Ahsan Hanif – Quran Tafseer – Page 158 – The Story Of Nuh
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The sh pattern of Islam is discussed, including the importance of shrockade, sh honoring people, and the use of sh airline and sh airline. The speaker emphasizes the importance of avoiding mis cautious behavior and the need for people to stop and reflect on the message of their Lord. The transcript covers a range of topics, including the common characteristics of prophets and messengers of Islam, the worship of Allah, and the history of the prophets' actions.
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I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed
Satan لَقَدْ
أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ فَقَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُ
اللَّهَ مَا لَكُمْ مِنْ إِلَهٍ غَيْرُهُ إِنِّي أَخَافُ
عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٌ And
that is because Nuh as we know from
the Sunnah of our Messenger ﷺ was the
first of Allah's messengers sent to the people
of the earth.
So before the time of Nuh, all of
the people were upon Tawheed.
All of the generations from the time of
Adam until just before the time of Nuh,
they were upon the Tawheed of Allah and
worship of Allah alone.
And it is only at the time of
Nuh or just before his time that the
people first went away from the path of
Tawheed and started to delve into shirk and
started to associate partners with Allah.
And that is why the Prophet ﷺ said
on the Day of Resurrection when the people
go to the different Prophets asking for their
intercession, they will come to Nuh ﷺ and
what they will say in praise of him
is that you or Nuh are the first
of Allah's messengers to the people of the
earth.
You are the first of the Rusal because
everyone before you was a Prophet.
So Allah ﷻ here tells us the story
of Nuh ﷺ.
In the narration of Abdullah ibn Abbas ﷺ
he says just to give a quick background
to the story of Nuh ﷺ since it
is the first time that we are covering
it.
Ibn Abbas ﷺ in his narration he says
that the people from the time of Adam
until the time of Nuh approximately ten generations
of people, all of them were upon the
Tawheed of Allah ﷻ worshipping Allah ﷻ alone.
Until there came a time when the people,
they lived amongst them five noble people, five
righteous men.
And Allah ﷻ dedicates a surah of the
Quran to the Prophet Nuh that is a
surah that is named after Nuh ﷺ.
And the names of those five people, those
five men were mentioned explicitly in the Quran.
And that is that they are Wad and
Suwa and Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.
These are five men that were righteous and
noble in the generation of those people of
Nuh ﷺ.
After those five people passed away, Iblis came
to them in the form of a man.
And he said to those people these men
that just died were righteous men, pious men,
God-fearing men.
And now that they have died you should
erect statues of them so that when you
see them you are reminded of their goodness
and piety.
And that you too will be good like
them.
You come past them, you see that statue,
you're like he was a noble man.
It inspires you to be noble.
That man was a righteous man, it motivates
you to be righteous.
And so this is something which, this is
from the traps of Iblis, from the ways
that Iblis plays with the children of Adam.
Comes with a very noblest of means, something
which seems very positive in its outset.
But Iblis, as we said before, plays the
long game.
He's not even interested in those people that
are going to do this.
But rather the generations that will succeed them.
And so Nuh ﷺ, or those people rather
at that time, they accepted this advice.
And they erected these five big statues across
their city.
Each one depicting one of these five men
of righteousness and piety.
But then that generation dies.
And the next one comes and dies.
And the next one comes and dies.
Until a group of people now arrive, a
generation who no longer remember the purpose of
those statues.
They only know that they've been there for
a long time.
They only know that their ancestors in one
way or another respected them and honored them.
But they don't really know the background.
And it's lost over time as often happens
when people start to do practices like this.
You can't really trace back its history because
it's not based on scripture.
It's not based on any type of evidence
or history.
It is based upon what the people did
culturally or according to their norms or what
they considered to be good.
And so a generation comes that no longer
understands.
So Iblis comes to them again in the
form of a man.
And he says, asks them, don't you know
what these statues are for?
Don't you know what your parents used to
do and your grandparents and ancestors did with
them?
They said, no, we don't really understand and
know what they're for.
He said, these are your gods that they
worship.
These are the gods that you're meant to
be worshipping.
So those people started to perform shirk with
Allah Azza wa Jalla.
They worshipped those idols besides Allah Azza wa
Jalla.
That is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will say in Surah Nuh that they said
when Nuh a.s. came, and don't leave
your gods, don't forsake them, and don't forsake,
they named those men and said, don't forsake
these are your gods that you should be
worshipping.
And that is when Nuh a.s. is
sent to that people.
When that's the predominant thought and mindset that
is taking place, Nuh a.s. is then
sent to call them back to Allah Azza
wa Jalla and remind them of the Tawheed
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
But the point is that this is how
shirk begins.
And this is the essence of shirk.
And that is why when the scholars of
Islam are strict, when they see someone making
dua to a grave, or they see someone
for example asking someone to give them a
child, or they see someone doing an aspect
of something that may, even if that person's
intention is not shirk, and they already have
that in their heart, but it's an action
that they shouldn't be doing except for the
sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Even if it is a form of minor
shirk, that is something which the scholars speak
out and they speak out against it very
strictly.
Because this is how shirk permeates through a
nation.
And that is why you see today in
the Muslim ummah, across the Muslim world, you
will see examples of shirk in many different
forms.
And those people don't for one second believe
they're committing shirk.
Not for one second do those people believe
that they're doing wrong or haram, because which
Muslim in their right mind would do something
that they openly consider to be shirk.
But those acts are shirk.
If you speak to those individuals and come
down to what it is that they're trying
to do and achieve through those acts of
worship that they're performing, then it is very
similar, if not the same as, and sometimes
worse, than what the Quraysh did with all
of their idols in the time of the
Prophet ﷺ.
And so here Allah azzawajal gives to us
this story then, لَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ
So we called or we sent the Messenger
of Allah, Nuh alayhi salatu wassalam, to his
people.
We sent him to his people because that
is what Allah azzawajal does, because Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala wants us to be upon
Tawheed.
And Allah azzawajal does not like that people
are upon shirk.
And so Allah sends prophets and messengers and
gives to them revelation and scripture that they
may remember their Lord and Creator subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
فَقَالَ يَقُومِ اِعْبُدُ اللَّهَ مَا لَكُمْ مِنْ إِلَٰهٍ
غَيْرُ So Nuh alayhi salatu wassalam came to
his people and he said, Oh my people
worship Allah, you have no other God besides
Him.
This is the quote that Allah azzawajal will
repeat throughout this surah.
In the story of as we've seen here
Nuh and then again in the story of
Hud and Salih and Shu'aib, these prophets
of Allah to show that their call was
one, that their message was one.
That all of the messengers and prophets of
Allah alayhi salatu wassalam from the time of
Adam until our prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wassalam,
all of them called to that one same
message of Tawheed.
They may have had differences in terms of
some of the rulings of their sharia, some
of the do's and the don'ts of the
halal and the haram, in some of those
minutiae details they may have had some differing
amongst them in terms of their sharia's but
the overarching message was that of worshipping Allah
alone, believing in Allah azzawajal alone, having Tawheed
in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone.
And that is what Nuh alayhi salam calls
his people to.
Oh my people worship Allah alone, you have
no other God besides Him.
إِنِّي أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ For I
fear for you the punishment of a fearsome
day.
And that is what the prophets and messengers
did.
They gave as Allah has told us now
a number of times in the Quran, they
gave glad tidings and they gave warnings.
My people worship Allah, which means if you
do so you will be rewarded.
You will be upon the path to success
and salvation.
And oh my people beware that if you
don't worship Allah alone, then you're going to
be from those people that Allah punishes.
And that punishment is not like any punishment,
it's not just like the worldly punishment but
it is the punishment of Yawm al Qiyamah
and the punishment of the Akhirah, which is
a major type of punishment.
So how did his people respond?
In verse number 60 Allah Azawajal tells us.
Look at the response that his people gave
to him.
قَالَ الْمَلَأُ مِن قَوْمِهِ إِنَّا لَنَرَاكَ فِي ضَلَالٍ
مُّبِينٍ But the prominent leaders of his people
said, we believe you are far astray.
The Mala Allah Azawajal often in the Quran
will refer to the people who opposed his
prophets and messengers as Mala.
It is mentioned in the story of Pharaoh
for example and Musa Alayhissalam and it's mentioned
in a number of other stories of these
prophets that were sent to different nations.
The Mala are the nobility and the leaders.
Remember those verses that we covered already in
Surat Al-Araf when we were speaking about
the people of the fire and the people
of Jannah and the conversations that they will
have.
One of those conversations is between the people
of the fire themselves that when they enter
into the fire in droves and multitudes and
as groups and nations, they will curse one
another.
And then the followers will say to their
leaders, it's because of you that we're here.
So Allah doubled the punishment of these people.
Those verses that we covered already.
This is an example of this.
Allah Azawajal says that it is the Mala
of the people, the nobility, their leaders that
used to say because they're the ones that
take the lead in this issue of rejecting
their prophets and messengers.
They're the ones at the forefront.
And everyone else just follows them because they're
the elders and they're the leaders and they're
the nobility and the rich and the wealthy.
And so they just become like the masses
that follow them.
And so Allah Azawajal often in the Quran
speaks about the Mala because they are the
primary enemies to those prophets and messengers that
Allah Azawajal sent to them.
So here we have the Mala from his
people, from the people of Nuh A.S.
who said, إِنَّا لَنَرَاكَ فِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ We
think that you are upon misguidance.
And how ironical that when they are the
ones upon shirk and upon polytheism and idol
worship and idolatry, that they're turning towards one
of the greatest prophets and messengers of Allah,
Nuh A.S. and saying that we fear
that you are upon misguidance.
And that is always the way or many
times often the way that the prophets and
messengers were treated.
They were rejected and denied.
And often their people would ridicule them as
being crazy or upon misguidance.
So all these terms that we heard that
the Quraysh used to say and the Arabs
used to say about our prophet, S.A
.W., were not new.
It's not the first time that it ever
happened in the history of humankind.
Allah Azawajal is telling us that right from
the first messenger that Allah Azawajal sent, the
people responded in that same way.
You're crazy.
You're upon misguidance.
You're foolish.
You're upon something which we don't understand and
we don't like.
And so this is how they responded to
Nuh A.S. Nuh A.S. responds in
verse 61 and he says, قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ
لَيْسَ بِي ضَلَالَةٌ وَلَكِنِّي رَسُولٌ مِّن رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
He replied, My people, there is nothing astray
about me.
On the contrary, I am a messenger from
the Lord of all of the worlds.
Nuh A.S. responds and he says, What
misguidance do you think that I am upon?
When I am calling you to the worship
of Allah alone and telling you that what
you're worshipping of these idols that cannot move,
cannot speak, cannot eat, cannot drink, cannot protect
you, cannot harm you, cannot benefit you.
They can't respond to you.
There's nothing that they can actually do.
But you are the ones who create them
and fashion them.
And then you are the ones who give
them offerings and take those offerings away and
they can do nothing.
Their position does not change.
No matter what you do, no matter the
weather or the circumstances or the hardships or
the difficulties, they stay exactly as the inanimate
objects that they are.
And you're saying to me that I'm upon
misguidance when this is what you're doing?
And so these people were saying that, Oh
Nuh, you're on misguidance and he says, But
if you were to just stop and think
and ponder and reflect, you will realize which
one of the two of us is upon
misguidance.
But rather, I am a messenger from Allah
A.S. I am a prophet that Allah
A.S. has sent to you.
That you may be guided.
That I may show you the path back
to him.
That you may stop and think as to
what it is that Allah A.S. wants
from you.
And as we know from elsewhere in the
Quran, Nuh A.S. is rejected in a
number of ways.
And inshallah ta'ala when we come to
the tafsir of Surah Nuh in the 29th
juz of the Quran towards the very end
of the book of Allah A.S., we
will see in more detail the measures and
the extent to which Nuh A.S. went
in order to call his people and to
guide them.
And how despite all of his efforts, they
rejected him.
How despite all of his efforts, they denied
him.
And they tried to harm him instead.
But he continues in verse 62 and he
says, أُبَلِّغُكُمْ رِسَالَاتِ رَبِّي وَأَنصَحُ لَكُمْ أَعْلَمُ مِنَ
اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ I am delivering my
Lord's messages to you and giving you sincere
advice.
I know things from Allah that you do
not know.
And so he says that what I have
come to you with is the message of
my Lord.
Telling you what your Lord wants from you.
What your creator has legislated upon you.
What he wants from you and that is
the worship of Allah A.S. alone.
وَأَنصَحُ لَكُمْ And I am sincere in my
advice to you.
And this is a common characteristic of all
of the prophets and messengers of Allah.
That the prophets and messengers of Allah, all
of them are people of sincere advice.
They are people who are sincere, sincerity and
honesty and integrity.
When they call their people to Allah A
.S. And that is why the prophets and
messengers of Allah, even before they are sent
to their people, they are known for this
particular trait.
And that is that they are people of
honesty.
They were not known to be liars or
cheats or deceivers.
Because then when they came with the message
of Allah, their people would rightly be able
to say to them, but you have a
history of lying and cheating.
You have a history of being dishonest and
unfaithful and untrue.
And so the prophets of Allah are always
people of impeccable character.
Impeccable manners.
Impeccable in the way that they deal with
people and in their interactions.
So when they bring their message of Allah,
at the very least those people cannot say
that this person is a liar.
Because even if they call him a liar,
they call him a liar based upon what
they say now.
They never called him a liar before.
And those people who then stop and think
about this, will know that this man doesn't
have a history of lying.
And that is why when in the time
of the prophets, when Abu Sufyan was questioned
by the Byzantine Roman leader, he asked him
these questions.
Is this man known to lie?
Was he known to make these claims before?
Was it known that his family were leaders
and kings that he might want to take
back their position of power for himself?
And Abu Sufyan said, no, it's not known
to have ever lied.
We can't claim that he was ever a
liar.
Not known to have made up these types
of claims before.
Not known that his parents were kings.
We don't have kings like that that he's
trying to take back their power.
His family is one of the noble families
anyway of Quraysh.
And so the Byzantine Roman leader, he remarked
on this.
And he said that I asked you these
questions to know the history of this man,
his personality and his character.
Because someone who has a history of making
these types of claims, or they're known to
be dishonest or to have a lack of
integrity, then he comes with this claim, you're
going to take that with a good measure
of suspicion as to whether this person is
truthful or not.
But someone who's known only to speak the
truth, you only believe in him, he's the
one that would settle your disputes, he's the
one that you would go to in order
to arbitrate between you, he's known for these
characteristics and you trusted him, then why now
would you cast him to be a liar
simply because he bought something which you don't
necessarily like.
And that is what Nuh A.S. does.
He's a sincere man to his people.
وَعَدَمُوا مِنَ اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْدَمُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ
عَزَىٰ جَلَىٰ هُوَ أَعْدَمُوا مِنَ اللَّهِ مَا لَا
تَعْدَمُوا That which you do not know, that
which you are not aware of.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then tells us
in verse 63 أَوَعَجِبْتُمْ أَنْ جَاءَكُمْ ذِكْرٌ مِّنْ
رَبِّكُمْ عَلَىٰ رَجُلٍ مِّنْكُمْ لِيُنذِرَكُمْ وَلِتَتَّقُوا وَلَعَلَّكُمْ
تُرْحَمُونَ Do you find it so strange that
a message should come from your Lord through
a man in your midst to warn you
and make you aware of Allah so that
you may be given mercy?
Are you amazed at this?
That Allah will send to you from a
man from amongst you that would come with
a message from your Lord and that is
because as we know the disbelievers would often
think that this is something foolish or they
would say that if Allah was going to
send someone why didn't he send an angel
or they would say if he was going
to choose a prophet or messenger why didn't
he choose one of us meaning from the
leaders and nobility of our people meaning from
already from the existing leaders and the most
noble of the families and so on these
are all things that we've already touched upon
throughout the Quran and Tafsir that we've done
thus far and here again this is exactly
the same from the very beginning of the
messenger ships in which Allah has sent messengers
to the different nations Nuh A.S. has
been told the same thing they were amazed
that he would be chosen they were amazed
that he could claim to be a prophet
and messenger speaking on behalf of Allah SWT
and that is why he says to them
أَوَعَجِبْتُ مَنْ جَاءَكُمْ ذِكْرٌ مِّنْ رَبِّكُمْ Do you
find it strange that a message should come
to you from your Lord عَلَىٰ رَجُلٍ مِّنْكُمْ
through a man in your own mist لِيُنذِرَكُمْ
مَلِي تَتَّقُوا وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ that he should warn
you and make you aware of Allah so
that you may be given his mercy and
so he's saying to them how can you
be amazed at this rather you should see
this as one of Allah's favors upon you
and that is why we said before that
the disbelievers when they see things like this
what do they do they become preoccupied with
the how and the why and why him
and why not me and this is all
that Shaytan does with them he plays with
them so that they become immersed in this
type of discussion whereas the people of pure
and clean noble hearts what do they see
they see the great blessing of Allah that
Allah chose someone that now we actually know
how to worship our Lord we can find
a path and a way back to him
and so they embrace that knowledge and they
embrace that revelation that is given by their
Lord and they turn back to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and the final verse we'll
take today because then the story of Nuh
which is the next story goes on into
the next page and is longer but we
will stop here inshallah ta'ala at the
end of this verse, verse 64 at the
end of the story of the Prophet Nuh
Allah azza wa jal then says speaking about
the result of the people of Nuh and
the consequences of their actions and their decisions
but they called him a liar so we
saved him and those who were with him
on the ark and we drowned those who
rejected our revelations they were willfully blind Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says that they rejected
him and we know from elsewhere in the
Quran that the Prophet Nuh a.s stayed
amongst his people calling them to Allah for
950 years as Allah azza wa jal mentions
in Surah Al-Ankabut 950 years he spent
calling them to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
but they rejected him and they turned away
from him so Allah said we saved him
and those who were with him from the
believers and the believers it is said from
amongst his people were very few relatively speaking
considering that he was calling his people for
950 years he didn't have a great ummah
or a big large following of people that
followed him he had very few people that
believed in him so Allah azza wa jal
saved him and those who believed on the
ark that he was commanded to build and
inshallah as we go through the Quran we
will see the different passages in which Allah
azza wa jal speaks about the ark and
some of its details and its building and
so on and how Allah azza wa jal
commanded Nuh a.s. to also cause to
embark upon the ark a pair from every
animal every animal species that they should also
be part of the ark because Allah azza
wa jal would then destroy these people وَأَغْرَقْنَا
الَّذِينَ كَذَبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا how would they be destroyed
they were drowned Allah azza wa jal sent
upon the earth floods that would drown all
of those that didn't believe in the prophet
Nuh a.s. and that is why everyone
that came after Nuh a.s. is from
the progeny of Nuh a.s. and that
is why you will find in the books
of history that often he is referred to
as Al-Abu Thani the second father of
humankind the first father obviously being Adam a
.s. he is called the second father of
humankind for that reason إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا قَوْمًا عَمِينًا
Allah azza wa jal then concludes and says
these were people who were blind and because
of that blindness their rejection and turning away
Allah azza wa jal destroyed them so this
is already the first example as we see
here in this passage of a people who
were told about Tawheed and reminded of the
signs of Allah and were given a prophet
and messenger to guide them back to Allah
azza wa jal and they denied him and
they rejected him and as a result Allah
azza wa jal destroyed them and inshallah in
the next episode we will have another example
in the story of Hud a.s. and
his nation the people of Ad but that
is where we stop for today's episode بارك
الله فيكم والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته