Ahsan Hanif – Qur’an Tafseer #4 Consequences of Disbelievers

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we're going to go through each and every single page of the Quran a page at a time, making this the
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			Concerning the category of the hypocrites that we began in the last episode, and that is Allah azza
wa jal gives a number of descriptions concerning them and their attributes. In verse number 17,
Allah subhana data sets forth a parable, a parable, concerning the hypocrites and Allah azza wa jal
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			They are like people who labor to kindle a fire. When they lights up everything around them. Allah
azza wa jal takes away their light, leaving them in utter darkness, unable to see. This is the
example of the people of hypocrisy. Imagine a person who is in the middle of a desert, they have no
nothing that they took with them in preparation for being in the middle of the desert, they just got
stuck there. by no fault or by no means of their own. They're in the middle of the desert, and it's
extremely dark. They have nothing to fire with. They have nothing to protect themselves from the
bitter cold of the night of the desert. And so they're completely unprepared. And all of a sudden,
		

			they find a fire that has already lit a fire that provides them with light that allows them to see
their surroundings, that gives them a measure of safety and security that allows them to feel at
ease. And there is also a fire that gives to them warmth, so that they can take from that fire and
benefit from it. They can take from the fire in terms of cooking from that fire and taking warmth
from the fire and allowing themselves to be able to see in their surroundings. And then with out any
warning, the light is taken away from the fire. Allah azza wa jal says the light will be removed
Allah subhanaw taala takes away the light. So the heat of the fire or the burning quality of the
		

			fire is still there. But a fire that you cannot see that is raging with heat that cannot be seen is
extremely dangerous, because you don't know how far you can go and how close you can go to it. You
don't know if that fire is spreading and coming towards you, or if it is not moving towards you. And
so the people are left in pitch darkness in a fire that is burning them or about to burn them or
it's going to consume them. And they are in the darkness of the night with the darkness of the
clouds with the darkness of the surroundings that they are left in. This is the example that
Marzotto gives of the of the people of hypocrisy, because the people of hypocrisy didn't have Eman
		

			did not know the meaning of la ilaha illallah didn't have didn't know who the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam was. And then Allah subhanaw taala brought to them in the city of Medina, the
Prophet of Allah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. And they saw the benefits of Eman. They saw the lights
of Eman in Medina, they saw salah, and they saw fasting and they saw it as a cat. And they saw all
of the benefits they benefited by being in the you know, even if it was only outwardly by being in
the group of the Muslims. They benefited from the wealth that came to the Muslims and the power and
the prestige that the Muslims had by Allah's permission at the hands of the Prophet sallallahu
		

			alayhi wa sallam, but then that light was taken away or will be taken away from them when death
comes and they will be left in utter darkness, darkness of the of the darkness of their sins, the
darkness of their disbelief, the darkness of the hypocrisy and the darkness of the grave and his
punishment and the darkness of the fire, that they will remain in thereafter. That is the example in
the parable that Allah azza wa jal stands for hypocrisy that Allah has given to them. All of the
things that should have given them guidance, they saw guidance, they heard guidance, they were
surrounded by guidance, but they didn't benefit from it. So a person who doesn't benefit from the
		

			light of the fire and doesn't benefit from the other elements of the fire that people can benefit
from such as cooking, such as seen guide and taking a guide from the light of the fire and warmth
and so on. Then those people only deserve to be burned by it. And that is what Allah azza wa jal
says concerning the people of despair.
		

			Believe and that is because Allah subhanaw taala as he goes on to describe them in verse number 18,
that the hypocrites are some book Munoz, for whom Lyle June. They are deaf, dumb and blind. They
will never return meaning to Allah subhanaw taala and find his guidance. This is not literally but
figuratively speaking. They're not literally dumb, deaf and blind, but figuratively they are deaf.
So they don't understand guidance. They can't hear guidance and the guidance doesn't settle within
their hearts to the hearing. They are dumb mean that they can't speak what is good remembrance of
Allah azza wa jal recitation of the Quran do vicar of Allah subhanaw taala and they are me they are
		

			blind to seeing the signs of Allah subhanaw taala there are only random signs that they see of
guidance signs that they see of Revelation, signs that you see in the universe in the creation of
Allah subhanaw taala so if someone is figuratively speaking, therefore, deaf, dumb and blind, for
whom lie of German, such people will never be able to find guidance. Such people will never come
closer. Oh come close to Allah subhana wa Tada. Allah azza wa jal then gives another parable another
example of the people of hypocrisy and he says in verse number 19 Oh, Casa UB minister, Santa Fe
Hill no matter what doing work, you're generally known as sabia Humphrey than in Minnesota if you
		

			had oral Milt Allahumma Heaton will caffeine or like a people who are under a cloudburst from the
sky. With this darkness, thunder and lightning. They put their fingers into the ears to keep out the
thunderclaps for fear of death. Indeed, Allah surrounds the disbelievers.
		

			Allah azza wa jal gives another example. A person who's walking down the road or outside, and all of
a sudden the dark rain clouds come upon them, even during the day. If dark rain clouds come, they
bring with them darkness in the sky, they cover the sky with their darkness. So you have the
darkness of the sky, and the darkness of the clouds. And then you have the darkness of the rain that
descends from that cloud. And then you have the storm with its thunder and it's lightning that
frighten people. You don't know how close that lightning strike is going to come. You have that
constant fear that maybe that lightning will strike you and will burn you and will harm you. This
		

			these are the people these are like the people of hypocrisy. Allah subhanaw taala says concerning
them, they placed their fingers into their ears out of fear. They don't want to hear the loudness of
the thunderclap. They don't want to see or they don't want to have the you know, the the the
lightning snatched away their eyesight, and they fear death at that time or they fear harm at that
particular time. Allah azza wa jal says in verse number 20, your car will have to absorb the
lightning almost snatches away their site called Amma Abba Anna who Michelle fee will either Avila
merrily him Bumble, whenever it flashes on them, they walk on, and When darkness falls around them,
		

			they stand still.
		

			These are the people that Allah azza wa jal gives the example of the people of hypocrisy. Allah
subhanaw taala as describing them, when it comes to the, the way that they deal with the book of
Allah azza wa jal in the Quran and the healing the Quran and they listen to the book of Allah
subhanaw taala Allah azza wa jal gave to them the Quran and Allah subhanaw taala gave to them within
the Quran guidance he gave to them commands and prohibitions and teachings, and mercy and blessings
within his book Subhana wa Tada. This is like the example of a person who's walking and they're
going to find signs that are clear around them as clear as the thunder and lightning, because the
		

			thunder and lightning because of how loud they are because of how vivid they are the lightning and
its and its power, and the thunder in its sound. The lightning in its light and the thunder and its
sound, how vivid and clear they are. This is the example that Allah azza wa jal gives us the
guidance of the Quran. The guidance of the Quran is so clear and it's science, so clear in its
message, so clear in the stories in the commandments of Allah subhanaw taala as mentioned there in
these people are there and they see everything within the Quran because they heard the recitation of
the Quran. They heard in the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the Prophet sallallahu
		

			alayhi wa sallam himself reciting the Quran, the companions of the believers reciting the book of
Allah subhanaw taala. Maybe they themselves even reciting portions of the Quran. But what do they do
with the book of Allah azza wa jal, they treat it like they will treat that thunder, lightning. They
paste their fingers in their ears,
		

			out of fear that some of it should settle in their heart. They don't listen to it. They don't want
to know it. And this is exactly what the Qureshi used to say to the people of Makkah and the
visitors that used to come in Makkah. In the early days of the message of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, they would say to them, beware. Don't listen to this man. He's a sorcerer. He's a
magician. He's a poet. He's crazy. He's a madman. If you listen to his words, that magic could
influence you. If you listen to his words, his fortune telling and his and his his
		

			sorcery will impact your heart, and He will make you leave your gods and your forefathers and their
religion, and he will make you follow his way instead. So the Arabs would generally walk across the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, with their fingers in the ears less than they should hear the
book of Allah subhanaw taala, they would sometimes go and they would please the world, within their
ears. And there are stories of this that you will find in this era of very intelligent, literate,
very eloquent leaders of different Arab tribes coming to Mecca to perform pilgrimage, or they on
some business and trade, and the Meccans would see to them beware today or in these times, we have a
		

			crazy man amongst us. We have a sorcerer amongst us, we have a poet, a madman amongst us. So if
you're going to walk around the camera and around the streets of Mecca, take some cotton, place it
in your ears, and then walk because if some of these words fall within your heart, or they come into
your into your hearing, then you will perhaps leave the religion of your forefathers and follow His
way instead. And so you would find those people doing that. Why, then, you know, this is why then
are such people entitled to seek guidance, if this is the way that they are those people who are
intelligent enough amongst those Arabs, they would realize the foolishness of this. And they would
		

			realize that if someone is so powerful in their speech, so powerful in the message that they're
giving, then most likely, it's not going to be sorcery, or the ramblings of a madman, or some poetry
when the Arabs were the premier tribes or Premier people who were most literate of, you know, most
literature when it came to Arabic poetry and Arabic literature.
		

			And so they would ignore what the McCain said. But those people who were foolish enough to accept
what the McCain said they would walk around with their fingers in the ears or with cotton wool
within the ears. Allah subhanaw taala gives exactly the same example here. This is how the
hypocrites treated the book of Allah azza wa jal walking around with their fingers in the ears, lest
they should hear it. Hush it and more they fear death, as Allah azza wa jal says, as we mentioned,
verse number 19, whether or not they fear death, as if this would come and it would harm them
meaning the message of the Quran and the message of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. And Allah azza wa jal
		

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			well, oh sha Allah Who loves her hobby summary him Bob sarin. And if Allah had willed, He could have
taken away the hearing on the site meaning the actual hearing and the actual site. It's a warning to
say that if Allah azza wa jal wanted to punish these people in this world, he could have made them
death. He could have made them blind, and indeed Allah azza wa jal in Allah Allah cliche for the
year. Indeed Allah has power over everything. But Allah subhanaw taala doesn't do so. Because Allah
azza wa jal wants people to seek guidance once people wants people to receive guidance. Allah azza
wa jal wants people to use the senses and the skills and the different talents that Allah azza wa
		

			jal has given to them his blessings. He wants them to use them in a way that will bring them closer
to him and of Eman in him. Subhana wa Tada. But this is the example that Allah azza wa jal gives him
the parable that is set forth for the hypocrites in verse number 21. Allah subhanaw taala then gives
to us after this description of these three categories that we've been speaking about the believers,
the disbelievers and the hypocrites. Allah subhanaw taala then gives to us the first commandment of
the Quran, the first order and the first commandment of the Quran is found in verse number 21. In
surah, Al Baqarah Allah subhanaw taala says, Yeah, you Hannahs Oh, mankind, oh, people mean that
		

			this is a directive, a command for all of humankind, for people. It's not just for the Muslims. It's
not just for the Arabs. It's not just for the coloration of Mecca, or the family and tribes people
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, it is something for all of mankind. What is that
directive? What is that command? Or a Buddha or a Baku? Let the Halacha come? Well Levine I mean,
publikum LA, con. worship your Lord who created you and created those who came before you? That you
may attain? Taqwa? Allah azza wa jal gives to us the first directive in the Quran, and that is that
everyone should worship Allah, the One who created everyone and everything. Surely the One who
		

			created the universe, and everything within it has the right to be worshipped as the creator and
Lord of the universe Subhana wa Tada as Allah azza wa jal, it says elsewhere in the Quran, in Surah,
two there yet Rama Kolak to Jinnah will insert Ilaria Abu don't I have only created the jinn and the
humans that they should worship Me alone. So Allah azza wa jal gives this first command of the
Quran, Allah subhanaw taala says you have the Quran with all of its guidance. There are three types
of people when it comes to the Quran. Those people who will believe who will use the Quran as a
source of guidance, who will use the Quran to believe in what Allah azza wa jal has revealed and
		

			come closer to him by their belief and through their actions. And then you have a category of people
who disbelieve who turned away who have no interest who have sealed the
		

			senses from receiving that guidance. And then there is the category of people who are also
disbelievers. But they are hypocritical in nature. They show one thing and they hide another. What
they show internally or what they conceal internally is different to that which they show
externally. And they are dangerous because of this very fact. Allah subhanaw taala says commanding
all of those groups, all of those people, Oh, you who believe I mean, all mankind rather, oh people,
worship your Lord, why should you worship Allah azza wa jal, Allah subhanaw taala will give to us a
number of reasons. The first of those reasons, because he's the one who created you, He created you
		

			and equated those before you, your father, your grandfather, your great grandfather, everyone who
came before you all the way down to our father at the mighty salatu salam, but not just humans,
angels, jinn, every single type of creation, Allah subhanaw taala is the creator of it subhanho wa
Tada LAN la quinta de Cohn. If you want to achieve a sense of piety, a level of God consciousness, a
level of coming closer to Allah azza wa jal, and at the same time being safeguarded and saved from
his punishment. Subhana wa Tada. This is the path to worship Allah azza wa jal alone, Allah subhanaw
taala then in verse number 22, he gives us further reasons why he's deserving of being worshipped
		

			alone, and see how Allah azza wa jal mentioned to us the signs that Allah azza wa jal gives us the
hypocrites are people who see the signs of Allah and they ignore them. They see the signs of Allah
does Dada as clear as the lightning strike or the thunderclap and they still ignore it. Allah
subhanaw taala now says, these are some of the signs that I have given to you. In verse number 22.
Allah azza wa jal says, Allah the Jarad hola como out of Russia, he is the one who spread out for
you. The Earth, and it's spreading is one of the greatest signs of Allah azza wa jal. It is repeated
numerous times in the Quran as a sign of Allah subhanaw taala. The earth is spread out, even though
		

			we know that we live on the earth, and that the Earth is round. But the way that we reside upon it
is is as if it has been spread out and it is flat. Meaning that when you walk from one side of your
land to the other side, if you were to walk from one continent, from one side of a continent to the
other side of the continent, even though the Earth is a physical in nature, or in reality, the way
that you walk is as if it is flat and spread out. You don't ever go to a part of the Earth where you
think you're going to fall off the edge. Then you come into the end, you come into a precipice, and
there's nothing there for you. The earth is spread out with its mountains and its rivers and it's
		

			oceans, Allah subhanaw taala spread that Earth in such a way that you can live upon it, reside upon
it, travel upon it, use it in terms of your vegetation, and your crops, and your livestock and
animals that you eat from and graze and so on and so forth. Everything you can use, when it comes to
the earth, Allah azza wa jal has made flat and spread out for that exact purpose was sama Bina and
Allah azza wa jal built for you, the sky above you with all of its beauty, and everything that it
contains of clouds of stars of the sun, and the moon. Everything that you see in the heavens from
the science of Allah subhanaw taala the sun that gives you the ability to live and reside through
		

			its rays through its light through the warmth and the heat that it provides the moon with what it
does in terms of providing light at night and guidance and you measure your worship and your actions
through Moon sighting and through the phases of the moon, the stars that people use as lamps, and
they use as guides and as landmarks and by knowing the way of how to navigate through the earth and
upon upon the sea, Allah azza wa jal has placed all of that upon the in the heavens. And Allah azza
wa jal then continues and says, Well Enza, Lemina sama Imam, and then Allah azza wa jal caused water
to pour forth from that very sky, the clouds when they form and the rain that is given, which is the
		

			life of the earth, that comes and as a result of it, Allah azza wa jal says Faraja behemoths,
Emirati, this Pelech them, that with water they produce he produced for you things for your
sustenance, so you use the water to drink from, but you use that rainwater also for all of your
crops and for everything that you grow. And Alonzo did then allowed you to grow from it, fruit and
vegetation and plantation, and herbage and all of those things that you use to survive and to live
upon. Isn't the beauty of the earth in its greenery isn't the beauty of the earth whichever part of
the world that you live in, when the rain descends and people benefit from it and the animals that
		

			benefit from it. Even in the desert, the life of that desert comes in the rainy season, where those
animals and the people living there will find some respite and find for them some sustenance that
Allah azza wa jal has given to them as a result of that. So Allah subhanaw taala then says, fanatic
only Allah He then
		

			We turn them on. So do not knowing this setup rivals besides Allah azza wa jal in worship, if this
is the case that Allah created you, and Allah created everything that came before you, and Allah
azza wa jal created the universe around you, then therefore he has the right to be worshipped alone.
Subhana wa Tada. And so Allah azza wa jal gives the directive of worshiping alone. And then at the
end of verse number 22, the prohibition of worshipping anything besides him subhanaw taala and that
is essentially what though heat is for the believer to hate. It's affirmation and negation, to
negate worship from everything besides Allah, to affirm it for Allah azza wa jal alone, that is the
		

			meaning of la ilaha illa Allah, La Ilaha none has the right to be worshipped, negated from
everything, whether that person is human, whether there is a creature or whether there is an angel
or a human or a prophet or a messenger, whether it's some type of creations such as the sun or the
moon when it is negated from everything in Allah. And then we affirm it only from Allah azza wa jal
alone, and so Allah subhanaw taala in verses 21 and 22, Allah azza wa jal gives that directive
worship Allah azza wa jal alone, and stay away from worshiping or anything besides Allah subhanaw
taala for the signs and the reasons that Allah azza wa jal mentions and if you do so, you will
		

			achieve taqwa, you will achieve that state of piety and safeguarding and safety. You will become
from the people of Taqwa if you worship Allah azza wa jal alone, and the Bane subhanaw taala and
stay away from every type of ship. And by doing so, then Allah azza wa jal saves you from his
punishment. And so the meaning of Taqwa is that you increase in piety. You increase in closeness to
Allah azza wa jal, you increase in your consciousness of Allah subhanaw taala in every time and in
every place. And the meaning of Taqwa also, is that then as a result of that, Allah azza wa jal
protects you and safeguards you from his punishment. subhanho wa Taala Anna.
		

			In the last two verses, on this particular page, Allah azza wa jal then goes on to say we're in
quantum theory, be mana Zina Adina to be surah. Timothy, what the OSHA had
		

			done in law he in coming from Saudi 18, in verse number 23, if you have doubts about the revelation
We have sent down to our servant, meaning the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam then produced a
single Surah like it, in list whatever support is you have besides Allah, if you truly think that
you can, Allah azza wa jal after given that directive, worshiping Him alone, shows to us that the
path to understanding how to worship Him alone subhanaw taala is through the prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and the revelation that you will receive of the Quran and verse 23, and 24 will
speak about the sign of the book of Allah azza wa jal, and the truthfulness of what the Prophet
		

			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam brought, and from those signs is his challenge that Allah azza wa jal
gave, and there is this man amongst you, me speaking to the Quraysh of that time, this man amongst
you meaning the Prophet, sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam is a man who was born amongst you, he is known
to you, his family is known to you. He grew up amongst you, you saw his traits, his characteristics,
his attributes, you know, his character, you know, his truthfulness, you know, his honesty and his
integrity. And now he's come to you and he said that he has a message from Allah subhanaw taala. And
that message is one that only calls to God. It tells you to be kind, and to be generous, and to be
		

			forgiving. It tells you to help the poor and the needy and those who are oppressed. It tells you to
worship Allah azza wa jal alone, and not to worship gods that you created your sounds besides him
Subhana wa Tada. It commands and calls to every good and it takes you away and prevents you from
everything which is evil. So if you have any doubt concerning this man, and therefore this shows the
difference between the people who have doubt, and those people that we spoke about a couple of
episodes ago that Allah azza wa jal said, are the categories of the disbelievers whose hearts are
sealed. Those people have come so far, that they have no doubt anymore. They just entrenched in
		

			their disbelief. But if you have doubt, if you're unsure, if you don't know and you question, fear,
AB mana Zelina you have questions concerning this revelation, then bring something like bring the
single Surah a single chapter like and we know that the shortest Surah of the Quran is three verses
Surah we'll go from Surah to Lhasa Surah to fit this is the shortest Surah that you will have in the
Quran bring three verses like it. These verses are a challenge that Allah azza wa jal gave to the
people of Quraysh and the Arabs in general, who were extremely eloquent and were masters of poetry
and Arab literature, and the is to see that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam because it was
		

			well known that he was an unlettered, unread man illiterate in his own way, son, Allahu alayhi wa
sallam he couldn't read or write, let alone be one of the most prolific literalist and or one of the
most prolific scholars of literature and poets amongst the Arabs. So Allah azza wa jal
		

			says that if you think that this man is, is fake, if this man is a sorcerer, if this man is a poet
or whatever else it may be, then bring even three verses similar to it. And this is the second of
the three stages in this challenge that Allah azza wa jal mentioned in the Quran, the first of them
is Allah subhanaw taala and we'll come onto this and sorted surah Allah azza wa jal told the Quraysh
to bring in the Arabs to bring a Quran like the Quran, bring a book like this book, and then Allah
azza wa jal made the easy and he said to them, bring 10 sorrows in Surah Hood, Allah says bring 10
chapters, like the Quran, you don't have to bring 114 ringtone chapters, any cites three verses is
		

			the minimum so 30 verses and then now Allah azza wa jal says in this verse in Surah, Baqarah bring a
single verse to be Surah Timothy, just one single Surah single sort of three verses, like the book
of Allah azza wa jal, and bring whoever you want to help you. It doesn't have to be a single
endeavor, a single person doing this, you can call all of the help that you need, besides Allah as
diligent, as many people, as many helpers, to bring a Quran like this. And don't think for one
moment that the Arabs didn't try. Don't think that the Kurdish and the other Arab tribes of the
whole Arabian Peninsula Do not try amongst themselves to bring something similar to the book of
		

			Allah subhanaw taala but they were unable to do so. And that is why Allah azza wa jal says in verse
number 24, for them to find a woman to follow, and if you cannot do this, and you will never be able
to do this, but on narrow Leti we're all doing a NASA Ijarah then beware of the fire that has been
prepared for the disbelievers was fuel is metal and stones were integral caffeine it has been
prepared for the disbelievers. Allah azza wa jal says, You cannot do this, the Arabs with all of the
of the scholars of literature and poetry with all of the history of the poetry that they had in all
of their tribes across the whole peninsula, we're able to bring anything like the book of Allah
		

			subhanaw taala. And so Allah azza wa jal says that if you cannot do so, then know that the
punishment of rejecting the science of Allah of rejecting Islam, or rejecting the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam in the Quran, is that Allah azza wa jal has prepared for you a fire that will be your
eternal punishment, it has been prepared for the disbelievers. Inshallah, we come to the end of this
page today and inshallah we begin the next page with the glad tidings that Allah azza wa jal then
gives to those people who do believe in the Quran and in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
and that is the glad tidings of Jana May Allah azza wa jal quantas old Jana Baraka lofi como Solana
		

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			Bismillah
		

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