us know, the path of those
that you have showered your blessings upon. These are
obviously the salah and the Gambia, and on the other hand,
you've got the radial Mark do Brd him, those who've been punished.
Those who the punishment has come down upon those who went astray
well adore lien those who went astray, all of those signified in
there. So what we can say is that sorter Fatiha if you want to
understand Allah subhanaw taala then that is one of the most
important sewers that you can get a good understanding about. It's
got a treasure of knowledge in there which has to be unpacked
treasure of knowing Allah subhanaw taala, which has to be unpacked.
The way it's a summary of all the series of the Quran, that means if
there's 114 suitors of the Quran Surah Fatiha
is one of them. The other is 113. And if certain fatty is the
Hadassah and a summary, that means that it actually is a summary of
113 Surah of the Quran. But that has to be unpacked, has to be
thought about it has to be reflected upon and pondered.
Maybe because it holds so much. Maybe because it holds so much
information and guidance in there. Maybe that is why we've been told
to recite it in every rock art of our prayer.
So we have certain records in which we only we only do fat they
are not a surah but in others you have to do this Fatiha.
Maybe it's just to help us to gain a glimpse. That's why we're told
to read it's probably a Muslim would probably read certain
anybody any Muslim was praying Fatiha. Sorry, who's doing Salaat
regularly, the what they're going to be reciting probably most
frequently in terms of a substantial amount is sort of
fatty aside from the Allahu Akbar and semi Allah Haldimand Hamidah.
But really, the circle fatty is probably the most repeated words
in the world.
If you think about it, so the Fatiha are probably the most
repeated words in the world.
Like exactly like that in the same form,
right. That's sorbitol Fatiha that's all we got time for if we
want to do the rest of Surah Baqarah. So Surah Al Baqarah. Now
starts with the largest Surah that's the largest source of the
Quran. It has about 202 160 or 80 verses in there so it's closer to
300. And the majority of it the majority of its historical record
is very long sewer so it didn't all come down at once it came down
On in different places different times, some in the McCain period,
some in the Medina and period, but majority of it was revealed after
the migration, so it's mostly Madani. It's mostly Madani. And
that's why, though some of it may have come down in Macomb, Oklahoma
they generally considered Madani as in Medina and Surah because
they go by the majority. Why is it called sorbitol? Bacara. I mean,
those who understand Arabic or basic Arabic, they'll know that
Bacara means a cow. The largest surah in the Quran has got that
name. Because the convention of naming the source of the Quran is
that because every most largest source can contain many, many
themes. I mean, the Fatiha itself has many names because it's got so
many themes and we didn't have time to go in there but it's
called the sort of the Shiva because you read it on someone and
blow on someone. It's your rakia. Right? You don't have to spend
huge amounts of money. Right? It's the Fatiha is Amal Quran
assessable Quran is the caffeine it's sufficient, right for those
who invoke it in a time of need it becomes sufficient to sorbitol
Bukhara is got the famous name sorter Bacara because of a verse,
which or a discussion about it, and a story that's related in the
Quran about Surah about the Bacara which is a significant story, but
there are so many other stories that are also in there, but this
was chosen for that. So,
Bukhara as I mentioned, it means it means a cow. What happened is
that there was a very wealthy person among the very soil and
sort of Bukhara is full of the discussion of Bani Israel. Because
it's setting the stage. This is the tradition, the godly
traditions, the reveal traditions in the time of the prophets, Allah
Islam before he came, were the Christians and the Jews, the hood
and then Asara. Right. Those are the traditions, the people of
Makkah, they may have had some remnants of the Abrahamic faith,
but otherwise they were mostly idolatrous. Right, worshipping
idols and so on. So in terms of the religion they had access to
that was that had some backing that had some origin, in Allah's
words, was the Yehuda NESARA. Of course, you had the Persians were
fire worshippers, right. So that was not a revealed religion as
such. And if there was anything else, it was Bala who item, right
again, everything had been distorted by that time anyway. So
what it's so you will see a lot of huge discussion about the Bani
Israel. And because there's a lot of, there's a, there's a lot of
knowledge about that historical knowledge that Allah subhanaw
taala is providing. So we can learn lessons from that we can
avoid the mistakes that they made, and so on. And so so you'll see
that the first Jews of the Quran is actually full of that. Lots of
encounters about the Bani Israel. But anyway, this particular story,
after which the surah is named, is called it's about this individual
from the Israelites, who was very wealthy. His nephew killed him to
get his inheritance. So he killed him. And then he took his body
in the night and placed it in front of somebody else's door.
Right, probably the worst thing to do, but that's what he did. And
then after that, he makes a claim against that individual falsely
that he killed him, because he's a family member. So he's got the
right to make the claim. So he makes a claim against that
individual.
Now, what's going to happen is that these are now two tribes,
they're about to fight, because they don't agree obviously that he
could not have killed him. So they're about to fight and he's
gonna go to war and there's going to be a lot of bloodshed. So
Allah subhanaw taala, I mean, long story, but the point is Allah
subhanho wa Taala tells Musa alayhis salam tell them to
slaughter
a cow. Take some of its meat, I mean, they will probably
slaughtering cows anyway, but slaughtering cow, take the meat
and gone place it touch it with the deceased, and the truth will
be revealed.
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sacrifice a cow. They could have done that simply. But they started
asking a lot of questions. So that story is told from verse 66, and
onwards which you can read up, but essentially, eventually they
managed to soy they found the cow after making it so difficult on
themselves. They found the cow and they slaughtered the cow. It took
some of its meat, they put it on to the murdered individual. And he
spoke up, it comes back to life. Almost he speaks up
and he informs them of who killed him.
Now what's very interesting
thing is that many stories, many events, like the event we're going
through right now. Allah subhanaw taala is extremely comprehensive.
So with a single event, there are so many different things that are
happening. So many ways it's effecting different things. We
don't even know we, there's certain things you see reports
about how it's going to affect the the economy, how it's going to
affect people's mental health, how physical health people already
died, and so on so forth. We've we've got that. But there are so
many other things which we don't even know the wisdom of Allah,
some of it will only be understood
in years to come, because this is going to leave its mark. So
likewise here, with that incident, there was a very particular
incident. But in those days, there was also this question that had
begun among the Bani Israel, about questioning the hereafter.
Question questioning the hereafter. So, this was like a
miracle, that while it was very specific to this particular
individual case, but the fact that the person came alive, and managed
to tell, pinpoint and identify the killer, this also had a benefit
like that. Also, another thing some of them were first seen in
mentioned is that the Bani Israel, the Israelites having lived with
the Egyptians for a very long time, they had this very special
infatuation with cows, almost to the level of respect and honor in
a way that they may have thought of them to be sanctified in a
certain sense. So that's why when they were actually told to
sacrifice a cow, that done away with this whole idea that the cow
is supposed to be some kind of a sacred animal. In that sense, the
cow is a beneficial animal, but it's not a sacred animal in that
sense, even though it's mentioned in the Quran. And the longer surah
is that, so even Hindus today couldn't use this as an as an
example. Anyway, let's move on to the surah quickly. This surah
starts off with saying that it is a march is that of the Prophet
sallallahu ala vertical Kitab loughrea Buffy with the limit
takim.
And
it is, this is the greatest of the prophets awesomes miracle, it's
the most perpetual miracle. That's why there's a hadith in Sahih,
Muslim Sahil Buhari, etc, which say is that the prophets Allah
Islam, the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, that every prophet
was given something. And if every prophet was given a sign, right, a
sign that was used to prove their prophecy. So every prophet is
given prophets were given signs by which it it basically showed how
to it basically proved to people that their claim for prophecy was
correct, because nobody else could counter those signs as such. So in
that regard, what we have is the prophecy of awesome and numerous
miracles, water pouring from his fingers, to a tree literally
coming as though it's on some tracks to, to basically greet him
a stone saying, yes, you're the prophet, a smart stone speaking,
right, all of these kinds of things, but the greatest of them
is the miracle of the Quran. Because all of those things were
very time specific. The splitting of the Moon who saw that a few
people, right, so it was there for the people to see it. But today,
the miracle that we still have with us though we have, we have an
understanding of all those miracles, through the Hadith and
so on. But really,
what we have is the Quran the Quran is still the living miracle.
I've got a lecture on the on zamzam. academy.com on how the
Quran is a miracle because we can't get into that right now. But
basically, this is one of the greatest greatest miracles of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And the most interesting
thing is that it starts from Alif Lam Meem
now there's numerous stories in the Quran that start off with
letters, yes, seen for her. And I feel look at all of them. Most of
them at least, you're seeing well, Quran Al Hakim Baja Moran, Zona
illegal Quran Lolita Chaka right. Hammam incm, cough Karateka up
like hammy, well kita Bill movie, and if la meme radical kita
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we call them separate. Let's separate letters, right?
Everywhere you see that you see that? Generally the verse author
it is about the Quran or the revelation. So there's a
connection seemingly between the letters and the revelation.
Because there's many views about what exactly these letters mean.
If anybody even knows them or not, some people have claimed that yes,
they know the meaning. The Prophet saw some knew the meaning secret
message in Allah and His messenger so on and so forth. Allah knows
best. What I want to mention right now
is that starting from Alif Lam Meem here after the Surah Fatiha
right
Here's that
this was very, very effective for the host community, the Arabs,
these Arabs, I mean, the word Arab, Arab, right? comes from the
concept of Arab Talib. And
its articulation is articulating what's in your heart, what's in
your mind to articulate that in words so that you can convey the
meaning out of it. That's what it means. That's why they would call
everybody who is not an Arab, they would call them IgM
ojima to an IgM means dumbness. Not, I don't mean dumbness in
this, like, you know, swear word or something. It's literally
dumbness in a sense that I can't articulate somebody who can't
articulate themselves well enough. Arabs are very proud of the
language. And I mean, that language is definitely something
very proud, something to be proud of, because it's so comprehensive,
various shades of meaning for just the shot the goats they have, I
don't know, 60 or 70 words, for Lion, they have like, I don't know
how many words, it's just to provide slight different shades of
meaning. Right, few other languages are like that. So they
thought they just had the peak of eloquence, everybody else couldn't
articulate themselves, no other language. So while they were very
uncivilized, in their general demeanor, fighting, warring
factions, but in terms of language, that was something very
special, maybe that's why they were chosen. Because remember, a
religion spreads through propagation. So one of the reasons
why they were chosen is probably because of the the articulation as
the host community, that doesn't mean you must be restricted to
them. And hamdulillah is used many others afterwards. Right? And
they've learned Arabic, actually. So maybe they've become Arab. I
consider myself an Arab To be honest, right? Because I know
Arabic. Because Arabic means if out of means to be able to
articulate yourself in the Arabic language. Well, I think I should
be qualified enough to do that. Right? And there's probably some
Arabs who can't do it properly. Right? May Allah give them me that
may Allah allow everybody to understand Arabic? Well, so that
you can understand the Quran. So because of that, they used to
really, really be proud of their language and their their
compositions and their poetry and everything. So Allah subhanaw
taala throws this in just a few letters, what do they mean? Nobody
has an idea.
Right, and it's always generally attached to one Quran Kitab this
book.
That's why many of them are considered those words, those that
you're seeing Thorstein Hameed, to be a challenge to those who think
they know the Arabic very well, that what do you understand from
this? What is the understanding of this, that you have?
That just a few letters we're using.
Now, the thing is that nobody has been able to Allah subhanaw taala
then clearly states that in at least three different places in
the Quran in other suitors. First here in Surah, Baqarah, we have
the first two we saw it mentally, right. But then there's other
places same thing, okay, if you want bring something like it. So
that's another thing that is going to be discussed that's discussed
in spiritual Bacara. But to be certain, right for to Surah 18.
And nobody has been able to do that they were probably some of
the most eloquent people, right, that have ever lived to speak
Arabic, they were unable to challenge it, even despite,
despite the fact that they wanted to challenge it. And then nobody
has been able to do it since. And they will, nobody will do it in
the future. I had a young boy young guy come to me the other
day, was in a Muslim household. And he says, I've got doubts. His
I think that the diagnosis I have is that he is skeptic skeptical
about many things. So his skepticism is that look, I do
believe the person was a good person, he was there and so on so
forth. But
and the Quran has not been challenged until now. But what
about if it is challenged in the future?
What about if somebody creates something? How would you respond
to something like that you had 1400 years, some of the best and
most eloquent people to ever live? Right? In Arabic, and they've not
been able to challenge it. So it's not gonna happen in the future.
Right? We know that anyway, from our scriptures. But how would you
respond to somebody like that from a logical reason I told him I
said, Well, it'd be a bit foolish to ignore that right now. To to
dis this to to, to refuse the Quran right now. Just because you
think someone might? I got believe it right now. And in the future,
if somebody does make up something, we'll discuss it, then.
What else you're going to tell somebody like that? Because
sometimes, I mean, skepticism is a problem. It's not that you've got
a real problem with this just skeptic what if, what if, what if?
So, the question is that what if the life that you're living right
now is a dream? Because when you're in a dream, you feel like,
you feel like you're in a reality. And when you wake up, it's like,
Oh, I'm glad that nightmare was just
Dream, but you thought it was a reality? What about right now? Are
you in reality? Are you in a dream? How do you know you might
not wake up from a very, very, very long dream.
So if you want to be skeptical, then there's a lot of stuff to be
skeptical about. But a person would have a mental health problem
if that was the case, because it'd be very difficult. Alright, let's
move on. Now. The verse, the verses of Surah Baqarah. I'm just
going to focus on
the first chapter, right? And in the one of the big themes is that
because it seems like it's the first chapter of the Quran,
the humans divided into three major categories. You've got the
Mothman, the believer, you've got the careful the disbelievers and
you've got the monastic. Right, which is the hypocrite kind of
like a hybrid trying to be a hybrid in between both. And what's
important again, lessons for us, what does it mean to be a believer
in the Quranic paradigm? So first and foremost, there are five
things that Allah mentioned here in this right, number one, you
know what I believe Iman believed that is what distinguishes us.
Iman willhave is not easy. Iman with the unseen is not an easy
idea.
What you see, it's easy to believe, I put money, God forbid,
somebody puts money in a bond interest bearing.
Investment they see the money grow, I can see that seems
rational. Money seems to be secure. As opposed to that a
believer it says A believer is told my Euclid Allah Quran Hasina.
For you though, if I will, who other elephant Kathira given the
path of Allah, Allah will increase in multiply 70 times
this belief in the unseen.
Number two, establishment of prayer, you keep on a solid and
zakat, generally solid and the gods are brought together. So that
tells us some of the most important things here, we can't
mess around in our salah. Like, we need to have a solid done. And
those of us who are praying five times or who are not let us try to
start doing it for Ramadan and inshallah carry on those who are
not sorry those who do, then what we need to do is to try to do our
cover prayers, to estimate all the past Miss prayers and try to make
those up. So that inshallah we can have a clear balance when we get
to Allah subhanaw taala. Number four, the belief that we believe
in all the past books as well, obviously, the true
main message of the books was monotheism. So we agree with that,
of course, after it's changed, it's a different story. And number
five, the fifth feature of a Muslim men is belief in the
hereafter. having absolutely no doubt about it. Islam Iman allows
no doubt, in our belief system. Doubt is highly, it needs to be
solved, it needs to be resolved, otherwise it will create a huge
problem.
So this was the actual problem. If you see these five points, they're
the ones which show the contrast with the disbelievers, and
especially with the Mauna Kea, then the Quran speaks about, you
see what's very interesting, if you look at all of the verses in
the first Jews regarding these three categories of people,
four talk specifically, like pointedly about the people of the
belief, meaning to speak about the aquifer. And and when I say
kuffaar Here, we don't mean it in some kind of derogatory way.
Right? Some people have now provided that nuance to it so far
is just the legal designation, somebody who's
dismissed, denied, who's not a believer, it's just a legal
designation. It's just a neutral term of of that, yes, you can
build other ideas into it, if you want to the way you say it, or
what else you want to load into it. But I just want to mention
that and number three is manava keen, there are in this section 13
verses about
13 verses as opposed to the believers two verses of four for
disbelievers. And for three verses for believers.
Now in these 13 verses, there are 12 character characteristics of
the of the monarchy and hypocrites that I mentioned. Why they were a
historical reality. Yeah, you still get hypocrites but they were
a serious, you know, category. So the point of the Quran is to teach
not just to relate things, so I'm just going to quickly go through
them. The first characteristic is lying, falsehood, deception. Just
having no idea about the reality number three
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these are internal diseases, mental psychological problems,
problems of the heart, basically, jealousy, arrogance, and
creed, and so on plotting and planning for the fall, the fall of
others, foolishness
mocking the outcome of Allah yesterday own Allah Who yesterday
as it will be him, unfortunately can't bring the verse for every
one because that will just take much longer. But when you read
this for yourself, all of this will start making sense in sha
Allah.
Number two, sorry. Furthermore, creating a lot of corruption in
the earth fitna and facade in the earth. Ignorance is another one,
deviance,
turbulence doubt, like not knowing La ilaha illallah, wa la ilaha
illa, as mentioned in another place, and mocking the believers,
anybody does that, even though they're not gonna fit in today, if
anybody has these qualities, sorry, these characteristics like
deception and so on. These are characteristics of hypocrites. So
we're told that you need to avoid them. Then after that, you've got
the story of Adam Alayhis Salam, you've got the story of Adam and
Islam and Iblees remember, this is the first surah the first man on
this earth setting the scene between truth and bottom. So
you've got the story of otherwise someone Iblees and thus IBLEES
does not prostrate. So you have that whole story he becomes
Malone, he becomes rejected, he becomes an sworn enemy. So Allah
is telling us right in the beginning of the Quran, know this
that this was your forefather, this was his enemy. Do not now
take him as a friend, but make sure that you take him as an enemy
because this is what happened from your inception.
The melodica obviously mentioned then after that, in as I mentioned
before, this, this chapter has numerous discussions about the
Bani Israel. Right. Most of most of the discussion that is about
the Bani Israel, and you've got numerous stories about them. So
for example,
it discusses a number of bounties that Allah subhanaw taala given to
the Israelites, numerous bounties of Allah subhanaw taala had given
them. For example, Allah subhanho wa Taala had given them a lot of
prosperity in the world, Allah subhanaw taala had given them the
correct understanding. It sends so many prophets to them over and
over and over again, to reinforce the faith for them. Hardly any
other nation has had so many prophets the way they did, right.
Their prophets were like their alma we have in our community.
That's how many prophets they would have Subhanallah then after
that, how Allah protected them from the shaytaan. despite all
odds, he protected from the shaytaan he had miracles for them,
when Mousavi Salam escaped, they will all drowned. The Pharaohs
people will all drown the Nile you know, basically the river welled
up right from both sides made a safe passage and so on and so
forth. But then after he also speaks about all of the excesses
challenging Allah, hey, we want to see Allah, not Allah, Jehovah. We
want to see Allah clean himself, you know, and how they were in
destroyed but Allah subhanho wa Taala bring them back. Allah has
immense mercy and Rama on them, despite all of that, then when
they when they wouldn't go in to the land and then after that, they
were forsaken in the, in the in the valley, and then after that,
what the struggles that they had to go there but still Allah
subhanaw taala even though that was like a punishment for them for
40 years or whatever, but Allah subhanaw taala gave them special
food man and Salwa. Right and so now you will know Silva FinFisher
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subhanAllah. Allah subhanaw taala is showing that we've given these
bounties But people can still do wrong, so do not mistake the
bounties.
They went as far as killing some of the prophets and a number of
other excesses they work that means human beings have that
ability that even if they've been showered with gifts, it's showing
that any human being so the idea here is that not just to it's not
just to condemn them,
the people who did this, but also to show
that
we mustn't go down that path. None of those things that they did
wrong despite having all of these bounties, because you won't
survive. Right? Despite the fact that Allah subhanaw taala given
had bestowed so much on them. And on top of that, they used to be
very arrogant. They used to think that only they are going to go to
paradise. And this is actually a competition between the nasaga
under your hood, we'll call it in Masada, Lisa Delia who do Allah
she will call it Lily who the Lisa de nassarawa. She will whom yet
Luna al Kitab. They both read the book. Then after that the last
part once the discussion of any so I'll finish it. It doesn't finish
Exactly. It then takes both the Bani Israel Island and Asara and
it speaks about their archetype, which is Ibrahim Ali salaam,
they're the ancestor, some some someone from whom they all come
from an wheat
come from as well. So then the discussion towards the end is
about Ibrahim Ali Salam.
And Ibrahim Ali Salaam. It says Maracana, Ibrahim Iya. Houdini and
wallah Anna serrania wala keen Karna honey from Muslimah. So the
dean of NUS Rania, the Dean of Yahoo DIA is incorrect. It's been
canceled. It should be now honey fear which was the pure faith of
Ibrahim Ali salaam, which he sent his wife he left his wife herder
at es Salaam in Makkah will karma from whom then they join up with
the tribe of Judah home etc. And then from them coming Smiley's
salaam right from her comes Ismail Ali Salam, right. He leaves smila
Islam and herget and then from smiles and comes mashallah the
honorable Mr. Alba and Subhan Allah that's where you get the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam from that from that son of
Ibrahim Ali Salaam.
So speaks about all some of the difficulties that Ibrahim Al Islam
had to go through. But that when he succeeded, he was given
mashallah a great reward from Allah subhanho wa Taala he was
made the Helene he was brought close to Allah subhanaw taala.
The some of the struggles I mean, you hear the story of at eat time
all the time, right, leaving his wife her job, and a smile, or a
Salam there in the middle of the desert, there was nothing in those
days, forget the big hotels and a clock tower today, there was
nothing, hardly any trees, no water. But mashallah where Allah
tells you to do something that Allah will provide. Allah will
provide, Allah will provide and that's why he provides his zamzam
which when he provides it's I don't know how many 1000 years and
that will is still giving water despite the gallons and gallons
and tons of water that basically is drunk from their everyday and
pumped out of their everyday where it comes from Allah knows what
kind of water table, right it must it's rain.
So this is also a lesson for the NESARA and the hood that you need
to follow the real example of Ibrahim Ali salaam, who is the
main example of all and so on until today, Brian Melissa is
respected by all right, they have they criticize certain other
prophets, like Selena and Alison, I'm calling him the king Solomon,
Dawood, Islam and so on. Some of them do that. But when they
brought him on Islam, pretty much everybody respects Ibrahim Alayhi
Salam. The other thing that we learned from here is that Ibrahim
Ali Salam is shown there to give to invite towards the deen al
Hanifa, which means to cut away from all other deities and focus
on the one God the One Lord the one deity
and
Allah subhanaw taala dances
for in Amman will be minima and timbi for Cardiff, and Sybil
Khattala woman Asad Amina Lysenko These are the last few verses
Allah subhanaw taala speaks about the other prophets. And then he
says that
why can't they believe the monarchy in and others why can't
they believe like these people have believed? And these people
Subhanallah are the Sahaba so the Sahaba discussion there is in the
first Jews, phenomenal if they were to believe like these people
believe who's who's the example is the Sahaba phenomena, we missed
the momentum, he forgot the dado, they will be fully guided this
Subhan Allah is a great assurance about the greatness of the Sahaba
in general. So now let us just spend a few minutes in wrapping it
up. And the lessons that we have from this firstly Surah Fatiha is
this, this has been a tough job by the way to try to determine what
you say and what you don't say because you just feel like let me
say a bit more about this. Let me say a bit more about this and then
you look at the time, so we need to keep it within one hour span
like that's why I said whatever we're going to say it's from
Allah. Right. So we hope it's from Allah shaytaan is hopefully out of
the story. So maybe enough's is the only other challenge we have.
Hopefully in a few days we can deal with that as well. And then
it'll become pure inshallah and become better with your dollars
inshallah. So anyway, sorted Fatiha it starts off the Quran
starts off with the it's one of the greatest of the sewers of the
Quran. I'll be mentioning some additional points here as well.
Number one, it has the greatest praise of Allah subhanaw taala as
well. Because when you're saying Al hamdu, lillahi, rabbil, Alameen
Rahmani Raheem all praises to Allah, Lord of the world's most
merciful most mercy giving right
suffering of the Day of Judgment. Only you do we worship only you do
we seek assistance from I mean, what greater What greater
invocation Can you have that of the praise of Allah?
So includes that. It discusses a colossal Eva the sincerity in
worship by saying iya can attitude. Only you do we worship.
We say that
Every day, but Subhanallah we get misled afterwards by having these
other things that we like more sometimes,
and only you we seek assistance from. But again, we say that every
day, you can Stein, but then we go for others.
It also discusses the reality of guidance. And it gives a few
categories of those who will be deprived of guidance.
That's why
it is a responsibility of those who recite the fattier or who here
it is day and night. Minimum 17 times minimum, just in a photo,
you take the sun and and everything. It's much more than
that they then be the most furthest people from resembling
ways that are not belief, not ways of belief, ways of disbelievers
because you're saying that, that guide us to the path of those
you've showered your bounties upon so then why would then you
actively do something different
so it's it's it's weird conundrum in the mind that we say this, but
then we do something different, may Allah allow it to be the same.
Then sort of Bukhara, longest war in the Quran, and numerous sahih
numerous further ill mentioned about it. One of the greatest
benefits when you Inshallah, become one of those who will
recite the entire surah and understand it in detail in sha
Allah, certain, Bukhara will take how many, seven years for some
people, we're not saying you must take that long, but at least take
a month to read sorted Bacara or two months or five months or even
six months, even a year. It's not a problem or longer than that. But
basically, the idea of it is that it's the whole benefit of it is
tarbiyah. It's to nurture and discipline the hearts of the
believers upon submission, by showing contrast with other
nations how they will not submission, submission to not just
submission to all the commands of Allah and not to question them,
even if you find them difficult. And not to be not to emulate other
nations beforehand, who Allah gifted, but they still went wrong.
That's why Allah says, I'm Anna rasuluh Bhima on zilla, la Hema
Robbie, he will not be known. Right?
Allah praises the believer that the messenger believes in that
which has been revealed to him from his Lord, and so do the
believers. That basically is a message for us that we need to
have full belief in this regard.
The other thing is, as I mentioned before, just to conclude, is that
this sort of incorporates the three types and categories of
people, the believers, the disbelievers and the Mona 15.
Right. And
it discusses basically the opinions and approaches that each
three of these categories had towards Allah, and the messenger,
sallAllahu, alayhi, wasallam. And then what became of them. So
that's for us to learn that which one do we want to be from we call
ourselves from the mean, but then are we going to succeed in that
regard? Then the long story about the story of Adam Alayhis Salam
and his wife how it has Salaam and then becoming vice Gerrans on the
earth. That is obviously one of the first suitors, one of the
first stories that that is, in fact, the first story of the
Quran, by the way, because everything else is talking about
the monarchy and everything. But the first story that's mentioned
an account of some historical reality, right? If you look at
from the time of the Prophet salallahu, salam, then other
Melissa Islam is the first story and it's completely appropriate
because that is the first story. That is the first story. Then
after that, speaking about the Bani Israel, the hood in
particular, and how they dealt with the Quran and so on. And we
understand the sort of the story of the Bacara the cow, that what
happened, which basically tells us that when you're given a command
by Allah, without any hesitation, without any problem, try to do it
the best you can stop asking too many questions, saying why I don't
see the wisdom in here. This is a typical modern idea. I don't see
the wisdom needs to be easier, that's too difficult. Because all
of that will create hardness in the hearts in sha Allah tomorrow,
or the day after we'll be discussing that theme or when the
verse comes about Amen. Or Rasool extremely powerful, right? That
basically a believer state should be that they succumb and submit
and subjugate themselves immediately to the Command of
Allah subhanho wa taala. And that's why Allah subhanaw taala
has praised the believers. Then it speaks about the discussion about
various different ways of the degeneration of those past nations
and how they, how they basically
became deprived because of that.
Allah subhanaw taala then discusses which I didn't discover
gas before Prohibition prohibiting people from
I'm remembering Allah subhanaw taala in the masajid right in the
masjid and trying to eliminate the Masjid. Right. That is something
totally wrong. This is what the NESARA did. Right and that that
shouldn't happen. It talks about Al Masjid Al haram. Right it talks
about Masjidul haram and how it was built with Ibrahim Ali Salaam
and his son, and so on. That the another point Leonardo idea volley
moon, Allah subhanaw taala says that the true faith leadership
will never go to the oppressors. It will only be to the sincere
faith leadership. We're not talking about just becoming head
of the committee or head of an organization but the true faith
relationship in the hearts of people. Number Number 11 Darby
Atul Obinna, teaching our children there's a message in certain sutra
Bacara for teaching our children even on your deathbed. You have
your Kumari Sam, I'm going to show her a hairdryer kubel note is
currently very much taboo do not mean birdie. Right? He's asking
his sons on his deathbed after I go, who you're going to worship.
So our responsibility towards our children is until our death in
fact, it's after our death as well, but we have to set in
motion. So he verifies he confirms with them. And eventually the
final point alarming Allah mentions the way he finishes the,
the way this chapter ends, till cometan called harlot Lucha
Marchesa, but welcome maca septum whether to ruin I'm Colonel Yama
loon beautiful, beautiful way to end it, which is they are a people
who have passed for them is what they earned, and for you will be
what you earned. So don't just revel in their stories, but do
something for yourself. And you will not be questioned about what
they would do what they were doing, you're going to be
questioned about yourself. So don't think that I'm from such a
family, or I am from this or I'm from that I'm from a noble, none
of that is going to help it's about your deeds and your actions.
And that's how Allah subhanaw taala that's how this chapter
ends. So we ask Allah subhanaw taala to create ease, and
bear with us. We'll get inshallah into a more smoother routine as we
go along is the first time I'm doing this. First time I'm doing
this, and I thank all of those who've assisted in this regard to
set this up but we ask Allah for Tofik that he allows the next 29
Just to be completed as well. Baraka Luffy calm JazakAllah here
may Allah bless you Ramadan's and make them better than any Ramadan
before. Make this Ramadan better than any Ramadan before it and
allow the Quran to inshallah Illuminate our hearts and become
the removal of our problems and our cares working with that one
and handy Nairobi.