Adnan Rajeh – Surat As-Saaffaat Summary
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The transcript describes the cluster of surahs in the Qthst, a group of Muslims focused on the concept of submission to Allah's subhanahu wa-iaton. The importance of believing in Islam and the use of words like "has" and "has" to describe actions and events is emphasized. The difficulty of following guidance from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and the importance of acceptance and building in a relationship are also discussed. The history of Lut and the surahs is also discussed, but the story of Lut Alayhi is more complicated than the story of Lut Alayhi. The importance of acceptance and building in a relationship is emphasized.
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Surat As-Saffat exists in the sixth cluster
of surahs in the Qur'an, starting with
Surat Al-Ahzab and ending with Surat Az
-Zumar, which we will end with in a
few days insha'Allah.
And these surahs are talking about the concept
of submission to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
obedience, of giving up our free will for
His will, or to His will subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And it gives us, it talks about this
concept from a number of different angles.
Every surah is very unique in the way
that it looks at this concept, which is
a very difficult one to actually achieve, and
also is the most important one of all.
Really, all we're here to do is to
obey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, to submit
to Allah, that's why we're called Muslims.
So Surat Yasin talks about how our submission
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's rulings and
commands, and being able to continue spreading da
'wah and working the way Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala commanded us to work, and to
fulfill the purpose that He created us to
fulfill, will grant us true life in dunya
and in akhira, in comparison to a life
that is filled with oblivion, and that is
more similar to not being alive altogether, explaining
to us subhanahu wa ta'ala that life
is not measured by the number of hours
you breathe here on earth, but rather the
legacy that you leave behind, and the fact
that you actually fulfill the purpose Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala created you to fulfill, which
is what Surat Yasin talks about, and what
was the purpose.
Surat As-Safat looks at the obedience of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, submitting to the
will of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, by
believing in the unseen, and accepting that which
we cannot understand the wisdom behind.
This is why Surat As-Safat to me
is a very important surah in general, for
all of us as Muslims.
There's a part of submitting to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala that involves us having faith
or believing in things that we cannot scientifically,
through our senses and through our tools of
measurement actually ever come in contact with.
It's something that's beyond our grasp and beyond
our reach within the world that we live
in, which is ghayb.
And there are things that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, and there are commands that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala give us, that we
don't necessarily fully understand the wisdom behind it.
You may say, well why would I do
something I don't understand, well the logical process
that needs to be taken here is important.
What Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants you
to use your logic and to use your
rationale behind it is believing in Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala himself, is accepting the will
of Allah, is believing in the existence and
the creation and the revelation of God, believing
in the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, studying the
revelation, studying the major concepts and values of
these revelations.
When you do all that, you come to
a level of certainty in what he did
jalla jalaluhu.
Once you come to that level of certainty,
when you fully believe in Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, you're a mu'min in the revelation
and the message of the Prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam.
Through looking at the universe, through looking at
history, through looking at life itself, through looking
at the values and teachings and commands that
Islam actually has.
Once you come to that level of certainty,
then there will be commands from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala that you may not be
able to fully understand in detail.
They will never be harmful for you, but
you may not be able to understand properly.
If you've come to that level of certainty
and belief in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
then you won't have a problem continuing.
He didn't ask jalla jalaluhu for people to
follow the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam blindly at
the beginning.
No.
He asked people to take time, to think,
to ask questions, to argue, to debate, to
bring proof, to bring evidence.
Once they believed in Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, to submit, which is the whole point
of this cluster of surahs, that once you
believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, once
you've accepted Islam through looking at the major
concepts, you submit, you follow, even if you
don't fully understand.
As long as you are sure that this
is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's command, which
is something that last sentence should be put
in bold.
As long as you are sure this is
what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, it's
not the interpretation of someone who maybe is
not being sincere, it's not an agenda of
a certain group, you are 100% sure
this is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
commanded, then you go ahead with it.
And that's what surah al-Saffah talks about,
along with believing in the unseen.
That's why the beginning of this surah is,
وَالصَّفَّةِ صَفَّ فَالزَّاجِرَاتِ زَجَرَ فَالتَّالِيَاتِ ذِكْرَ He takes
oath subhanahu wa ta'ala by the angels,
and what they do in the sky when
they line up in lines, and they move
all together and they bring revelation, they are
following the commands of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, you will never see the mala'ika
in our lives, you won't have close contact
with them.
But it's a part of iman, iman billahi
wa mala'ikatihi, to believe in Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala's other creations, the creations that
follow his commands subhanahu wa ta'ala, even
though we don't see them, we don't necessarily
know that they are out there, but believing
in them is a part of faith.
إِنَّ إِلَٰهَكُمْ لَوَاحَدٌ إِنَّ إِلَٰهَكُمْ لَوَاحَدٌ Indeed, your
creator, your lord, or your deity is but
one.
رَبُّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا وَرَبُّ الْمَشَارِقَ And
then the ayat continue, and they talk about
other things that are unseen.
إِنَّ زَيَّنَّ السَّمَاءَ الدُّنْيَا بِزِيْنَةٍ الْكَوَاكِبَ وَحِفْظًا مِّن
كُلِّ شَيْطَانٍ مَّارِدَ لَا يَسَّمَّعُونَ إِلَىٰ الْمَلَئِ الْأَعْلَىٰ
وَيُقْذَفُونَ مِّن كُلِّ جَانِبٍ دُحُورًا وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ وَاصِبٌ
He said, indeed we have put decoration in
the sky, stars and planets.
And the point of them, that the Qur
'an is talking about, is that there's a
relationship between these stars and these planets.
And the fact that jinn try to listen
and hear what the mala'ik are talking
about up in the cosmos.
Now we will never come in contact with
that.
We will never actually know anything about that.
We can't observe it and we cannot measure
it.
But that's what the Qur'an is telling
us one of the purposes of all that
is.
لَا يَسَّمَّعُونَ إِلَىٰ الْمَلَئِ الْأَعْلَىٰ They cannot hear
what's being said up in the sky.
So the jinn, very clearly in the Qur
'an, and many many times this is repeated
in the Qur'an, they don't have access
to hearing anything.
So maybe we should move on from that
point now as Muslims.
Maybe just forget about that, because they can't.
The Qur'an is being very clear.
دُحُورًا They will be immediately removed.
وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ وَاصِبٌ And they will immediately be
punished.
Now is that the only purpose that these
stars and planets serve?
No, of course not.
There's the observable part of it all, and
the way the universe actually works together.
But there's an unseen aspect of believing in
them that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala inserts
in the Qur'an.
He's putting here in surah As-Saffat.
You'll see it in other places in the
Qur'an as well.
But this is something that as Muslims we
believe in.
Even though we don't have means to measure
it, because the Qur'an tells us about
it.
And as you move forward in the ayat,
He talks subhanahu wa ta'ala about what
people will be saying yawm al-qiyamah, those
who didn't believe.
They'll ask, أَإِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ أَوَٓا آبَاءُنَا الْأَوَّلُ We're
going to be resurrected?
And our forefathers?
قُلْ نَعْمْ وَأَنْتُمْ دَاخِرُونَ Yes, 100% you're
going to be brought to the Day of
Judgment against your will.
And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
say, وَقِفُوهُمْ إِنَّهُمْ مَسْؤُلُونَ And stop right there.
Everyone will come to a halt.
Indeed, they are accountable.
They're going to be held accountable.
They were responsible on this earth when they
were alive.
We have to talk about that.
مَا لَكُمْ لَا تَنَاصَرُونَ Why aren't you asking
for help today?
He talks to his servants subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
Why aren't you strengthening yourselves with one another
with whatever wealth or social status that you
have?
بَلْ هُمُ الْيَوْمَ مُسْتَسْلِمُونَ No, no.
The fact is today that they are in
full submission.
The submission they should have been in when
they were alive.
فَسُورَةُ الصَّفَّاتِ تُحْتَحَدَّثُ عَنْ لِلْإِسْتِسْلَامِ لِلَّهِ
وَلِلْإِنْقِيَادِ لَهُ بِالْإِيمَانِ بِالْغَيْبِ وَبِالْإِيمَانِ بِالْأَوَامِرِ
وَبِقَبُولِ الْأَوَامِرِ الَّتِي لَا نَفْهَمُ الْحُكْمَةَ مِنْهَا بِشَكْلٍ
وَاضِحٍ Allah did not ask us to follow
the Prophet ﷺ blindly.
The companions did not ask for this.
And He did not ask us to lead
without thinking, and to reason, and to observe,
and to remember, and to know.
Rather, Allah commanded us to look at the
proofs and the evidences and He took our
eyes and our minds to the heavens and
the earth, and to history, and to the
universe, and to life.
Until we knew Allah, until we believed in
Allah, we looked at the Messenger of Allah
ﷺ and his guidance, and we found that
the values that Islam brought were great values,
that the Qur'an is a miraculous book
that is not similar to anything else.
So, when faith is fulfilled in our hearts,
and certainty is fulfilled in our hearts, when
we are certain that Allah has commanded something,
even if we do not understand what is
required of Him, we submit and obey.
And this is an important meaning in religion.
It needs to be reviewed and looked at.
But we have to make sure that Allah
has commanded this first.
That this is not a matter that is
understood by some people about Allah or a
certain group that has a special agenda that
tries to make sure that what we follow
is Allah's will.
So, when we are certain that this is
Allah's will, we follow and submit, even if
we do not understand the wisdom.
And faith in the unseen is a matter
that we cannot measure with science and our
senses cannot reach it.
But we believe in it because we believe
in Allah and His Messenger and in His
Qur'an first.
Faith is achieved through theory, thought, science and
logic.
So, when we reach this, we accept His
commandment completely.
For this reason, the first surah was the
Surah Al-Saffat, and the angels are of
the unseen that we cannot see and deal
with.
And we believe in them.
Then Allah says about what He has created
in the heavens, We have adorned the world
with the adornment of the stars and preserved
from every rebellious devil.
When we look at the stars, we do
not see this.
We see that they exist for other reasons.
There are physical reasons.
Otherwise, the earth could not remain in its
orbit around the sun But there is another
purpose that these planets and stars serve and
that is to preserve the heavens from the
hearing of the jinn to the angels.
This is something we believe in even though
we do not see it, see it or
measure it.
This is an important matter to believe in
what our Lord has told us.
By the way, Allah says that the jinn
do not hear.
They do not hear to the highest angels.
So, we have to move from this point
because the jinn do not know anything.
Allah repeats this in the Qur'an many
times.
The angels do not have a way.
The Qur'an repeats this over and over
again.
It would be great if we could understand
this from Allah.
Then Allah shows us the words of non
-believers on the Day of Resurrection or before
the Day of Resurrection We will be resurrected.
Our forefathers said, Yes, and you will be
buried.
Then on the Day of Resurrection it will
be said to them, They will be questioned.
Everyone will be questioned on the Day of
Resurrection and he will be put in a
cage.
So, we ask you, why do you not
help each other today?
Where is your support?
Rather, today they have submitted.
Complete submission.
This is what was supposed to be the
state of people in this world.
To submit to Allah.
But they did not submit to Allah on
the Day of Resurrection.
So, they submitted to him with hatred on
the Day of Resurrection.
They showed arrogance when that was told to
them.
We're going to leave our deities for a
crazy poet and they're speaking of the Prophet.
So, Allah answers them, No, that's not the
case.
And then he says, And the word comes
in the Quran maybe seven or eight times,
I can't remember.
But four of them are in Surah As
-Saffat.
Because Al-Mukhlas is the one that Allah
purified and sincerely took upon himself to take
care of.
Something that is unseen again.
Al-Mukhlas is someone who has put in
the effort to be sincere.
Al-Mukhlas is someone who Allah chose to
be sincere for him.
You'll find it four times in Surah As
-Saffat.
And at the end, The people of Jannah,
they ask one another, How did we end
up here?
Where are the other people that we used
to know?
Questions.
One of them says, I used to have
a friend of mine who wasn't a believer.
And he would say this to me, Do
you actually believe any of this?
Do you actually believe any of the unseen
stuff?
Do you believe in angels?
Do you believe that the stars and the
planets have any other purpose besides their physical
presence in the sky?
Do you believe any of that?
SubhanAllah.
The ayat actually come and say that.
That when we die, we'll be resurrected and
held accountable.
Then he tells his friends, take a look.
And the person who was saying that to
him is being punished.
There is no god but Allah.
And we only find the word Tawheed twice
in the Quran, once in Surah As-Saffat
and once in Surah Muhammad.
There is no god but Allah.
And the slogan of Tawheed is an unseen
matter that we don't realize.
In our relationship with Allah.
But we believe in it through our view
of the universe.
They say, leave our gods to a mad
poet.
And they insult the Prophet.
He actually came with the truth and gave
the truth to the messengers.
Then he talks about the believers and says
that they are only the sincere servants of
Allah.
Four times in Surah Al-Mukhlasin.
And the sincere is not the sincere.
The sincere is the one who strives to
be sincere to Allah.
And the sincere is the one who Allah
has made sincere to himself.
And none of us knows who Allah has
made sincere to himself.
But this is the work of Allah.
And this is the unseen of Allah.
Then he talks about their blessings.
And he tells us a part of their
story.
One of the people of Paradise says to
the other, I had a friend, he was
a non-believer.
He said, are you one of the sincere?
Do you really believe in this?
Do you believe in angels?
Do you believe that planets and stars have
other purposes?
Do you believe in these things?
He said, are you looking?
Look.
He looked and saw him in the midst
of *.
Look.
And then we have a number of stories
in Surah As-Saffat.
These stories are very specifically chosen.
Each story has an aspect of it of
a Prophet doing something that they didn't understand
necessarily the hikmah of.
The first story is Nuh.
What is the aspect of Nuh?
Nuh built an ark on the top of
a mountain.
He couldn't even see a body of water
from where he stood.
He didn't see oceans or water anywhere.
He was on the top of a mountain.
He was told to build an ark.
It took him years and years to build
it.
Now Nuh didn't necessarily understand the hikmah of
all this.
And people would walk by him and make
fun of him.
They would make fun of him.
And one of the narrations that we have
from the Israelites is that one of them
would come up to Nuh and say, Now
you've become a carpenter.
You left prophecy.
They would mock him.
Because he's building an ark on a mountain.
And that's why Nuh's story is in the
Surah.
He followed the command of Allah.
He was told, Build the ark, Nuh.
So he built the ark.
Even though he wasn't sure.
Why am I building an ark on a...
He built the ark.
Why?
Because Nuh had already come to a conclusion
of certainty in the belief of Allah.
He trusted Allah.
Being al-hakim, being the wise.
Being al-alim, the omniscient.
So if you believe that and you trust
that, then when he gives you a command,
you follow even if at the moment you
can't see the light in it.
The second example in the Surah is Ibrahim.
And Ibrahim is the most important example of
all.
I'll translate Nuh and then I'll come back
to that.
And Allah has chosen these Prophets a precise
choice.
So every Prophet was commanded to do something
that he hadn't seen his wisdom yet.
So Nuh, the first Prophet in the Surah,
was commanded to build an ark on a
mountain.
Build an ark.
Even though it wasn't surrounded by water.
And it wasn't surrounded by rivers.
So he didn't see, peace be upon him,
the wisdom in the first thing.
And people mocked him.
But he, peace be upon him, ...
...
...
...
I'll go to the chase immediately.
So what actually happened?
Ibrahim, peace be upon him, after wanting a
son for a long time, ...
And we told him, you're going to have
a very patient son.
...
...
...
...
...
He saw in his dream, peace be upon
him, in the dreams of the Prophets, or
commands from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that
he was slaughtering his son.
The known story.
So Ibrahim, peace be upon him, went to
his son and told him, this is what
I'm seeing in my dream.
So Ismail, peace be upon him, being a
believing, a pious young man, he said, do
what you were told, my father.
You will find me, peace be upon him,
to be patient and a good Salih.
You'll also find me to be pious.
...
The beauty of the Ayat in the Surah.
...
When they fully submitted.
The most difficult thing in the world, to
imagine, is to lose a child.
To imagine to actually have to take that
child's life yourself, is actually unimaginable.
It's not something that we can even fathom.
I can't imagine it.
I can't even...
I don't think I would...
I hope that...
I don't know what to say.
Imagine that if you were commanded to do
something like this, would you go through with
it?
Would you go through with it?
Don't say anything, please.
Because if you say no, you put yourself
in Ism without actually being told to do
it.
Say, insha'Allah, I would have followed Allah's
commands.
But Alhamdulillah, He has exempted us from such
commands.
But this is what he told Ibrahim, peace
be upon him, to do.
Did Ibrahim see the wisdom in doing this?
Not at all.
Where's the wisdom?
He's been waiting for this kid, for his
son, and now his son is old enough,
he's a young man, in a time when
a father enjoys the company of his son,
and he's being told to slaughter him.
فَأَلَمَّا أَسْلَمَا They fully submitted, both the father
and the son.
وَتَلَّهُ لِلْجَبِينَ And he took him by the
forehead.
He put the forehead on something that he
was going to slaughter on.
It's very difficult to imagine this moment.
And before he actually did anything to his
son, before he was able...
وَنَادَيْنَاهُ أَن يَا إِبْرَهِمْ He was called by
Allah, وَإِبْرَهِمْ قَدْ صَدَّقْتَ الرُّؤْيَةَ You have proven
yourself worthy.
You have proven yourself as someone who would
follow commands, no matter how difficult they are.
And he was told, إِنَّ هَذَا لَهُوَ الْبَلَاءُ
الْمُبِينُ This indeed, is the most difficult test
of all.
وَفَدَيْنَاهُ بِذِبِحٍ عَظِيمٍ And Allah Subhanahu wa ta
'ala gave him a...
هَدِيه A sheep to slaughter instead, and feed
people the meat.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is not in
it for the blood.
He's not looking for blood.
He wanted to prove to us, what Ibrahim
was capable of.
He wanted to show Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam, the
difficulty of what could have been.
Imagine if his commands were like that, all
difficult and all hard.
No one would have...
but he didn't.
He made his commands, Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
logical, rational, helpful.
There's full of wisdom.
But we follow his commands, Subhanahu wa ta
'ala, whether we see the wisdom or we
don't, as long as we are sure he
gave the commands, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, and
the way he gave it.
You don't have to always understand everything in
detail.
I can't...
These questions are difficult.
Why is it that we don't...
I get really weird questions.
Why is it that we can't drink?
Why is it that we can't perform zina?
Why do I have to wear hijab?
It's because Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said
so.
That's the first answer.
Now, there are always reasons behind it.
Not always...
I can't always give you all the reasons
properly.
You may not even be on the same
wavelength, in understanding these reasons.
But if you believe in Allah, if you've
done your homework, if you've looked at the
universe, and history, and life, and you believe
in Allah, and you believe in the Prophet,
and all the Prophets before him, and the
Quran, and you go to the Quran, and
you see him telling you very clearly, this
is what you need to do.
إِنَّمَا الْخَيْمُرُ وَالْمَيْسُ فَاجْتَنِيبُوهُ وَيَتَقْرَبُوا الْزِّنَةِ
وَلْيَضْلِبِنَا بِخُمُرِهِنَّ عَلَىٰ جِيُّوا بِهِنَّ Then you're good.
And you'll figure out the wisdom as you
go along.
And we know today that there's...
there's endless wisdom in everything He commanded us.
Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ That's something we praise Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, and we're thankful for in
this life.
هذا من أصعب الأمور والله قضية غير متخيلة
لا أستطيع تخيل مثل هذه المسألة رغم
أنهم لم يكونوا يرون الحكمة من هذا الأمر
لو سألت إبراهيم لماذا تذبحوا ابنك؟
ليس عنده حكمة هكذا أمرني ربي رأيت هذا
أمر الله وشرعه فأنفذ في منتهى الصعوبة المسألة
وتله للجبين ووضع جبينه على الأرض ليذبحه وناديناه
أن يا إبراهيم قد صدقت الرؤية إن هذا
له البلاء المبنى هذا أصعب امتحان الحمد لله
أنه ممتحننا بهذا وأنه ما أمرنا بشيء فيه
ضرر علينا وأنه ما أمرنا بكل شيء فيه
نفعنا وما نفذنا وأمر إبراهيم بالذي لا نفع
فيه فنفذ وأمرنا بالذي ليس فيه إلا نفعنا
ولم ننفذ كيف لو أمرنا بأن نذبح أبنائنا
أكننا أطاعنا؟
لا نجد أجيبه يصل الله سبحانه وتعالى أن
يتقبل منا أعمالنا وأن يجعلنا عبيد أحسان لا
عبيد أمتحان فنحن ضعفاء للأسف وفديناه بذبح عظيم
ربنا ما يريد يذبح طفل أو شاب هذا
ليس هذا الهدف وإنما هو تعليم درس قاس
وصعب ومهم يبقى معنا إلى يوم القيامة كل
عيد نذبح الهدي نتذكر أن الله ما أمرنا
بهذا ولو أمرنا لشق علينا لكنه من رحمته
ما فعل فننفذ الأمر السهل الذي أمرنا به
كونه لم يأمرنا بالصعب الشاق كل عام في
عيد الأضحى نذبح أبنائنا ونعطيهم لحم ونذبح أنه
لم يخبرنا أبنائنا أن نذبح لو فعلنا ذلك
لن يمكننا أن نتبعه لن نقبل أنه قد
قل لا ونصبح مقاتل لكنه لم يفعل هذا
من رحمته لقد أمرنا بعمل أسهل ونحن لا
نفعلها وهذا أين يجب أن نتعلم هذه الدرسة
بعد ذلك موسى عليه السلام موسى عليه السلام
لماذا موسى عليه السلام يقول أخذ أبنائك تسير
في نهاية الليل وانتق إلى البحر لا نملك
أسلحة يا رب اذهب إلى البحر فهو ذهب
لم يرى الوزن لكنه ذهب وعندما وصل إلى
هنا الله سبحانه وتعالى something he didn't understand.
Ilyas in the Qur'an.
This is the only place in the Qur
'an we have Ilyas' story.
It's very simple.
Ilyas is from the Ghayb to us.
We don't know anything about Ilyas.
We have very little information.
If you go and study the books of
Tafsir, very little.
Only what the Isra'iliyat tell us and
they're not very clear.
Ilyas is an example, is an example of
prophets that we don't know.
And it doesn't matter, we don't have to
know.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told us that
they exist and we accept that.
It's unseen but we accept it.
And Ilyas is the example of that in
Surah Al-Iyas.
But because we don't know much about him,
Lut Alayhi Salaam, he was ordered, Lut is
very interesting being in the Surah because Lut
Alayhi Salaam came and told us people do
not behave, sexual ethics are important, don't behave
like this.
Why?
Because that's what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
said.
Because the wisdom, it may not be something
you're going to able to be see, you're
going to be able to see today but
you will see at some point and we
see it today.
And that's why the story of Lut is
in the Surah.
And then Yunus is in the Surah.
Why?
Because Yunus Alayhi Salaam's story is much more
complicated.
Yunus refused, he made a mistake and his
mistake saved his people.
If people were going to be punished, if
Yunus stayed inside as Allah commanded him, his
people would have been punished.
But he made a mistake, he was punished
for the mistake and then because of that
mistake and the punishment he got, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala saved his people.
How do you understand the wisdom of that?
I don't know, I don't understand it.
I don't think anyone does.
But we accept it anyways because that's what
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala taught and that's
what happened and that's the wisdom that Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has, that is beyond
us.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala taught us the
wisdom of Yunus Alayhi Salaam and we don't
know anything about it.
It's a symbol for the prophets that we
don't know.
It's not necessary that we know them as
long as Allah knows them and has commanded
us and told us about them, we accept
it.
This is from the unseen that we don't
know.
And the story of Ilyas is only mentioned
here and his name is mentioned in another
Surah.
But the story of Ilyas is only mentioned
here and we accept the story of Ilyas
even though we don't know anything about him
because Allah told us about him.
The story of Lut Alayhi Salaam, he commands
with sexual morals, he commands with pride, and
he punishes with violence.
But why?
Because Allah has commanded.
Because his wisdom is above our wisdom.
And because he knows from the future of
the son of Adam that which we don't
know.
And we saw the results of this today.
And Yunus Alayhi Salaam, Yunus's whole story, his
wisdom is not clearly understood by us as
humans.
He disobeys his Lord and leaves the village
and the effects of his disobedience is that
his people are saved from the punishment.
But how did all of this happen?
This is the wisdom of Allah.
He submitted and accepted the command of Allah.
There are two trees in Surah As-Saffat.
There is Shajarat Al-Zaqqum for those who
did not believe in the unseen.
And there is Shajarat Al-Yaqtin for people
like Yunus Alayhi Salaam, for people like you
and I who make the mistakes but want
to build their lives again.
And we grew for him around him the
tree of Yaqtin.
And using that, Yunus Alayhi Salaam found shifa
because of the size of its leaves.
Yunus Alayhi Salaam was able to recover from
being in the belly of the whale.
And he was able to go back and
speak to his people and bring them da
'wah again.
There are two trees.
Choose which tree you want in this life.
The Surah ends by telling us that Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la does not
need of us.
He doesn't need us.
And he has no needs at all.
وَلَدَ اللَّهُ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَكَاذِبُونَ أَصْطَفَ الْبَنَاتِ عَلَى الْبَنِينِ
مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ You're saying he has
children.
What children do you speak of?
I need children.
I need a wife and I need children.
That's the social movement of existence.
It's embedded in our DNA, that need of
intimacy and that need of a family.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la doesn't
need any of that.
وَجَعَلُوا بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ الْجِنَّةِ نَسَبًا And they start
to make up things about the ghayb.
Making a relationship between Allah and the jinn.
What are you doing?
Where are you getting this information from?
You know nothing about this.
You accept what Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la says, period.
The Surah ends with him saying about himself
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, سُبْحَانَ رَبِّكَ
رَبِّ الْعِزَّةِ عَمَّ يَصِفُ رَبِّ الْعِزَّةِ This is
the only place in the Qur'an where
he speaks of himself like that.
What is عِزَّة?
عِزَّة is when something is unfathomable.
You can't imagine it.
اسم الله العزيز means you can't understand him.
You can never understand his essence, Subh'anaHu
Wa Ta-A'la.
Sometimes you can't understand his commands even.
We don't understand everything about God.
It's just the nature of God.
If we could, that means we can figure
him out.
If we can figure him out, we may
be able to oppose him and challenge him.
وَلَيَدَ بِلَا نَّفْرَ So he's رَبِّ الْعِزَّةِ He
is the lord of things that are unfathomable,
that are unimaginable, that are not understood.
And it's a beautiful ending, an appropriate ending
for Surat As-Safat.
تَنْتَهِي السُّورَةِ بِإِنَّ اللَّهَ سُبْحَانَهُ تَعَالَى يُخْبِرُنَا
عَشَجَرَتَيْنِ شَجَرَةَ الزَّقُّومِ لِلَّذِينَ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِالْغَيْبِ
وَبِحِكْمَةِ اللَّهِ فِي الْأُمُورِ وَشَجَرَةَ
الْيَقْطِينِ
تَنْتَهِي السُّورَةِ بِقَوْلِي سُبْحَانَهُ رَبِّكَ رَبِّ الْعِزَّةِ العزة
هو الشيء الذي لا يدرك الذي لا يفهم
العزيز هو الذي لا يدرك ولا يفهم فهو
رب العزة سبحانه وتعالى إِنَّا لَا نُدْرِكُ كُلَّ
شَيْءٍ مِنْ حِكْمَتِهِ وَنَقْبَلُهَا وَنُسَلِّمْ بِهَا I hope
that was beneficial at the end so the
way the Hajj is running, we started at
around 3 we may consider starting a bit
earlier during Taraweeh time and you can pray
Witr during Taraweeh and then pray Tahajjud later
it's fine, you can make a choice you
can say I want to pray Witr right
before Fajr or I want to pray it
earlier to make sure I don't miss it
whatever you choose to do is fine, the
way we're going to do it just for
ease and continuity we will continue to run
Witr during Taraweeh and then we'll pray our
Tahajjud later at night inshallah and we will
continue to tweak the program inshallah there's dua
in both languages and that it all works
out in a way that is beneficial for
everybody bismillah ta'ala سبحانك اللهم و بحمدك
اشهد ان لا اله الا انت استغفرك واتوب
اليك وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله
وصحبه السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته