Ahsan Hanif – Quran Tafseer – Page 140 – The Miracles Of Creation

Ahsan Hanif
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The speaker discusses the verses of the Quran and the ability of Allah to destroy people's lives and create life. They emphasize the importance of knowing the natural cycle and using the sun and moon as tools to measure passage of time. The use of signs and false accusations in Islam is discussed, including the use of lies and false accusations to motivate people to turn away certain benefits and associate them with other gods. The importance of harvesting fruits and vegetables is also emphasized. The speaker concludes by reminding listeners to be firm and safe and to not associate certain signs with other gods.
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Welcome to another episode of our tafsir page

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by page. InshaAllah Ta'ala. Today we're on page

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140, which is in the 7th of the

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Quran, Surah Al An An. In the previous

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episode, we mentioned those verses which Allah spoke

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about those people who denied

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the prophets of Allah and the messengers of

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Allah and the revelation of Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala. And Allah said concerning them

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They haven't given to Allah his due weight

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or his due measure

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because they rejected his revelation and they rejected

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his signs and they rejected the prophets and

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messengers that Allah

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sent to them in order to teach them

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what Allah

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wanted from them. And so Allah

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said concerning those people that those people will

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be

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busy in their vain talk, they will leave

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and they will neglect the path of Allah

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Allah

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spoke about the Quran and how this Quran

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is blessed, how this Quran confirms everything that

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came before it, and how the Prophet of

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Allah should use this Quran

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to warn the people of Mecca and all

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those that are around the people of Mecca.

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But the worst of people

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and the most oppressive of people and the

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most evil of people are those who reject

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the signs of Allah and

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they ascribe lies to Allah

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and they claim that Allah

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revealed nothing or that they have other revelations

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from Allah that are not

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in essence revelations

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from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah says that

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those people will be punished. They will be

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punished at the time of death and in

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the life of the grave, the barzakh, the

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angels will come and extract their souls from

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them and they will tell them that all

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that waits for them is the punishment of

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Allah

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because of the lies that they ascribe to

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Allah and

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because of their arrogance and their haughtiness.

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They will stand before Allah alone

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without any part, without any help, without any

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intercessor, without any protector, and they will stand

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before Allah

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and they will see that day that there

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will be no hope of salvation for them

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and they will have the punishment of Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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In today's passage and the verses that we

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speak about, Allah then goes back to speak

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about his names and his attributes and his

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powers and abilities Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. More reasons

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for us to understand that Allah alone is

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worthy of worship.

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And Allah says

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in verse number 95,

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It is Allah who splits open the seed

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and the fruit stone. He brings out the

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living from the dead and the dead from

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the living. That is Allah so how can

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you turn away from the truth?

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Allah speaks to us here concerning one of

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his abilities

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and he says he is the one who

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splits open the seed and the fruit stone.

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Allah

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is the one who allows

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the plants and the vegetation and the fruits

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to grow. Allah is the one who has

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made the seed, the beginning of the life

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of this plant. And look at the amazing

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nature of the seed. And if you were

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to watch some of these documentaries that people

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have now made concerning how

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plants emerge and how can they live in

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the most difficult of places and the most

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hostile of environments.

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Sometimes in the middle of a desert where

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there's hardly any water, you will find plants

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and sometimes in the snow capped mountains or

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in

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the mountains where there's snow, there are times

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when you will still see vegetation, still see

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greenery emerging,

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flowers, plants, different types of shrubbery

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and all sorts of types of trees that

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Allah has placed across the earth. Allah is

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the one who gives the ability

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of this to grow.

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He causes that seed to open, causes that

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date stone, that the fruit stone to open.

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And from them, we get more trees and

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plants. From them, we get other fruits and

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plants and vegetation.

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And look at how much of our earth

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or how much of our

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survival depends upon that of the agriculture,

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the farming, the need for those types of

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fruits and those types of trees and those

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types of plants that Allah has placed within

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our world. And that is from the

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from the statements or that is from the

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signs of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala because we

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benefit from it, the animals benefit from it,

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nature benefits from it, all of those things

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that happen from this

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single seed, the small seed that is placed

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within the ground. And then when you look

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at those trees and those flowers, how they

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pollinate themselves. Allah has allowed for those insects

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and animals to come and to move their

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pollen from one plant to another, from one

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flower to another or sometimes it is done

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simply by the wind coming and scattering the

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seeds.

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All of those different ways that you will

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find that Allah

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allowed for those plants and those animals to

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spread their seeds in order to pollinate, to

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become,

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to pollinate

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and therefore to to continue to live and

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to recreate themselves by Allah's permission. That is

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something which is from the signs of Allah

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Allah brings the living from the dead. Some

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of the scholars said this means the humans

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and the animals that come from sperm

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or from the liquid of sperm, that is

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the sperm drop that is dead and from

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the emergence or life.

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And Allah is the one who brings the

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dead, the living from the dead, the dead

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from the living. And that is these trees

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that we've seen, they're living and Allah takes

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from it its seed and he takes it

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to another place

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and

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Allah gives to a life and the ability

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to reproduce.

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That

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is the power of Allah

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That is your Lord and creator Allah

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That is what Allah does and what he

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allows

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to happen. So

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then how can you turn away from the

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truth? How can you deny all of this

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and turn away? Allah continues in verse number

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96 and he says,

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he makes the dawn break. He makes the

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night for rest, and He made the sun

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and the moon to a precise measure.

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That is the design of the Almighty,

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the All Knowing.

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Allah

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says

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that Allah is the one who cleaves the

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dawn break.

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Allah

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is the one who brings night from day.

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Allah is the one who in the depth

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from the depths of darkness will allow the

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sun to rise and as it does so,

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the light emerges upon the horizon

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and emerges upon the earth. That time of

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dawn is the time when the animals come

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out and the birds come out and the

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people wake up and we pray Fajal and

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so on and so. That is the time

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that Allah

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brings light upon the earth. Allah is the

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one who gives that ability,

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who gives it the ability to do so

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and the permission

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to do so.

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And Allah is the one who made the

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night a time of rest and a place

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of rest. And the vast majority

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of people and animals and birds and insects,

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they use the time of night for a

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rest. And there are exceptions to that rule.

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And we know that there are people who

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work night shifts in their work, but the

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general rule is, and even for those people,

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the general rule would be that they would

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find the night more of a time for

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rest and more akin to rest than the

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day. And that's why people who work constant

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nights and they sleep constantly during the day,

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they don't find the same type of energy

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or the same type of strength in that

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sleep as the person who sleeps during the

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night. And that is because Allah has made

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the night a time of rest.

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And Allah

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has made the sun and the moon a

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precise measure,

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a time a way for you to know

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your times and a way for you to

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know the the movement of the days and

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the nights and the months and the years.

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Allah ajuzajal is made and in Islam we

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use both. We use the sun and we

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use the moon in order to

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know the passage of the day and the

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passage of the of the months and also

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for us to measure our acts of worship.

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The sun is used for the salah for

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example. How do you know when it's time

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for Fajr or Dhuhr or Asarom Maghrib? You

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look at the sun. When it's the time

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for dawn, that means that it's not the

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time for Fajr. When the sun reaches its

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zenith, its highest point, and it starts to

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pass by it, it's now the time for

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luhr.

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When the sun is going down, it's descending,

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and your your your, your shadow is equal

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to your length, that is now the time

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for Asr. When the sun is setting, that

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is now the time for Maghrib.

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When the redness of the sky is pitch

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black, that's what happens, then that is now

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the time for Isha.

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And so we use the sun on daily

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basis. In the olden days before we had

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timetables,

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before people would look at these timetables and

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and and know what time the salah is

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and when he comes in, the people used

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to look at the sun, and they used

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to be well versed in the sun and

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its rising and its setting and its different

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times or its different passage and phases throughout

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the day. They would know how the sun

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was and that's what they would look at

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in order for them to be able to

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determine the time of salah. And that is

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why in the classical works of fiqh, you

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will know that the person that the scholars

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used to say concerning the in the chapter

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of Adhan, that it should be someone who

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has knowledge of the day, meaning he knows

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the times. He can look at the sun

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and he can measure it and understand

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where it is in the sky and what

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time it is so that he can make

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the Adhan at the correct time. And the

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month, the moon is used in order for

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us to be able to measure the months.

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We use the moon to know when the

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month starts and when the month finishes. And

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our ibaidat are based upon the month. Ramadan

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is based upon the month. You give your

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zakah and luri so you need to know

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when the months are.

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Hajj begins in the months of Hajj. Allah

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says as we mentioned in Surah Al Baqarah.

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Allah says that they question you, they ask

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you concerning

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the new moons. Say to them, it is

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so that you know your timings and you

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know the Hajj. How else do you know

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when it's the time for Hajj unless

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it is

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the moon that comes and goes? And that

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is the same for all of the months

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of the year. And so Allah has made

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the sun and the moon a means for

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us to be able to measure our time.

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That is the design of the Almighty, the

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All Knowing. Everything has its place and everything

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Allah has created in the best of ways

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and Allah has placed it in such a

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precise manner that we can use it and

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understand therefore what we need to understand in

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order to be able to live in this

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world and to benefit from it.

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Allah then says in verse number 97,

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It is he who made the stars so

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that they can guide you when land and

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see are dark. We have made the signs

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clear for those who have knowledge.

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala then says, and we

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have also given to you the stars. And

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the stars are used for the people for

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their navigation.

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They use them to be able to understand

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where it is that they need to go,

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which direction is north, how they're going to

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pass. That's something which the Arabs used to

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do and the people of the world used

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to do. They would look and they would

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study the stars and by studying the stars,

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they would know their way that they their

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their way throughout the desert and their way

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throughout the land.

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It is Allah who gave to you the

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stars. So

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that you may use them as guides.

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In the darkness of the land and the

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darkness of the sea. And the people used

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to use them, as we said, throughout the

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times of history, even though today in our

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time, it is perhaps less so for the

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average person.

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We have made clear the signs for those

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who have knowledge, and Allah

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gives to us all of these signs.

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These are amazing signs from the signs of

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Allah

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Each one of them points to the fact

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that he alone is worthy of worship,

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And that is why the believer is the

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one who goes and he sees the signs

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of Allah

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and as he's walking around and he looks

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at the universe, or she looks at the

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universe, and they see the sun and the

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moon and the stars, they see the mountains

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and the oceans and the trees, They see

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what Allah has created and placed for us

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in this world and in this universe. It

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reminds them of Allah

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and they connect it back to Allah

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and it is a reminder of the power

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of Allah

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and his ability and his creation and

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therefore, ultimately,

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his right to be worshipped alone subhanahu wa

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ta'ala. Look at the sun and the moon

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again and its eclipse.

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The sun can become eclipsed. The moon can

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become eclipsed.

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Amongst the Arabs at the time of the

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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, they used to say

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that the sun and the moon only become

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eclipsed because someone great is either being born

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or someone great is going to die or

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has died. That was their belief. That was

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the superstition that they had and the belief

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of the Jahili Arabs. They believed that the

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eclipsing of the sun or the moon was

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either because of the death of someone great

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or the birth of someone great. But the

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prophet

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made the sun or the moon eclipse at

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the time of the death of his own

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son Ibrahim

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radiAllahu an who died as an infant. The

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said to the

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companions after praying the eclipse prayer in the

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Shamsa

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The moon and the sun are two signs

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from the signs of Allah. They're not eclipsed

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because of someone's death or someone's birth, but

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rather these are signs that Allah uses in

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order to cast fear into you, in order

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that you may remember, that you may remind

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yourselves, that you may ponder and reflect at

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the majesty of Allah

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That sun and that moon that Allah

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created, Allah

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has all power over it. And that is

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why the prophet told us

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concerning the sun.

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That each day that it sets, it comes

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before the throne of Allah and it prostrates,

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and it seeks permission to continue on its

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course, and Allah grants us permission to do

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so. Until the day will come and Allah

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will determine there will be the day of

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judgement and the sun will come and prostrate

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and seek permission to continue upon its course

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and Allah will refuse. And Allah will say,

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rather go back from where you came, and

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that is when the sun will rise from

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the west. And so this is something which

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Allah tells us. The Prophet told us

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how that happens, what is the man of

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its prostration, how can that possibly be? Allah

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knows best. For me and you, it is

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our job to submit to the text of

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the Quran and the sunnah of the Prophet

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but no doubt the one that has the

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ability to create all of this and to

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place it in its proper determined place and

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course and to give it the abilities that

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Allah gives to all of it, the powers

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that Allah gives to it, the the different

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things that Allah gives to these creations of

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his. Note that he alone then has the

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power, Subhanahu Ta'ala, to do as he pleases

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and to change as and when he will

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in a manner that he sees.

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Allah says in verse number 98,

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It is he who first produced you from

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a single soul, then gave to you a

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place to stay in this life and a

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resting place after death. We have made our

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revelations clear to those who understand.

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Allah says that he created you and me

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from a single soul. That is our father,

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Adam, Alaihi Salatu Wasallam.

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And as we've said before, Allah, Alaihi Salatu,

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when he speaks about the creation

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of humans in the Quran, he speaks about

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it in 2 different ways. 1 is the

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original creation of man and that is Adam

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alayhi salatu wasalam and that is that Allah

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created Adam from dust and clay and then

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Allah

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took Adam alayhi salam and from him, all

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of his progeny came. And the second way

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is that Allah is referring

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to then the subsequent creation of every human

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that came after Adam alaihis salam and that

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is through the sperm drop and the different

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phases

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and stages of the human development,

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the embryo in the womb of the mother

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until birth and so on and so forth.

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Allah says therefore that He created you from

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a single

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being.

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The single being being Adam Alaihi Salaam.

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That single being, Adam Alaihi Salaam,

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that is a sign from the signs of

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Allah Alaihi Salaam because before Adam alayhi salam,

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there was no other human. There's no blueprint.

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There's nothing similar to Adam alayhi salam. Allah

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alayhi salam equated the angels beforehand. Allah alayhi

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salam has equated the jinn beforehand. Allah alayhi

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salam equated many of his questions

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before the question of Adam alayhi salatu wasalam.

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But Adam, each one of them is unique,

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and Adam alayhi salam is also unique. And

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that is why Allah from his names is

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that he is Al Khaliq, and Al Bayri,

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and Al Fakr. These are names that show

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that Allah creates

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and originates and that Allah creates from from

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no blueprint that existed before. And then Allah

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creates

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after that original creation Allah

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repeats that creation many times as he pleases

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subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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So that is from the signs of Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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And

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Allah has given to you a place to

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live and a place to rest, meaning after

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life. Allah gave to you the dunya. This

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is where we're born. This is where we

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live. This is where we spend these years

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decades that Allah has granted to us as

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he pleases.

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This is the place of our abode for

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a temporary period of time.

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And then Allah will give to a resting

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place and that will be the place that

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you will rest upon after you leave this

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world whether it be the grave for as

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long as Allah determines or when

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the people will have their final resting place

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of either the fire or

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of paradise. May Allah azza wa Jal see

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was from the fire and went as paradise.

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Allah says we make our revelations clear to

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those who understand

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and so the person who looks not only

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at the universe

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and sees the signs of Allah, but they

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look within themselves.

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They look at their body and they look

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at the way that the body works and

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they look at the many blessings that Allah

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has bestowed upon them and placed within their

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body. Look at the flow, the flowing of

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your blood. Look at the way that you

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breathe. Look at the way that your brain

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works. Look at the way that all of

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your senses work together seamlessly.

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You don't have to think. You don't have

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to instruct them that you work with that.

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Even you're having to even you noticing that

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they're working and they're working constantly throughout the

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day and the night. You eat and your

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digestive system or you walk and the way

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that your blood flows and the way that

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you breathe, every single action that you perform,

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the body works in tandem. It works seamlessly

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for the most part in the way that

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Allah

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determines it to work. And then Allah gives

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you those signs in a different way when

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Allah gives you illness, when Allah takes away

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from you one of those blessings when maybe

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now your body doesn't work as it used

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to before. These are signs of your weakness,

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of your dependency upon Allah

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of the fragility of your life, of how

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temporary it is. These are signs for a

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people of understanding.

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In verse number 19, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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then says,

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Allah

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Allah says that it is He who sends

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down water from the sky

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with it will produce the shoots of each

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plant then bring greenery from it and from

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that we bring our grains one riding on

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the other in close packed rows from the

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day palm come clusters of low hanging dates

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and there are gardens of vines, olives and

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pomegranates

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are like it different.

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Watch their fruits as they grow and ripen

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in all of

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these are signs for those who would believe.

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Allah

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speaks now about the signs of the heavens

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and from the greatest of those signs is

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the sending down of the rain and how

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much of our life depends upon the rain

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in terms of the water that we drink

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and that we benefit from but also in

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terms of our crops and our agriculture and

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the animals and our livestock, how all of

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them need the water of the skies and

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the rain that Allah causes to descend. Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says

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and from that rain and water from the

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sky because every single shoot of plant to

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come,

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every seed grows and every single shoot of

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plant comes as a result of that rain

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that descends from the sky. If you were

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to plant those seeds and no rainbow to

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come, there were to be drought and famine,

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then we all know what would happen to

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those seeds and how little of that vegetation

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and that plant and that shrubbery would come

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forth.

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And

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Allah says, and then we bring greenery from

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it, meaning that it reaches

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the

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state of flowering,

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where it becomes green and the flowers emerge

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upon those plants that they're now ready to

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ripen and turn into fruit or they're ready

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to turn into crops and whatever else it

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may be.

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Allah says and then we bring from it

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grains,

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riding on the other, one riding on the

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other in close packed rows. Some of the

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scholars said, like, when you see a field

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of barley or a field of wheat or

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a field of rice or whatever it may

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be, you see all of those signs and

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they grow upon one another. They're so closely

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and densely packed towards one another. That is

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what Allah is referring to. And within a

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single

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plant of

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barley or wheat, you find so many seeds

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and so many grains that you can benefit

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from.

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And then likewise from the day palms. In

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some day palms you have clusters and those

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clusters within them they contain

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the dates and as they become heavier and

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they become fuller, they start to droop down

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and as they come lower, it is easy

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for you to go and to take from

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them and to take from them and this

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is the different ways that Allah

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has placed the plant life

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and fruits and trees

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upon this earth. Some of them grow from

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the ground up meaning like the the crops

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that we have and some of them grow

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high upon the trees as Allah determines

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and Allah says and we have given to

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you gardens of vines and olives and pomegranates

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and these are all from the different things

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that Allah

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has given to us and it is said

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some of the scholars of Tafsir said that

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Allah mentions these 3 or 4 in particular,

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the dates, the vines, the olives, the pomegranates

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because the people used to depend upon them

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in terms of their food. The dates and

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olives are things that are staple foods for

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many people that they depend upon. And then

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there are others that are more luxurious, more

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beneficial.

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People love to eat them because of their

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taste and their sweetness and those are things

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like the grapes that come from the vines

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and things like with the fruits of the

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pomegranates and others.

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I like it different.

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And that is because Allah

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gives to us not only these fruits

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but within each one there are so many

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different types. You have apples, not every apple

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I would say how many different types of

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apples can you find? How many different types

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of oranges can you find? How many different

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types of melons can you find? They are

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similar to one another in the way that

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they look in the names that they have,

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even sometimes in their taste or in their

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color, but each one of them is slightly

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different. Each one of them some more sour,

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some more sweet, some more firm, some less

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firm. Each one of them has their own

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distinct

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characteristics

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that Allah has placed within it.

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They are similar to one another yet not

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so similar to one another.

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So see these fruits as they grow and

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as they ripen, see the signs that Allah

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has placed them in, how they start as

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a seed and how they grow into a

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plant and how they become green and how

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they wipe and how you benefit from it

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and how that process repeats itself year upon

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year.

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For indeed in all of these are signs

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for those who believe. And so the believer

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is the one who looks at this, who

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ponders upon this, who reflects upon this, who

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looks at the signs of Allah

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and he sees that which Allah has pleased

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from these signs and therefore they turn back

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to Allah

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in gratitude,

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in worship, in Iman, in belief for him

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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In the final verse that we will take

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today, verse number 100,

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Allah ajduja then says, and despite all of

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these signs and all of these blessings that

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Allah ajduja has bestowed upon people, there are

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people who will turn away and associate these

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blessings to other than Allah. Allah ajduja says,

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that they made the jinn partners with Allah

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though he created them and without any true

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knowledge they attribute sons and daughters to him.

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Glory be to him he is far higher

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than that which they ascribe to him. Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says that these people they

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place besides Allah

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other gods

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as other things as gods besides him and

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partners.

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They worship the jinn, they worship the angels,

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they worship the prophets, they worship other people

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and they are attribute lies to Allah

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They ascribe lies to Allah by claiming that

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he has sons, by claiming that he has

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daughters. Allah says that they make the jinn

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his partners and that is because some of

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them worship the jinn besides Allah

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and others from amongst the scholars said that

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when they said that the daughters of Allah

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are the angels, they said that the spouses

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of Allah are the jinn, may Allah

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be free and far removed from that. And

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so they

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invented lies upon Allah that which He sent

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down no authority for, ascribing to him partners

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or sons or daughters in whichever way that

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they chose. Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Glory

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be to Allah. Far removed from that which

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they ascribed to him. Allah gave to them

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signs and Allah blessed them With everything in

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the universe, what did they do? They rejected

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those signs of Allah and instead they ascribed

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them to other than Allah, Azza wa Jal.

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May Allah Azza wa Jal keep us firm

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and safe and steadfast upon Iman and keep

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us safe from the traps of shaitan, from

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shirk and kufr. And with that, we come

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to the end of today's episode.

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