Ahmad Saleem – Tafseer Surah Kahf – 003
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Bismillah ar-Rahman
ar-Raheem Bismillah wa alhamdulillah wa salatu wa
salamu ala rasulillahi wa ba'd Rabbi sharah li
sadri wa yassir li amri wa ahlul ukhdatan
bil lisani yafqahu qawli rabbana zidna ilman ya
kareem Jazakallah khair, welcome everybody to the class
May Allah subhana wa ta'ala bless every
single steps of yours and every single tire
rotation of yours to come to this class
Insha'Allah, may you walk away and everybody
walks away from lots of barakah and blessings
from Allah subhana wa ta'ala So insha
'Allah last week we ended the first 8
verses of surah al-kahf If you missed
those classes, you know, go back and get
them on YouTube The second lesson has not
been uploaded on YouTube because of someone But
insha'Allah, that someone is going to work
He has to work on some ethics insha
'Allah But that lesson will get loaded insha
'Allah We had a little bit of a
glitch last time So he's really focused on
trying to get things done this time So
the lesson is going to be uploaded But
anyways, it's on Instagram and YouTube So if
you missed them, you can catch them The
summary of the first two lessons that we
talked about That these ayat are supposed to
protect us from dajjal So we talked about
the correlation in every single aspect In every
single ayat that we discussed How that is
impacting and how are we being protected from
dajjal And we talked about the detailed connections
that we have with those ayat Now, now
begins the verse number 9 and 10 The
two particular ayat that are directly related to
ashab al-kahf Okay, and in these two
ayat Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Is going
to just allude to the story of people
of the cave or ashab al-kahf And
then the next verses are going to have
a full, complete, detailed story account That is
necessary for us to be able to protect
ourselves from the fitna of dajjal And in
specific, which fitna?
Fitna of?
There were four fitnas Fitna of deen, the
trial or the test of our deen at
the hands of dajjal Now, backstory because I'm
not sure where everybody's at So I'll just,
you know, quick backdrop as to why or
what is the story behind this?
So the background of this is these were
youth that lived in Rome Okay, these were
seven youth that lived in Rome And there
came a time on the Romans where the
king happened to be a mushrik, a polytheist
He had changed his religion Mainstream Roman, they
were all Christians But he in specific controlled
Rome and he had changed his religion It
is mentioned that his name was Dacianus Okay,
and that's where we get the word Dacianus
from in Urdu Right, like the king was
horrible and then we say in Urdu Dacianus
So, you know, just don't talk, don't ramble
and talk unnecessary nonsense, right?
So Dacianus is the name of that king
These seven people and the reason I'm saying
seven is because there were many sahabahs Who
said that I know for a fact that
they were seven Abdullah ibn Abbas used to
say, I know, you know, وَمَا يَعْلَمُهُم مِّن
لَّا قَلِيلٍ Allah says that then their number
knows very few people and he used to
say وَأَنَا مِّن الْقَلِيلِ And I'm from these
few people who knows the exact meaning and
they were seven Now the stories of seven
sleepers is found in all different religions Buddhists
have seven sleepers stories The Christians have seven
sleepers stories The Jewish people have just seven
sleepers stories, right?
So because it became and everybody's trying to
They belong to us That miracle because they
were Christians and so it happened There were
Jews that happened They were Buddhists That's what
it happened So everyone's trying to claim to
that So that's why they asked the Jewish
people They said, okay, ask prophet about these
ashabul kahf We'll really know if he truly
is coming from the same source The wahy
is coming from the same source Now this
king These seven people they met a monk
who was a Christian monk Who had accepted
Christianity Not the altered version, but the correct
version And he had taught them tawheed These
seven were basically sons of aristocrats, bureaucrats Top
echelon, the top tier, the movers and shakers
of the society So the king, if they
were from the lower class They would have
been killed immediately But since they were from
the upper class The king gave them a
choice He said to them, listen, you have
a choice You can come back to me
tomorrow with your reformed versions And back to
my religion Or else there's going to be
consequences So that's where the story, the context
of the story is And then we're going
to get to know a little bit about
the story What happened when, you know, when
all of this happened So Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala says to prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam Let
me end the summary of the story Because
some people may not know the story And
they might get stuck over there So ending
of the story is they decided to leave
the city They ended up in the cave
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala put them to sleep
for how many years?
309 years or 300 years We'll talk about
why 300 and why 309 So they were
in the in the cave for 309 years
And then after 309 years Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala resurrected them The community saw them and
they were like, oh my god These were
the seven sleepers that were lost The legend
is true And from there onwards They realized
that life is not going to be very
easy for us So they asked dua to
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to put us back
to sleep again We don't want to live
This world has changed too much for us
And it's just too much change If you
ever think about like people who go to
prison, for example They come back after 20
years.
They can't adjust to the society Things have
moved on.
They can't understand People who've been asleep in
coma sometimes for 20 years When they wake
up, they're like, what is this world?
I left it and everything has changed It
becomes very difficult for them to adjust So
they said, ya Allah, this is too much
for us to adjust Take our souls And
that moment where they were in that same
grave They all went back to sleep and
they never woke up Okay, so that's the
story Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says, he starts
off He says, Oh Prophet of Allah Did
you think The people of the cave, i
.e. the dwellers of the cave And inscriptions
or a plaque, right?
An inscription was basically, this raqim means That
there was a plaque at the cave After
they died, people wrote the names of these
seven people on those caves Okay, on the
cave, the names of those seven people And
those seven people, they used to be called
The people of the plaque or inscriptions Or
they used to be called Or the people
of the cave They were both names, synonyms
That's why Allah is like, did you think
for a second Oh Prophet of Allah, did
you think That the people of the cave
And inscriptions or the plaque They were from
the strangest signs or wonders of Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala So it's a rhetorical question The
way Allah is asking this question is like
He's like, I have got a lot more
greater signs than So did you think for
a second that This is a great sign
This is a wondrous sign compared to all
the other wondrous signs I have This is
not, this is the least in its wonder,
right?
So it's diminishing the wondrous nature of that
event How is that important for us to
fight Dajjal?
Connected to Dajjal, because these ten verses, these
nine verses are supposed to help you How
is that important?
Because Dajjal makes you feel like you can
do anything Exactly, and you're like, Allah is
like If Ashab ul Kahf was just a
normal sign And Allah has a lot more
wondrous signs, then who is Dajjal?
Right, then who is Dajjal?
Dajjal is not going to be able to
put somebody to sleep and resurrect them in
300 years With the same flesh So if
this, which is a great wonder It's an
absolute great wonder If this great wonder Allah
is saying is not the most wondrous of
my signs Don't think that, oh wow, this
is the pinnacle This is just the starting
point of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's wonder
So then when we see Dajjal, we're like,
trust me, bro I know Ashab ul Kahf,
they were much more wondrous than you And
to even them, Allah is like, they're not
the peak of wonder There's a lot more
to come من آياتنا عجبا So كانوا من
آياتنا عجبا Oh Prophet of Allah, did you
think that they are the only wonder signs
Or are they the peak of the wonder
signs of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
The next ayah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says إِذْ أَوَى الْفِتْيَةُ إِلَى الْكَهْرِ إِذْ وَنْ
أَوَى Sought refuge أَوَى يَعْوِي To take refuge
in something إِذْ وَنْ أَوَى Took refuge الفِتْيَةُ
الفِتْيَةُ Young people And الفِتْيَةُ comes from the
root word of فَتُوَى فَاتَوَى That's the same
root word For fatwa That's the same root
word for fatwa We talked about that أَفْتِنَا
فِي سَبِعِ بَقَرَاتٍ سَمَان Oh Yusuf A.S.
Give us fatwa Same thing فَتْيَةُ Which is
referring to power فَتُوَى Is basically referring to
power And فَتْوَى Is when you have a
weakness In your understanding of the deen And
you seek somebody else's strength In their understanding
of the deen To relinquish your gap So
when you say give me fatwa Give me
some of the strength Of understanding that you
have in this issue That I happen to
have a weakness in So help me in
that That's a fatwa From there word You
know it was used for فِتْيَةُ In Arabic
language In Arabic language It's so powerful sometimes
And I'm only mentioning this So we appreciate
The depth of Arabic language So it's not
just like Randomly Allah used Right Allah uses
word very specifically So in the Arabic language
The first stage of a human being is
جَنِين Okay جَنِين So جَنِين is from what
جَنَّ جَنَّ Hidden جَنَّ is hidden Jins are
hidden جَنِين is hidden It's all from the
word جِين Right جَنَّات Right Gardens And جَنَّات
are specific gardens in which The external is
visible But the internal is not visible Right
So generally Arabic has this thing with You
know جَبَان جَحِيم Hidden جَهَنَّم So you'll see
that You know جَحِيم Is blazing fire And
the actual عذاب of it is hidden inside
Allah protect us, right So جَنِين is when
the baby is in the womb When it
is born it is called وَلِيد It's been
born Then when it suckles it's called رَضِيع
That it's suckling Then when it separates from
the suckling stage Two years Then it becomes
فَطِيم Good It becomes فَطِيم Then when he
starts walking The child is called دَارِج Right
And from there comes the word دَرَّج In
Arabic Like you know something cycle So دَارِج
It's just like a cycle It just goes
around everywhere Right And then from دَارِج Comes
After 10 So دَارِج is until 10 After
10 You know Until puberty It's called حَزْوَر
Or مُتَرَعْرِ These two states means He is
going to occupy your mind Like no other
child It's just gonna From 10 until they
hit puberty They're gonna like Because they're evolving
So they're thinking And you won't even recognize
مُتَرَعْرِ means somebody That you're not able to
recognize What is this person?
Every day there's a new face Every day
there's a new personality New mood swings New
angers Everything is happening Then from there When
they're just close to puberty Right They're called
يَافِع They're in a state of settlement They're
settling When they hit puberty They're called what?
سِنُّ المُرَاحِق يُرْهِقُوك They will tire you رَهَق
means that they will tire you Mentally Emotionally
In every state you can think of سِنُّ
المُرَاحِق Which is the teenage After that When
The beards and mustache of the boy They
start forming completely From that stage Until the
stage where The beard completely You know like
Abdullah's beard is not fully there yet Right
He's still مُرَاحِق He's still مُرَاحِق But eventually
it connects Everything is full When you have
a full beard and mustache That stage is
called فَتَى Okay Usually between age of 20
to Usually around 20 And it could be
earlier for some people later But it's based
on the face So the person would look
at it And they would Oh this guy
has reached the age of فَتَى or فُتُوَى
So that tells us The reason I tell
you all of this Is because that tells
us the age that they were in Right
They were like in their 19s, 20s Like
peak of their Their manhood Peak of masculinity
Peak of power Ambition And their sons and
daughters of people Who are going to be
the rulers and leaders of the future Right
So this is the time where they were
going to take off And now they're being
tested with their دين Okay To end this
Then when the beard completes So when the
beard connects It's فَتَى When the beard fully
completes So now there's no more extra growth
happening Then that person is called مُجْتَمِع i
.e. اجتَمَع شَعْرُه That his hair, his facial
hair Is fully complete And then when they
hit 40, what is it?
سِنَّ الْكُحُولَ كَاحِل 40 Is that early?
No So when they hit 40 Then they
become كَاحِل Okay And then we don't count
After that, you just say Allah سَلِّمْ سَلِّمْ
May Allah take us, you know, with ease
to Him Inshallah Okay So all of that
is important because that these stages Then tell
us that when Allah uses the word فَتَى
It's embedded in that word That they're 19,
20, 21 In that range, it's understood that
إِذْ أَوَى الْفِتْيَةُ إِلَى الْكَهْفِ The word كهف
Is different from the word غار Okay غار
is مكان ضيق A place that is very
constricted That only one person can stay in
or two Okay One or two Not much
space إِذَا تَسَعَ الْغَارُ When the غار becomes
wide enough That people can dwell in it
They can live in it You can start
putting things You can put like, you know,
your sleeping bag You can start feeling that
Okay, you can live over here Then that
place is called كهف Okay مَكَانٌ وَاسِرٌ It's
wide enough that you can dwell in it
And it was wide enough for seven people
to easily dwell in that In that cave
Okay إِذْ أَوَى الْكَهْفِ إِذْ أَوَى الْفِتْيَةُ إِلَى
الْكَهْفِ فَقَالُوا So when they enter the كهف
So what happened?
The story is the king said to them
You must believe And Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala Inspired their hearts to say that In
the middle of the night, we're going to
leave So they left Okay, after they proclaimed
their message to the community They left In
the night They arrive at the cave And
the first thing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says The word فَقَالُ Right إِذْ أَوَى الْفِتْيَةُ
إِلَى الْكَهْفِ When the young These young people
When these youth took refuge Refuge in the
cave فَقَالُ So they said Not and Generally
translations will say and That's not appropriate فَقَالُ
So they said Which means they didn't wait
to set up their beds Okay, which corner
you're taking?
I'm going to take that corner Okay, I
got this corner You got this corner We
set ourselves up No, they immediately remembered That
we cannot survive in this cave Except that
we have to ask Allah for mercy And
then they say رَبَّنَا آتِنَا مِنْ لَدُنْكَ رَحْمًا
Oh Allah, we seek from you and ask
from you مِنْ لَدُنْكَ رَحْمًا وَهَيِّئْ لَنَا مِنْ
أَمْرِنَا رَشَدًا And facilitate for us مِنْ أَمْرِنَا
Of our affairs هَيِّئْ لَنَا Facilitate for us
مِنْ أَمْرِنَا Of our affairs رَشَدًا A clear
guiding path Something that will be able to
allow us to go through this very easily
And we can understand what to do next
What is the connection between this and Dajjal?
How is this ayah going to protect us
from Dajjal?
Firstly, we should not be afraid to run
away from Dajjal That's the first thing اِذْ
أَوَلْ فِتْيَدُوا إِلَىٰ كَهْفِ There's going to be
time where Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said That
the fitna will be so widespread We all
are going to be tested so much That
when the man is going to be leaving
his house He will be so afraid about
the deen of their children and their daughters
That he would lock them up That perhaps
somebody, some passerby may come and destroy their
iman And another narration, Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said That it will become so dangerous That
to protect the iman Because a man, you
know, if he's going out to do whatever
He's part of an army At home, he
would be so afraid that he would chain
The word is he would chain his family
up Until he comes back So they don't
access the outside because of fitna It's going
to be very difficult times And Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam said If you come around that
time Then عليكم بالجبال Then you have to
run towards the mountains Our iman is going
to be tested so much That we are
going to have to run towards the mountains
We have to run towards the mountains to
protect ourselves from this fitna So over here
they left the comforts of their life They
left everything they were accustomed to They left
their posh lifestyle I mean Roman, you know,
they were from the elites of the Roman
They left all of that For the protection
of their iman And sometimes we might have
to leave Some of our own comforts Because
we might be tested with our iman Sometimes
we might have to say this is not
working for us Right, like one of the
brothers came to me And you know, they
were having some difficulties with their daughter And
she was 13 and I said to them,
I said move She has bad company and
she has made bad friends Solution is move.
I mean if you're worried about her iman
I said Sheikh, move?
Just for her iman?
It depends on how bad you want to
protect it.
So they moved After convincing, they moved And
then she ended up in a different school
And subhanallah, everything changed She found some good
friends Some like and now mashallah Everything changed
for her So sometimes moving becomes necessary We
might have to put ourselves in some discomfort
To protect our iman And we should be
ready for it And if you guys are
not seeing what is coming I don't know
if you guys are understanding The political climate
and socio-political climate right now If you're
just, you know There is that which is
obvious, I don't want to go into that
But there is the underpinning And if you're
just reading some of that We should be
really scared of what could be coming It's
very It's already there in Scandinavian countries for
the Muslims Right?
You saw that thing they posted yesterday That
anybody who was born in Afghanistan And if
they have had a criminal record I don't
know which country And then Germany followed suit
And said if you were born in Afghanistan
And you've had a criminal record in Germany
You will be sent back to Afghanistan Okay?
So like Somalia Like people, things are happening
in Finland Somalis Somalis are coming in with
mass immigration And then the fact that they
request halal meat Family services are called to
them Their children are stripped away There's a
Pakistani activist She did a whole documentary on
that And how she was able to find
these five brothers and sisters That were forced
by the family services To put into different
systems And then she tracked all of these
kids down And then connected It's a beautiful
documentary But it's also painful that this is
happening And it's happening not only to Muslims
It's happening to anybody who doesn't look white
Or their demographics It also happened to Hindus
Where a very famous movie Was made on
that true story Where she fought for her
children back I don't remember the name But
you know, it was a true story True
life story The only reason they took her
kid Was she was feeding her kids with
hen Yeah Like this is real stuff So
this is already happening in Canada I mean,
my wife knows tons of stories It's already
happening in Canada Today my mom called me
And she, you know, remember this person I
said, yeah, they took away her daughter You
know, this person, their daughter Is being taken
away So it's coming It's coming unless we
become smart We unify Stop fighting with one
another Over what is this and that And
focus on building strong aqidahs Based on Quran
So it's coming So this ayah tells us
That during the time of Dajjal If they
could leave their comforts Who are we?
We hear Dajjal is coming from here And
he's going to be in tomorrow Pack your
bags and out And see people do that
for their lives So when Jasper in Canada
was in flames And half of the city
of Jasper was burned Everybody packed up their
bags and left The real question is Are
we going to have the strength To pack
our bags for our iman Not just for
our life So that's what this ayah tells
us They said Oh Allah, we ask you
to give us rahma and mercy From you
And prepare for us or facilitate for us
A right ordeal for us in this affairs
Okay We have to leave from there and
go somewhere Mountains, as prophet said Mountains I
actually met four It's a tangent But I
met somebody Who sold all of his house
He used to work on Bay Street Which
is like Wall Street for here But Bay
Street in Canada He used to work on
Bay Street He sold his company on stock
exchange He sold the IPO Sold everything Made
millions of dollars And they bought I think
400 acres of land Or 500 acres of
land And there were 400 families That were
deciding to Decided to completely disconnect From the
system And they were going to go and
live And each person was going to have
Like an acre of land And they will,
you know, help one another To build that
community And they literally Like I remember seeing
his trailer And he was like, you know,
stacking seeds And they were like, we're preparing
And I was like, subhanallah The level of
discomfort You have to put yourself to save
your iman But then my phone got lost
And I lost the person's contact Because I
wanted to know what happened to them فَضَرَبْنَا
عَلَىٰ آذَانِهِمْ فِي الْكَهْفِ سِنِينَ عَدَدًا So Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says فَضَرَبْنَا So it
says فَضَرَبْنَا So we strike them, right?
We strike فَضَرَبْنَا We strike on them But
over here figuratively فَضَرَبْنَا عَلَىٰ آذَانِهِمْ That we
close their ears We place something to lock
their ears عَلَىٰ آذَانِهِمْ On their ears فِي
الْكَهْفِ فِي الْكَهْفِ سِنِينَ عَدَدًا Many many years
to come They were sleeping in their cave
Okay Now The ayah itself Never once talks
about sleeping Observe the Arabic Okay Sleeping was
implied We took an implied understanding That if
their ears are closed Then they're sleeping So
there's very important information For us to remember
The ayah itself Allah did not use once
the word ضَرَبْنَا means to sleep ضَرَبْنَا عَلَىٰ
آذَانِهِمْ فِي الْكَهْفِ سِنِينَ عَدَدًا Now the word
ضرب ضربة is very interesting ضربة can only
be used When you hit something hard With
something that is softer So if you take
a hammer You hit the table The hammer
is harder than the table But if you
take a mallet Like a rubber hammer And
you Or a mallet And you hit The
table with it It wouldn't be called ضَرَبْتُ
الْطَاوِلَ It wouldn't be called that Because that
That mallet is actually soft So ضربة is
only when you hit something Hard Physical On
something that is soft This is very important
for us to understand How we're going to
interpret Some of these ayahs later Okay ضَرَبْنَا
فَضَرَبْنَا عَلَى آذَانِهِمْ فِي الْكَهْفِ سِنِينَ عَدَدًا Question
for all of us When we go to
sleep Which faculty of ours is always awake?
Hearing The eyes closed Hearing is the only
thing that's awake Right Hearing is like listening
all the time Right Everything else can take
a rest But hearing is the only thing
that can take a rest So what is
the significance of Just locking the ears up
Like closing the ears What's the significance?
If you and I all of us can
sleep With our ears open Why specifically mention
this?
The dead can hear In the hadith Right
The dead can hear Prophet ﷺ said When
you bury your loved ones Not necessarily Not
necessarily In our Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah The
dead can hear They just can't Prophet ﷺ
When he When Abu Jahl Uthbah, Uthaybah They
were all buried in the Qalib They were
all buried up Right And Prophet ﷺ said
You know Did you find the promise that
your gods give?
Did it come true?
Was that promise true?
For rarely I found the promise my god
made me It came true So the sahabahs
They said Ya Rasulullah Right Are they Are
they Can they hear?
He said They can hear But they Like
you and me But they cannot respond They
cannot respond No, there's no hadith that tells
us Not that I'm aware of Okay Okay
Maybe But I'm not aware of that So
So Allah s.w.t. says That we
sealed their ears I want you to think
about it Why specifically I'm not going to
give you the answer I want you to
think about it Like, you know, a little
reflection Yeah, you want to give an answer?
Yes So you said that The only thing
that's awake is the ears When you sleep
Everything else is resting other than the ears
If Allah doesn't want them to be Like
any kind of awake It covers their hearing
Is that like a correlation?
Covering the ears is like Leaving it to
the unknown Like you are not able to
know Anything that's going around you Or anything
that's happening in this time frame You are
now in the unknown Is that something?
Close or You said some Some key words
there My daughter is laughing at the back
She's like So you said some key words
there But yeah, you're close You're very close
It's the unknown They're not in the time
frame And a lot of that stuff is
going to come Inshallah Okay, as I said
There's going to be some time travel here
too Okay Yes Then Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala says Next ayah ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَاهُمْ So what
happened?
After this They were in the cave for
that many years Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَاهُمْ So we resurrected them Okay
ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَاهُمْ We resurrected them Okay Now بَعَثْنَاهُمْ
Right It's very interesting بَعْثْ Or بَعْثْ Is
basically When something inside of us Motivates us
And then we do an action Okay That
is called بَعْثْ Like that There was something
that That inside Something happened Emotionally With our
beliefs That led me to say I need
to go and do this Good or bad
بَعْثْ Okay From there They say that They
say this for a camel So if a
camel was sitting normally And then all of
a sudden the camel becomes very aggressive They
say بَعْثْ That something has rattled him Something
has caused him to get up from his
sitting And come out Why is this important?
Allah is like ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَاهُمْ So they felt
inside of them A feeling It's time for
us to get up Okay Allah did not
send an angel Just like sometimes when we
go to sleep And we wake up before
the alarm Something wakes you up And sometimes
you wake up and you hear Like You
know what?
Maybe I should make wudu and pray something
Like you're not regular tahajjud prayer But you'll
see that That is called بَعْثْ And that
بَعْثْ Our acute ability to be able to
hear These spiritual Interactions that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is doing Via angels And they
call that لَمَّةُ الْمَلَكُ Right That an angel
comes and whispers Okay The angel comes and
whispers Not to you But the presence of
the angel And them talking around you You
feel like You wake up and you all
of a sudden feel very good Or sometimes
you're just You're not accustomed to doing some
good deed And one day you wake up
And it's like let me just read the
Quran today Let me just open the Quran
and read it That is called بَعْثْ Okay
So Allah is like ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَاهُمْ That this
was not through an angel We inspired them
And they got resurrected ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَاهُمْ لِنَعْلَمَ Now
they're awake But لِنَعْلَمَ Somebody else needs to
know لِنَعْلَمَ أَيُّ الْحِزْبَيْنِ Which of the two
people أَحْصَى لِمَا لَبِثُوا أَمَدًا Which of the
two were more accurate For the length of
the stay they stayed in the cave Who
are these two groups?
Okay Number one إِنَّ الْحِزْبَيْنِ هُمَا مُخْتَلِفَانِ فِي
أَمْرُهُمْ Okay مِن قَوْمِ الْفِتْيَةِ So there were
two people There were two groups Within the
nation of these seven people There were two
groups that were formed And they argued amongst
themselves So the king, the Mushrik king, that
community They left that community These أَيُّ الْحِزْبَيْنِ
These two groups, they started arguing And they
started saying, where did they go?
How long have they been gone?
They started having dispute amongst them Some said
the king has killed them And we don't
know what happened to them This is the
way the king is actually, you know, running
away from So there was a dispute between
that nation at that time The second is
the ones who saw them They woke up
And there was a whole bunch of people
that came to see them Those seven, oh
my god, these are the people that have
been sleeping for 300 years The group divided
Some said, oh no, these are not the
ones They're not the ones that have been
sleeping for that long And the other said,
no, no, no These are the ones that
have been sleeping for 300 years One group
said, no, no, no There's nobody who can
survive for 300 years like that So there's
two groups that happened From the ones who
found them after 309 years Okay The third,
ayyul hizbain Is, it doesn't matter whether it
was their people or the people who found
them So the people of the seven sleepers
or the people who found them The two
groups is referring to the mu'mins and the
kafirs The ones who believed in Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala They completely said, yes, Allah
is capable of 300, not 3000 years No
problem, we have no problem with that And
the others were the kafir of that time
Whether the time of the king or the
time of the seven sleepers after 309 years
And they said, no, no, no, how is
this possible?
309 years, not possible They were the disbelievers
Okay So ayyul hizbain, and the reason why
Allah did not tell you exactly who are
these two groups Is for you and I
to not have a specific group in mind
But understand the concept that whenever there is
going to be things of supernatural nature There
always going to be people who are going
to be deniers And there's going to be
people who are going to believe But if
you have evidences that this supernatural event is
happening Based on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
intervention or something like that You don't deny
it You're like, yeah, it's possible We don't
deny it, we can't affirm it But we
don't lose our faith over this, right?
And that's why it is important because when
Dajjal is going to be able to do
some weird things We want to make sure,
ayyul hizbain, that we want to be with
the side of the believers That yes, we
believe We know that they were in there
for 309 years No problem if you can
take somebody out who's been in the grave
for 100 years And you ask them to
come out, we believe in that, no problem
That's nothing new to us as Muslims It
might be new for some other people And
the last meaning of that is there were
two groups of people And this is the
meaning that I find is the most appropriate
At the time of 309 years, there were
two groups of people And within the city,
there was a fiqh debate happening And the
debate was within the Muslim circles And the
debate was, is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
going to resurrect our physical bodies back?
With the ruh?
Or is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala going
to resurrect just the ruh?
Not the physical body?
That was the debate So when we die
and we get resurrected Do we get our
ruh alone and not the body?
Or do we get the body plus the
ruh?
So that was a fiqh discussion within the
circles And the king was involved in that
discussion Because he was their religious leader Kings,
people of the past, even the khulafa and
stuff They used to be people of fiqh
Not people who can't even recite Quran nowadays
So that is the most appropriate of the
two groups They were discussing, we're having this
discussion So what did Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala do?
Allah resurrected them The debate ended This guy
comes, 309?
These are the ones, Allah can resurrect us
with our body and soul combined Problem solved
And that's the most appropriate They're
exactly the same, nothing changed We're going to
come to that They're going to say, maybe
a day or two Nothing longer Okay Then
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says We narrate
to you their story With absolute truthfulness Who
is the narrator?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So now the
story begins And what is the miracle of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's narration?
And this is something that comes to us
So when the ayah ends Where Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala says At that
tis'a From the time Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala started our today's lesson Right?
From that time Until tis'a Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala encapsulated their entire story
Their entire lifespan of 309 years They stayed
in the cave Allah described to us that
entire story in 309 words 309 words So
the entire story if you count the words
is 309 words Right?
And that's why Allah is like That's why
this ayah is important We are the narrators
We can narrate a story with so much
precision That we will tell you their 309
years And we'll tell you the story in
309 words Right?
That's the beauty of Allah's narration If you
and I decided to narrate the story There's
no way we'll be able to complete the
story in 309 words The most important thing
is indeed they were fityatun They were young
people We don't need to know their name
What was their name?
What?
How?
None of that is necessary Ethnicity They were
Roman Some said they were Greek Their ethnicity
doesn't matter Allah did not know He absolutely
knew who exactly they were But when Allah
says They were seven people Seven young people
Right?
They were young people That's all you need
to know Their quality that allowed them to
be mentioned in the Quran is They believed
in Allah SWT And we increased them in
guidance Okay?
Now Allah SWT could have said They
used to believe, right?
It's understood.
They used to believe in Allah But when
Allah uses the word amanu Right?
This is where the word tadabbur comes in,
right?
When we try to ponder with some grammatical
analysis That amanu is indication of something of
the past As if Allah SWT is saying
that they completed their iman There was no
state of going in and out They were
absolutely Allah is testifying that iman is for
them past tense It's a done deal That's
the subtlety of using the past tense in
this sentence And when they believed in their
Allah SWT In their Rabb Then Allah SWT
says The word amanu is very important for
us Okay?
Because amanu comes from aman What does iman
provide us?
It provides us peace and security Iman is
the strongest anchor that we have as believers
You lose your job, you have iman That
Allah is the raziq He will provide You
lose your loved one, you have iman Inshallah,
they went to the better place We will
do sadaqah jariah for them They'll have a
better reward, better end Even if they didn't
live lives as people Who outwardly may not
have pleased Allah SWT But who are we
to judge in the first place?
But let's say, you know, okay, the person
didn't pray Whatever, you can have tens of
excuse for that person But when they die,
Allah has left the door For sadaqah jariah
open So maybe some of his friends did
a well for him Maybe somebody did some
sadaqah jariah secretly for him And then perpetually
as he's dead He's no longer collecting more
sins But he's collecting good deeds So his
hisab by the time is 2000 years Who
knows, you know, his state changes in the
grave And that's why you say don't ever
underestimate The power of sadaqah jariah So iman
provides us the state of sukoon, the state
of aman Security from the effect of the
society we live in We feel anchored How
do you feel that?
Like for example, I was in Denver, Colorado
for some conference And not an Islamic conference
I was there for some training and stuff
like that And they took us to a
baseball game I've never seen baseball in my
life until that one game I don't think
I'll ever go It's the world's most useless
game ever But anyhow, I was there and
they gave us this thing And they had
our section, our team section They were all
there And what if you've been to a
baseball game?
What is everyone doing when they're at baseball?
Drinking Everyone is drinking like crazy And this
was our Friday night, Saturday morning Nothing to
do There's a casual dinner on Saturday night
for the staff and stuff So they're all
getting drunk I'm the only one that's not
drinking So I still remember There was this
lady, she was from Canada She was Muslim
But again, she didn't know anything She had
no idea So she came to me and
she was with her husband They were there
together And she's like, I just want to
ask you something Why are you so calm?
Like even while she was drinking, it was
bothering her You're not drinking and you're just
completely chilled You've got no tension Nothing to
worry about This Iman is something that's like
a baseline for a believer No matter how
practicing they are or whatever They know that
I did my best Allah is going to
close that deal for me You don't sleep,
you're restless sleep the entire night Waiting to
check your phone and email Like did they
respond?
You know, if it is coming, it's coming
There's nothing you can do to stop it
And if it's not coming, it's not coming
There's nothing you can do to bring it
in your life That's what Iman is But
once we have that Iman in Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala What Allah says Once they
reach that level of They have that Iman
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala increases them in
guidance So what we walk away from this
ayah is very important We must understand Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala And this ayah is
an indication of having importance of which science?
Aqeedah The most important science for a believer
Is the science of knowing Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala Because the better you know Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala And that science is
called Aqeedah, right?
It's a difficult word, but it means a
knot Which means once you understand it There's
no doubts that can enter You've sealed your
hearts You've sealed your heart from any doubts
entering about the divine That's why it's called
Aqeedah It solidifies, fortifies your heart from doubts
Over here Allah is saying They believed in
Amanu birabbihim Allah is like I was their
Rabb That's the point you need to understand
Allah didn't say Amanu bi They believed in
me Allah is like Amanu, they believed in
Rabb Who's their Rabb?
Allah But Allah is like they knew me,
I was their Rabb It's a testimony of
how well they understood Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala That Allah is testifying, right?
That is important Even in Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
story of Nimrod Even
for Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam I was like, did
you look at that person that Argued with
Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam about who?
Not, Allah cannot say He argued about the
Rabb of Ibrahim Who is the Rabb of
Ibrahim?
The one who's telling us the story But
Allah is testifying to the absolute understanding of
Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam Of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala And these are important points that sometimes
we get lost when we just say they're
God Okay When we have that level of
Yaqeen in Allah Then the consequences Allah increases
you in Hidayah That's the consequence When Allah
becomes yours, guidance is yours That's the thing
we need to walk away with When Allah
becomes yours, guidance is yours Try to make
Allah yours You will not have to walk
or you won't have to look for guidance
It will come to you Because Allah is
like they chose me They believe in me
as their Rabb And we give them then
extra guidance So Allah becomes yours Then guidance
is yours Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
in the next ayah And we'll stop at
this ayah When is Maghrib?
8th So we'll go over five minutes with
Maghrib It's fine, we can delay the Salah
a little bit for the Quran As a
matter of fact, Abdullah ibn Abbas He was
once teaching a Dars It was Maghrib time
And he was teaching Quran So he kept
teaching the Dars until Isha He didn't stop
for Maghrib So people stopped him and said
Maghrib So he said I know more than
the matters of Deen than you So just
sit down I'm not doing any of that
today Just letting you guys know But again,
I did think about it I was like
I should do it This is so beautiful
So when they chose Allah to be their
Rabb Allah increased them in guidance And here's
the imagery that Allah says And we tied
their heart Technically what Allah is saying That
their heart was now filled with guidance And
Allah is like So what we did is
when I became theirs Guidance became theirs And
then once I guided them I came and
tied their heart So no misguidance can enter
their heart And Allah is like We sealed
their heart Over here, the translation I don't
know what the translation says Sometimes they say
We fortified their heart Sometimes it says we
strengthened their heart We firmed their heart But
that's not telling you the true imagery Is
that something was open You grabbed it I
sealed it, I tied knot it I put
some twine or something And now nothing goes
in And notice it's So their heart Allah
is like Talks about the seal So the
hearts can be sealed They can be locked
But over here Allah is like We tied
their heart So that nothing could enter So
they can feel the strength of the Iman
After they recognize Allah When did this When
does this sealing happen When does Allah seal
your heart like that For good, not for
bad When will Allah seal your heart When
it's filled with Iman and tied So that
nothing can impact you When does this happen
When you're at that state of Iman What
do we need to do Because we need
to do some actions right for it What
actions did they do What's the next part
of the ayah When they got up In
front of the entire society Seven people When
they got up for their beliefs When they
stood up for their morals When they stood
up for what they believe to be true
You have to All these speakers that are
saying Oh, we shouldn't do advocacy We shouldn't
fight for our rights They need to get
They need to learn That's completely not part
of our thing They could have said We
believe in Allah, no problem You do your
thing When they got up And they said
no This is wrong You're on an absolutely
wrong path And what did they say To
juxtapose their message So they all said They
became Da'ees of Allah Our Rabb You
call other people Rabb Rabbuna, our Rabb It
tells you that there was a response Somebody
said, oh, which Rabb That Rabb is like,
no, no, no Our Rabb is Rabbuna As
for you, you can have whatever Rabb you
want Our Rabb is the one who is
the Rabb The sustainer, the maker The one
who formed The one who created the heavens
and the earth And we're not going to
call upon Other than Allah as our Ilah
Ilah is somebody that you worship Now the
word Ilah Is something really powerful Because it
comes from Aliha Ya lahu Aliha And Aliha
means Someone That amazes You At a level
that you're humbled to submit in front of
him That's an Ilah Ilah is Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala That he is so amazing
And when we see the beauty of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala When you're at Blue
Ridge And you see that beautiful colors of
fall When you're in Canada In the Rocky
Mountains If you're at the Smoky Mountains You
look at all of that You look at
that creation And you are humbled Even the
most arrogant person is humbled Even the ones
who are atheists Atheist hikers Who go up
all the way And not believe in God
And they go like Oh my God, this
is so great Looks so amazing You see
their Instagram videos, right?
They're like This is just so gorgeous They're
humbled by this sight They see That is
Ilah So they're like We do not call
upon anyone other than Allah as our Ilah
And if we were to say Something like
that لقد قلنا إذن شطط If we were
to say something like that Then our statement
would be so far away from the truth
Okay And the word شطط Is from شطط
And the Arabs They say Generally it means
الإثراط في البعد الإثراط The exaggeration في البعد
In distance An exaggerated distance And the Arabs
used to say أشط الدار Okay This house
is so far From civilization So a house
that would be The countryside أشط الدار They
live in like Really far away from civilization
Okay Okay And the word شطط can be
used for مكان It can be used for
place It can be used for حكم To
judgment So over there saying If we say
this statement This statement Our inference is going
to be so far away from the reality
Okay لقد قلنا إذن شطط We would have
said something That is so far away from
the reality Okay All right
We'll stop over here Inshallah Just two quick
pointers for next week So So So So
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Majestic Because It Says Nah, Right?
So This Is The Majestic, You Know, We
Prince King Charles, He Uses That, Right?
We You Know, We Have Said, We Decree
That Whose We, It'S King Charles, We Decree
That This Is A Slant.
So If You Read Any Of Royal Decrees,
There Always We, This Is The Royal We,
Right?
Right?
It Is Referring To That, Inshallah, Any Other
Questions?
Okay.
We Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala To Grant
Us The Ability To Truly Understand The Quran.
We Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala To Give
Us The Ability To Truly Recite Quran Every
Single Day Of Our Lives.
We Ask You O Allah To Open Our
Hearts For This Message.
O Allah, Whatever Little That We Have Recited
Except From Us, O Allah Make Whatever We
Have Recited A Source Of Hidayah For Us,
Allow Us To Penetrate, Allow The Light Of
This Quran To Penetrate In Our Hearts And
Increase Us In Our Actions.
O Allah, We Don'T Want To Be From
Those Who Recite Your Quran And Do Not
Apply, O Allah Make Us From Those Who
Recite Your Quran And They Act Upon The
Quran.
We Ask You O Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
If Any One Of Us Is Feeling Any
Difficulties In Their Lives That Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta
'Ala Eases Their Difficulties With The Barakah Of
This Quran.
We Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala On This,
We Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala That This
Is A Blessed Majlis And You Promised That
When We Come To Any Place And We
Gather To Recite The Quran That The Angels
Gather Us.
O Allah, Please Bless Every Single One Of
Us And Our Families In This Gathering Today.
O Allah, We Ask You If Anyone Is
Struggling With Any Vices, If Anyone Is Struggling
With Any Of Their Issues In Life That
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Facilitates An Ease For
Them The Way You Had Facilitated An Ease
For Ashabul Kahf.
We Ask You O Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
That If Anyone Of Us Is Struggling With
A Specific Command Of Yours And They Have
Deep Down Inside A True Desire To Follow
You, But They'Re Struggling With It That
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Facilitates Their Heart Towards
Hidayah And Makes Their Path Easy Towards Conforming
To Your Commands.
We Ask You O Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
That We All Have Different Lives And We
Work And We Have Different Tasks And Challenges
In Life.
O Allah, Please Do Not Hold Us Accountable
For Any Shortcomings That We Have And O
Allah, Please Do Not Hold Us Accountable For
Any Sins That We Have Committed For Rarely
Your Mercy Is Far More Greater Than All
Of Our Sins Combined And We Ask You
O Allah That Treat Us With Your Mercy
The Way You Treated Ashabul Kahf With Your
Mercy.