Ahmad Saleem – In-depth Tafseer of Surah Kahf – Understanding Quranic Lessons – Part 9
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If the Nahr is small in its size,
it's called Nahr, okay?
Right, but if the Nahr is wide and
a lot of water flows in it, right,
like the Chattahoochee River, that would be not
Nahr, it would be Nahr.
Nahr, it would be Nahr, Nahrah, with a
Fatha or Nahr, because it's big and it's
got a lot of water that flows through
it, okay?
And if it's small, it's Nahr, with a
sukoon on it, you don't create a vowel
on that, okay?
Wafajjarna khilalahuma Nahrah I forgot the other ayah
in the Qur'an, it's about Jannah.
No, no, no, no, it's about Jannah where
Allah uses the word Nahrah.
It'll come to me.
Allahumma salli ala Muhammad ya Rabbah Then Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says, Wakana
lahoo thamarun Okay, this word, Allah said, and
for this person, there was a reward, Thamar.
The word Thamar has been recited three ways
in the mainstream riwayat of recitations.
Thamarun, Thumrun, and Thumurun.
Okay?
Thamarun, Thumrun, and Thumurun, okay?
And the meaning of Thamar is basically, you
know, Thamar is basically what you get from
the ta'am, the food, after you have
harvested something.
That's Thamar.
But if you have the word Thumur, the
word Thumur basically means Al-mal ul-kathir.
Lots of money.
Mukhtalif min naqda.
Any, all the different types of ways that
you can have asset building, all of that
Allah had provided him.
Wakana lahoo thumrun, that he had all the
variety of assets that you can think of.
Land, real estate, money, like today what do
we have?
Stocks, this, that, like all different things of
wealth building that you can think.
He had all of that.
Wakana lahoo thumrun, or Thamarun.
Faqala li sahibihi wa huwa yuhawiruhu.
So his sahib, his friend, comes, and he
says to his friend, and his friend was
trying to have a conversation with him.
The word Hawar, the
word Hawar in the Arabic language, what is
a Hawar?
The word Hawar is when in the back,
back in the day when you used to
have wells, and for example if the well
had, if you had a bucket, a pail,
and then it was attached to a rope,
and it had a pulley.
And that pulley would pivot on a piece
of wood that you would put.
So you would put a wood.
Before the pulleys, the wood was the pulley.
So you would put the wood, and the
wood was soft, you would put some animal
fat on it, and then the rope would
be tied two or three times, and you
would let the rope down, and when you
would pull the wood itself, which is called
the Hawar, it would spin.
And Hawar is a state when two human
beings, they are talking to one another, and
this wood goes this way, and then it
goes the other way.
It goes like one direction, and then they
let it go, it goes the other way.
So Hawar is when one person speaks, and
when you're done speaking, then the other person
speaks.
When people saw this type of conversation, they
said, oh, this is very similar to Hawar.
i.e., they're alternating the talking points.
And that alternation led to Hawar, i.e.,
discussion, being called Hawar in the Arabic language.
So ...
this person was having a Hawar with him.
...
I mean, come on, what was the discussion?
You can understand why would he have to
say such a statement.
Right?
When do you have to say, I'm better
than you?
When the other person is trying to give
you some advice, and you don't want to
listen to that advice.
Ya Akhi, don't do this.
Ya Akhi, Wallahi, remember Allah SWT.
Look, Allah has given you all of this.
Why are you doing?
...
Come on, you're talking to me about Allah
SWT?
I am better than you.
...
I have more money than you.
...
And I've got a lot more manpower than
you.
You think you are the favorite one of
Allah SWT?
...
Yeah, he believed in Allah SWT.
This is the example of a Muslim involved,
and that's why many of the Mufassirun, as
you mentioned this, they say this is the
example of a believer who is entrenched in
Dunya, and a believer that focuses on Akhirah.
This is the example of an average American
Muslim.
This is so powerful, how it's going to
impact.
Because oftentimes, the rat race that we're involved
in, one thing after the other.
Today I was reading one of the articles,
and it said, an average person living in
America is more wealthy than any king that
has ever lived 100 years ago.
Most kings 100 years ago had maybe 7
or 8 changes of clothes.
My grandfather, I remember, used to have one
jacket for winter, and I remember vividly remembering
him having that one leather jacket that he
took care of.
He had one jacket and he had a
couple of sweaters that he had.
Winter, right?
And that's it.
Now, MashaAllah, we don't have space.
In our house, we don't have space.
Every house, we don't have space to put
jackets.
This one's for when it's 17 to 21,
and this one's for this, and this one's
for that.
This one has special function.
Because we have separated those functionalities, but that
has allowed us to become so distracted with
Dunya, that we have forgotten Akhirah.
We've forgotten Akhirah.
We've forgotten the value of the ni'mah of
the hot water for making wudu in Fajr.
Imagine when sometimes something happens and you don't
have gas for a couple of days because
there was a gas leak in your house.
You don't have cold water.
Everyone's going, you're moving, you're going to...
Like I know somebody, something happened to them,
and actually for the two days, they're like,
oh, we don't have gas, we're going to
go to our friend's house.
We can't even withstand living in a place
where we don't have hot water.
Because we just don't have that.
So this example is primarily about a Muslim,
who believes in Akhirah, but Akhirah is not
his priority.
And that's why this is very powerful.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, وَكَانَ
لَهُ سَبَرٌ وَهُوَ يُحَاوِلُونَ أَنَا أَكْثَرُوا مِنْ كَمَالًا
وَأَعَزُوا نَفَرًا Don't talk to me about connection
with Allah.
I'm better than you.
I have two houses and a car and
this and that, and my kids are going
to this college.
How come you're better than me?
If you're the favoured one from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
May Allah protect us.
One of the Salaf he used to say,
The source of all sins.
رأس النبأ لكل معاصي رضا النفس بما هو
عليه The source of all evils is when
you become satisfied with your connection with Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
You're like, I'm a good Muslim.
I can't improve anymore.
I have already reached.
I am already connected.
And when you become so comfortable, that it
almost becomes impossible for you to grow.
Last night, we had a guest over.
And he happened to be an Imam too.
And we were reading a book.
And I came across this very interesting statement.
Uyayna, رحمه الله He said, This is around
300 Hijri.
He says, if Aisha رضي الله عنها was
alive today, And he would see the Egyptian
woman and what they are doing in the
streets.
She would consider all of them non-Muslims.
This is like at 300 Hijri.
Like the standards were that we don't look
up to one generation.
We look up to Sahaba.
We look up to the previous generation for
our piety standard.
That's our standard.
How far are we from that?
Then, وَدَخَلَ جَنَّتَهُ وَهُوَ ظَالِمٌ لِّنَفْسِهِ He enters
his garden.
And Allah is like, وَهُوَ ظَالِمٌ لِّنَفْسِهِ Question
for you.
He is entering the garden.
And Allah is like, At the time of
his entrance, He was already a transgressor.
How can you be a transgressor?
وَهُوَ ظَالِمٌ لِّنَفْسِهِ He had already transgressed upon
himself.
But he has not even entered the garden.
How do you do that?
What is Allah referring to over here?
Think about it.
So Allah is like, He enters his garden.
He has all this wealth.
He enters his house.
All of the things that Allah has given.
And Allah is like, In the state of
his entering, وَهُوَ ظَالِمٌ لِّنَفْسِهِ He was already
a transgressor upon himself.
Right?
Sorry?
Beautiful.
How?
Did he say anything?
In his heart.
Allah is referring to the state of his
heart.
Before even he says, قَالَ مَا أَظُنُّ أَن
تَبِيدَ هَذِهِ أَبَدَىٰ He says, I don't think
this is ever going to perish.
Before he says this statement, Allah is like,
وَهُوَ ظَالِمٌ لِّنَفْسِهِ He was already a transgressor
in his heart, in his mind.
He had already transgressed upon Allah SWT.
And he was already arrogant.
Okay?
And that is why the ulama, they say,
that a person, we have two inclinations.
Okay?
We have something called the demonic desires.
And that is from our nafs and shaytan.
So nafs and shaytan, they work together.
And their natural disposition is they like demonic
desires.
And then you have something called angelic volitions.
Which is, لَمَّةُ الْمَلَكُ i.e. the angels
that will inspire you to good.
They will push you towards a good direction.
You will feel sometimes this taqa, this special
energy to be able to get up and
do tahajjud, but then you won't find that
in a couple of days.
You won't find that for six, seven days.
That is something the ulama, they say, لَمَّةُ
الْمَلَكُ And when that happens, and if a
person responds, then it happens a lot more.
And these are called angelic volitions.
Okay?
So, and it's a conscious choice you have
to make when you feel that to be
able to respond to it.
Okay?
So, he was already a transgressor because he
has allowed his nafs.
أَفَرَأَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ هَوَاءَ إِلَهَهُ هَوَاءَ Have you
seen the person who has taken his ilah,
his deity that he worships, his own nafs.
So he was already a nafs worshiper.
And he was already transgressing.
All of this is because of my money.
My ilm, my knowledge.
What does Allah has to do with any
of that?
May Allah protect us, man.
وَهُوَ ظَالِمُ لِنَفْسِهِ And he was a transgressor
upon himself.
قَالَ When he enters, he looks at all
of this wealth.
And he says, مَا أَظُنُّ أَن تَبِيدَ هَذِهِ
أَبَدًا I don't even think for a second.
مَا أَظُنُّ I don't think.
أَن تَبِيدَ هَذِهِ أَبَدًا This is ever going
to perish.
بَعْدُ الشَّيْء i.e. something that perishes.
بَعْدَ يُبِيدُ أَن تَبِيدَ هَذِهِ أَبَدًا This will
never perish.
How many times have we seen in our
lifetimes individuals?
I remember my Shaykh, he said that there
was a person, he came to this extremely
rich person, super rich person.
And the idea was that we're going to
build a charity that is going to cover
the cost of medical expenses of the poor
people who cannot afford proper health care.
And this was in one of the Muslim,
really, really well-to-do Muslim countries.
So this rich person, he listened and said,
I'm not interested in this.
Okay.
I don't think, you know, he said, I
don't think any of those poor people will
ever be able to get to me anyways.
So I don't want to support them.
Like height of arrogance, you know, forget supporting.
Those poor people will never be able to
even get to me.
Forget me supporting them.
Complete arrogance.
So the Shaykh walked away.
Again, he went to other people and the
charity was built.
And one day he was sitting there and
one of the individuals that shows up to
seek help is that same rich person.
He comes to the charity and says, I
can't cover my hospital bill.
Can this charity provide some support to me?
So obviously this person did not remember the
Shaykh because he had pushed away so many
people.
And he said, yes, we can definitely support
you.
And after they took care of him, he
reminded him.
He said, you remember, you were the first
person I came to to ask for help,
for money.
What happened to all your factories?
What happened to all your wealth?
What happened?
He said, you know, I was sick and
my son, he said to me, he said,
dad, you know, I have this crazy idea
in America and I will change our future
for all of us.
Just transfer all the assets to me and
I will do this and this and this.
And I trusted my son.
I was sick and I said, yes, he's
not going to betray me.
And I transferred all my assets.
And when I transferred the assets, he changed
his number and we don't know where he
is and he doesn't want to respond.
And he's taken all of my wealth, his
own son.
And he's in America.
And he said, I was left with no
wealth because I really thought my son was
never going to backstab me.
And then, al-muhyam, this wealthy person, he
passed away.
May Allah forgive him and, you know, raise
his ranks, Inshallah.
But again, some, we think that our dunya
is eternal.
It is going to protect.
Oh, no, no, no.
There's no way.
I got too much money to be worried
about anything.
I got too much money.
Look at Qarun.
Right?
I've been given all this wealth because I
have a degree.
I have knowledge.
My knowledge has allowed me to get this
ilm.
This wealth.
Right?
And what was his mafateeh, his keys?
You had a lot of powerful men that
had to carry the keys of his treasures.
Right?
And how was his end?
Nothing.
So, may Allah protect us.
But sometimes this dunya deceives us.
He said, this dunya of mine, this fruition
of mine, this will never ever disappear.
And he says, you know, I don't think
the hour is actually going to happen.
I don't think qiyamah is an actual thing.
Wallahi, I've had dinner table discussions with doctors,
with scientists, who sit and they start having
these discussions because they think, oh, we have
finally a shaykh that we can talk to.
And they start saying, oh, shaykh, you know,
I really don't think one day we'll have
a solution for death.
You know, we'll understand the ruh and we'll
be able to control it.
Who's Allah?
It's a Muslim's house.
And I'm like, I don't even know if
this food is halal or not now.
I'm like, wow.
And then, like, we've had this and it's
shocking.
They're like, shaykh, qiyamah, dajjal, all of this
stuff.
Oh, you do believe in these fairy tales?
Fairy tales.
Right?
And subhanAllah, the Qur'an proves itself.
Right?
What does it say in Surah Al-Mutaffifin?
Right?
Like, the person says, these are fairy tales
of the people of the past.
That's not something new.
People who have denied Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta-A'la, they've been Muslims.
Right?
Qiyamah, what is qiyamah?
There's going to be no qiyamah.
These are Muslims.
Pray Jummah.
But they don't believe in qiyamah.
They don't believe in dajjal.
Right?
Hajeeb.
So, there's not something far-fetched.
There's two explanations.
One is, the way he lives his life,
his actions are a representation that he doesn't
believe that there's ever going to be qiyamah.
And that is why you can trample over
the rights of people, look at whatever the
Muslim rulers are doing in Muslim lands.
Right?
They're literally, hajeeb.
On one hand, whatever is happening in Gaza,
not a single Muslim leader even has a
spine to be able to speak against.
And you have a small African country from
the global south, who's in debt of IMF,
and he goes up, I think yesterday, and
he gave a speech.
And you guys should all listen to that
speech.
Right?
He said, I am putting my stance on
the record.
If these were white people being killed, the
entire world would be at arms right now.
But you don't care about black and brown
skin.
And this is in the United Nations.
And the Palestinian, the state of Palestinian, that
United Nations person, she was actually crying in
the entire speech.
Because all of these Muslim leaders with billions
of dollars of wealth, can't even say a
single thing.
And then when they go back to their
countries, all they do is what?
Like, you know, that King Abdullah of Jordan,
he took out his sword, he's like, for
the haq, which haq are you talking about?
On one hand, you're facilitating all of the
food that goes to Israel through your land.
It's just, it's pathetic.
Why?
This is the ayah.
They are living as if there is no
Qiyamah that is going to happen.
You have forgotten that Allah is going to
hold you accountable.
You have forgotten that you have to stand
in front of Allah.
They live like, this Qiyamah is not going
to happen.
And the other belief they have is, if
we were to eventually go back, and here,
this is very important.
Rudittu is Majhool, i.e. over here it
says, and if it happens to be that
I am brought back, Majhool.
I don't want to come back.
But if it happens to be that I
end up coming back to Allah SWT.
So there is also a doubt in that
coming.
That, oh listen man, if it happens to
be that I come back in Qiyamah, if
it happens to be that.
I am going to find something even better
than this dunya as a return.
That's the delusion that they have.
That's the delusion that the people have.
That's the delusion that the leaders have.
That's the delusion that every person who is
transgressing, trampling over the rights of people.
Right?
There was an incident that happened, and I
remember a friend of mine, he went through
a really bad experience.
And everybody was willing to support him.
And a few of the brothers came and
they said, look, we are going to give
you $20,000.
You should litigate against that Islamic organization.
And we both happen to have the same
Shaykh.
And so we got on the call when
he was going through that difficult time.
And we got on the call, and the
Shaykh said something so powerful.
He said, You use the laws
of a non-Muslim land to get your
Haqq.
And you forget Allah, whose just court is
going to be the most just ever.
And he said, we did not teach you,
the Shaykh said to him.
We did not teach you ilm so that
you go back and start using, we teach
you ilm so that you become role models.
So walk away from this, and then let
that affair be with Allah.
Alhamdulillah, the brother, he walked away.
The point being that when you have yaqeen
in akhira, your natural disposition of how you
behave is very different.
وَلَأِرُدِتُ إِلَىٰ رَبِّي لَأَجِدَنَّ خَيْرًا مِّنْهَا مُنْقَلَبًا The
word wajud is something very interesting.
There are three types of mawjudat in this
word.
It's a little tangent, but I think it's
important for us to understand.
The word wajud, existent, something that exists, existent.
Wajud is something that you can ascertain the
existence of with your hawas, with your five
senses.
And things that are ontological in their existence.
Do you guys understand ontological?
They exist, but they're not physical.
Things that exist, but they're not physical.
Such as, give me an example.
Love, hate, jealousy.
Mashallah, aqeedah is working.
That's good.
All of these things are ontological existence.
They exist, but only your aql can.
If you don't have aql, you cannot say
love exists.
Your aql determines love.
So, mawjudat are of three types in this
word.
Anything, any existent, something that exists in this
world, they all fall under three categories.
First one, Something that exists,
exists, and that existent does not have a
beginning and does not have an end.
Who is that?
Allah.
And this is a little bit of an
aqeedah lesson, but I think it's important.
You have a point?
I think the mic is dead.
Can you ask Asad to raise the volume
for this, please?
Can you hear me at the back?
So, existent.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is la bidaatah
lahu la nihayatah lahum.
And I'll come to the whole aqeedah point.
It's very important for us to understand.
When you understand this, you'll understand, I would
say, 50% of aqeedah.
The second is things that exist that have
a beginning and they will have an end.
Something that had a beginning and something that
will have an end.
Give me an example of that.
Us, animals, trees, all the living things that
exist, and even sometimes non-living things.
But non-living things, they exist, like the
chairs, will exist.
But after Qiyamah, they will not come back.
They will cease to exist.
The third category of things are things that
will exist, but they will not have an
end.
What is that?
Good, good, good.
There are eight things, when they come into
existence, they never have an end.
One by one.
Give me the eight things.
Jannah, Jahannam, Arsh, Kursi, Qalam, Lawh
al Mahfuz, the sacrum, the cassock's bone of
the human being.
When it comes into existence, that's the one
thing that the Qiyamah does not destroy.
And the last one, where there is an
ikhtilaf between Kursi, whether it is Kursi or
whether it is the Ruh.
If you add the ninth item, Ruh is
the ninth item.
When the Ruh comes into existence, it doesn't
ever go away.
And then, human beings after Dibaakh, i.e.
when we will be resurrected, then we come
into existence and we will not have an
end.
Everything else will have an end.
Now, from just this part, you can prove
that Allah SWT is the necessary existent.
It is necessary for Allah to exist.
How is that?
If everything that came in this world had
a beginning, somebody initiated that beginning.
And that somebody who initiated that beginning cannot
have a beginning.
He cannot have a beginning, otherwise he is
like all the other existents.
And then it will stop at Allah.
It will stop at Allah SWT.
Why?
Because Allah SWT is the necessary existent.
Now, how do we know He is the
necessary existent?
Because every single thing in this world, are
you necessary for this world?
No, how do you know that?
If you weren't there, nothing would change.
There was a time you didn't exist, there
was a time you didn't exist, there was
a time you didn't exist, there was a
time I didn't exist.
And there will be a time when none
of us will exist.
But the world will exist.
So if we are all not necessary for
this existence, it is necessary that somebody is
there who has to be necessary for existence.
To bring all of these unnecessary existents.
And again, this is an entire aqeedah class,
but this is very important, the concept of
wujud.
And again from here comes the wujud of
that of Allah SWT.
And we can go on a long discussion
on that of Allah, we are not going
to get into that.
That could take us an entire tangent.
So this root word is for the word
la'ajidanna, and the understanding of the word
la'ajidanna.
I hope these tangents are not boring for
you guys.
I hope that it adds, yes it is
off topic, but sometimes it is necessary for
us to understand that concept of wujud.
Similarly the concept of irada.
I think we will come across that.
The concept of irada, what is irada?
Arad Allah.
Yureeduna wajh Allah.
The concept of irada is very important for
us to understand.
We will stop over here.
Let me see if I can finish the
next ayah.
We will stop here because now this person
is going to respond to his questioner.
And we will do, yeah we will stop
over here.
We will stop here inshaAllah.
Two quick points I want to share inshaAllah.
Starting November when the time changes.
We could pray isha at 7.30. So
we are thinking of moving this back to
7.15. So not next week.
The week after when the time changes, November
6 or whatever.
Because that is where every beginning of the
month they send out new flyers.
So Asad is like let's not change anything
now so we will carry on at this
time.
But then maghrib would be earlier and stuff
and we will have 7.15. We will
launch that.
Second thing is we are trying to look
for people who can, me and Asad were
trying to see what can we do.
So one feedback we got is a lot
of people that can't make it.
Like if they know that there is dinner
here, they will come.
So we said we don't want to turn
this into a dinner class.
But then if it allows us for people
to come one or two times.
So we might do like after the time
change, maybe a couple of weeks back to
back.
We might just simple pizza.
Like nothing fancy.
I don't want to have biryani and all
of that stuff.
Something very simple pizza for people to actually
know.
And at least get that word out there.
Sometimes people just show up for food and
then they will be like oh I like
the class and they can stay back inshallah.
Third part is I think when the time
change happens.
What is important for us is to be
able to communicate the benefit of the class
that you have found in this class to
other people.
Because there are so so many people that
are looking for something like that and sometimes
they don't even know.
I know somebody who did not know until
they came across the video and they couldn't
make it today but they are going to
come next week.
They are like oh they saw the video.
The third part is there is a group
that Brother Hanifa has where you can if
you want you can join the group.
Where any events that I am doing.
So this is something that some of the
brothers came to me and I said I
don't have a problem.
So they have created like a small group.
It's a private group.
No bombarding of any messages.
Occasionally if I come across some really unique
information that I read.
I will summarize it from Arabic into English
and I will post it for benefit.
And most importantly it is to just remind
one another if the class is being cancelled
or when the class is on and stuff
like that.
So if you would like to join that
you can have the QR code there and
you can all join the QR code.
We can also post the link on the
comments for people online.
The link to join that group inshallah.
And lastly may Allah put lots of barakah
and immense barakah in your lives.
Allahumma salli wa sallim ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa
ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim tasliman kathira
wa barik Allahumma ala Muhammadin wa ala Ali
Muhammad kama barakta ala Ibrahim wa ala Ali
Ibrahim man nakhamidun majeed Allahumma ati nafusana taqwaha
wa zakkiha anta khayru man zakkaha anta waliyuha
wa mawlaha ya rabbal alameen Allahumma allimna bima
yanfa'una wa anfa'ana bima allamtana wa
zidna ilmin ya kareem Oh Allah give us
the ability to truly understand your Quran.
Oh Allah allow this Quran to be a
source of barakah in our lives and a
source of amal.
Oh Allah let our talab al ilm be
for akhira.
Oh Allah let our talab al ilm be
for the sake of akhira.
Oh Allah allow us to increase our knowledge
along with that our amal.
Oh Allah everything that we have recited today
allow us to be able to implement it
in our lives and give us the tawfiq
to be able to have continuity and sustainability
in that amal of ours.
We ask you Allah subhana wa ta'ala
to give us the ability to truly truly
connect with the message of the Quran.
Whatever portion of the Quran we know that
allow us to illuminate our hearts and guide
our lives in day to day basis.
Who wants to give adhan?