Aqeel Mahmood – Tafseer Surah Lahab Part 1
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The Surah Lahab, a message of Allah Alaihi, is known as Ma'am Surah, and it was revealed during the time of the statement of Islam. The discussion touches on the confusion surrounding the origin of the word "the" and its meaning in English. The transcript describes the history of praised individuals and their actions towards Islam, including individuals like Abdul Muttalib, who became a Muslim after the conquest of Mecca, and the son of revenues of the Messenger of Allah Alayhi wa sallam. The death of multiple people during the Battle of BPD led to the loss of their status and the use of mockery and disrespect. The importance of protecting against the spread of Islam is emphasized, and the use of "we" in the discussion of the message is discussed.
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So today inshallah we're going to be starting
with the, tafsir of Surah Lahab.
And
before we go into the actual tafsir of
this Surah, there's some things we need to
know about this Surah
with regards to where it was revealed
and also
why
a whole Surah
was
sent down from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
specifically
specifically talking about 1 individual.
There's no surah
in the whole of the Quran
that specifically talks about 1 individual,
Yani, in terms of those who disbelieve in
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. No surah in the
whole of the Quran is dedicated to one
individual except for this surah. For example, if
Firaun is mentioned in different places in the
Quran, but there's not one surah which is
totally dedicated to Firaun.
But this is the case with Surah Lahab.
This whole surah talks about Abulahab,
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala takes out 5
verses in this surah, 5 verses just to
talk about Abulahab.
So we have to
realize
and understand
and think about why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
picked out this individual
in order to reveal a whole surah just
talking about him specifically.
This surah in and of itself is known
as Surah Lahab
after Abu Lahab, and is also known as
Masad,
Surah Masad.
Abu Lahab,
as you all know,
was the uncle of the messenger of Allah
Alaihi Wasallam.
And this Surah
was revealed in the city of Makkah. So
it's known as
a Maqi surah.
And we mentioned
some time ago the difference between a Maqi
surah and a Madani surah.
Who can tell me what the difference is
when we say this is a Maqi surah
and this is a Madani surah?
Sorry?
So a Surah which was revealed in Madinah.
So any Surah revealed in Madinah is a
Madani Surah. What if it wasn't revealed in
Mecca or Madinah?
It's just a Surah.
When we say Maqi Surah, we say Madani
Surah.
So
a Maqi Surah
Okay. Before and after the hijrah of the
messenger of Allah
So the prophet
he did hijrah from Makkah to Madinah. Any
surah which was revealed
before the hijrah of the messenger of Allah
Alaihi Wasallam
is known as a Maqi Surah. Because it
was revealed in Makkah.
Even if he was in Medina at the
time of it being revealed.
So if he was before the hijrah and
he was in Medina, for example, if he
was in Taif or if he was somewhere
else, it's still known as a Maqi Surah
because it was before the
hijrah of the Messenger of Allah Alaihi Wasallam.
Those surahs which revealed after
after the hijrah of the Messenger of Allah
Alaihi Wasallam are known as Madani Surahs, are
known as Madani Surahs.
Some Surahs,
they were revealed in Mecca and also in
Medina.
They were revealed before the Hijra and also
after the Hijra.
So what do we call these Surahs?
You look at how much of it was
revealed before and how much of it was
revealed after. If the majority was revealed after,
then then it's known as a Madani Surah
and Allah knows best. So this surah is
a Maqi Surah, meaning it was revealed during
the time that the messenger of Allah alaihi
wasallam was in the city of Mecca.
And as we mentioned, it talks specifically about
1 individual.
It only talks about Abu Lahab. That's it.
He doesn't talk about anything else. He only
talks about Abu Lahab. And Abu Lahab was
the uncle of the messenger of Allah alayhis
salatu wa sallam. And the messenger of Allah
salatu wa sallam he had 4 uncles.
He had 4 uncles. There were 2 uncles
who were Muslim and 2 uncles who weren't
Muslim.
Who can tell me the uncles who were
Muslim?
Which uncles of the messenger of Allah Subha
Sallalahu Wa Salam were Muslim?
Al Abbas, ibn Abdul Mutalib, and
Hamza Hamza ibn Mutalib. So these 2 were
the uncles of the messenger of Allah Alaihi
Wasallam
who were Muslim.
And from the 2, who was better from
the 2?
Hamza
because he was the one who accepted Islam
before Al Abbas
and also because he was from the martyrs
and those who died in the Battle of
Uhud.
And the messenger of Allah alaihi wasallam,
gave him a nickname of Asadullah, the lion
of Allah.
So he was the better of the 2
and they were both Muslims. Then you had
those who weren't Muslim and the scholars they
categorized those uncles of the Messenger of Allah
alaihi wa sallam
who weren't Muslim into 2 categories. Those who
helped the Messenger of Allah alaihi wa sallam
and those who were enemies of Islam. And
those who helped him were for example Abu
Talib. Abu Talib wasn't a Muslim, but he
was sympathetic
to the Muslims. He used to help the
Muslims, you know, and he would protect the
Messenger of Allah alaihi wa sallam from the
other tribes and from people even from his
own tribe.
And the other who wasn't a Muslim and
in fact he was an enemy to Islam
was Abu Lahab himself. So he was from
those people who wasn't just just a enemy
of Islam, but he was also the uncle
of the messenger of Allah alaihi wasallam.
Now Abu Lahab,
this name was actually a nickname which was
given to him. It wasn't his real name.
It was a nickname that was given to
him by the people. He was known as
Abu Lahab. And Lahab
is like a flickering flame.
And they say the reason why he was
given this name was because he had a
certain glow to his face. They say he
was someone who was attractive, someone who was
handsome. And so he was given this name,
Abu Lahab, a flickering flame, something which glows,
something which flickers. You know, it's it's an
expression to say that someone is handsome or
someone is good looking. And so he was
given this nickname of Abu Lahab.
His real name was Abdul Uzza.
Abdul Uzza. So the slave of Al Uzza.
And Al Uzza was one of those idols
that they used to worship in those days.
And he was the son of Abdul Muttalib,
okay, who was the grandfather of the Messenger
of Allah alayhisratu wasallam.
He had 4 children,
and
he had a kunya which was given to
him which is what a person is given
and it's
it's a nickname which is given to a
person depending on who his child is or
who his son is. So for example,
you know if a person had a son
called Abdullah, he'd been known as Abu Abdullah,
and so on and so forth. Like the
messenger of Allah, alayhi wa sallam, he had
his son called Qasim, so he was known
as Abu Qasim.
So Abu Lahab, he had some children. He
had 4 children.
He had Otaba
or Otaiba,
Mu'tam,
Mu'tab,
and Dura, who was, his daughter. So he
was known as Abu Utba. He was known
as Abu Utba. This was the kunya which
was given to him. And
it's said that
he was
given this nickname Abu Lahab
specifically by his father,
Abu
Abdul Muttalib. Abdul Muttalib gave him this nickname
of him being called Abu Lahab.
So with regards to his children, 3 of
his children became Muslim.
2 of them became Muslim, his sons specifically.
They became Muslim,
after the conquest of Mecca. When the Muslims
conquered Mecca, those the the 2 sons who
became Muslim during the conquest of Makkah were
Utba and Mu'tab.
Or Utayba,
he didn't become Muslim. He died as a
disbeliever.
And Abu Lahab The reason why this surah
is,
you know, specifically
mentioning Abu Lahab and doesn't talk about anything
else is because of his enmity
towards Islam from the very beginning. He was
someone who was an enemy of Islam
right from the beginning. And even his wife
And we'll talk about his wife later on
insha'Allah.
But specifically with him he was someone who
was constantly an enemy of Islam, and he
was someone who was outspoken.
And
from the
story that's mentioned or the things that happened
were for example his sons actually were married
to the daughters of the Messenger of Allah
alayhi wasallam.
Or Utbah and or Utayba were married to
the daughters of the Messenger of Allah alayhi
wasallam.
And when this Surah was revealed, when this
Surah was revealed, he told them to divorce,
the the daughters of, the Prophet and to
to leave them and not to be married
to them anymore.
Also it's mentioned from the things that, you
know, showed his animosity and his enmity towards,
towards Islam
was a narration
by Rabi'i ibn Abad, and this is mentioned
in Tafsir ibn Kathir. He said that
before he accepted Islam
he said, I saw the messenger of Allah
alaihis salatu was salam
and
he was in the marketplace
calling people to Islam. He was calling people
to worship, no no god except Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. And he said the people would
gather around him. So when he would call
people to Islam people would, you know, become
interested in what he was saying and they
would gather around him and listen to what
he was saying. But he said there would
always be a man behind him who had
a bright face, a glowing face, and he
had a squint in his eyes. And he
had He was someone who had 2 braids
in his hair.
And he said every time the messenger of
Allah alaihi wa sallam would call the people
and would talk to the people, this man
would come and he would say indeed this
man is an apostate from our religion and
he's a liar.
So every time the messenger of Allah alaihi
wa sallam would try to give dua, he
would be behind. And he would be warning
the people, stay away from this person. He's
someone who's left the religion of his forefathers,
left the religion of his people, and he
is someone who is a liar. And so
this man, this companion Rabi'al, who eventually became
Muslim later on, he said, I asked the
people around me, I asked them, who is
this man? And they said, this is his
uncle Abu Lahab. So this is what he
used to do. The amount of animosity he
had, you know, the amount of time he
would have had to take out just to
accompany this, you know, the messenger of Allah
alaihi wa sallam to warn people to stay
away from this person, to stay stay away
from this individual.
Even though he was someone
even though he was someone who before Islam,
before he became a prophet, and before he
became a messenger was known as Al Amin.
He was known as the one who was
the most trustworthy
to such an extent that when they were
rebuilding the Kaaba, when they were rebuilding the
house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, when the
when a flood took place and they had
to repair the Kaaba and they were
arguing about who was going to put the
black stone in its place, because it was
an honor for them. You know, who was
which person from which tribe was going to
put the black stone back in its place.
And so they were arguing and it said
that it almost went to an extent that
they were going to fight one another over
this, over who was going to put the
black stone back in its place. And so
eventually they agreed
that whoever enters into the Masjid next, they'll
let him decide, let him be the judge,
and whatever he says, then we'll agree. And
it just so happened the messenger of Allah
alaihi sallahu alaihi wasallam was the next person
who came into the Masjid.
And he told the people to put a
cloth down and to put the black stone
in the middle, and each person should hold
the edges of the cloth. One representative from
each tribe. And so it was like as
if all of them were holding the black
stone because they were all holding the cloth.
So they all went towards the corner of
the Kaaba, and then the messenger of Allah
alaihi wa sallam put it in place. So
this was the amount of respect that they
had for the Messenger of Allah alaihis salatu
wasalam before Islam.
Also from the,
things that
Abu Lahab would do is because he was
the neighbor
of the messenger of Allah alaihis salatu wa
sallam, his wall was actually also the wall
of the house of the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihis salam. So they were direct neighbors.
And in those days they wouldn't have any
roofs. They wouldn't have any roofs. Or it
was very, you know, it was made up
of straw. It wasn't like what we have
today. And so he would hear whatever the
messenger of Allah alaihi wa sallam was saying.
And so whenever he would be at home
and whenever the messenger of Allah alaihi wa
sallam was in his house, he would throw
things over towards his house. He would throw
filth over, throw rubbish over, okay, out of
a sign of disrespect.
You know? And the messenger of Allah alaihi
wa sallam, he would call out and he
would say, is this how you treat, you
know, a neighbor? Is this how you treat
those people who live next door to you?
This is how you treat your neighbors? Because
even in those days they had a concept
of, you know, being,
good to your neighbor, being courteous to to
your neighbor, you know, having good manners and
good etiquette towards your neighbor. Not to mention
the fact that he was also the uncle
of the messenger of Allah alaihi wa sallam.
And also from the things that he would
do
is
he
once when the messenger of Allah alaihi wasallam
had a child, he had a son, and
his son passed away,
Abu Lahab
went out into the streets
and he said, Baatharah Muhammad.
Meaning the lineage of Muhammad has been cut
off. So he's running out of his house,
he's coming out of his house, and he's
making announcements to everyone.
Like as if it's a it's a means
of celebration.
Like as if he's celebrating the death of
his own nephew's
son. He's saying the lineage of Muhammad salallahu
alayhi wa sallam has been cut off, meaning
he's not gonna have any more he's not
gonna have any sons to carry on his
own lineage.
So this was the extent that Abu Lahab
would go to to, you know, mock and
to make fun of the messenger of Allah
ahi wa sallam, to make life as difficult
as possible for the messenger of Allah ahi
wa sallam. You know, and even something like
this, you know, when someone's enemy
if if there's someone you don't like, someone
you don't really get on with, someone you
you you know, a person might really, you
know, disdain that individual.
If his family member died, if his if
her husband or if if his if his
wife or his children or his parents passed
away, you would have a degree of respect
for that individual, you know. You would you
wouldn't use it as an opportunity to attack
that individual.
You know, there's certain limits and there's certain
bounds to what an individual can do, you
know, and how far a person should go.
And it's degrading
to even go to that extent where you
end up making fun or you celebrate the
death that an individual, you know, has in
his in his life.
But even Abu Lahab, he wouldn't even, you
know, have this kind of boundary. He would
overstep the bound and he would go to,
you know, extremes to kind of ridicule the
messenger of Allah alaihi wasallahu alaihi wasallam. Also
he was someone
who deep down he knew
that
the messenger of Allah alaihi wasallam was someone
who was
actually the Messenger of Allah. Deep down he
knew this.
Once
when,
after the Messenger of Allah, alayhi salatu wa
sallam had been given this Surah, once he
had been given the Surah Tabat Yada Abi
Allah had been whatab,
his son Abu Lahab's son went to the
Messenger of Allah Alaihi Wasallam and
he approached the Messenger of Allah Alaihi Wasallam
and he said
I am a disbeliever.
I am a disbeliever.
I am a disbeliever in
that
I had just revealed. Meaning I'm a disbeliever
in what's been revealed to you. I'm a
disbeliever in the Quran. So he would say
he went to the messenger
and he said
that the another ayat in the Quran. So
he's saying I'm a disbeliever in the Quran.
I'm a disbeliever in this ayat. And then
after he said this, he spat in the
direction of the Messenger of Allah alaihi salatu
wa salam, at a sign of disrespect. You
know, he spat right towards the Messenger of
Allah and he landed in front of him,
didn't land on him, but he landed in
front of the Messenger of Allah alaihi salatu
wa salam out of disrespect for him. And
when this happened
when this happened, the messenger of Allah alayhi
wa sallam,
he supplicated
and he made dua against utba. He made
dua against,
utba and he said,
He said, oh Allah,
release upon him a dog from one of
your dogs. Meaning,
have him be attacked by a dog. So
the messenger of Allah
made dua for
or against this individual.
And he said that when he traveled
with his father Abu Lahab,
and he went with him on one of
his,
his his journeys when they would when they
would buy and sell,
Ortaiba,
the son of Abu Lahab, when he traveled,
it's said that they camped in one place,
and Abu Lahab knew about the dua and
the supplication
that the prophet
made against Ortaiba.
And so when they pitched their tents and
they when they were going to sleep for
the night,
he put extra cloth and extra protection over
the tent of Alayhi wa.
You know? And he put more more guards
around the the tent of Alayhi wa because
he knew deep down that there's some truth
in what the messenger of Allah alaihi wa
sallam is saying. And he knew deep down
that there was some power and there was
some, you know, you know, effect in the
supplications of the messenger of Allah alaihi wa
sallam.
The following day they found out that a
lion
had entered into the camp
and you know when
there's other animals around, when there's camels around,
when there's, you know, other animals around and
you have a lion or something else entering,
what normally happens?
You get lots of noise, you know, the
animals start to panic. But in this case,
nothing happened.
No animals made a sound. So the lion
went straight into the camp all the way
into the tent of Ur Tayba
and mauled Ur Tayba and killed him
In response to the dua of the messenger
of Allah alayhi salatu wa salaam.
You know, and this shows you the power
of dua,
the power of supplication.
And how one of the supplications that's answered
is the supplication
of an individual when he's oppressed.
When a person is oppressed
and he's oppressing another individual,
that person
who is being oppressed when he supplicates to
Allah, it's one of those times that his
supplication is answered because he's being oppressed.
And this is why a famous story is
mentioned
about,
you know, an oppressor. He was a leader
during the during, in the past,
and he was someone who was very oppressive,
a Muslim leader from the past. And he
would be very oppressive and he would harm
the people and kill the people and torture
people, you know, the Muslims themselves.
So one day he was going down the
street and, you know, with his army and
with his with his with his entourage,
and an old woman came out.
And she said to this to this individual,
this oppressor, this this Muslim leader, she said
to him, by Allah I'm going to make
dua against you. I'm going to make dua
against you. And this this leader he started
to laugh.
Okay. He started to laugh thinking, you know,
who is this old woman? And he said,
don't forget to make dua in the last
part of the night.
You know, just joking with her. It just
so happened, okay, that sometime later,
he eventually,
okay, ended up being down that very same
street, that very same road, but not as
a leader of the Muslims, but actually he
was in chains and he was a prisoner.
And he was being ridiculed and humiliated. And
he was being dragged down that very same
street. And the old woman came out again.
And she said to him, I took your
advice when you told me how to make
dua and when to make dua.
You know, SubhanAllah. So it just shows you
the dua of an oppressed individual is answered
by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So this is also one of the times
when,
you know,
Abu Lahab and and the way he treated
the messenger of Allah alaihi sallahu alaihi wasallam
and the way his his son treated him
actually came back to to bite him.
Also from the things that he did was
during the battle of Badr or before the
battle of Badr when they were going to
fight,
the Muslims in the first battle that was
going to take place,
He never went with the army and he
never fought in that battle, even though he
was from the most senior of the people
of Quraysh.
Some even said that he was the treasurer.
He was someone who had a very high
status. He was the son after all of
Abdul Muttalib.
So he had a very high status. He
was someone who was very well respected. On
top of this he was someone who was
very good looking. On top of this he
was someone who was very wealthy.
On top of this his wife was actually
the sister of Abu Sufyan.
And Abu Sufyan, after the battle of Badr,
became the leader of the Quraysh in the
city of Mecca because Abu Jahl died and,
you know, Abu Lahab will talk about how
how he died and what happened to him.
But
he was someone from a very respected tribe,
and his wife was also someone who was
very respected.
So
at the Batla Badar,
he never went to fight.
And instead what happened
was he actually appointed someone
who had a debt, someone who was indebted
to him. Someone who owed him a large
amount of money. And this person was Alaaas
ibn al Mughira. Alaaas ibn al Hashim ibn
al Mughira.
This man owed a lot of money
to Abu Lahab. And so instead of paying
off the debt Abu Lahab said to him
I want you to go and fight on
my behalf. And this is what they would
do sometimes. In those days they would actually
send people to fight on their behalf. So
he didn't even go and fight against the
Muslims.
He actually hired someone to fight on his
behalf and he said if you fight then
I'll clear the debt that you had on
me. That the debt will be cleared and
you won't have to pay me anything if
you fight. And subhanAllah that individual actually died
in the Battle of Badr. He never actually
survived. He was actually killed in the Battle
of Badr. And also after the Battle of
Badr, because people expected the Battle of Badr
to be something which was going to be
easy.
When the when the non Muslims went to
the plains of Badr
to fight the Muslims,
they thought it would be a walk in
the park. They never thought it was going
to be a a battle. You know, they
never thought it was going to be a
big, you know, a big,
difficult thing. They thought they would go defeat
the Muslims and go back. And this is
why when they went to the plains of
Badr, they actually took their women with them.
You know, they took their women with them.
They took alcohol with them. And he said
the night before Badr, they were enjoying themselves.
They were drinking and celebrating, and the women
were singing. So it was like a it
was like a celebration. They were celebrating even
before the battle had even taken place,
you know. And even,
before the battle of Badr had actually taken
place,
when Abu Sufyan and his caravan was actually
safe,
because that was the whole plan. It wasn't
supposed to be a battle. The battle but
it wasn't supposed to be to be a
battle. It was meant to be, just taking
the caravan of Abu Sufyan, the caravan of
the Quraysh. When the caravan was safe, Abu
Sufyan sent a message to Abu Jahl, and
he said to him, the caravan is safe,
you don't need to fight.
So there was no need for them to
fight. The caravan had been, you know, was
safe. They weren't gonna rob the caravan.
Abu Jahl said we're still going to fight
just to show our superiority,
just to show how great we are, just
to show how, you you know, how good
we are. So out of his arrogance, he
actually caused his own destruction and his own
death, and he died at the Battle of
Badr.
When he when they participate in the Battle
of Badr, Abu Jahl passed away and he
was he was killed in the Battle of
Badr. He was the leader of
the the Quraysh at the time. He was
a leader of the Quraysh.
And also even in his death there's, you
know, a source of embarrassment
because he wasn't killed by any of the
great companions of the Messenger of Allah alayhi
salatu wa sallam.
They were like teenagers who killed the the
the leader of the Quraysh, Abu Jahl, and
even this was a source of humiliation
for them.
When they were defeated and they went back
to when they went back to Mecca
and they told everyone of the news, Abu
Lahab couldn't believe what had happened.
He couldn't believe
that the none that that the Quraysh had
actually been defeated by the Muslims because for
them it was a done deal, and it
was a sure thing that they were going
to win. They had no idea. It didn't
even enter their mind that they would lose
the battle.
And then they found out that Abu Jahl
and other individuals had actually been killed at
the Battle of Badr. You know, these the
leaders of the Quraysh and the most senior
people of Quraysh had been killed at the
Battle of Badr. When Abu Lahab heard this,
okay, he became shocked.
And he entered into a state of depression.
He became depressed because of this.
He became, you know, depressed and he became
sick and he became ill.
And also
he died of they say around a week
or 2 after the battle of Badr.
And they say that he died
because of a skin condition
that overtook him. There was a skin condition
where the people, even the people were afraid
to approach him, you know, because it was
a contagious skin disease that he caught,
you know. And because of this skin disease
that that he caught, he ended up being
away from the people. Even his own sons
and even his own family wouldn't approach him.
They wouldn't approach him.
SubhanAllah.
So
out of ridicule and humiliation
and out of, you know, his animosity
to Islam and to the messenger of Allah
alaihis salatu wa sallam, Allah ridiculed him even
in the way that he died.
Dying without any of his wealth, without any
of his status.
And this is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
mentions in this surah,
surah, that his wealth and his children won't
benefit him. Not in this life or in
the hereafter.
And even in his death there's signs of
this. His wealth didn't help him. When he
died, the people didn't even want to go
close to him in order to bury him.
So his body wasn't actually buried until sometime
later. And even then they had to, you
know,
throw things from from from
from far away to to to bury his
body. They wouldn't go close to him. They
wouldn't approach him because they were afraid they
would catch this skin disease and this condition
from him. So this just shows you the
the results
and the effects
and the consequences
of an individual who is an enemy to
Islam.
This is what happens to an individual
when he is such a blatant enemy to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and his messenger alayhis
salatu wa salaam.
So these are just some of the things
that I wanted to mention
with regards to Abu Lahab, with regards to
the things that he did and the way
he behaved
against the messenger of Allah alayhi salatu wasalam.
And we're gonna go through the surah in
more detail,
next week, but just to give you a
taste of why
this,
surah was revealed.
The Messenger of Allah alaihi was salam
was first told when he gave when he
was told to give Dawah, he was told
to give Dawah in 2 stages. There were
2 stages of Dawah. The first stage of
Dawah
was to give Dawah,
privately
and to those people that he knew, his
family members. And this is why Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala says,
Wound those people who are close to you,
your close family members. And so when this
was revealed to the messenger of Allah alaihi
wa sallam,
he would invite his uncles to his house
and he would prepare a feast for them
and he would try to give them dua.
So the first time he did this, the
people, the the his uncles and his family
members, they knew of this new
this new religion that the messenger of Allah
alaihis salatu wa sallam was talking about. They
had heard about it because, you know, he
he he obviously he had been telling other
people, he had told his wife, he told
Abu Bakr, he had mentioned it to other
people. So they had some idea that this
was some new type of faith and they
had an idea that this was why he
was he was calling them to this feast.
So the first time that he made the
feast, they as soon as they eat as
soon as they ate and they had their
feast, they got up and they left. They
didn't want to see and listen to what
the messenger of Allah alaihi wa sallam
had said. The second time the messenger of
Allah alaihi wa sallam invited them to his
house to feast with him, they went and
they had the feast and he started to
talk to them about Islam.
Started to talk to them about worshiping Allah
to avoid and to stay away from worshiping
these idols that they've been worshiping. And when
he said this, Abu Lahab said to him,
what's in it for me? What am I
gonna get?
And so the messenger of Allah ahi wa
sallam told him, you know, you'll be from
the believers and you'll be from those who
enter paradise, you'll be worshiping Allah as the
wajal alone, this is the purpose of life,
so on and so forth. And Abu Lahab
said if this is the case, then I'm
going to be exactly like these other individuals
that come and accept Islam. There will be
no difference. I'm not gonna accept Islam and
be like those other individuals.
You know, he was worried and thinking about
his status,
you know, because he had a high status
in his you know, in amongst the Quraysh,
amongst his people.
And so he left, and the others left,
and they left mocking and ridiculing the messenger
of Allah alayhi sallahu
alaihi sallahu alaihi sallahu alaihi sallahu alaihi sallahu
alaihi sallahu alaihi wasallam was told to give
the wah, and this was the second stage.
Not to give the Awa now to his
close family members, but to the whole of
the whole of mankind, to Quraysh and to
everybody else. And this is why Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala says, umfa andr.
Rise up and warn the people. Rise up
and warn everybody.
And he went,
in the city of Mecca, he went and
mounted and stood up the hill of Safa.
He went and stood up the hill of
Safa and he called out to the people,
and he started to call out to the
different tribes.
And normally when a person does this in
those days it was to show people that
it's an emergency,
something's happening.
Otherwise you wouldn't stand up on, you know,
a hill or up on Mount Safa and
make an open announcement. Call all the people
together together.
There have to be there has to be
something happening. Normally if there was an army
approaching or if there was some other type
of emergency or another type of announcement that
need to be that needed to be made,
this is how they would do it. It
was like, you know, text messages of the
day for example or, you know, mobile phones.
This was the way they would spread
news and spread messages.
So they approached the messenger of Allah alaihi
wasallam,
and he started to,
talk to them. First of all,
reminding them about
the fact that they knew he was someone
who was trustworthy.
They knew he was someone who was trustworthy.
Okay? And he reminded them and he said
to them that if I told you that
an army was coming, if I told you
that an army was coming from from above
from the other side of this hill, from
the other side of this mountain, would you
believe me? And they said yes, of course.
And then he started to warn them of
of the day of judgment.
And when he started to warn them of
the day of judgment,
Abu Lahab knowing
from
before. Because he knew
that the messenger of Allah alaihi wa sallam
was on this new faith, because of the,
you know, the meeting that they had previously.
So as soon as the messenger of Allah
alaihi wa sallam started to call people to
worshiping Allah Azzawajal alone, and all all the
people were gathered, all the different tribes were
gathered. He said to him, tabalak,
may your hands perish.
Is this why you've called us here?
Is this the only thing that you've called
us here for?
And so this is why this surah was
revealed, in defense of the messenger of Allah
alayhi salatu wa sallam.
And to encourage the messenger of Allah alayhi
salatu wa sallam. Because don't forget Abullahab was
from the senior people of Quresh,
you know. And so when he said this
in front of everybody else, people dispersed. When
he said this is what you've called us
for, is this what you've called us for
just just for this? You know, you're wasting
our time. May your hands perish. You're wasting
our time. You got bad things to do.
And so he left and other people left
as well, you know, because you follow the
people who you look up to. You follow
your elders. You follow the senior people. And
he was like a celebrity amongst the people.
You know, people would follow him whatever he
would do, however he would behave, whatever he
would say, people will kinda look up to
him. And because he was someone who was
good looking, and especially nowadays, you know, as
a celebrity,
people just because of the way an individual
looks,
they'll take what he says
just because of his looks.
A person may be attractive
and he might be saying this to craziest
of things, but because he's attractive, because he's
handsome, because he's good looking, people will listen
to what he has to say.
You know? And this is why for example
when
when there's products being sold and they use
celebrities to sell these products, this is why,
because they have status, because they're attractive, because
they're beautiful. Someone selling perfume for example. They
use a celebrity to sell perfume on television
in commercials,
or someone selling a car, you you know,
or another product. They use, you know, people
because of their status, because of their fame,
because of their beauty to sell these things.
Because people listen to these people. People look
up to them. The same thing with regards
to,
you know, the in in in the in
the in this time, in this era of
the messenger of Allah, alayhi, salatu wa salam.
So inshallah, next week we're going to go
into more detail
about
this specific hadith, about why this Surah was
revealed and the story behind it and also
we'll go into detail about what Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala says and how he curses Abu
Lahab
and the things that he says and why
he says the things that he says. And
also we'll talk about,
his wife who's also mentioned in the Surah.
And
his wife too who will carry wood in
the hellfire.
So I mentioned these things,
next week inshallah.
If anybody has any questions, then I'll do
my best to answer them.
Okay.