Ahmad Saleem – In-depth Tafseer of Surah Kahf – Understanding Quranic Lessons – Part 8
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minash shaytan wa a'udhu fire
which is surrounded completely surrounded by walls of
fires and when they're placed in it and
they seek in it they aid for water
they ask for water they will be given
water but the water is going to be
it is going to be water that is
going to be molten metal it would burn
their faces and how wretched is this drink
and what a terrible place to rest now
as for those indeed those who believed and
they did pious deeds we have talked about
the definition of amal salih and the three
conditions of it that if you have done
an ounce of good rest assured that allah
will not let it waste you will get
it and for those i.e the one
this category ayah number 30 these are the
people for them allah has created jannat gardens
of eternity so jannah itself is eternal then
why the gardens of eternity let's see let's
uh i don't want to do talking jannah
itself is eternal then why jannat gardens of
eternity come on
guys think about it where does the ayah
start from isn't
jannah eternal yeah
but jannah is eternal then why eternal gardens
if you're going to enter jannah everything is
eternal in it then why specify out of
it everyone's going to get their own yeah
inshallah we hope we get our own jannahs
inshallah okay so think about it right sometimes
allah does give us a specific sifah an
attribute of something we already know you know
for example we know it's a car it
drives and stuff but then you will specify
a specific attribute of that car we know
it's embedded in it but we want to
emphasize on that so we know that jannat
we know it has nahr but then in
one ayah allah says right it is anhar
there are four different types of anhar with
water and honey and laban and sharab all
of that specific but we all know that
jannat has has anhar but these specifications come
in to give us illusions but also emphasize
so don't forget it's not any jannah it's
a jannah once you enter adnan you will
live in it for eternity right the second
thing is it is probably referring to one
particular jannah i.e a garden within jannah
which its state will be eternal so it
is referring to a highest level of some
very like a very crown jewel within jannah
which is going to have an eternal i
.e bounty or something that something in it
is not going to change like jannatul firdaus
right it's a specific rank in jannah right
so it could be one of the ranks
in jannah right all the different aqwal have
been said but sometimes when allah gives us
these like subtleties they are there to remind
us that there are other attributes in it
and sometimes he wants to just emphasize that
attribute over here more importantly over here he
says that there are rivers that flow underneath
now we all know that if you can
somehow occupy a house and if that house
happens to have from within your house you'd
never see today a house from within your
house a river flows so your house is
built on and then there is a river
that is flowing in your house it doesn't
happen now if it does happen it is
super expensive and it's generally not a river
right it's usually a small stream or a
small creek and it runs through maybe in
your backyard but it doesn't run through the
main structure of your house it doesn't happen
the slab and then there's a river running
through that right so this is referring to
the miraculous nature of the house is over
there you can't think about it but in
dunya if you were to look at the
strongest river you have you would not be
able to build a house on it because
the water will keep eroding the foundation right
it's not possible for you to think and
it's structurally not possible for us to build
unless it's floating right unless floating and it's
pegged to something in the ground but a
structure that is built river flowing underneath is
not like we haven't reached there yet there
are small streams and i've seen some videos
of like you know where there's like a
small stream i think it was in la
or somewhere where some guy was able to
turn one of the streams and then he
created like a semi arch or a bridge
or something and then there's extreme running but
you know they can do that now the
beauty in jannah is you're able to actually
see the stream too so it's not just
any stream you're able to actually see the
stream that is running in your house so
jannat it is running from the rivers are
running in the foundations of the houses which
is not fathomable for us you will be
given in jannah bracelets of gold right for
men and women bracelets of gold and they
will be given clothes that are green in
color there's something to do with color green
in islam something to do with color green
right tell me another place where we know
something sacred about green color it was one
of his favorite colors his favorite color was
white most of the time it was white
and the the shawls that he would wear
his favorite shawl was a black colored shawl
right or a dark color shawl and that
is why many times Aisha she would look
at the shawl that was dark in color
and what would she say ya rasulullah how
beautiful contrast is that black shawl making with
your white skin right so that was his
favorite color when it came to the shawls
and stuff like that so but coming back
to the question i also forgot i also
forgot the question i'm like i asked the
question what was the question green what is
the significance of color green yeah what are
some other sacred texts that talk about green
colors tell me okay great what else the
greenery of jannah okay the greenery of jannah
in a hadith we have numerous examples of
the greenery of jannah what else different colors
of green shades of green what else what
is the colors of the birds underneath the
the throne of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
green birds right those are the birds in
which the the ruh of the shuhada so
there are green color birds that have their
nests on in the arsh of allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and when a shaheed dies
his ruh his goal goes and is placed
into that bird and that bird flies in
and out of jannah until yawm al qiyam
yes so there are these things that are
hanging and then these birds have houses in
green so green has significance the ulama they
have said um there are three things if
you are depressed you have sorrow sadness anxiety
three things will take care of it okay
number one so exposure to water that's why
you're going to see that you know when
muslims we used to build uh these things
called maddestans right maddestans what you know from
maddestan is the word bimar and be maddestan
in in urdu right maddestan and then from
there the place where the bimar would be
brought it was called be maddestan right so
that's where the comes you know it was
like a hospital but it was mostly mental
health hospital right and these mental health hospitals
one of the the interesting things if you
go to some of the maddestan's old buildings
that exist in turkey today one of the
fundamental things that they used to have is
they used to have flowing running fountains all
across the area so a person would come
with this disease something to do with mental
disease and they were trying to figure him
out they will put him in this environment
that would be filled with greenery and you
would be able to hear the sound of
water and stuff and today like the other
day we turned who was i driving with
where we saw a weird structure looked like
a church i was driving with you right
and then we looked at it and it
looked so like calming with like shaded trees
and shades of green in the building and
me and my daughter were driving and then
it said it said what what was the
center recovery center like it was a center
that you know allows people and it had
like a right off the stream and the
water was running in it so there are
three things that the ulama way before they
figured this out you know this is in
our books it is in tafsir books it
says three things get rid of sadness and
sorrow number one is water number two is
green color number two is green color and
number three is a beautiful face nobody can
be you have when you get a baby
if a baby is smiling you can have
all the sadness in the world when you
see the sadness of the smile of the
baby you're like you know you'll eventually feel
happy right a beautiful face that is beautiful
and it's hassan it's pure so why they're
where uh you know uh allah says that
they will be given these clothes that are
going to be green in color now they're
going to be made out of fine silk
and rich is rich brocade now for you
to understand that the gilaf of the kaaba
okay if you've ever been to the kaaba
the gilaf of the kaaba the black section
not where they have the the you know
ayat written the black section also has embroidery
on it you guys know what i'm talking
about the black it's very fine embroidery it's
not protruding it's fine and there's ayat and
different things written on it and that's also
from silk but it's super fine that is
brocade okay so silk on that is it's
not like you know embroidery that is protruding
but it's it's part of a design on
the fabric right and it's in the nest
it is how that the cloth was made
right so it was silk and it was
interlaced with that embroidery in it so it's
part of the cloth it doesn't come out
right so if you if you go home
check out like the gilaf of kaaba and
you'll see what i'm talking about that is
called brocade so silk and this fine expensive
cloth and this was the cloth of royalty
inside of the kaaba inside of the rawda
of rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam right all
of those cloths are made from silk and
brocade right out of the sunnah of that
back in the day when the indians used
to take care of that now the saudi
government has taken out care of it but
when the indian nizam of hyderabad was the
one that was responsible for it and they
were different you know but he was primarily
the one who was funding from his uh
they used to be which color inside green
is now white purple no no no brown
no red red they used to be red
in color right they used to be red
in color because red silk in india was
something considered very red shadi dresses and stuff
so it was considered royalty so their culture
was all about red so they had it
all red but then when the the dynasty
took over then they switched the color to
green out of the sunnah of jannah and
all of that all right jannah is going
to be in green uh it is mentioned
um ibn ibn abhi hatim he says uh
a person will be given
in one hour 70 dresses for you to
wear in one hour you will have choices
of seven different dresses every hour 70 new
dresses that you would like to choose from
and you will choose and you're like i
don't like this one give me the other
one i don't like this one give me
the other one but every hour 70 choices
given and it says and the lowest quality
of that okay is mithlu shaqiqin nu'man okay
the lowest quality of that in jannah is
the highest quality or similar to the highest
quality shaqiqin nu'man was the highest quality of
silk in the world okay now
the person may say ben but i'm gonna
get bored of green why just green i'm
gonna get bored of green and allah is
like this is the pinnacle of your taladdus
pinnacle of your enjoyment and in it whatever
you desire you don't want the green you'll
get any other color but since allah has
chosen that color nobody else would desire anything
other than green anyways because it would be
the most beautiful of the colors and you
know when you have like the best car
you're not gonna know yeah it's a nice
car but i need like better than that
oh this is the best car in the
world now i need something better than this
right and every time you would want to
enhance that you will get enhancements within that
color as many enhancements as you want okay
may allah subhanahu wa ta'ala enter in
jannah now uh ibn hatim he also says
that he heard one of the if one
cloth like a piece of cloth one dress
or one piece of cloth if
that one dress was to be brought and
it was supposed it would be exposed and
it would be spread in the world i
.e people would be able to see that
dress that people would faint
they would literally faint by looking at that
dress because they would not be able to
withstand the beauty of that dress their minds
would they would lose their minds and just
faint it would be something of so much
beauty right and something sim something similar is
said about also the the whole of the
jannah right where it is mentioned that if
one of them she she just takes this
this port this portion of her finger right
and she just you know in our realm
she comes into our realm and she just
exposes that portion of her finger it would
that the light of the sun would fade
in front of the light that would emanate
from just this portion the nur that would
be emanating from just this portion of her
finger so it's a life that's why allah
prophet said that your brain cannot even comprehend
all of these examples are there for us
to just get some glimpse of like it
is going to be a realm that we
cannot understand in it is that which no
eyes have seen right no ears have heard
and human beings cannot even begin to understand
so then what are all of these examples
all of these examples in the quran they
say they are they are there as the
closest approximation of what possibly could it be
for your existing brain of this dunya to
understand okay and
they will be given dresses they will be
adorned with dresses in green their
natural disposition allah says they will be reclining
so if you were to come into an
office if you were to come in an
environment and if you were to see an
individual a group of people and all they're
doing is just like just loitering chilling right
you come in to anhar institute and you
see you know brother asad just chilling on
the sofa there and all his friends are
just sitting there right they're all just like
sitting there drinking i don't know what chai
or coffee right and that's the state you
see him every single time what would you
think right he's got nothing to do in
life but he's just chilling all the time
you know he's got no no work nothing
mashaAllah right so the imagery is that over
there you will not have anything to do
your natural disposition is going to be you'll
have like a cushion pillow and you'll be
just sitting there on the pillow let's go
help me you're done whatever we had to
do we have done in this dunya that's
the first part now here is where i
want to elaborate a little bit about the
the beauty of the arabic language so i'll
get to arica what it means it says
reclining uh you know on canopy couches or
so when you have something that has four
legs and a flat top okay four legs
and a flat top four legs and a
flat top if it doesn't have anything on
it any you know add-ons to it
it's just four legs flat top and maybe
like a small cushion on it what is
it called sareer who said that you did
okay good it's called sareer what is the
sareer it's a bed and what is the
root word of sareer seen rara surur what
does a bed do it gives you rest
surur gives you raha okay that's called surur
or sareer now that same bed if a
dead body is placed on it then what
is it called death bed that's the best
example who said that well technically yes it's
a death bed but but it's called a
nash it's called the nash nash is the
same four-legged flat top in which dead
bodies are placed okay now if that same
four-legged flat top with the cushion and
you instead of a dead body you place
a king on it what does it become
becomes a arsh becomes a throne kursi is
a footstool right it becomes the arsh now
instead of the arsh if you put a
bride what does it become bride bed okay
mashallah we're on a we're on a tangent
what does it become huh it's still a
bed it becomes hijal right it becomes hijal
or haudaj okay now if you take that
same bed or same same flat top four
legs and you put four posts on the
end and then you put a canopy on
top okay that becomes arika that becomes arika
now araik is the jama the plural of
arika is one alal araik plural like multiple
canopied couches right when they will say the
word canopy couches with reference you can image
you can imagine what i'm talking about right
like you've probably seen like sometimes now you
can put a king on it too right
it will still be an but it'll be
an arika which a canopied house okay uh
you can put a bride on it it
becomes a haudaj all and this is the
beauty of arabic language that a particular item
could be the exact same thing depending on
the use the name of the item can
change right and this is only in the
arabic language right a table will be a
table a chair will be a chair right
the maximum we'll have is like task chair
and executive chair that's a and that's only
in terms of comfort not in terms of
use for us it will yeah that's still
so in terms of usage the entire name
will change based on what is it being
used for and i just wanted to allude
to that because sometimes we don't like when
arika is being used we must understand there
are many words of the similar origin but
this particular thing can switch into all of
these names based on different uses and that's
the beauty of arabic language and i hope
these tangents are not too much they're like
supposed to give you guys just a little
bit of the glimpse of what we may
be missing in the arabic language okay then
allah says this entire scene allah is like
what a fabulous or what a marvelous what
a great reward what a marvelous reward okay
and what a great resting place what did
what what did allah say for the people
who had an evil end what a wretched
resting place what a horrible resting place and
this is what an amazing resting place so
with this we come to an end of
this and now we begin our next story
we may not be able to get into
the story but i will get into the
introduction of the concept this is a new
concept that we are getting exposed to in
the quran and it is important for us
to understand the high level concept and i'll
probably do a correlation between why this story
is relevant in comparison to what we have
covered and hopefully we can get into the
story if we have time but don't look
like we're going to be able to get
into the story anyways now now from here
allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he says strike
for them i e o prophet of allah
explain to the of quraish give them a
method give them an example okay now in
the arabic language is method but in english
what is it called a parable okay a
parable yep strike a parable now what is
the purpose of the parable okay what is
the purpose of the parable a parable is
a timeless example i.e it's an example
that transcends time and space like it doesn't
matter when it takes place it doesn't matter
in which context it takes place it has
become timeless and for it to become timeless
the names of the individuals have been completely
removed from it so that it can become
applicable to every single day and age every
single time every single moment you can all
find examples in it now question for you
guys how many before i get to this
question somebody asked i just remembered this because
i had it in my notes here somebody
asked me this last time and i wanted
to to clarify this so they said why
do you recite and sometimes take five seven
minutes in the beginning because this way we
can get more of the tafsir and we
lose time we can all listen to the
quran later and again so it's a very
valid question and i want to just clarify
the intention of that and this is what
we learned from our teachers okay and i'm
just going to present that remember the hadith
of prophet sallallahu salam where he said that
if a group of people it never happens
except when a group of people gather in
a house from the houses of allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala right that number one they
gather and they're reciting the book of allah
that's the first part of the ayah hadith
the second part of the hadith is and
then they study it amongst themselves and all
of this that we're doing we're collectively studying
it together amongst them okay except what happens
who knows the hadith except allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is tranquility descends on us and
allah's rahmah surrounds us which one of us
can enter jannah without allah's rahmah no one
so when we recite the quran and we
initiate that the intention is that hopefully the
sakina descends on us hopefully allah's rahmah inshallah
surrounds us right and angels come and they
take their wings and like this is happening
now just imagine this there's angels of allah
that are surrounding with their wings right and
allah is going to he is going to
talk to all the angels it's like look
at the group of those people that are
sitting look at those people that come every
wednesday the only reason they come from all
far and wide and travel from work you
know and many of them sleepy and tired
but we all come here we come here
for one purpose that we want to be
gathered with this mercy that's the the hadith
now i have two reasons for that too
number one any ilm that we learn knowledge
if it is not connected to a sanad
if it is not connected to a chain
i.e my understanding of the deen right
was given to me by my teacher his
understanding was given to him by his teacher
and this way we can trace our understanding
of aqeedah issues our understanding of fiqh issues
our understanding of the concepts that are necessary
for us to understand we can trace our
roots back to the authors of the books
and when it comes to the quran we
can trace our recitations back to prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sallam and from prophet salallahu alayhi
wa sallam to to jibreel alayhi salam and
from jibreel alayhi salam to allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala so when i recite something we
all benefit from the barakah of that sanad
and it is something that our teachers used
to emphasize that if you learned your knowledge
from just random you you know picked up
a book and you read it now you
understand seerah there will be a knowledge but
you won't have barakah right barakah comes when
my knowledge is directly attached to a chain
of scholars or scholarship that i can trace
my knowledge back to that my understanding is
the understanding of somebody 700 years ago and
i get that same understanding now so when
we recite that together that happens last niya
that sometimes i have when i recite is
that if you notice the style that i'm
reciting is a very tajweed style it is
not uh you know like melodious and you
know we're not reciting in the salah right
it is very slow i and now i
intentionally try to annunciate annunciate every single haraka
slow down like i'm intentionally slowing it down
so if those of you that want to
follow along then you can also benefit from
a little bit of tajweed and this is
a surah that we recite enough times sometimes
you will realize oh i've been reading it
wrong i heard it the right way and
you can hopefully correct some of those mistakes
inshallah so that was just a tangent i
had a note over here so i have
to address that uh how many parables do
we have in the quran how many methods
do we have in the quran hassan says
four 137 no
how many parables like big parables that you
know ayat four five six lines parables that
allah says 43 there are 43 parables in
the quran okay 43 parables in the quran
how many parables are there in this surah
three three three parables okay three this is
the first one and we're gonna come across
the other ones to from asides from the
story method method an example so you you
know your teacher will give you a formula
and then you'll give you an example imagine
if you were to water so there's a
concept that has been given to you and
now the method this parable is coming to
explain and elaborate a concept that has already
been addressed okay the concept has been addressed
we just studied that concept okay so we
all know the story of the jannah thing
we all know the story there are two
gardens right we all know the story what
is the connection of this this story of
the people of two individuals with garden you
know two gardens one garden what is the
connection between this story and the set of
verses that we recited today starting from you
know starting from temporary no
start from what was the complaint why did
the ayah come down why did it come
down who remembers what did the people say
he said to you if you take away
these poor people the smell of their juba
these clothes that they wear it's very stinky
we can't we can't be with rich people
poor people what did the rich people have
dunya dunya dunya and they were muslims they
had accepted islam this was after in fatima
they had accepted islam but they were like
all into dunya high file yeah we're muslim
la ilaha illallah muhammad rasool but you know
we're like the upper class we don't want
to mingle with the lower class what was
the quality of the lower class then allah
says that choice was given in the ayah
believe or don't believe if you don't believe
you're going to have a horrible end if
you believe right if you believe what was
the end you will have a beautiful end
then allah is like now let me show
you yes no let me show you in
this world what that the entire exchange i
.e poor rich people don't want to sit
mingle jannah jahannam choose dunya choose akhira what
does it really look like on day-to
-day basis in our lives this is what
the example is going to clarify for us
that's the method that now you've understood the
concept that don't give preference to dunya don't
run after dunya at the expense of the
deen now how does that look like where
would i be able to see this in
my life in this dunya strike for them
the example of two people one of them
he had two gardens more dunya two houses
right two big backyards whatever you want to
relate to that because if the method is
you add your contemporary example to this jannah
even today if anybody has you know
vineyards that's very expensive it's not cheap you
nobody's like yeah you know what yeah i
just happen to have like an acre of
vineyards oh wow mashallah like what do you
do for a living other than making alcohol
right so just having vineyards itself is an
expensive thing today maintenance of that harvesting creating
who's going to take care of that all
of that is very expensive today even today
so he had two right and what had
happened was he had this beautiful vineyards and
they were surrounded by palm trees now if
you ever go to a five-star resort
you remember when we went to like like
sri lanka or these places if you ever
go to these resorts or if you're ever
traveling by these resorts if you're driving on
florida you see on the beach what do
those resorts have palm trees even in areas
where palm trees have no business in augusta
right in in macon right if you're going
by and you come across that like the
the intercontinental resort like when you're driving you
come across that it's gate but then it's
got like these giant like giant palm trees
that have been brought in specially for that
if you look at riyadh's ritz carlton right
there is no greenery in riyadh it's all
cement and concrete right but in that particular
ritz carlton filled with palm trees that palm
trees is a symbol symbolism or you know
for even till today california la santa monica
all of these places palm trees right so
palm trees so allah is like this person
had two gardens and the beauty is his
fence was palm trees we covered his house
surrounded his house with palm trees and then
he also had a farm in between a
farm that he benefited for various types of
crops inshallah in the next class what i'll
do is i'll explain to you how this
imagery is first so that we can actually
visualize what this looks like because then allah
in the next ayah he says what okay
you know and then there was like right
so what is this is it is it
so all of that we will cover that
you know how is the imagery looking like
and then there's a way to actually understand
all of this inshallah so we'll initiate that
next week allahumma salli wa sallim ala nabiyyina
muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim
taslimin kathira wa barikillahumma ala muhammadi wa ala
ali muhammad kama barakta ala ibrahima wa ala
al-ibrahim innaka hamidu majeed we ask you
allah subhana wa ta'ala to enable us
to understand these amthal we ask you allah
subhana wa ta'ala that these parables in
the quran allow us to learn the lessons
that you intend for us to learn from
and to implement these lessons in our lives
oh allah when we come to these sessions
of the quran allow us to implement one
or two things in our lives and enable
us to become better muslim by the virtue
and the baraka of this quran oh allah
allow us to benefit from the sanad allow
us to benefit from the the the chain
of the the allow us the benefit and
the baraka of the chains of the scholars
and please forgive all of our scholars and
have mercy on them if they have passed
away and any of their shortcomings we ask
you allah subhana wa ta'ala that you
know remember our parents and forgive our parents
if they are alive and have rahma and
maghfirah on them if they are not with
us anymore we ask you allah subhana wa
ta'ala that allow us to be from
those who truly want to connect with your
quran oh allah make us from those as
some of the books have said that one
of the first signs of tawfiq is our
hub for the quran oh allah allow us
to be from those who are loved by
the quran and quran loves us and we
love the quran oh allah fill our hearts
with the love of the quran oh allah
allow us and replace all other forms of
loves from our from our hearts and enable
us to be to be the ones who
have the of the quran in our hearts