Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Tafsir of the Whole Qur’an in 30 Hours (Commentary) Part 11
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we start the second third of the Quran from the 11th Jews, which is
still continuation of Surah Tober. That's going to run for the next
how many verses until a quarter, about a quarter of the Jews of the
11th Jews. Now as we know the discussion in surah. Toba is to
really give a good thrashing and to completely open up all of the
secrets and all of the plots, and whisperings of the moon Alpha team
so it carries on and remember the bigger theme there it was all
under the discussion of the expedition of the book, which was
that really difficult journey that they undertook. So
as as we said majority, the overwhelming majority of Muslims
had gone with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
despite
everything being at a disadvantage, the heat and the
crops being very close to the cutting and so on and so forth. A
lot of them were not keen on most of them had stayed back. And now
they were ready with their excuses.
So they were all going to line up and make excuses. There were three
believers that hadn't been able to go for different reasons, just
three of them.
They decided that they're not going to lie. When the Munna 15
came now that word before the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam reached a Madina Munawwara from the book on his return, Allah
subhanaw taala says as he says here in verse 6465, he informs the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as to what he's going to be
confronting, when he gets home that all of these hypocrites are
going to come and they're going to make excuses. That's why you have
the Runa la comida Raja Tomita him, they will make excuses when
you return to them.
And then Allah subhanaw taala tells him what to do.
They will also say on the phone, a biller healer is then called up to
emulate him they also going to be
taking oaths upon their excuses when you go back to them, so that
you can leave them alone so that you don't basically take them to
task you don't punish them, and so on for it do on him. So okay,
fine. Let them go. You know, ignore them. Don't do anything
about them in the home Ritson they're just pure dirt, they've
got a lot of dirt in their heart, and their actions are full of dirt
we're not we're home Jahannam and eventually they're gonna go to
hellfire anyway, just be maca. And we actually Boone
Yeah, honey fauna, then Allah subhanho wa Taala sounds a very
strong warning, it says that they will swear oaths so that you can
be satisfied with them to try to convince you so that you believe
them that they had a genuine excuse for staying behind. Even if
you did, even if you did, become happy with them, you did accept
them you did become satisfied with them. Allah does not become
satisfied with a transgressing people.
Then Allah subhanaw taala speaks about some of the other outlying
Arab tribes and the Bedouins speaking about how even among them
this issues some of them have
problems as well. And some of them are strongly nissaki strongly
embedded among them as well.
Now, Allah subhanaw taala then continues in the rest of the surah
to discuss the characteristics of the munaf 18 and the believers in
detail. So then Allah subhanaw taala says in verse 100, which is
a wonderful verse was Serbia Kunal a Walloon. Amina al muhajir in our
sorry, well Lavina terbaru whom be new Radi Allahu Anhu model do one.
The foreigners, the pioneers from among them, oh, hygiene and the
answer those who will is at the forefront whenever there's
something good first to accept Islam first to assist the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and all of those who have actually
assisted them in excellence, so those who came later, but they
followed them in goodness, Allah is satisfied with them.
And they are satisfied with Allah.
For a person to feel satisfied with Allah and Allah to be
satisfied with them, Allah has prepared for them.
gardens beneath which rivers flow that which in which they abide
therein forever, and that is the ultimate win, ultimate success.
Then Allah subhanaw taala says in verse 103, is just a few different
guidances to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Allah
says hold them in and while him sadaqa.
From their wealth, you can take the charity to Tahira, whom this
gives you the understanding of the benefits. This gives this provides
the benefit of charity charity to Tahira Houma to the key him
behind, which will purify them and it will also make them clean was
so lay him make the offer them
from this we can take from this we can take an idea that whenever
somebody gives a charity if you are collecting for a cause,
whether that be for a masjid relief work, or whatever the case
is, and somebody gives you charity, from this, we understand
that it's a good idea to give them a DUA, because it seems like
that's a time of acceptance. When charity is given. It seems like
it's a time of acceptance. That's why the prophets of Allah Islam is
being told that pray for them. Make a dua for them. In the salah.
Take a second Allah whom your prayer for them will also be a
form of contentment, comfort for them as well. Allahu Samira Nadim
now the believers are told you carry on doing your work. Kalia mu
fossa Allahu Allah kumara Sula, who will be known
was the Torah Dona Ihlara animals abo shahada, the unit bukhoma
Quantum Tamil actually, everybody's been told you carry on
doing your work, Allah will now look at the deeds that you do. So
Will his messenger so will the believers. And eventually you're
going to have to be returned to the novel, The unseen and the
seen. And he will tell you, He'll inform you of what you used to do.
So that's in verse 105.
Now what happens as a as it continues, then there's a
discussion about a particular individual who was a arch enemy of
Islam, his name was a Brahmin.
He used to always be as a sworn enemy of Islam and the Muslims and
he would he will constantly be supporting the enemies of Islam
against him in many of the battles now after the conquest of Makkah,
mocha Rama, and then after the Battle of her name,
he had to flee because most of the Arabian Peninsula now came under
Islam. So he fled. He ran away to Syria. And from there, he started
preparations, he started getting in touch with the Byzantine
Empire, the Roman emperor, the Roman Empire, basically, to invade
this group of Muslims.
And what he did was, he was quite clever, he
tried to get some people within the hypocrites to help him. So
secretly, he made contact with some of the hypocrites of Madina
Munawwara to say that when I get the Emperor ready, the Romans
ready, then you need to have the weapons etc, already in store so
that it'll be you guys will be our Inside Men in Madina Munawwara so
he made some contact with some of the hypocrites of Madina Munawwara
and what they did was they actually built a building in the
guise of a mercy they were hypocrites, so they outwardly
professed Islam. So they built a mosque, in which the idea was that
they would basically have their meetings and they would store the
weapons and things like that.
And then, further still, they actually invited the Prophet
sallallahu it was done before the inauguration that you come and
start this Masjid off, it was actually very close to Masjid
Koba.
I remember I said Kuba was the first Masjid in Islam even before
Masuda Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam so they built this on the
outskirts they because most
To the Kobe's and outskirts in those days the southern outskirts.
So that's where they build this. And immediately the verse Allah
subhanaw taala reveals well Medina Hulu masjid and Iran were cooked
from water free combined mini in a solid and lemon Hara Allah Hawara.
Sula him in Kabul.
The those who have adopted this message, this message of harm,
right, that is to basically provide harm out of their
disbelief in order to, to split up the believers. And in order to
wait and anticipate, for the one who has been at war with Allah and
His Messenger from before,
they will definitely swear an oath they will show you swear enough
that in order il husana We've only intended goodbye this this is a
pious endeavor. This is not for wrong, this is a pious endeavor,
but Allah subhanaw taala bears witness that they are lying now
with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he used to in order to
maintain the peace of Madina Munawwara and so that people
didn't say that the Prophet Solomon was killing his own
people. He would start he would take it easy with them, he would
be very lenient with them with the Muna 15 So, on this occasion
though, Allah subhanaw taala says, letter confy Aveda. Don't ever
stand in the lemma says Allah Taqwa mean oh well yo in a halco
and Takuma fee, the Masjid which was established and founded upon
the principle of God fearing this from the first day is more
rightful that you stand in the witches Masjid Koba, close by, and
then Allah says fee hit each other on your Hey buena in Yatta Haru.
In it in Masuda Koba men are people who love to be very clean.
See Yetta Tahoe
the word in Arabic for taharah taharah Taha hoorah yet Hooroo
means to clean to be clean Yetta Tahara is an expanded version of
that, an extended version of that really, to show an additional
meaning. So what are the MA right here that the reason why they
called the Allah has referred to them as with an extended word,
which essentially gives you extended meaning beyond just
normal purity is Allah who your hibel Muttahida. Allah loves those
who stay very, very clean is because while others used to use
just clumps of soil to clean themselves, like tissue paper,
these people are shallow, they used to use clumps of soil, clots
of soil as well as water. So they use both, and that's why Allah
subhanaw taala actually praises them.
Now, what's interesting is that Allah orders the province of
prohibits him from standing in there. This is very similar to
another verse that we read yesterday, but which we didn't
speak about, which is verse 84. of Surah Tober wala to Salah the men
who matter other than what a taco Allah kobori In homecare for
rubella he wore a suit he went to one first school.
What happened here is that Abdullah ignore obey Ben cellule,
who is one of the chief hypocrites, one of the leaders of
the hypocrites. Reason for his hypocrisy was that he was going to
be considered the leader before the process and moved over to
Madina Munawwara he was earmarked and signposted to become the next
leader. But when the professor Lawson came in, he best basically
lost his leadership bid huge amount of animosity and hatred and
jealousy for the process alone. So until the end, he stayed a
problem. So he was the one used to make huge rumors or create rumors
and so on, so forth. His son, though, was a good believer,
right, a pure believer, but he loved his father. And while his
father, you see these people, they would cause problems in the front.
But then after that, they would maybe do a few things to show that
they're still believers. So it's very difficult to say, you know,
unless you just want to be very aggressive that you know, these
guys are to be written off. So when he died, he finally died. And
subhanAllah his son came to the royal salary center that can you
come and pray on him? My father, you know, maybe Allah subhanho wa
Taala will forgive him, whatever. So the Prophet says, This is Yes,
I'll do it. I mean, the guy was the chief hypocrite, arch
hypocrite province hasn't agreed to go and pray with him pray on
his grave. As he's going there. Amara, Devon says Yasuda you can't
do this. You shouldn't pray on his grave. The Prophet saw some said
I'm gonna pray on his grave.
So he prayed on the grave. And then these verses were revealed,
as opposed to the masjid when the reverse is revealed first, but in
this case, the verses were revealed after he prayed. And the
verse here, as I said at four is, do not pray upon any of them who
die ever. Do not ever pray, do not even stand up their grave.
Probably already did it. Why so
You see when amaretti alone had the number the alone had numerous
on numerous occasions sets and things made decisions that
then the Allah subhanaw taala actually confirmed in the Quran.
But in this case because the province of Assam out of his
compassion and his gentle nature and his love and just wanting for
forgiveness and wanting for goodness for people, he says, I'm
gonna pray.
That's why Allah let him pray.
Like he did Allah. Allah loves him too much he let him pray. But then
after that immediately, the ruling comes down that you should not be
praying on any of them.
In the homecare for rubella he wore a suit to humor to home
Facetune that they have disbelieved in Allah and His
messenger and they've died while they're in transgression.
So going back to verse 108, here, Allah Allah tells him, you can't
do it, then eventually some of the Sahaba they went and they
basically destroyed they destroyed the building. And they basically
burnt it down. And apparently what geologists say or you know,
excavated there's no I mean, it was probably gone completely. You
still have mustard kobada But there's no sign of this mosque
anymore. There's no remnants of it or anything was probably
completely destroyed at that time. Then Allah subhana wa Tada
says, this really interesting, this verse is always been
interesting. 111 and then 112, the very prominent verses you should
really read them in Allah has thorough mineral meaning and Fusa
home what Amala homebaked another human agenda.
You know, from a logical principle perspective, why do we have to do
Allah's commands, obviously, because we're servants. But here
there's another reason that Allah provides Allah says that Allah has
purchased
from the believers, their selves, their lives, and their wealth.
For what? For Jana for Paradise. So if you want paradise, right,
then Allah wants you to expend yourself and your wealth in the
path of Allah subhanaw taala. Thus, then he says, You caught it
on a visa vie the law if I act too low number yoke, the rune, they
then fight in the path of Allah and they thus they kill, and they
are killed. And this is a promise to them. That's made as a rite
both in the Torah and the Injeel, and the Quran, and so on. And then
whoever basically fulfill this, promise them for steps you will be
by a commodity buyer to me, then you should accept the glad tidings
of this trade that you've done with Allah. So the way that Allah
has given the offer, I'll give you Jana, for yourselves spend, expand
yourself, if you do it, then Allah will obviously fulfill his part of
the bargain. And that is the huge, great success. Now Allah subhanaw
taala gives
characteristics of the true believers.
Right what he wants to see and believers and may Allah make us of
these, but even Elia be doing al hammy doing it who will not rock
your own Sergi do me Runa Bill Mao roof, one Hoonah and we'll move
carry well have you who when are they who do they
are Oba Sherrill meaning,
repentance, don't who those who repent, those who are devotees and
worshipers, those who are praising of Allah, sorry, horned who are
travelling for the sake of Allah, they need to undergo a travel for
the hydro for any other reason for our purposes. rakia, when those
who are in ruku, prostration, who are in sujood. Right? They are
commanding of the right and prohibiting of their own. That's
always a characteristic. I wonder why people just why people have
missed this out. And those who are protective of the boundaries of
Allah, and give glad tidings to the believers. Allah subhanho wa
Taala then prohibits the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the
next verse 113, from making esterified for Mushrikeen, that
you're not allowed to seek forgiveness for Mushrikeen. You
know, you can say, well, let me just do it. If it's accepted, it's
accepted. If it's not, it's not, no, you're not allowed, it's
actually prohibited to do so. Because you need to recognize that
they did wrong, and they're not gonna get forgiveness, they're not
going to receive forgiveness. And then Allah answers a question
comes up from the story of Ibrahim Ali Salam, where he says, I'm
going to make a stefarr for you. So here it says that when I kind
of see for Ebrahimian to be healer, I'm more worried that why
the year the reason for Ibrahim Ali Psalms is too far for his
father was due to a promise that He had made. But when it became
clear, that is also an enemy of Allah de barro. I mean, he
exonerated himself. He freed himself from it, because Ibrahim
Al Islam had the special characteristics. Now
Another story.
I had mentioned earlier that there were three pure good Muslims
proper Muslims who had actually stayed back, and they did not go
on this journey. Now this journey is amazingly told by one of them
one of the three, the three were Hillel, IGNOU, Hila, liberal
omega, Maura, Maura, Maura, Abner Robbie, and carob, Abdul Malik
Khabib. Nomadic is a hugely eloquent individual is a very good
writer. So he actually tells his whole story in this really
beautiful prose, right, which has gone down into the books of
classical Arabic to study and I've read the whole story And
subhanAllah you know, that story can make you cry in some places,
it can make you surprised. It just keeps you going. It's an amazing
story just tells you the thoughts of his heart. Essentially, he says
that look, when the when the decision was made, when the call
was made, that we're going to go on this battle. And this
particular expedition was one in which he says the progress hasn't
made it very clear where we're going. There was no Toria. He
says, in other battles, he would tell us that we're going kind of
this way, whereas we were actually going another place, but through
another place, so that we put people off the scent. But in this
one, it was very clear how far we were going and where we were
going. And he says that I was never more well off than this
time. But the problem is that I had my crops also they were ready
to ready to go. And I thought, You know what, I'm fast. I've got fast
animals, or I'll just catch them up. You know, the time came, and I
hadn't fully prepared yet. He said, and then eventually, they
left. And I thought, don't worry, I'll catch them up. One day today,
and then he just got lost like that. Until I heard Okay, the
prophets, Allah ism is now coming back. And now what am I going to
do? Now in the process of loss? I'm actually he came back, he
says, I used to go to the bazaar, and the only people that I used to
actually see were no good believers. I used to only see some
people who are
suspicion on them. There was suspicion on them. I've been on
AFIC so that made me feel really bad. Now the police officer is
coming back and I'm thinking of everything that I could say to him
all the excuses I can think about.
Right and then the mana thinking they started going and the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam started accepting and just letting them
go. And I decided that no, I cannot do this. I don't care what
the consequences are. I'm going to tell the absolute truth whatever
happens, and exactly he goes up to the Prophet sallallahu sallam, he
tells him the truth. And the Prophet saw some says, okay, as
far as you will see, with everybody else on the moon African
who came, he let them go, he says, Okay, fine, whatever, leave it to
Allah, he let them go. But when he says, Okay, we'll see.
And then after that, there was a command that was given that nobody
can speak to him, him and the other two, so Kabra, the Elana
discovered that there's these other two, one was quite an older
person, he made a lot of help with his wife. So he says, You can't
stay you can't talk to him. Now, that felt really bad. I tried to
go to a I think it was a cousin or a very close friend jumped over
his wall to go and speak to him. And even he didn't speak to me.
And when I persisted, he said, The province has told us not to speak
to you or something like that felt really, really bad. It's a very
emotional story. And then after he said, I used to the other two,
they just stayed at home. Right? They wouldn't go but I would still
go out, I would try to go to the masjid try to say salaam to the
Prophet sallallahu sallam, right, and then look from the corner of
my eye to see if he says while he comes along or not, he was very
bold, right. But there was eventually our wives were also
told to separate from us, and to go away. Not divorce. But just to
leave us alone as well. That is tough. 50 days, this lasted 50
days, only one of them because he was really in need. That's why he
was allowed to keep his wife after taking permission, but otherwise,
and carburetors and maybe I should go and ask them. But now even that
time, there was a an emperor, a leader of the Sassanids, who sent
a message to gab, that look a person like you should not be
humiliated like this, come and join us. He says immediately I
took that letter and I threw it into the oven into the fire.
Right? And that's what you want to do. Whenever there's a fitna, you
want to just take it away, you don't want to stay on it. So
eventually, then, announcement, Allah subhanahu. See, what's the
most amazing thing here is that eventually the announcement was
made for their forgiveness, not just by the Prophet sallallahu
sallam, but by a verse of the Quran to be revealed to be recited
forever. could have just been the process and forgive them and the
story, but no, there's huge verses here, which starts from verse 117.
Look at that Allahu Allah and maybe you will Maharaja, you know
what I'm sorry, Latina terbaru. And then while a thorough 30
Latina holy for verse 118, and the three that had to remain behind
until the earth became constricted on them more than you know,
despite his vastness and so on, and then third metabo, taba Allah
him, Leah Tubu then Allah. Allah accepted the repentance Allah is
the most accept
thing of repentance and the Most Merciful. And I remember the story
that the person who came to him with that news first, there's this
tradition that when somebody brings you good news, you give
them a gift. He says, Wallahi on that day, I had no other
asset that I had, except the clothing on my back. So I took
that off, and I gave it to him.
Right, because he was so happy and then there's a long story. And
then the Prophet sallallahu eventually went to meet the
Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam and the Prophet sallallahu sallam
said to him, that today, your truth has saved you, your true the
saved you and today,
you are basically better than the day that your mother gave you
birth. Meaning today is a more Mobarak and blessed day, a
superior day than the day that your mother gave you birth.
And he says, I would never trade that in for anything else.
I would never trade that in for anything else. Who are Allah
subhanaw taala then discusses four other characteristics of
believers. Number one, that they should have Taqwa everywhere,
right? This is yeah, you AlLadhina duckula Verse 119. have Taqwa
wherever you are. We're cool. No mas Sadiq in a very important
verse. Oh people who believe have taqwa and always be with the
truthful ones. Always be with the truthful ones. That is to tell us
that the best company you can have is with truthful people do not sit
and do not make friends out of people who are not truthful, it
rubs off on you. It's harmful for you psychologically, spiritually,
it's harmful for you. That's why always be with the truth ruins in
the Saudi teen here are referring to the people of Allah. This is
basically the encouragement of staying staying in good company,
staying with the righteous people staying with the pious people,
that's very important command of the Quran. Then Allah subhanaw
taala Another thing he tells us is that stay away from the people of
the FARC. Right. And number three,
is that in terms of spending and so on, make sure that you spend in
the path for ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada and do other good deeds for the
sake of Allah subhanaw taala as mentioned in the next verse, and
that how Allah subhanho wa Taala will always reward you for these
things.
So that's the discussion for the reward of believers. Now Allah
subhanho wa Taala says something very important. All of this time,
there's an encouragement for jihad, for the defense for going
out for putting yourself out there to basically defend your lands.
Now Allah subhanaw taala says in verse 132, when I can let me know
in a Li and Pharaoh curve, all believers should not leave like
that. Right? Not every believer should leave. But follow Lana for
Amin, Khalifa condominium or ever to near the fucka houfy diem, you
also need it's not just about battle and getting rid of people.
There's also the building of institutions, the building of
knowledge, educating people, so there needs to be people that will
remain behind always with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam so that they can gain an understanding of the deen because
any religion, any system needs several different institutions,
you know, from the judiciary, to the educational, to the defense,
and so on. So it's not just about defense, there's a lot more to
that. So that's why Allah subhanaw taala says here, that there needs
to be a group like that, because you need teachers, you need
people who counsel people who train people who look after
people, and you need the judge, you need the ruler, you need
basically laborers, you need organizes all of that is is
required. And that's why knowledge is a big thing. This is one of
those very important verses with regards the importance of
knowledge, gaining an understanding of faith. Right and
that's why the Prophet sallallahu sallam said that whoever Allah
wills, goodness for it gives them an understanding of the faith, you
40 Who fit in, that's the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam. Another thing that's mentioned is that the prophesy
Lawson said that one fucky person who's got the understanding a
jurist is going to be more severe on a shaytaan than 1000 Mia
worshippers. That's why remember brown sisters, wherever you are,
we can't just sustain ourselves from the knowledge the bit of
knowledge that we've
got just growing up, we need to study we need to take courses we
need to read, and we need to learn and may Allah subhanho wa Taala
give us that. Then Allah subhanaw taala to finish of the surah Allah
subhanho wa Taala again, criticizes the Muna 15 and their
reaction to the verses were either mountains or sort of Amino Maria
Kula comes out to the man they would mark that when a new vessel
would come. They would ask people, you know, did this benefit you
guys like? Did this verse increase any view in goodness? Right, did
it increase your Eman and so on? Right. Far Molina. Allah says
well, the people who believe right verse 124 It
increases that mean the man. Right and they've got a lot to look
forward to basically, but the ones who have modeled in the hearts and
week secrets in their heart, it just increases their rebellion
increases that dirt, increase the impurity, and so on. And the final
verse,
the final verses here is verse 128. And then 29 228 is again,
support of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the way Allah
addresses him is amazing. Allah gives him addresses him by two of
his very special names. He's never given that name to anybody else
together like that. Allah says, look at the journal camera, zoom
in and fusi COMM A messenger, your messengers come from among you as
he's an ally, Hema, I need to hurry sooner they can build more
meaning or Naraku for Rahim, roof and Rahim are the names of Allah
The Compassionate and the merciful Rama and you can't give to anybody
because that's exclusive for Allah. Rahim can be used for
others Allah provides this name, Professor Lawson The he is the
roof and Rahim because really anything that would trouble you
that will trouble the Prophet sallallahu Salah right. And
whatever is to your benefit, he would avidly seek it. And that is
the characteristic of the prophets Allah may Allah make us of those
who love good for everyone who avidly seek good for people who
feel hurt when others are hurt.
And then Allah says for interval of the last verse, For interval
Lofa Cole has to be Allah, if they're going to turn away then
just say Allah is sufficient for me, La ilaha illa who there is no
God except Allah. Allah hit our kilt. I rely upon him. We're
horrible our shell of him. He is the Lord of the Mighty Throne. Now
we move on to
sort of Yunus which takes up all of this, the rest of this chapter
and a bit of the next chapter as well. It's a murky Surah So it's
going back to the basics 119 verses here. So it's a lengthy
Surah as you know, and it has 11 sections, thematic sections, of
course, aside from the tenets of faith and beliefs and so on, the
the larger other theme there is the Quran. The discussion about
the Quran is here. That's why Allah subhanho wa Taala starts off
with Elif
or Tilka, tool kita Bill Hackie
occasionally Nasir algebra now Hanaa Illa Allah Julie minimum, is
people surprised that we would reveal to a man from among them
that you should warn people and give glide turnings to the
believers. Right? And and so on. Allah subhanho wa Taala then says
that Why are you so surprised that the prophets Allah has given
prophecy this prophets have passed before, this is not unique? This
is not something unprecedented. This is not something that never
happened before. So why you guys so surprised for just accept it,
then Allah subhanaw taala it's well worth reading these verses in
details, Allah subhanaw taala in all of these verses, like who will
lead the jar Allah Shem, salvia unwelcome or new Rama Katara
humanism. And then in the fifth pillar, all of this is basically
to show the signs of Allah through the universe, through people
through creation, Allah subhanaw taala is highlighting that he is
the one who's made the sun for you, this giver of light, and also
the illuminated moon and made special positions for the moon
that goes through throughout the year and so on. By this, you
understand years and your dates and things like that Allah
subhanaw taala talks about all of these gifts of God, the creation
and so on and so forth. Now, what we then discover after this is
that, after these verses, we understand that whoever ponders
these verses, and believes in them, accepts them and takes them
to their benefits. Then they become separated from those who
look at these verses and deny them and they're blind to them.
So those who do take goodness out of this Allah subhanaw taala has
for them that
in the Latina almond, or I'm going to Saudi, how diverse nine and 10
for them our gardens. And what's most amazing party is that well
whom he has Subhanak Allahu Mata here to via salaam, the greeting
there will be Salam.
And the last call in there is all praises to Allah, Lord of the
worlds
and then it's already spoke about spoken about the evil ones. Then
Allah subhanho wa Taala specifically, as I said that one
of the big themes here is the Quran. So Allah subhanho wa Taala
he then talks about the Quraysh and the disbelievers of the time
where they would make fun of the Quran and they would deny the
Quran so Allah subhanho wa Taala says we're either took La La him
Ayat universe 15, when Our Verses clear Verses are recited to them,
called a Latina liar journal econo those who don't expect to meet us,
they say it to be a Quran in lady however,
why don't you bring another Quran
Do you want another Quran for isn't this one sufficient? Bring
it the be Quran in lady haha oh but dill who?
Right? It's always like when you don't have any better answer no
logical reaction, right no rational answer then you just
gonna come up with these weird quirky responses so I think no
bring us another book or change this one. So call say oh Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam myconian Obey the law who mean to clean up?
See I can't change it on my own behalf right?
In a Tiberi Lama you ha ha I only follow what is inspired to me and
I seek You know, I fear punishment if I you know, if I if I disobey
Allah subhanaw taala then Allah is then Allah tells him to tell him
Faqad Lizabeth to feed Omar Omar, I'm in complete darkness, why do
you deny this Quran? So the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam is
being told to ask them, Have you ever in the last 40 or so years
that you've known me ever told an untruth?
Have I ever studied under anybody? Was there like some very because
you see Madina? Munawwara is sorry, mocha Mocha, a very close
community tribal committee. Everybody knew everybody. I
remember when I visited Mauritania, populations, about 3
million I think, my friend who's Mauritania and told me that
if you came here, and then you eventually asked, you gave my
name, within two days with no computer system or anything like
that, they probably have come in, but just through contact, you
would have been able to figure me out within one or two days as to
who I am. Right? So people just know everybody, right? They have
tribal links and just who's this married to the and that's so also
in that kind of community.
There's no internet, nothing. So you know, who's studying by who,
who sits with whom, who's friends with whom, who's benefited from
whom was influenced by whom they knew the Prophet sallallahu sallam
was unlettered, he did not read. So he couldn't couldn't be reading
books. He knew that they knew that he wasn't consulting you know, the
so called soothsayers or anybody else with lots of information.
They weren't that many people there anyway in Macomb akarma. Now
the person comes at the age of 40, and he's never lied. And he's
trustworthy. He's Amin, right? So people actually trust him. Like he
is set apart from everybody as a trustworthy individual. So he asks
that question that Have you ever known me to ever lie?
And so that's why he's saying that for cat lovers to freak Omar Omar
I'm in Cali FL attack and I've been with you such a long How can
you say these things to me I you know me, you know my family, you
know everything about me.
That's why who can be more oppressive than the one who
basically fabricates a lie against Allah and denies his verses. In
fact, even a boo Sophia and sorry, yes, abou Sophia and who's
archenemy of Islam at the time. When he's on a trade caravan, he
goes to Jerusalem. Aelia is called Eliopoulos at the time, and hirako
Heraclius. has heard about the prophets, Allah Salam. So he asked
if there's any Arabs in town. And, you know, lo and behold, it's the
group of Abu Sufian, who is an enemy of Islam. So he says, Okay,
I'm gonna ask you some questions. It means that gustavian Sit in
front, and he had his other guys in his camp sit behind him. And
her Oculus is clever. He says, I'm gonna ask you certain questions,
you better tell the truth. Right? So I'm going to ask you, and I'm
going to the guys that are back, they better tell me, you know. So
now, Abu Sufyan doesn't know if you're sitting in front of him, I
can say, you know, just get a little wink or something like
we're gonna make this up. He couldn't do that, because his guys
were sitting at the back. So one of the questions he asked is that
has this guy ever has the this profit, the so called profit ever
told a lie before? Or claimed prophecy and so on? He says, No,
he hasn't. And so then Heraclius actually says himself, that if
he's never spoken ally against anybody else, why would he speak a
lie against Allah?
Right, why would you make a layup against Allah if you're not going
to speak, right? Because I mean, it's more easy to, you know, the
gotten more need to lie about somebody else because you're
dealing with people more often.
Imam Razi mentions that mentioned this point that they knew
everything about him. So that is why a lot of them were convinced,
but the others weren't convinced. And the prophets also was trying
to say that how can and this is this unique situation in which
divorce also was made to be, you know, born and brought up losing
his father early on, and being unlettered for a very good reason?
To make the point even stronger? Allah subhanho wa taala. Then in
continuing into verse 22, and so on, Allah subhanho wa Taala
discusses the idol worship. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala has this
long discussion from verse 22 onwards, which applies everywhere.
I've actually asked this question to
a flight attendant regarding turbulence, and basically the gist
of
It is that these people, they, when they, when everything is safe
and secure, they deny Allah. But when they're in trouble, right or
when they're in the middle of the ocean and the waves start building
up, and they start losing hope in everything else, inherently
because Allah is so built in everybody psyche, they call out to
Allah subhanaw taala problem is that they didn't last long. As
soon as they come back to the shore to shore, then they forget
about Allah and they go back to their own ways. Subhanallah
that's why in this lot of people will benefit in this lockdown, but
there's going to be people who will just go right back to doing
what they were doing beforehand. Then Allah subhanaw taala asks the
number of questions Who gives you sustenance from the heavens from
the earth and so on verse 33, and so on. Now, you see, as you move
on, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says in verse 38, you know, because as I
said, there's a big discussion about the Quran. So verse 37, and
38 America and how the Quran a youth are Amin do nila, this Quran
is not something something that can be fabricated, right? by
somebody other than Allah. Right? Meaning it can't be. It's just the
color the Bayonetta and I mean, don't you know, it confirms what
you have from before? Right there. It's not just made up. It's got a
lot of substance in there. Then Allah subhanaw taala provides the
challenge. I'm your guru and after I do they say that it was
fabricated that he fabricated it call for to be Surah T Mythri. So
say to them that Okay, bring a surah like it. And if you want,
I'm not saying just one of you make it up, like just Abuja or
something. But what the true Minister tried to mean do nila,
besides Allah, you can go and enlist the help of whoever you
want. Arabs, IgM, non Arabs, whoever you want, in condom Sadiki
Belkis, the movie man and you're here to be your enemy. This is a
very important verse, verse 39. Very important idea. Now they've
denied and this gives you the reason why people generally deny
things. They generally delay things out of unawareness,
ignorance, they're not willing to check it out. Most people will
listen to whatever the media tells them.
They won't check out the reality, then when an apology or a
correction is published several months later, after a court case,
which will be very small people have forgotten by then they still
remember the big idea and the tarnish that is on the person who
was slandered before always remains this has been the norm of
the world. So one of the reasons is that people will just listen,
whoever whatever they tell you. Because basically people deny that
which their knowledge does not encompass. And they don't
understand the proper interpretation of it. And this is
exactly the way the people before them denied. But look at what
happened to them. Look at the way that Allah subhanaw taala dealt
with them. Allah subhanaw taala then says in verse
57, Johanna su
Caja at Como esta Tamiya robic acid lots of discussion about the
Quran. Right? It's well worth reading it for yourself slowly
inshallah. Oh, people, this council, this advice has come to
you from your Lord, where she felt only Murphy sudo which is also a
cure for the problem in your hearts, all your turbulence in
your hearts, your
misgivings, your fright, your depression, your various anxieties
of your heart. The Quran is the Shiva how is it that Shiva by
reading it, believe me, anybody who's in
turbulence and anxiety when they read the Quran, they'll find
enough in there to take their mind away. enough in there to cure the
ailments of the heart. Try it. I mean, I'm gonna give you a
guarantee.
Try it. Just pick up a Quran. start understanding that and
you'll see that there's going to be so many other things that you
can take less than from in the Quran, so many things that you can
benefit from. Now, very prominent verse that everybody should take
to heart is verse 62. Allah in only Allah healer, hold on it him
Allah whom ye has an own.
The friends of Allah
there is no fear upon them and they will never grieve. Yes, they
will confront trouble.
They may have an accident, they may lose something, they may be
imprisoned. But mashallah their heart is so content. They're so
satisfied that they just breezing through it.
I mean, you know this from stories of people for a certain cause
Allah gives them this for that cause for the cause of Islam.
Alladhina amanu akan we're talkin Iman and Taqwa Iman and God
fearing this God very nice.
You can only be one is you have Iman so you believe. But God
fairness is by doing what Allah tells us to do and abstaining as
far as possible from what he tells us not to do and making Toba if
that's if we ever end up doing it. Basically trying to be as regular
as possible, as only we can get God forgiveness and inculcating
that in our hearts for them is the Bushra in hayati, dunya and akhira
for them is the glad tidings in the world and in the hereafter.
Now, after
the discussion of the heat,
resurrection of the death and emphasizing Iman, and discussing
the truthfulness of the Quran, and how he's got no discrepancies and
everything else.
There are now three stories that are mentioned. Because remember,
the Quran uses various different techniques in it, to try to convey
to people and convince people and change people. So now the three
stories that I mentioned, the first of them is the from verse
you'll see from verse 71, is none other than prophets beforehand.
And this was very relevant to them because they had already been
learning of stories of prophets in various corrupt forms and things
like that. So now Allah has given them the true stories. First one
is the story of the shithole, Gambia.
New holiday salaam,
then about Mousavi Salam now actually Musa and how nice they
both together in this
from verse 73 and 7475 onwards, and then after that there is a
story of Eunice Ali Salaam
and that's why this story is called Eunice because it has the
story of Eunice Ali Salam in here. That's why this chapter the surah
is called unis.
unis Ali Salaam is the name in the entire Quran has come four times
explicitly as Yunus. But twice he's been referred to as the noon
within noon is the hubba mahal demon. For one Allah knock the
rally the fish the one with the fish, because he is the one that
was taken up by the whale, you probably know that story. Right?
So twice is referred to as the the one with the fish or the one of
the fish or the fish one, right? However to say that, now his
story, we're not going to go through moosari some story because
you've already heard that I think this part of the story about
the magicians and so on. That's, that's mentioned here as well. The
only additional point that I want to mention here is in verse 88.
Musa salaam
looks at Pharaoh and all the wealth that he's given and the
power that he's given. So Musa alayhis salam says to Allah will
call the Musa Robina in theta Farah ONA, Omega who zenith and
were unwell and Phil highlighted dunya are banal you the loo and
sabich Yalla you've given Pharaoh and his cronies you've given them
a lot of the adornment of the world the wealth of the world in
this dunya and yeah, Allah this is they take people away from the
path they mislead people from your path. Rob by not miss Allah and
worry.
Get rid of their wealth, destroy the wealth wash to the other
equilibrium and seize them in their heart so that
now then the next verses call occurred Oh gee, but that were to
coma 89
Allah says you're your to do ah, you know the two of you to Haroon
Musashi Salaam is one of them. I've said here's a Musa is making
the DUA next me saying mean Amen. Right. However, they said in those
days,
so your dollars are being accepted.
But there was no any immediate punishment.
There was no immediate destroying of the wealth. It took years, but
it did come.
A lesson that we learned from here is that the hour we make if
moosari somehow had to wait,
then we have to wait as well. Allah does it according to His
timetable. And he says learn the strategy Looney don't rush me. I
know what to do, but the whole thing
everything is planned.
So it will happen, but it can happen later. When the time is
right. Allahu Akbar. Then there's the story of Pharaoh becoming or
trying to express believe when he's about to drown.
But that's very emotion, very understanding. And Allah says,
nine in verse 91, Allah Now when you had all these disobedience
beforehand, and you have the corrupt corrupt ones on Earth, but
folio, Winona G botanic today we're going to give you respite
with your body, so that you can be assigned for the people
afterwards. Allahu Akbar, but the majority of people are
don't
take heat from our signs. Now this is a very interesting point
miracle of the Quran for about 1300 years. Pharaoh's body was not
found.
When this verse came down,
they'd mummified it. They used to mummify people at the time, that
was their tradition, as it was tradition of some other places.
Well, now this was in the sarcophagus inside, you know, the
pyramids, and so on. About 150 or so years ago, Carter comes along
and discovers it, and other people discovered the mummies. And there
you go, Ramses is there. Right along with several others in the
Egyptian Museum now.
Subhanallah I wonder what for 1300 years, people thought about this
verse. Today, we give you respite with your body, so you can be
assigned for the people afterwards, maybe they just
thought, okay, maybe his body was, you know, take because the person
mentioned that his body, you know, I was thrown out of the river and
so on and so forth. But SubhanAllah 1300 or so years
later, 1250 1300 however long it was, there you go, you have a
discovery, and Pharaohs bodies their
Jeep. And Allah tells us that 1400 years ago, we're giving you
respite takes in a whole new, more intense meaning of we've given you
safety with your body.
So I paid money to go and see it. Because Allah mentions it in the
Quran. And you actually have to pay a nominal fee to get into the
museum. It's a four or five story Museum in in Cairo, the British
built it about 100 years ago, and then you have to pay
I think it's more than double that to actually go into the one mummy
room. It was 40 Egyptian pounds at the door, 90 to get into that
chamber and I felt it was right for me to do that. Because
Allah saying that in the Quran. Now let's save your money. You can
check it online.
Typing Ramses the second, and they've got his mummy that you can
see. But there's another thing when you actually see the body in
real life in flesh. I don't think there's any blood in there but
flesh. It is something 4000 years. And the other thing is when Allah
does something, he does it properly. So it's not just Pharaoh
that's there. It's everything he had. Of course, that was something
they decided that time to put in that five story museum four story
Museum is got everything from Pharaohs Rolls Royce chariot to
his needle, not joke, there's a mirror in there as well I
remember. And I was like, wow, he's got everything in here. So
when Allah preserved him preserved everything for 1000 years, and if
there's anything so preserved in so much detail, the Quran speaks
about it. So amazing. Anyway, we move on to a story of unis, Ali
Salam because our time is coming up. And Allah says that in verse
98, Falola, cannot courier to an M and afenifere Aha Iman who her in
coma. Eunice. There's no tribe that sorry. There's no community
or people who disobeyed first. And then after that they brought faith
when they saw impending danger, or impending punishment, and then,
and then it'd be accepted from them except the people of UNICEF.
No, no, he preached to them. They did not listen, he thought the
punishments coming, he took off. And it gets to the show, but they
realized afterwards, so they, they sought forgiveness. So the
punishment didn't come to them. You'd assign someone doesn't know
that he he's going on a he gets on a on a on a boat to see vessel.
Now suddenly there's a storm and they say somebody's going to have
to be thrown overboard because it's too heavy. So they pick lots
he's looks very dignified, individual. They don't want to
three months or three times they pick lots every time it's his, his
name comes out. Finally he had to go he went a fish ocean big whale
eats him up, consumes him when I say consumes him, but it's a very
specially modified Well, Allah has basically stopped its stomach
function. It can take in but he can't do anything. There's no bile
there's no nothing going on inside.
And then he stayed there for either a few hours or three days
or there's different opinions and then he gets thrown out. And they
say that he gets thrown out in Palestine, just north of El Helene
Hebron, right? There's a masjid there is place called unis. You
know that there's a place where there's a masjid that said that
this is where he came in. He rested. Because I mean, After that
encounter, he needed to rest right before he went back home. So
that's where he rested was amazing, right when he visited
that masjid, and so hamdulillah so that's why it's called now one of
the favorite, famous dollars we can read in the 70s us later on,
which is what he said and got him out of the fishes Subhanak La
ilaha illa and Subhanak in the continent of Bali mean. So that's
the story of
universality Salaam in the Quran. That's why this it could have been
called sorted Musa but it wasn't moosari Some stories everywhere so
of course some something sort of the Musa then it's not unique, but
here, this is probably the only place where that much of the story
of universalism is mentioned. It's not repeated over and over again.
And that's why it's mentioned there.
Since the beginning of the Surah, as I mentioned, was about the
Quran. And a major theme of this was about the Quran. Here again,
Allah says, Kalia uns are in condom from verse 104. And to the
end this whole discussion about it. And the final verse, There is
whatever you have
either ICA was spearhead Diack, whom Allah just follow what has
been inspired upon you revealed upon you the Quran, just follow
that. And what's always remember was where was where was summer,
summer, summer, people don't want to do summer. People don't want to
be patient. They want to just bend and they want to basically just
acquiesce. Now you there's going to be difficulty, it's part of
life. It's part of the world, especially for a believer. Until
Allah's judgment comes, he is the best of judges. He's the best of
judges. So that's basically the end of the surah. There is a part
of the chapter left, the 11th chapter doesn't end there. There's
another page or so left, but we're gonna leave that for tomorrow.
Because that's where a new sort of begins the chapter on the
solitude, right so that hood starts just before the ending of
the 11 Jews. There's no point starting it today we're starting
tomorrow. So we can take the whole thing with chapter 12 With part 12
of the Quran and that also starts with an Elif Lumira. So, we will
stop here. And we will just discuss just quickly summarize the
main features of this. So number one,
Allah subhanaw taala at the beginning of chapter 11,
continuation of sorta Toba, which is primarily about them when I 15.
Allah subhanaw taala continues that discussion, speaking about
the good and bad, the more hygiene and the answer and so on. Then
after that, I pointed out the verse 100, verse 10, for you
know, sorry, it wasn't worse than it was verse 100. Verse 100, of
sort of the Toba. A cert was Serbia Kunal, a whirlwind, a
minimal hygena one answer the foreigners, the pioneers, people
who always, you know, there's a lot of people who are early
adopters for the iPhone, and for new technology, they're willing to
stand outside, you know, for all night to get the new gadget. Allah
wants us to be early adopters, for religious things, who's going to
go and do that relief work first, who is going to be the first one
to go and pray? Who is going to be the first one to go and feed? So
that's why it was so big Kunal, a well known is discussed the the
pioneers the foreigners, right? And Now contrast that with another
verse in Surah
Surah to walk right in verse, verse 1011 12 1314, of Surah rakia
where Allah talks about sabi ko and again sabe Akun subaqua means
to win somebody who gets ahead, those who go ahead, right the
pioneers. Allah says there was Serbia Kona Serbia kulula, Ecole
Makara boon, those who are pioneers, those who are early on
in good works, they are the ones who will be brought close to Allah
fie Jannetty nyeem, in the gardens of bliss, Thriller to Minella
welline Vaccarino Minella.
So that's where that's what you learn there. Then after that Allah
has the discussion about the masjid and Masjid there are places
that are established to the you know, for harming the believers,
and how we're told not to ever associate ourselves with such
places, right? For example, you have those so called all inclusive
mosques, right? And that bring in all of that which goes against the
Orthodox substratum of beliefs of Muslims, right, complete denial of
orthodoxy. And then number three was the characteristics of the
believers who have sold themselves to Allah subhanaw taala their
lives and their wealth, and the prophets Allah or some being
prohibited from seeking forgiveness for the isolators.
Then the next point that we
discussed was the story of the McAfee teen who made excuses and
then the three that were truthful, but mashallah had to suffer had to
undergo the suffering because of it 50 days nobody's speaking to
them. But then after that, mashallah being given such a glad
tiding for the sake of the deen, that's why it's always best Allah
is teaching us through here that if you've done a wrong, and I
always tell this to husband and wives, if you're a husband, your
wife will always figure out if you're lying. If your wife, your
husband, always figure it out because you're so close. Very
difficult. They can just tell by when you lift something with
somebody so close and it could be anybody. You can just tell by
their demeanor,
just by their attitude just by facial expression. That's
Why the best policy with the spouse is tell the truth. Even if
you've done a major wrong, you're better off to be known as a guy
who does wrong, but tells the truth than a liar. Because if
you're a liar, they're always gonna think you're lying in any
relationship with your boss or whatever, it's always best to just
say, Okay, fine, I did it wrong and face the consequences, but
it's better to do that in especially in long term
relationships. Because you're better off not being known as a
liar. That's I mean, I wouldn't want to be friends with a lie like
a contrasting I mean, it's bad not being friends with an Exaggerator
you know, like somebody executives 50% all the time. You have to like
discount every the mind has to work further, right. Anyway, at
the end of sort of the Toba, there's a discussion of again,
people pondering the Quran, right? And then after that starts with
Yunus, which has the major theme of the Quran along with the small
story of Surah Yunus in the right, so Allah subhanaw taala then
discusses the problems in the Mushrikeen and how they would
constantly mock the Quran and challenge the Quran and so on and
so forth. Then the famous verse which I mentioned already, verse
62, Allah in Olia, Allah He la joven it him without whom he has
no. Now basically, the lesson we get from that is that anybody who
claims to be a friend of Allah claims to be a religious person
like that. Then basically, he can ever lie. And all of those
characters that are mentioned there, I mean, he can't be devoid
of them. May Allah make us His true Olia make our children from
them as well. And then after that, the story of new holiday salaam
Musa and Pharaoh story. And then after that, the whole discussion
the vivid description of pharaohs drowning, and then his trying to
escape by bringing faith at that time. There's lots of discussions
about Pharaoh always sifting from one side to the other, like not
being very convinced about his Cofer, but not being convinced
about becoming a believer either. But there are some stories. I
don't know if they're Israelite stories or whatever. But at the
end, he didn't help him anyway. And then eurosai Salaam story. And
finally, the discussion that stay firm on your faith, follow the ye
and be patient until Allah brings the judgment. Don't try to force a
judgment yourself. Wait for Allah's judgment. So we ask Allah
subhanaw taala for acceptance and we ask Allah to give us the good
that we've learned and we recite it and allow this to constantly
reinvigorate our iman and may Allah allow us to come out of this
better than we before we started and this Ramadan to be better than
than the Ramadan before it just doc Allah here may Allah bless
you. Assalamu alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh