Ahmad Saleem – In-depth Tafseer of Surah Kahf – Understanding Quranic Lessons – Part 6
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The group discusses the importance of staying in a cave for 30 days and the use of silver coins to prevent people from being caught. They also talk about the "verbal nature of Islam" and the "verbal nature of the world" before moving on to discuss the "verbal nature of Islam" and criminal justice system in Turkey. The segment ends with a brief advertisement for a book.
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Then Allah ﷻ
says, ذلك من آيات الله.
This deviation of the sun left and right,
this word, this is ayat, this is one
of the signs of Allah ﷻ.
من يهدي الله, whosoever Allah ﷻ guides, فهو
المهدد, he is the one who is truly
guided.
ومن يضلل, and if Allah decides, ومن يضلل,
whosoever Allah ﷻ misguides, فلن تجيد له وليًّا
مرشدا.
You shall find, you will never find for
that person any mentor that can guide him.
And this is a really scary thing because
if Allah ﷻ decides, He's not going to
guide you, right, parents come to me, right,
you may have children, you're going to have
grandkids, right, we don't control any of that.
We don't control the hidayah.
I was recently in one of the states
and it was like, oh, I'm working so
hard on my neighbor and you know, they
have understood the Qur'an, they're so close
but they're not accepting.
And I want him to become Muslim and
I said, that's where you're going wrong.
We can't make anyone Muslim or we can't
force anyone to conform, right, we can advise,
we can talk, we can tell, but at
the end of the day, it's Allah ﷻ
on whose hand is hidayah and guidance.
The next ayah, Allah ﷻ says, وَتَحْسَبُهُمْ أَيْقَادًا
وَهُمْ رُقُودًا If you were to look at
them, you would see that they are awake
and they were fast asleep.
وَنُقَلِّبُهُمْ ذَاتَ الْيَمِينِ وَذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ And we were
turning them to the left and right.
وَكَلْبُهُمْ بَاسِطٌ ذِرَاعِيهِ بِالْوَصِيدِ And their dog was
sitting at the entrance of the cave with
the paws, he's sitting outside, having the four
legs stretched out.
لَوَ اطْطَلَاتَ عَلَيْهِمْ If you were to look
at that scene of theirs, لَوَلَّيْتَ مِنْهُمْ فِرَارًا
You would have turned away out of fear.
لَوَلَّيْتَ مِنْهُمْ فِرَارًا You would have turned away,
running away from them.
وَلَمُلِئْتَ مِنْهُمْ رُعْبًا And your heart would have
been filled with terror and horror by looking
at that sight.
If you missed the detailed explanation of that,
please go and check it out on YouTube.
We talked, these two ayahs, we spent an
hour explaining them.
There's a lot of things happening here, that
I'm sure if you've not heard this, you
should definitely go and check it out.
It's going to give you a complete new
perspective of how to understand this ayah, inshaAllah.
Then Allah says, وَكَذَٰلِكَ And we had mentioned
this multiple times in this tafsir class or
any other tafsir class that I teach.
Whenever Allah SWT says وَذْكُرْ وَكَذَٰلِكَ These words,
they are an indication where Allah SWT is
like, Now if you have seen all the
amazing things that Allah has already done to
Ashabul Kahf, by protecting them, by putting them
in a cave, by preserving their bodies for
300 years, by not allowing their bodies to
decay, all of the miracles, by the sun
turning towards right, the miraculous nature of the
sunrise, sunset, all of this وَكَذَٰلِكَ And like
this.
The way I did all of that, Allah
is like وَكَذَٰلِكَ بَعَثْنَاهُمْ And likewise, we brought
them back to life.
بَعَثْنَاهُمْ لِيَتَسَأَلُوا بَيْنَهُمْ So they may ask amongst
one another.
They may ask amongst them one another.
قَالَ قَائِلٌ مِّنْهُمْ One of them said, what
did he say?
قَمْ لَبِثْتُمْ How long did you stay in
this cave?
قَالُوا لَبِثْنَا يَوْمًا أَوْ بَعْضَ يَوْمٍ They said
we stayed maybe a day or two.
Which means that all the indications around did
not allude to a long stay.
If somebody, if a car, if you go
for vacation and you leave your car outside,
you come back, you know right away the
car has been standing here for 30 days.
It's got dust, it's got like a film
of leaves and pine straws and all, you
know that the car has been there, neglected.
They looked around their surroundings and there was
nothing to indicate to them that they had
stayed for more than a day, maybe part
of a day.
قَالُوا رَبُّكُمْ أَعْلَمُوا بِمَا لَبِثْتُمْ One of them
said, Allah really knows how long you stayed.
Right.
So, one person said how long did we
stay.
قَالُوا, a group said, لَبِثْنَا يَوْمًا أَوْ بَعْضَ
يَوْمٍ We stayed a day or a portion
of a day.
قَالُوا, the second group said, رَبُّكُمْ أَعْلَمُوا بِمَا
لَبِثْتُمْ We had mentioned last time in the
tafsir of this ayah, this tells us how
many people were there?
Seven.
How?
قَالَ قَائِلٌ وَاحِدٌ قَالُوا, minimum of jama' is
what?
Three.
So, one group is three.
قَالُوا, the other group is also minimum three.
So, three, three plus one, seven.
Right.
So, that's how some of the Mufassirun, they
said, we know that there were seven people.
Right.
فَبَعْثُوا أَحَدَكُمْ بِوَرِقِّكُمْ هَذِهِ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ فَلْيَنظُرْ
أَيُّهَا أَزْكَى طَعَامٍ So, one of them said
that, so send one of you with these
silver coins to the city, and let him
find whichever is the purest food.
Last time we talked in detail about أَزْكَى
طَعَامٍ.
فَلْيَأْتِكُمْ بِرِزْقٍ مِّنْهُ وَلْيَتَ لَقَّفْ Let that person
bring some of the rizq, i.e. from
this market.
Be very subtle and gentle.
Do not rattle anyone.
Be very, very, like put, you know, secret
services mode.
Nobody should know that you exist.
Just go in there quietly and come back.
Why?
وَلَا يُشْعِرَنَّ بِكُمْ أَحَدًا Right?
You know, be very cautious and don't give
away yourselves.
Don't let anyone, you know, catch you or
don't let this person, don't let yourself be
given away to somebody else, i.e. you'll
get caught with this.
إِنَّهُمْ إِنْ يَظْهَرُوا عَلَيْكُمْ يَرْجُمُوكُمْ أَوْ يُعِيدُكُمْ فِي
مِلَّتِهِمْ If they happen to catch you, what's
going to happen?
They will force you back into their religion.
أَوْ يَرْجُمُوكُمْ Or they will stone you to
death.
يَرْجُمُوكُمْ That also tells you that the act
of Rajm has been around since way past.
It's not something new, right?
It existed back in the day.
أَوْ يُعِيدُكُمْ Or they're going to return you
or force you back فِي مِلَّتِهِمْ In their
way.
Okay?
Now, مِلَل, مِلَّ, we didn't talk about this
last time.
The word مِلَّ, what's the root word of
it?
مِلَمْ No, that can never be a root
word.
مِمْ لَمْ لَمْ Okay?
مِلَل Okay?
And مِلَل is هو اسم لما شرع الله
لعباده على لسان الأنبياء That's the definition of
مِلَل مِلَل is اسم, it's a name for
anything we give لِمَا شَرَعَ اللَّهُ لِعِبَادِهِ عَلَى
لِسَانِ الْأَنبِيَاءِ That which Allah has legislated for
people through the tongues of Prophets The word
مِلَّ is the legislation that Allah has legislated
for people Or شريعة that has been legislated
for people And that شريعة came to you
and me through the tongues of Anbiya Or
i.e. via Anbiya A.S That's why
in the Qur'an it says what?
مِلَّةَ أَبِيكُمْ إِبْرَاهِيمُ The way of the مِلَّة
إِنِّي تَرَكْتُ مِلَّةَ قَوْمٍ I've left the way
of the people that don't worship Allah And
I'm on the way of my forefathers So
whenever you see the word مِلَّة it will
allude to that Surah Al-Imran where is
it?
فَاتَّبِعُوا مِلَّةَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ Follow the مِلَّةَ the way
of Ibrahim A.S وَاتَّبَعْتُ مِلَّةَ آبَائِي I
follow the ways of my forefathers Yaqub A
.S And you know all of that So
this word is really powerful Okay And
you will see that it is never ever
You will never see مِلَّةُ الله in the
Qur'an You will never see that it
is attributed to Allah's way It's always attributed
to a Nabi's way Okay Or sometimes people's
way occasionally in the Qur'an Okay And
again as we said our purpose of this
is We want to allude to certain words
So that we have better understanding of these
words Insha'Allah Now Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
'ala says This is the new portion أَعُوذُ
بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
وَكَذَلِكَ عَثَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ لِيَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ وَعْدَ اللَّهِ حَقُّ
وَأَنَّ السَّاعَةَ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهَا إِذْ يَتَنَازَعُونَ بَيْنَهُمْ
أَمْرَهُمْ فَقَالُوا بِنُوا عَلَيْهِمْ بُنْيَانًا رَبُّهُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِهِمْ
قَالَ الَّذِينَ غَلَبُوا عَلَىٰ أَمْرِهِمْ لَنَتَّخِذَنَّ عَلَيْهِمْ
مَسْجِدًا سَيَقُولُونَ ثَلَاثَةٌ رَابِعُهُمْ كَلْبُهُمْ
وَيَقُولُونَ خَمْسَةٌ سَادِسُهُمْ كَلْبُهُمْ رَجْمًا
بِالْغَيْبِ وَيَقُولُونَ سَبْعَةٌ وَثَامِنُهُمْ
كَلْبُهُمْ قُلْ رَبِّي أَعْلَمُ بِعِدَّتِهِمْ مَا يَعْلَمُهُمْ
إِلَّا قَلِيلٌ فَلَا تُمَارِ فِيهِمْ إِلَّا مِرَا لَا
تَسْتَفْتِ فِيهِمْ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدًا وَلَا تَقُولَنَّ
لِشَيْئٍ إِنِّي فَاعِلٌ ذَلِكَ غَدًا إِلَّا
أَن يَشَاءُ وَاذْكُرْ رَبَّكَ
إِذَا نَسِيْتَ وَقُلْ عَسَىٰ أَن يَهْدِيَنِ رَبِّي لِأَقْرَبَ
مِنْ هَذَا رَشَدًا وَلَبِثُوا فِي كَهْفِهِمْ ثَلَاثَمِئَةٍ
سِنِينَ وَازْدَادُوا تِسْعَاه قُلِ اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا
لَبِثُوا لَهُ غَيْبُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ أَبْصِرْ بِهِ
وَأَسْمِعْ مَا لَهُمْ مِنْ دُونِهِ مِنْ وَلِيٌّ وَلَا
يُشْرِكُ وَلَا يُشْرِكُ فِي حُكْمِهِ أَحَدًا So Allah
ﷻ talks about in these verses وَكَذَلِكَ أَعْثَرْنَا
عَلَيْهِمْ Again, the miraculous nature of what Allah
ﷻ has done with them Likewise, even their
discovery was of a miraculous nature What was
the nature?
So they were a group of people And
they were all arguing about what affairs They
were arguing about whether Allah ﷻ is capable
of resurrecting The أَرْوَاحِ مَعَ الْأَجْسَادِ Is Allah
ﷻ capable of resurrecting these spirits or the
رُوح with the body Or the رُوح alone
and not the body So there was a
massive debate And they were Muslims And there
was a debate between the two individuals, two
groups They were debating about this affair As
they were debating, the king said Allah ﷻ
really knows what is going to happen So
at that moment, Allah ﷻ resurrected them, one
of them He comes into the city Wait
a minute, you are dressed weird Like you
don't look like from the century Imagine if
you, even now if you see pictures from
1930s That's odd, they used to dress like
that?
Even we would feel weird looking at them
today And this is 300 years And an
entire generation, generation, generation, generation So 300 years,
so 8 generations have passed Every 25 years
is generation So every 25 years 300, so
8-9 generations And a different religion has
taken over the country now The last 9
years has been a different set of, a
new religion So when they find this person,
they find it very odd They are like,
oh you are not from here But since
these were the actual Muslims, i.e. Christians
who believed in the true Christianity, not Trinity
They said, you are the ones that we
have been talking about The 7 sleepers that
went missing So they had these amazing stories
about them Just today, I was with a
pastor having lunch He is one of the
big Baptist church, he is the pastor And
I said, the story of 7 sleepers is
in your Bible He is like, no it's
not I'm like, yeah it's in your Bible
No it's not I'm like, it's in your
Bible Very strange Because they don't want to
affirm anything that's in our book It's in
the Catholic Bible, it's in the Presbyterian Bible,
it's in the Bible No, no, it's not
in the Baptist Bible I'm like, well I'm
sorry, but for me as an outsider, it's
in your Bible Whether it's in a Catholic
Bible or a Presbyterian Bible, it doesn't matter
to me, it's in your Bible No, no,
but this particular book is not in our,
you know, we don't have this one That's
fine, it's there in the Bible So they
also have the story of 7 sleepers The
Jewish people also have the story of 7
sleepers The Buddhists have the story of 7
sleepers So Allah ﷻ is saying, وَكَذَلِكَ أَعْثَرْنَا
عَلَيْهِمْ i.e. their discovery, i.e. the
community discovered them, that itself was of a
miraculous nature How they found him in the
city and then he ended up being in
the king and then the entire king Everybody
came to pay respects to them لِيَعْلَمُوا Why?
So they may know Right أَنَّ وَعَدَ اللَّهِ
حَقَّ The promise of Allah ﷻ Which wa
'ad?
The resurrection, beautiful الوعد, what is the wa
'ad?
The resurrection Okay Now, according to the Mufassirun,
there's lots of opinion on what this wa
'ad is Is it the wa'ad of
Jannah?
Is it the wa'ad of Hisab?
Is it the wa'ad of resurrection?
But is it the wa'ad of what
is going to happen in Barzakh?
But all of that, the unseen that we
all believe in, that's what it's referring to
Wa'ad, whatever you want to take it
أَنَّ وَعَدَ اللَّهِ حَقَّ وَأَنَّ السَّاعَةَ لَا رَيْبَ
فِيهَا And the hour, it is, there is
absolutely no doubt in the hour The hour
is going to happen, it is going to
come لَا رَيْبَ فِيهَا There is no doubt
in the hour The word أَحْذَرْنَا I forgot
to mention this, it just came to my
mind The word أَحْذَرْنَا comes from the root
word of What's the root word?
عَيْن ثَٰرَى It's very obvious The root word
is عَيْن ثَٰرَى عُثُورْ عَلَى الشَّيْء So usually,
عُثُورْ عَثَرَى actually comes after, usually عَلَى يَتَعَدَّ
بِعَلَى You'll use the word عَلَى And the
word عُثُورْ is something really interesting The choice
of the word Allah SWT Allah says in
English, we found them or we caused them
to discover عُثُورْ is basically اِتْطِلَاعُ عَلَى شَيْءٍ
To discover something او ظَفْرُ عَلَى شَيْءٍ Or
to stumble upon something بَعْدَ الطَّلَب When you
were seeking So this is a subtle indication
That all over these 300 years There were
a group of people Adventurers or explorers That
were seeking these 7 people What happened to
them So when Allah uses the word عَثَرْنَا
It was not like they just randomly stumbled
upon 300 years and there were a group
of people Everybody was seeking to find out
what happened to them And Allah says وَكَذَٰلِكَ
عَثَرْنَا This is how we fulfilled their seeking
And that's what's hidden in the word عُثُورْ
Okay And the word وَعَدْ اَنَّ وَعَدَ اللَّهِ
حَقَّ What's the root word of وَعَدْ This
is very easy وَعَدْ There's only 3 words
You can't have a 2 letter root word
وَعِندَالْ MashaAllah Wow that was such an amazing
discovery How did you find that Okay وَعَدْ
Is a promise And this promise can be
Good or bad So it's very important for
us to know that You can say وَعَدْتُ
بِنَفْعٍ I promised him for some benefit And
from here is When the word وَعَدْ Turns
into وَعِيد When it turns into وَعِيد It
becomes for شَبْ It becomes for evil Or
something وَعِيد This is an extreme warning Be
careful this is not Like it is a
promise You're gonna have a consequence But it's
not a really good consequence It's a consequence
you should be afraid of Okay Coming back
Allah ﷻ says إِذْ يَتَنَازَعُونَ بَيْنَهُمْ أَمْرَهُمْ So
what happened The group of them They started
having تنازع Between them The 2 groups The
one who said روح can be resurrected Without
the body And the other said No, no,
no Body and the روح combined The group
came And now the 2 groups got divided
Right And they are having this dispute Amongst
themselves تنازع What was the affair of تنازع
There are 5 opinions about that What was
the dispute about Okay Do you have an
English translation What do they say about In
the English translation I don't have one open
But I'll open one Anybody has an English
translation What is the تنازع بَيْنَهُمْ Do they
allude to that Yeah Each other about The
case of the youth Okay Over here the
translation says The case of the youth After
their death So first one أَحَدُهَا The first
opinion of تنازع Is أنَّهُمْ تَنَازِعُوا فِي الْبُنِيَانِ
وَالْمَسْجِدِ The تنازع The dispute was Should we
make a مسجد Or should we make a
tomb on top of them That's the first
opinion of تنازع The second one Is أنَّهُمْ
تَنَازِعُوا فِي الْبَعْسِ فَقَالَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ تُبْعَثُوا الْأَجْسَادُ
وَالْأَرْوَاحِ The Muslims The people who were actually
On the right أقيدة They said Our روح
and body Will be resurrected The others that
did not have The right أقيدة said There's
no way the body Can be resurrected روح
may be possible Okay That's the second تنازع
The third one أنَّهُمْ تَنَازِعُوا مَا يَصْنَعُونَ بِالْفِتْيَاءِ
What do we do with the people They're
dead now And remember the story We mentioned
before Why did they die After they were
resurrected Why did they die Or did I
not mention it Okay I thought I mentioned
it Huh So when they were resurrected They
came back They looked at The entire I
think I did mention it I did mention
it That it became so difficult For them
to see That the world has moved on
Right And 300 years This is not a
world We can live in So they made
Dua to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala They
told Allah We would like to go back
We don't want to live In this world
right now It's kind of the same That
when I told I told I gave the
example Of the prisoner That when the prisoner
If they go for 25 years In prison
for some You know crime They come back
out What happens to them Right Most of
them They end up committing suicide Right Because
the world When they come out After 25
years It's so different That they can't fit
in It becomes so difficult For them And
the system Is not designed To accommodate Whereas
The incarceration system In Islam Was very different
Right If you look at the history Of
incarceration The incarceration system In Islam Was that
you were Incarcerated Within the society They don't
annex you From the society Because they want
The society to cure you And fix you
So there would be Households that were known
Leaders of households And every leader In a
Qabila Had a prison attached To their house
And they would be Put on those prisons
That's what they did In the Turkish Empire
Right The Turks would also have Their own
private prisons The food will be Given to
them They will be treated well They will
be honored And because of that Constant interaction
With the Muslims And with good Akhlaq of
the Muslims They would fix So it was
never about Isolation It's never about that It's
a very foreign Concept to Muslims What is
happening today In you know Incarceration Especially in
America It's quite Quite sad So what do
The issue that happened What do we do
With these youth That have died Should we
bury them Should we leave them As is
The issue was Do we dig a grave
And put them in the grave Or do
we let them Sleep on the ground Like
that The way Allah Kept them for 300
years That was the dispute That they had
The fourth opinion Is They disputed On how
long Did they stay 300 years 309 years
How long Have they No no They've only
been here For 50 years So there was
a huge Dispute amongst The group of people
In the number of years That they stayed
And the last one Is They started Arguing
They said no no no These are not
the seven They were more Because there were
Some people who had Opinion And some are
like No no no They were only six
This sixth seventh One is extra So what
was Their exact number That was also The
dispute that they had Okay The reason I
mention All of this to you And all
of these Opinions Of this word Tanazor Is
Founded In the first Three generations Of our
salaf Which tells you That Quran Is open
to The Like Within the salaf Also They
had multiple Interpretations Now if I took one
Interpretation And you took Another And you took
Another All of our Interpretations Will cause An
Ikhtilaf In the society But that Ikhtilaf Or
that Variance Is Variance Of Tanawwuh It created
Variety Of understandings Amongst us Right Where as
the Fuqaha Where as The people Of jurists
When they talk About fiqhi Rulings It's always
like It's either halal And haram It's like
Makruh Or mubah It's like two Opposites But
for Tafsir You actually Understand the Variety that
Exists within The tafsir Books And that's The
only Purpose of Mentioning Some Like some Of
the Ayat You will Sometimes Find ten Aqwal
And they're All by the Sahaba's Or the
Tabi'een So if the Sahaba's and Tabi
'een's Could not Agree You and I can't
We will not Agree And that's The point
of Understanding That you know Those variances Existed
and The version Of Islam That you know
May actually Come with one Of the ten
Opinions only Right So
if You overpower Their opinion On the Group
What did They say We'll Place We'll create
A place of Worship over Them Okay Now
as Muslims You had A question Yes Yes
The seven People have Made dua That they
Want to Die And now The community Is
divided What do We do With them Do
we Bury them Do we Leave them As
is Do we Make a tomb Out of
them Do we Create a Masjid out Of
them So the The ones That the Opinion
that Prevailed is Let's make A masjid Out
of them Now question For you Can we
Make a masjid Out of Graves In our
Sharia We can't Right Can there be a
Grave in a Masjid I see the Beautiful
question Marks on Every person's Face they're Like
Yeah Can we Have a Grave in A
masjid What happens To masjid What happens To
masjid The nebuy Huh Okay
So there's A room So we Can have
Graves Can we Have a Grave within A
masjid No Come on Guys Yes
Yes No Okay So we Cannot plan A
masjid With a Grave in The middle If
the Masjid Grows And it Encompasses The grave
Then it's Fine So the Grave of The
Was not Planned to Be part Of the
Masjid Initially If you Look at The Drawings
Of the Masjid Of Rasul Allah It was
The boundary And it Was outside Of the
Masjid But then Later on The masjid Expanded
And it Encompassed Similarly The grave Of Ayub
And all Of the Other Prophets In Turkey
That you Go Right Sometimes They're Like right
In the Middle Of the Masjid They Were
never Intended To be In the Masjid The
masjid Was Separate Okay The Ruling is You
can Have a Grave In a Masjid Property
As long As it Is not Facing the
Qibla What Happened Huh Yeah There can Be
Yeah So The Ruling Is it Shouldn't Be
Facing The Qibla Masjid Is This Way And
We're Praying This Way And We Put A
Grave Right In Front Of The Qibla Okay
We Should Have The Masjid In Front Qibla
Okay So The You Can Have The Masjid
Property Long As It Is Not Facing The
Qibla Okay Now If The Masjid Expands And
It Encompasses The Grave Then That's A Different
Story Okay But We're Not You Know We
Shouldn't Plan For That Right There Are Masjids
In The UK That Are Being Built I
Don't Know If You Know That There Are
Masjids That Are Being Built They Are Like
Okay They Are Building An Entire Masjid Around
The Grave So Next Ayah Say A Group
Of Them Are Going To Say Is Being
Told That Now That We Have Told You
This Story And This Is Very Important For
Us To Understand
The Masjid Masjid And Masjid And The Masjid
Ayah Say