Ahmad Saleem – Tafseer Surah Kahf – Deep Dive into Quranic Lessons – Part 14
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The transcript discusses the loss of various countries and the importance of destruction in shaping the world, as well as the struggles of teachers in establishing sponsor for students and finding the right person to ask questions. The segment also touches on various topics, including the use of "foothills," the discovery of a road, and the return of a fish. The transcript also discusses the use of "footholds," the "by" of sharia, and the "by" of sharia. The transcript concludes with a discussion of the T Prophet S.A.W. on the battle of Badr and the T Prophet S.A.W. on the battle of Badr.
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Bismillah ar-Rahman
ar-Raheem, Bismillah walhamdulillah wa salatu wa salamu
ala Rasulullahi wa ba'ad So Allah Subh
'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la in where we
left off from our last session, He talks
about a nation that were destroyed i.e.
there were nations that were destroyed We destroyed
them When they transgressed, when they recognized what
is wrong and they said it's okay, we're
still gonna do it And that is a
principle of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la When a nation, irrespective of who they
are, they know what is right, they know
what's wrong and they choose to transgress that
Then destruction comes to them inevitably It could
be financial destruction, it could be moral destruction,
it could be destructions of all types And
Allah is like, someone is like, oh how
come that nation is not destroyed?
They have crossed a lot of boundaries, Allah
is like every nation has a time Not
now, not tomorrow, we are not the ones
who decide when which nation is gonna be
destroyed Maybe in our eyes they must have
qualified, in our eyes with all the transgression
that has happened in the countries By certain
countries to our Muslims brothers and sisters, we're
like, oh this nation shouldn't be destroyed But
I was like, Every nation, their destruction has
a set appointed time Then Allah Subh'anaHu
Wa Ta-A'la starts off, He says,
and this is where the story of Musa
Alayhi Salaam begins So a preamble to what
the discussion has been before Which is that,
there were, how many questions asked to Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
Three What were the three questions?
Ashabul Kahf Ruh Dhul Qarnayn Was Musa Alayhi
Salaam asked?
No, then why tell the story of Musa
Alayhi Salaam?
That was not one of the questions You
know?
They are checking whether the Prophet knows the
story of Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam For sure,
but why Musa Alayhi Salaam's story?
Musa Alayhi Salaam did not know some of
the information Beautiful So since they were testing
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta-A'la brought a story of their
own Prophet Musa Alayhi Salaam, who did not
know?
So you come and test my Nabi Let
me tell you about a story of your
Nabi when he didn't know something But don't
test Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Okay?
This story was not with them They don't
have the recollection of the story in their
books So this is like, hey, you know,
when this happened With Musa Alayhi Salaam Now,
the story As it is mentioned in Hadith
books Bukhari, Muslim And various other Hadith books
The collection of all of that that we
find in the Hadith books Abu Ubaidah is
the one who narrates most of that Is
That Musa Alayhi Salaam was giving a Khutbah
once After the Khutbah ended A person came
to Musa Alayhi Salaam And the person said
Ya Nabi Allah Ya Kaleem Allah Ya Rasul
Allah O the one who has spoken with
Allah O Rasul of Allah O Prophet of
Allah Who is the most knowledgeable person on
this earth?
So what did Musa Alayhi Salaam say?
He said, I am I am the most
knowledgeable person I am Musa Ibn Imran The
Prophet of Bani Israel I am the most
knowledgeable So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la He sent an angel to tell Musa
Alayhi Salaam Why did you not return the
affair to me?
Why didn't you say Allah is the most
knowledgeable?
And then he sent Musa Alayhi Salaam And
he said I have a servant That has
more knowledge than you Go to him and
seek knowledge So Musa Alayhi Salaam As soon
as Allah tells him Sorry, Allah did not
tell him to go and seek knowledge Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la told him
That I have a servant who has more
knowledge than you So Musa Alayhi Salaam He
gets up Packs up everything And he says
We're going to go find this person Oh
Allah, where can I find him?
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says
You will find him at Majma' Al-Bahrain
You will find him at the junction of
the two seas So you find That Musa
Alayhi Salaam Despite being a prophet Despite being
Every question that he could ever think of
Can be answered through Wahi He picks up
himself and says Seeking knowledge Is an essential
part Of even a prophet So he displayed
the humility of a And humbleness of a
student of knowledge I mean if anyone of
us Was in that shoes We're like, man,
I'm set I have Wahi Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
is coming to me I don't need to
seek any knowledge Alhamdulillah And he's like, hey
Can you find out what's the opinion on
this thing?
You have direct access to the Divine Realm
And you're not just any Nabi You're Kaleemullah
Allah talks to you You're one of the
only human beings That Allah has had Kalam
with And he says, oh If there is
somebody more knowledgeable I'll go and seek I'll
go and seek knowledge Ajeeb This is something
so strange If you think about it What
happens to many of us If we know
a little bit this, little bit that I
studied here Did this, this Khalas Alhamdulillah, we
know And then we become passive about Ilm
We become passive about Ilm Just, you know
Couple hours before coming here A very good
Brother Friend Of mine 47 years old He
passed away They gave him two days Two
days before he went to the hospital And
He said, I can't breathe Something's up They're
like, let's do a test Oh my God
You've got cancer all over your body Your
lungs are filling up with water We'll drain
some of the lungs Doctor does the diagnosis
You got two days to live Perfectly healthy
person before that I was on chat with
him Literally I think 20, 25 days ago
I messaged him I said Omar, you know
You need to come down to Atlanta And
because he was one of the pioneers Who
established Jummahs in high schools Back in the
day He decided to go into public school
system As a teacher And I still remember
John Fraser Secondary School All other Jummahs were
We were struggling because There was this massive
We don't want this We want these people
to assimilate But you know, people wanted Jummahs
And there was a lot of pushback We
could hardly get room We could hardly get
people to sponsor us Because if you're a
student High school, you need a sponsor Teacher
who is going to be there The entire
time While you're doing that And it's very
difficult Many teachers don't want to sit They're
like, I need to go home I don't
want to do this And they're not being
paid for that So Omar, I remember in
those days In early 2000s Mid 2000s He
became the pioneer In establishing Jummah In John
Fraser School To the level that the entire
gym Used to be filled with Jummah Kids
Then when I came back After my studies
He was the first person to meet me
Total random We were not intending to meet
We prayed Asr at a Masjid Rahman Center
He met me And he sat me down
And he said, look People are losing their
faith Whatever you do You're going to be
up against So many challenges Many of the
Masjids Many of the institutions Don't want people
that can do good work And I've been
burnt so many times But no matter how
many times I get burnt I don't leave
the community I give every time that I
can He used to run classes He wouldn't
take a single dime He would run classes
on Fridays and Saturdays In Masjids Same Masjid
that would kick him off The Minbar Because
he said something That they did not want
him to hear And then six months later
They would come back and say Oh, pressure
has mounted We have nobody who can help
our youth And then he would be back
So he told me Whatever happens Don't back
down And I was just like coming back
I'm like, no They're not going to do
that to me And then his Every single
word of his was true Because if you're
beneficial to the community The people who are
guarding And safeguarding those centers They don't want
that Because education leads to questioning And they
don't want a community That questions SubhanAllah Anyhow
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Have maghfirah
for him And in hindsight His pain was
only a couple of days Of extreme pain
And Allah gave him the opportunity To repent
And he never told any one of us
Until like today I think I got to
know about it At 11 o'clock That
he's super sick And then like I was
trying to take a nap And my mom
called me And said he passed away I'm
like, what?
I just heard the news that he's sick
At 11 o'clock He's like, yeah, he
passed away But that is the reality of
My life in Yoruba As I was talking
to Brother Asad I was talking to At
the back Like We all have a deadline
That deadline is coming In his case He
got to know about the deadline early In
many cases You will not know about your
deadline He never thought He had plans He
was going to go for Umrah in December
Tickets booked He's ready Allah has different plans
But the reality is That that deadline of
ours Can come any minute And the The
thing that really matters Is in the last
two days What did he occupy His time
with?
Was he busy with Things that we are
busy with?
Or Because the The visceral nature Of his
deadline That it's just a couple of days
Made him drop Everything that was not necessary
And he's like You know what?
It's not worth it It's not worth it
Because it's not going to Go with me
to the grave Many of the Masha'ikh
They used to say That Take an account
Of What In your day That you did
That will Go with you to the grave
What is it that you did?
And if we honestly Take an account All
of us included Maybe an hour a day
If you add all the salawat And the
quick sunnahs That we might do If we
do And on top of that Maybe one
or two Du'as here and there Maybe
some lecture here and there Like maybe max
two hours Of our days Is dedicated towards
this The rest of the 22 hours Is
of no use May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta-A'la Grant him maghfirah And highest
status Insha'Allah And seeking knowledge Is the
most important Highest Loftiest Action the person can
get Involved in That is why If you
look at any of the Tazkiyah books You
look at Imam Ghazali's Arba'een The 40
principles of life You look at Minhaj al
-Abideen You look at Minhaj al-Qasideen You
look at An-Nurain Fid-Darain All of
these books That relate to my Tazkiyah of
Nafs They all begin with If you look
at Hadith books Bab al-ilm The chapter
of knowledge Because without ilm Without knowledge My
ibadah Your ibadah And a person who Has
no knowledge And a person who has knowledge
Their ibadah can't be the same It cannot
Ilm is what Differentiates An abid And that's
why The ulema they used to say That
ilm Is over ibadah You have to do
Your obligatory But if a person Has an
opportunity To pray two rakahs Of nafil Or
to seek knowledge That is obligatory On him
Then seeking that Knowledge matters Seeking that knowledge
Matters And sad reality is That obligatory knowledge
Is not being offered Anyone It's not being
offered As a matter of fact Like you
know Another friend of mine Who is a
sheikh Sheikh Sami He wrote a I mean
you can look it up On Instagram His
name is The Usuli You know The Usuli
That's his channel And he wrote something beautiful
He said Look at all of our masjids
Look at all of our centers Everything that
is being offered In North America Sunday schools
We don't have a concept Of Sunday schools
Sunday school was a Christian thing We just
took that concept At wholesale And every masjid
says Oh we're gonna Every center is like
We're gonna create a Sunday school Then what's
after that?
Hibz Hibz is Fard kifaya As a matter
of fact Hibz was not Recommended For awam
Ever A layman was not told You should
go and memorize Because he doesn't live Like
a scholar He has not gone through The
training of being a scholar So he would
desecrate The maqam of the Quran He would
not know How to behave Having Quran in
his heart But today Everyone is like In
this business Of pumping hufaz Which is gonna
pump Fard kifaya What's fard ayn?
Those hufaz Don't know How to make wudu
And this is the situation We had Like
those kids Kids lining up To lead taraweeh
Going to the bathroom In socks And coming
back In the musalla Standing right next And
I'm like I just saw you With these
socks In the bathroom You can't You can't
be here It's like Nobody told us Hajeed
So Proper ilm Obligatory ilm Is what matters
And that is Of three types Number one
Is your basic fiqh Your basic aqeedah Basic
tazkiyah And add on to that Is Quran
classes Of this nature Or steera That's it
Everything else That is being offered Through the
centers Other places Love It's basically And he
posted He said We send a message To
survey to the community What would you like
To have in the program Community doesn't know
It's a scholar's job To teach what needs
To be taught Not what they want So
ilm is something So important And the more
you spend time In ilm The more barakah
Your life is going to have In sha
Allah So Musa alayhi salam He establishes that
He says So this story Is happening When
Musa alayhi salam Has already embarked Sorry He's
already embarked On the journey And he turns
to his fatah Who is this fatah Who
knows the name Of this person The young
assistant What was his lineage Yusha ibn Nun
Yes He's what Lineage Lineage I don't know
Lineage is No No Yusuf alayhi
salam He is from the lineage Of Yusuf
alayhi salam Okay His great great grandfather Was
Yusuf alayhi salam But again They're connected But
his immediate grandfather His great great grandfather Was
Yusuf alayhi salam And he took on The
job Of Musa alayhi salam After the Death
of Musa alayhi salam In the desert of
Teh For 40 years He became that nabi
Wa ithqala Musa alayhi fatah When Musa alayhi
salam Turned to Yusha ibn Nun Just one
point Generally when the word Fatah is used
In the Quran It refers to a slave
But in this particular case Fatah is That
he was In servitude To Musa alayhi salam
In such a level That he was literally
Like a slave That's the denotion He was
although A free person La abrahu I will
not I will never stop La abraha basically
means That whatever state You find me in
I will not change The state of mine
So if we are traveling For this knowledge
And this person Then I will stay In
this state of travel Okay Au amdhiya La
abraha Hatta Until Ablugha I reach Majma'a
The junction Of Bahrain The two seas Let
me show you So The junction of two
seas Where do you think this is Where
do you think Two seas meet I think
the TV Is shut down Do we need
to Just press the buttons Yeah
I am casting Okay Awesome That's fine
You guys can see that right Okay awesome
So Most of the scholars Of tafsir They
say Majma'a al-Bahrain Is either The
Mediterranean So they They refer to The two
Bahars Here This So this is one Bahar
And this is the second Bahar And there
are two seas That are connecting That is
This is one The others They say This
junction Like so over here This portion of
the sea Meeting that bigger sea That's what
they refer to But The most plausible So
Bahar In Arabic language Is something that is
Surrounded by three places And it could be
open from one It could be completely open
But if it Even like If it's Surrounded
by Completely Or if even one side is
open It would still be considered Bahar So
if you see The red sea This is
still the sea The actual Bahar That we
are talking about Is over here These two
Bahrain Okay And if you actually Have been
here This area Tab al-Ism This is
where There's a lot of remains Of Musa
Alayhi Salaam Over there You find The valley
A lot of reminiscences You'll find about Musa
Alayhi Salaam's Traditions And a lot of the
Biblical references Also allude to this place Tab
al-Ism The valley of Tab al-Ism
It has a different name I forgot the
name That it has in Biblical references But
all of this Now interestingly This is something
Very interesting For a lot of people So
when Musa Alayhi Salaam He crossed From Egypt
He would cross over where?
So when we say That Prophet Musa Alayhi
Salaam During the time of Fir'aun He
crossed Right?
With Ya Allah Saint Catherine In Egypt Ajeeb
You learn weird Interesting things So when Musa
Alayhi Salaam He was here Now He's here
with What's his name?
Fir'aun So he escapes from Fir'aun
And he crosses over The desert Sayyidina He
crosses over the desert Obviously he's not going
to go back Into the land of Fir
'aun He's going to go somewhere else Now
if you come and Actually go to these
areas You're actually going to find Something really
interesting That the Arabs They This mountain Jabal
Lowz We've been there With our family and
stuff Jabal Lowz is well documented Within the
Arab traditions People in Arabia They call Jabal
Lowz Jabal Musa If you ask anybody in
the desert They don't call it Jabal Lowz
They call it Jabal Musa And actually next
to this Jabal Musa There's actually an entire
documentary Where they found The stone That split
into The four The twelve The twelve All
of that You don't find anything In Mount
Sinai The current day Mount Sinai You find
everything In this area About that So Musa
Alayhi Salaam He is travelling with Yusha Ibn
Nun And obviously he is Around the coastal
areas Okay So you have to remember this
point While we go through this And Majma'
Al-Bahrain Is over here Where the two
seas are meeting Okay There is Some research
That There's a place called Ra'as Muhammad
Now whenever the Arabs They say Ra'as
They refer to these things You see Ra
'as Hamad Which means the head Which is
basically a port Like a head Popping out
of the land So there's a place called
Ra'as Muhammad Which is well documented That's
where There's Right here Ra'as Muhammad Okay
This is where they believe That this actually
took place The entire thing Okay Let's go
back to How do I stop this Okay
So When Musa Alayhi Salaam He said to
his Yusha Ibn Nun I will not Change
the state Until I reach Majma' Al-Bahrain
This junction Of the two seas What was
going to happen How would they Know Because
they don't have They don't have like Drones
that they can fly And now see where
The Majma' Al-Bahrain Is taking place Obviously
when you Don't have that How are you
going to know Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Musa
Alayhi Salaam Was told That take a fish
with you And what is going to Happen
to this fish Is wherever The Majma' Al
-Bahrain Is going to happen This fish is
going to Become alive And it will go
Into the sea And that is Majma' Al
-Bahrain That in itself If somebody believes We
do as Muslims Then if Dajjal Comes and
shows us Some magic We're not going to
Feel awkward That's one of the Reasons why
this Surah is so powerful And then What
happens with The fish read Majma' Al-Bahrain
Or I will carry On my travels For
Hukuba Basically means Hukuban Minimum that Can come
here Is three Right For plural Minimum three
Which means One hukub Is 70 years Another
hukub Is 70 years Another hukub Is 7
years So he's like I will carry on
Traveling for At least 210 years If I
have to Until I get To this place
What happens So he reaches The
junction point That I told you about Ra's
Muhammad What happened Nasiyaa Hootahuma They forgot About
The Fish Yusha'i Ibn Nun's Only task
was That you're going to Keep an eye
on the fish That's the only task That
he had And he forgot The only task
Over here A lot of benefits First benefit
To the ulema They say The first benefit
That we get over here Is that teenagers
Forget It's actually written That when you're Young
you're Distracted Oh my god Look at the
Like when we travel Oh wow Look at
that So he got so Distracted That his
main task That he was on with Saying
Keep an eye on the fish Because this
fish Is going to jump out So he
forgot He saw the event But he forgot
To even tell I'm like Just think for
a second This fish Is dead And this
thing Is called So either it's An actual
piece of whale A small piece of whale
Or as Our brothers and sisters In In
Tanzania And Sorry Our brothers and sisters In
Why am I saying North African countries Morocco
Algeria Tunisia These countries Libya They call fish
Every fish is Okay What is In the
Tafsir books Is this was It was salted
fish Which is the tradition Of Egyptians Till
today So this salted fish That they were
eating Somehow jumps out Of the Basket Goes
into the Z And He forgets it Completely
Like you really Think about it That how
Distracted was he That a miracle Happened in
front of him He forgot to tell Musa
Question for all of you If Musa If
Yusha If he forgot it Why use Naseeah
Why use Both of them Forgot Why Why
add Musa In the problem It was not
Musa's problem He didn't forget it Yusha Forgot
it But then Allah He says Naseeah They
both forgot I can't give you all answers
Yeah Yeah sure sure Shaytan made them forget
But why Is Allah Adding Musa To this
mix It was his responsibility So if you
are held If you have been given A
responsibility Anybody who is Subordinate to you Their
mistake Is your mistake You will be held
liable For that Yes Somebody got it here
Okay I'm going to Whoever got it there
Good for you Okay So it was The
responsibility of Musa Alayhi Salaam Because he was
the leader So if the mistake happened It's
also his problem Naseeah Huta Fattakhada sabeelahu fil
bahri saraba This Hoot This fish It took
A path In the sea In a wondrous
way I.e. It was not a normal
path Number two It was sabeel So it
was A clear path It was not like
A fish jumps in And goes Disappears As
the fish Was travelling The path Was absolutely
Clear In the sea It was parting Its
way Into the sea Falamma jawaza When they
crossed That moment Of the junction Qala li
fattahu He turns to Yusha ibn Nun Atina
ghadaana Give us our food Laqad laqina Min
safarina Ghada Nasaba We have been Really tired
And in this travel We have been Inflicted
with An exhaustive journey Or we've been Exhausted
So this Also has Really beautiful Point that
some Of the scholars Have taken out That
when we Crossed So see Up until Where
Allah Wanted them to be They were in
a State of ibadah Trying to seek This
person But when they Crossed that junction That's
when They started Becoming tired Similarly When we
Go beyond That which Allah Has asked us
to Then we Ourselves Inflict our Bodies with
pain And we get Tired Because Allah Had
never asked you For that I met a
brother You know He had registered One of
their kids In a program That I was
running And I think they only Showed up
like Four times And they didn't Bring their
Kid And I was like I met him
Recently I was like What happened?
He said I got so busy With this
And then This person And then her Education
And his thing And all this I'm like
Has Allah Obligated us For all of that?
And the answer Is no Allah has Obligated
the parents To teach the Children Their Basic
Aqeedah Basic Tahara Basic Tasbeeh Beyond that Everything
else Is It's Additional Headache That we have
taken Which Allah Has not asked us for
If somebody Wants to do it Perfect But
if that Comes in my Way of my
Ibadah Then it is Something Blameworthy So then
Yushay bin Noon Turns back To him And
he says Do you remember When we stopped
At that big Boulder And we were Resting
So he's like Yeah But At that Moment
We were Resting And I forgot To tell
you About the fish He's like Oh And
then He gives him An excuse This is
all Shaitan's fault Right We well Know Every
time Something Happens When we're Young It was
not My fault Shaitan made Me do it
Okay And again That's human Nature You think
About it Like Thousands Of years Ago A
young Boy is Saying the Same language It's
not My fault It's Shaitan Who made Me
do it It's a funny Story A boy
Tells his Father He's like Honestly I Did
not Wanted to Take the Car Wallahi Baba
Shaitan Made me You know Told me To
take The keys And I Took the Car
So the Dad took Off his Belt And
you know He Car King And he's Like
Wallahi I did not Wanted to Hit you
Today But the Shaitan Convinced me That I
Have to Beat you Today Right So we
Can't Blame Shaitan We also Have some nafs
but over he is giving an excuse and
adhkurahu I wanted to tell you but Shaitaan
made me forget this wattakhatha sabeelahu fil bahri
ajabaa the only thing I remember is it
took a very like when it jumped in
the water it took a path wattakhatha the
fish took sabeelahu its path fil bahri in
the sea ajabaa in a very strange manner
qala thalika ma kunna nabgh this is exactly
what we were looking for fartadda ala atharihina
qasatha so they traveled back following their footsteps
and where can you usually find your footsteps
what type of terrain sand but not really
close somebody said sand huh oh mashallah see
Allah subhana wa ta'ala is helping us
today even chromecast wants to help us so
on the sand the footsteps were very visible
yes snow yeah that too but they didn't
have snow mud no mud eventually comes back
depends on how thick the mud is fartadda
ala atharihina qasatha so they followed their footsteps
back all the way what happens fawajada abda
min ibaadina this is where we need to
pause and and I'll tell you the beautiful
scene so now they come back and they
find that where the fish took its path
where the fish traveled there is no water
and Musa alayhi salam he finds that the
fish has led to a boulder that's one
tafseer and the other tafseer is it was
no boulder it was just right above the
water there was no rock there it was
just a path that was leading to where
khadir alayhi salam was there now in the
hadith in various hadith there are numerous things
that are mentioned number one khadir we also
say khidr but khidr is not correct in
Arabic it's khadir number two khadir comes from
khudra which means green and the thing about
him is whatever he touches wherever he steps
his foot it is known about him that
wherever he travels that place turns green as
we find in tafseer books number three he
has a cloak that is green because whatever
he touches turns green so he has a
cloak and that cloak is all green so
the hadith mentions that yes what happens if
you shake his hand only a teenager can
think of that you don't turn into groot
that's a good comeback right that's good right
did you guys get the reference who got
the reference no some people got it you
got it you got it no you got
it yes this is groot he got it
right away so he finds one of the
abd a servant of Allah SWT and the
hadith mentions that Musa alayhi salam comes and
then he sees him there so he goes
up to him and he says what assalamu
alaykum so khadir alayhi salam is wearing a
cloak and he is literally imagine me having
this cloak on top and then he's got
his hands like this and he's not even
looking at Musa alayhi salam and then he
opens his hands and he says the first
thing wa fee ayi ardikumus salam which parts
of your land has peace you come and
say salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah to me he
said I am Musa he said I know
Musa ibn Imran Rasul of Bani Israel Musa
alayhi salam is like ajeeb and then he
says to him let's go Musa alayhi salam
he says to him that I would like
to seek knowledge from you qala Musa hal
attabi'uka Musa alayhi salam tells him sorry
let me finish this fawajada abdan so this
is how he finds this this abd khadir
alayhi salam min ibaadina from our servants what
was the specialty aataynahu rahmatan we had given
him rahma now this word rahma in the
Quran is generally translated as mercy and if
it is attached to a human being then
nubuwa prophethood most of the time in the
Quran if rahma is attached to a human
being that Allah has given someone rahma then
it is referring to nubuwa prophethood aataynahu rahmatan
we had given him rahma which was the
mercy of Allah subhana wa ta'ala and
the prophethood min indina from our side i
.e. from Allah subhana wa ta'ala wa
allamnahu min ladunna ilma and he had knowledge
that was directly from not through wahi his
knowledge is direct knowledge that was given to
him how do we know that?
we know that because that was the same
knowledge that was given to Adam alayhi salam
without any anbiya without any messengers without any
malaika because the malaika did not have that
knowledge so Allah subhana wa ta'ala can
provide that knowledge and that is the same
knowledge that the baby is born with for
example who teaches the baby how to suckle
he didn't go and take a course he
knows, she knows right away so that's knowledge
from Allah subhana wa ta'ala but in
this particular case this is not any knowledge,
this is prophethood now we have to understand
this part because this is really confusing for
people so there is some knowledge that comes
to a human being as a wahi through
prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam or all the
prophets that came before him through a messenger
and they come with sharia, they come with
obvious rules of engagement that Allah has allowed
and not allowed for our physical world but
Allah also has rules of how the metaphysical
world operates Allah has the sunnah how he
operates that and in that realm he has
various messengers some are malaika and he happened
to be one of those from the realm
that is not physical to us so you're
going to notice that he will do things
that in our sharia or any sharia it's
not possible for someone to do it but
you'll understand where we're going now what happens?
Musa alayhi salam meets him shall I follow
you?
on this condition all I want is you
teach me from that guidance that you have
been given there's a difference between rushd and
rashd rashada is a guidance of how to
live as a human being, not necessarily sharia
oriented, it's more about how to drink, not
to burn your mouth when you're drinking coffee
all of that knowledge is rushd rushd is
the knowledge of values morals, morality and how
not to lie and all of that is
rushd he's asking spiritual knowledge, some element of
spiritual knowledge from him mimma ullimta rushda khala
innaka lantastatee'a ma'iyya sabra you will
not be capable of having patience with me
and how are you going to have any
patience?
how are you going to have knowledge about
that affair that your brain cannot even encompass
and the word over here is beautiful he's
saying listen, you will not be able to
have patience and the word tuhit actually means
realm my knowledge is not from this realm
you cannot understand this knowledge because I operate
in a different realm and you don't have
ihata of this realm, you don't understand my
realm the imagery is that
your knowledge khabar, any knowledge that is coming
to you, you are in one ihata, you
are in one circle ma lam tuhit you
are not in the circle that I'm in
my knowledge and the realm through which, the
circle through which I get my knowledge, you
don't even you're not from there you're not
going to get it so he says you're
going to find me very patient don't worry
inshallah sabira, I will be very patient and
I will not disobey you question?
yeah yeah he was either on the rock
or he was above the sea, levitating he's
still stuck there it's like levitating?
wasn't he levitating?
how is he without a rock?
inshallah you're going to find me patient you
will find me you will find me patient
and and I will not disobey you really
interesting, you're getting all the interesting scenery so
he says fine, the only condition that we
have our rules of engagement is if you
were to follow me if you follow me
don't ask me about anything that you see
until I say something to you about that
affair or I clarify something for you I'm
going to do things you're going to see
things, don't ask so they travelled the word
in talaqa basically means to traverse or to
depart from that point where they were that's
what I was going to come to means
the two of them departed so Yusha ibn
Nun is still by the by that boulder
where the fish has taken a weird path
now where do you think they would go?
حتى راكبا في السفينة until they climbed on
a ship راكبا في السفينة there was no
safinas there there was no harbour there it
was just him فانطلقا they travelled, where did
they go?
ok, perfect so they traversed the sea that
in itself wherever the path was wherever the
fish travelled that led them to a path
until they got to a ship because we
know that that swim it didn't happen that
the fish went and then it stopped right
at it kept swimming so wherever that path
was they followed that فانطلقا i.e. wherever
he, Musa i.e. came to meet him
on that path, the dry land the fish
had left فانطلقا from that point they carried
on i.e. from the junction they carried
on the path it's understood here until they
got to a ship راكبا حتى اذا راكبا
في السفينة until they got on to the
ship, was the ship empty or with people?
there were people, remember this point when we
read the next part حتى راكبا في السفينة
خرقها what did he do?
he got on and he made a hole
onto the ship or onto that ship قال
موسى عليه السلام أخرقتها you have placed a
hole لتغرق أهلها you want people to drown?
people of the ship to drown لقد جئت
شيئا امرى you've done a terrible thing question
for you all why did only Musa i
.e. imagine think about it imagine this خرق
is generally to poke a hole in a
wood generally the Arabic language خرق basically means
to poke a hole in a piece of
wood generally it's a ship that's made out
of wood now obviously it doesn't happen that
you automatically make a hole he didn't have
like a super blaster gun done in one
second none of that so to poke a
hole on a piece of wood if you've
ever travelled on those ships that are made
of wood those woods are pretty dry clean
dried wood it requires a lot of effort
nobody around noticed it except Musa i.e.
everybody's like oh look at this guy he's
poking a hole in the ship very good
guy everybody's okay with it except Musa i
.e. how come?
yeah why?
Musa is saying you want the poor imagine
these are poor people we know and how
does that help?
somebody that you know you're like we know
he's going to put a hole in there
you have less affinity to it you're like
how dare you they could not see them
they could not see them they could not
hear them they could not see them they
could not hear them and that's what if
you read some of the not the classic
Tafsirs but if you read the modern Tafsirs
that have been written and we all believe
in these things by the way we all
believe in these things okay where you are
hidden Rasulullah S.A.W with Abu Bakr
in the Ghar right Rasulullah S.A.W
وَمَا رَمَيْتَ إِذْ رَمَيْتَ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ رَمَى 40
people they're all waiting to see Rasulullah S
.A.W he walks right, they don't see
the footsteps he walks right by them at
least the smell Rasulullah we all know Rasulullah
was so fragrant that if he walked in
a street you would smell that street would
smell it would have the scent of Rasulullah
S.A.W for days so what happened
Allah S.W.T that's the miracle here
that we don't never think about the miracle
is that I mean like imagine you're on
a ship everybody's there and he's like listen
you're gonna drown the people لِتُغْرِقَ أَهْلَهَا the
people did not see and how do we
know that because he tells them look I
operate in a different realm you operate in
a different realm and that's why that is
that wording is so important مَا لَمْ تُحِطَ
you are not you don't exist in that
إِحَاطَ basically means like you're not in that
surrounding circle my circle is different your circle
is different I'm gonna allow you to be
in my circle and I'll do things the
way I want to do similarly when Dajjal
is going to come he's going to test
us with these things this cup is annoying
me because I keep playing with it I
need this cup gone otherwise I'll just keep
on playing I need something to hold look
at that sorry مَا لَمْ تُحِطَ he's laughing
so this is what is happening they are
operating in a different realm but then you
may say that was Rasulullah S.A.W
has it happened to others yes it has
happened to Sahaba it has happened to Sahaba
رضي الله عنهما جمعين it has happened to
Sahaba and it has happened to one of
the persons who ran one of the leaders
of Quraish where Allah S.W.T Prophet
S.A.W. on the battle of Badr
he made the dua against him وَاللَّهَ سَلَّتْ
عَلَيْهِ كِلَابًا مِّنْ كِلَابِهِ كَلْبًا مِّنْ كِلَابِهِ O
Allah appoint on him a dog from your
dogs so this person he heard this dua
from Rasulullah S.A.W he got so
scared he was with the Muslims so what
he would say whenever he would travel with
the Muslims he would say listen I will
sleep right in the middle not on the
edges so if any animal comes by the
time they get to me I'm safe okay
there were wounded people in that battle and
he got all of those prisoners and he
sat right he slept in the middle to
make sure that if there is any lion
or dog that is going to come and
eat the wounded people and the blood is
fresh they are going to go after them
first the lion comes a leopard an Arabian
leopard comes and grabs him right from the
middle and the Arabian leopard did not smell
any other blood of any other Muslim ajeeb
so our history is filled with these stories
that we have from the Sahaba and Tabi
'een I'm not even talking about let's talk
about in our day we have so many
stories in our day of similar things that
have happened so they were in a different
realm and that's the only way this entire
story makes sense he reminds him listen you're
in a different realm you don't understand the
dynamics and the physics of how this world
works you don't understand you can't apply that
so you will not understand and I told
you you're not going to be patient about
this don't hold me accountable for this I
honestly have to go and don't put don't
be hard on me don't be burdensome burdensome
on me don't make this difficult for me
I really want to be with you so
they both travelled until they met a boy
a boy a boy anywhere between the age
of 9 to 12 sorry 9 to 14
he killed him imagine imagine you enter a
city you meet this boy and you just
kill him and nobody around has any issue
how is that possible you kill somebody Musa
A.S. says in my Sharia you can
only kill if he has killed you have
killed somebody you have spilled blood for no
other reason he has not done any harm
how could you do that you have done
a horrible thing did I not tell you
that you're not going to have patience with
me you will not be able to travel
along with me patiently if I ask you
about anything after this moment I give you
permission take me out of this realm leave
me don't accompany me this excuse has come
to you from me so that's the final
so what happens they traveled notice
the additional word over here until they arrived
they entered they met the people now what
did they do they asked for food you
asked for water they asked for food they
both asked for food so they said nope
we're not going to be hospitable to you
they were very inhospitable people this time around
it's a physical thing that is happening he
saw an actual wall this is interesting so
Allah is saying he sees a wall and
that wall had the desire to collapse arada
yuridu is a desire now we're seeing the
wall from a different realm every inanimate object
that we believe is inanimate has a reality
we know this because Rasulullah hasa he had
pebbles in his hands and Abu Bakr comes
what did he say he said they're doing
tasbih to Allah that they're in the most
blessed hand they're thanking Allah Ali was walking
with Rasulullah after Fath Makkah and Rasulullah sees
that hajar and he says this stone it
used to send salam to me when I
was not a nabi so there is a
realm and a reality of all of those
things we just the scientific way of inanimate
that's not true that's why Allah says everything
that came into existence does tasbih la tafqahuna
tasbihahum you don't understand their tasbih that's the
problem so over here a wall a wall
can have irada maybe not in our realm
but in their world yes it can have
an irada the second meaning is it's high
level of imagery that it's like as if
if the wall had an irada it just
wanted to fall i.e. it was really
close to falling so he comes and he
fixes the wall I mean we needed food
we don't have money you could have asked
for labor charges you fixed this you should
have told the guys who you fixed the
wall for give me the money I'm going
to fix the wall for you for free
no we could have taken money Ali
radiallahu anhu he used to say that mawdi
'ani yabkiyani inda firaqil mu'minin two places on
this earth they cry when a believer leaves
a place where he used to pray mawdi
'u salatihi a place where he used to
pray and the spot in the sky where
his recitation and the salat would ascend in
harmony with the angels that spot where that
recitation would ascend to Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala that spot also cries that no longer
from this spot any recitation of this individual
is going to ascend right so
even the earth cries the point is the
earth also cries the spot in the sky
cries we just don't know this fama bakat
alihimus sama the sky did not cry upon
them these are all things that we know
in the Quran and if we have that
level of belief then when Dajjal comes insha
'Allah we should not have any don't try
to test your if it happens in our
time don't try to test it we read
tafsir in the hub let's go Dajjal and
then Musa alayhi salam is there and Khadir
alayhi salam he says hala hatha firaqo bayni
wa banik this is the departation point between
you and me sa unabbi'uka ta'weel
I will sa unabbi'uka bi ta'weel
I will tell you the original intended intention
of my actions the word ta'weel comes
from awwal first generally translated ta'weel I
will explain to you the purpose behind it
but when we say the word ta'weel
a'eeh Quran ki ta'weel ta'weel
of the Quran it is what was the
original intended meaning that's what ta'weel is
sa unabbi'uka bi ta'weel ma lam
tas astati'a alayhi sabra I will tell
you the ta'weel of all of that
that you were not capable of having patience
and insha'Allah we will also talk about
the next part next week