Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect on the Quran #49 Surah Al Zalzalah P1
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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh on Bismillah
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We praise Allah subhanaw taala
and we thank Allah subhanaw taala and we glorify Allah subhanaw
taala as he deserves,
according to His divine grace, His Majesty
and His perfection, and we send peace and blessings on our beloved
prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the best of Allah's
creation,
the best example the deliverer of good tidings, and a warner,
sent for all of mankind, all of humanity to the Day of Judgment.
The Seal of prophethood, who was a prophet or Nabi, when other Malays
Salam was still between raw and just said,
the Prophet sallallaahu Salam, his message is eternal. And all
previous messages that came up are part and parcel of the message of
Rasulullah Salallahu Salam. All revelations that came before are
incorporated within the Quran. And with this book, Allah subhanaw
taala has completed his revelation, His favor on Tamil
mankind and choose the chosen Islam as the deen. This is the
final Ummah after which no other ummah will come. There is no other
prophet to come after the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam.
So the prophets, Allah, Allah and your Salam took care of everything
that humanity would need to the day of judgment to save
themselves.
Among those were his example, his living example.
Among that was Bashara are glad tidings for the believers and for
the righteous people, so that they would strive more for it. And
among them were warnings. Because Allah subhanaw taala
has
sent him as a Warner, to warn us of what was going to come ahead,
so that we don't act surprised on the Day of Judgment when we face
that reality.
So the people of Makkah,
had the problem with
the resurrection.
They could not accept the fact that the bones could be brought
back to life.
They could not accept the fact that the deeds small and large,
can be recorded, that there can be witnesses and that there is a day
of judgment. Everything else they were willing to accept they did
believe in Allah subhanaw taala even though they attributed
partners and
did shook with with glass panel Tala.
So, some of these
doubts of the kuffaar are addressed in the Surah, which
talks about the Day of Judgment talks about
how the day of judgment would come and things like that.
So, there is some dispute among the scholars as to when the surah
was revealed.
One opinion is that it is in the late makan period and there is
another opinion that it's from the early Medina and period.
Obviously, the style and the content favour that this is a
makin Surah but it's not that critical.
There are some special things about the surah and there is a
Hadith some have narrated that this is from the saying of abdulai
basora. The Allahumma is narrated by Imam Tirmidhi that whoever
recites Surah zelens
As Allah,
this is
the reward of reading half of the Quran
that tells us how weighty the surah is. And we can reflect on
that. How could a surah that's just eight is give you the reward
of
half of the Quran.
Well, if we reflect, we will see that this talks about the Day of
Judgment, which is what everything of this dunya is focused on all of
our life has one central focus. Allah subhanaw taala and the
meeting with Allah subhanaw taala.
The meeting with Allah subhanaw taala is the Day of Judgment.
Everything that we do here is going to have an impact on that
day.
Good deeds, bad deeds. So if you look at it that way,
believe in Allah subhanaw taala all the deeds, believe in Allah
subhanaw taala belief in Day of Judgment belief in the Quran
belief in this message of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam
is part and parcel of the surah so that's why it is so weighty.
When the surah was revealed, in one narration from a Tabori
say the Abu Bakr Radi Allahu Anhu heard this from Rasulullah
Salallahu Salam, and he started to weep.
So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam said, Yeah, Abubaker what
makes you weep so bitterly?
And he said,
era surah Allah, it's the weight of the surah because Allah
subhanaw taala is going to bring the smallest things that we have
done.
That means
we are going to be destroyed.
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam reassured him he said, here
are our backup. If human beings were not to commit sins, Allah
subhanaw taala would remove them and bring other people who would
commit sins, so that when they repent, Allah would forgive. So
the commission of sins is to fulfill one of the CIFAR one of
the attributes of Allah subhanaw taala of Ottawa wa jal, Gaafu
Rahim, His mercy, His forgiveness, his acceptance of Toba. So to
manifest that
a person has to sin, if nobody sins, how could you say he is
forgiving? Although he is. So Allah subhanaw taala. This is a
way in which Allah subhanaw taala manifests His Jamal, his beauty
and that the difficulties we face in our lives.
The hardships we have the pains we have the loss we have Allah
subhanaw taala uses that
in exchange of removing some of our sins. So this is how he
reassured Abu Bakr, Siddiq Rabea Lavon. You know, another
narration, another major companion or Musa read and Audrey, when he
heard the surah he came to Rasul allah sallallahu alayhi salam, and
he said, you know, to sort of,
do I have to watch my good deeds? Or surah? Masala lism said yes.
Then he said he also loved all the major deeds.
He said yes.
And he said, all the little deeds?
He said yes. And when he was talking about this, he was talking
about both good and bad. So when he heard that he has to watch over
even his little deeds, what we consider small offenses and sins.
He said, Yeah, rasool Allah, I am don't
this is how they took the seriously that they, if Allah is
going to call us to account for every little thing, then there is
no salvation.
So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam said to him, I'm sure good
had Good, glad tidings to you. Yeah. Abba, Saeed. Allah subhanaw
taala rewards good deeds by multiplying the reward What 10 to
700 times and more
as he wants
and
he only gives one sin, the value of one sin, one to one, no
multiplication.
And without the forgiveness of Allah subhanaw taala
you cannot be saved any way on account of your good deeds. So I
will say it said Ya Rasulullah Salallahu Salam, not even you.
So he said salatu salam, not even me if Allah does not shower me
with his mercy is Rama and his favor.
So of course Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam is reassuring us that
this is serious, but our last $100 mercy and forgiveness and His
reward is much greater. So nobody should take this as a reason to
quit and say well, I can't do anything about.
So, with that background, we will start the surah Allah subhanaw
taala says elder Miller him in a shape on your regime Bismillah
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the Earth is shaken
Xalapa by its specific, tremendous, ultimate earthquake.
Allah subhanaw taala is saying, when the earth shakes when it
quakes,
with the earthquake that Allah subhanaw taala has just endured
from the time the Earth was created.
And the earth knows that it has that ultimate convulsion of
destruction.
So,
Allah subhanaw taala addresses the doubts of the doubters that will
there be a Day of Judgment, Allah subhanaw taala doesn't say if the
earth shakes.
There is certainty in this either. When it shakes, means it's implied
in there, it will definitely shake there is no doubt about it. That
ultimate earthquake where Allah subhanaw taala mentions elsewhere
in the Quran, that fear the Day when the earth will be shaking.
So there is an ultimate earthquake that Allah subhanaw taala has
programmed and destined for this earth, which is the destruction.
Now, how do we identify with it Allah subhanaw taala has given us
here, examples of natural phenomena that we know that we
have some idea with, for example, most of us at some point, have
experienced earthquake.
I remember an earthquake back when I was in 10th grade, in my
boarding school in the Himalayan mountains from the earthquake, the
roof caved in, and it fell on our beds except we were not in the in
the beds at that time. So we've seen earthquakes, we've felt the
Earth Move. And if you live in California, of course, you
experience it all the time. So we have an experience. Now,
when the Earth moves, you ask what makes the Earth Move? Why does it
move?
And the scientists will tell you because there is a pressure that's
built up between the layers of under the earth which are called
tectonic plates, and they are moving, they're drifting and the
pressure builds up, builds up builds up till suddenly it gives,
and the vibration of that does this. Now that's just the
mechanism. That's not why earthquakes happen. Earthquakes
happen by the command of Allah, based on our Armelle Allah
subhanaw taala tells us as we've learned many times, that whatever
happens or disasters and facade and things in the, in the oceans,
whether it's volcanoes under erupting underneath, whether it's
storms that are coming, whether it's tsunamis that are coming,
whether it's earthquakes, that they are a result of the hands of
men, the actions of man so that Allah subhanaw taala may make them
taste some
of what they do.
So the earth is
witnessing everything that is being done.
And the earth is in a state of
great anguish.
sheesh of pain. Because of all the disobedience that happens on the
earth. The earth says I'm hosting all of these creatures of Allah
subhanaw taala and yet they deny and disobey Him. Because the vast
majority of humanity
is disbelievers and sinners. And the earth to carry them the earth,
if it had its own mind would have destroyed everything long ago, but
it is patiently waiting for that decree of Allah Subhana Allah.
So,
Allah subhanaw taala is saying when that event happens, it will
certainly happen when it happens. The earth will be shaken zizza by
an earthquake that is programmed into it, which will be like no
other earthquake because as we know, earthquakes have limited
area geographically and limited ability what we have the tremor,
what we call the Richter scale. So you have
5.7 in California, you don't feel it in Arizona. Okay. We have 8.0
in Chile, you don't feel it here.
Now, imagine if the whole earth shook at one time.
And it shook at an intensity where the Richter scales no longer are
relevant. Do you think anything would remain?
No matter how earthquake proof we make our buildings because Allah
subhanaw taala tells us that the mountains will be decimated
they'll become like dust. So think about the buildings and what we
what we make.
So altos Allah smart Allah is telling us that there is an
ultimate convulsion of this earth, which will destroy the earth as it
exists.
When that happens, Allah subhanaw taala says
Raja till Abdo Carla
on
the earth of Raja Raja, it means to expel to throw out
that the earth because the earth the earth is a feminine gender in
Arabic have Rajat it will throw out or she literally she will
throw out what
Carla Thea call means the burdens it's carrying the weight, it's
carrying the baggage it is carry.
What is meant by that
the vast majority of scholars have said the this what is meant by
this is it will expel all of the human beings that have died and
have been buried from the time of other mother salaam till the last
one. Every single human being will be thrown out of the earth
wherever the remains were,
whether they were buried, whether they were cremated, whether they
drowned in the ocean, whether they were eaten by animals or fish,
wherever those particles are, the Earth will throw them out.
Expenditure vomited out, so they will come out the earth will be
overturned.
Why is it called the burden
the call baggage it was carrying. Because all of the deeds of men,
the majority of which were bad was a great burden for this earth.
Yet it was carrying it. So that's the majority opinion that this is
talking about. Every human being every single one of us will be
thrown out of our graves or our final resting places thrown out
back to life.
Along with that,
everything else that the Earth carried in it. Specifically,
according to the Hadith, the treasures of the earth will be
expelled out. So when the human beings come out together and they
see a mass of humanity, how big
every single there has never been a gathering like this. No matter
what gatherings you've been to whether you are in hygiene,
whether you are in some of these other
gatherings of other faiths, no matter if you put them all
together, it would not come close to this. This is billions and
billions and billions of people all
raised together.
And what they will see is columns or piles of
gold, and silver, and all the natural resources, the diamonds
and the Emeralds and the oils and everything that people fight Oh,
and keel over,
will be thrown out.
And they said, The murderer on that day will look at these piles
of gold and silver, and say, Is this what I murdered people for,
and the one who cut off relationships with their siblings
and their relatives, would say, This is what I cut my
relationships over to check more of this dunya these treasures, and
the thief will say is this, all of which I had my hands cut,
because they will look at it with disdain, because with all of these
piles, and treasures, and gold and silver, nobody will care anything
about because they would be worthless.
So
all of this will be expelled out.
Along with that, there is a narration into Bharani that the
Prophet sallallaahu Salam said, Beware of the earth.
The earth is your mother. And any good or evil will be testified to
by it means whatever you do on this earth, it will testify on the
Day of Judgment, when it on everything that you thought was
hidden, is thrown out. The word recall is also used for your
everything, your possessions in your house, okay, but you keep
your treasure. Nobody knows what you have in your house. Suppose
one day you come back to your house. And every single item of
your
of your house is lying out in the open lawn, every single thing.
From every article of clothing to every dollar to every piece of
furniture to every single thing is out in the open.
Or the whole world knows everything that you have, what
you've collected, what you've inspired everything. So this is
like that.
The call is also used for the baggage that a traveler carries.
So your baggage that you have traveled through this whole Earth
in your life will be out there exposed.
Now when this happens, this is actually referring to the second
blowing of the trumpet. Because this is not talking about the
destruction of people is talking about the resurrection when
they're thrown out of their graves. And as we know, there are
stages of the Day of Judgment. There are the final signs that are
coming, the major signs and all of those have passed, for example,
that the jail has been killed easily Salam has come after that
the believers live for a while and then their souls are taken and
Allah subhanaw taala only leaves the most evil people on this
earth, to the point that no one even knows the name of Allah. No
one says La ilaha illAllah. And on that
humanity, or lack of humanity, the first trumpet, the soul will be
blown, which will destroy everything, everyone will die.
And then there's a gap. And now this refers to the second blowing
of the trumpet when Allah Subhan of the soul that Allah subhanaw
taala will bring this Rafi on a cell Salam back to life and give
him the command. When he blows that then the earth will shake and
expel everything. And people will come out from their final resting
places.
And when they come out, the earth will be shaking.
And they will be sort of flabbergasted they can walk
straight as Allah subhanaw taala says elsewhere in the Quran that
on that day when the earth is shaking, people will look like
they are drunk but they are not drunk.
They because when the earth is shaking, you are unstable. You can
walk straight and human beings are always instinctively looking for
stability in everything stability in their life stability in their
marriage, stability in their economic status, stability of the
earth, and that's what they're used to. The earth is stable, but
on that day, it's different.
So everything is shaking, they're walking like they are drunk.
So, some of them will say, we'll call an insert No man, they're
called insulin, as we talked about when Allah subhanaw taala talks
about insulin. He's talking more about individuals. When he says
NAS means people.
Insulin, or also, as we said before, is from NASA from
forgetting. forgetfulness, that the forgetful man will say mana.
What is the matter with this earth? Why is it like this?
So, the scholars of the fsid have said, Who's going to say this?
Will a believer since?
The answer is no. Because the believer heard about it. The
believer believed in it. When he sees it.
He will recognize he will say what,
this is what Allah and His messenger told us. And Allah and
His Messenger spoke the truth. It is the disbelievers those who
denied it. What's what's happening,
because they would also have forgotten the warnings that were
given because they didn't believe
so they will say, or call it Insano. Bala means this is a
statement of, of fear of disbelief, what is going on?
What is going on, we've never experienced something like this.
Well, you were warned about it.
Then Allah subhanaw taala now says Yo Ma is in to help the to bear.
Now, Allah subhanaw taala doesn't use the word Yo Ma, even
on that day, when Allah Samantha uses this formulation of
expression. It's not saying when on that it's no longer saying when
it will happen. What he says on that day, there is some
seriousness there is a warning, there is an expression of anger.
Yoma isn't on that day, to head this to bear,
the Earth will
have death I will will speak
will
express will disclose something that may not have been known news.
Bara the news bar, the news, when the Word of God is used generally
it is for the present and happenings of the past. The word
never is also used in Surah number four news, but number also implies
what will happen news of the future but Akbar is news of the
present and the past. So Allah subhanaw taala says,
On that day, the Earth will
disclose will speak
give the news that was within it, what it had kept. This is part of
that burden that it was carrying
the call of the actual record of the action of every human being.
So Allah subhanaw taala is telling us among the witnesses first he
has established Yes, the Day of Judgment will happen.
He has given us about what is going to happen he said yes you
will be resurrected.
Yes the earth will be leveled Yes, you will be gathered.
And the earth will be one of the witnesses. As we know we've
mentioned in previous sources. Of course Allah subhanaw taala is
Shaheed is the ultimate witness, the angels are witness, our body
parts are witness other human beings are witness now Allah
subhanaw taala is telling us something more that even those
things that you consider inanimate
like the Earth, like the rocks, like the trees, they will also
witness they witness what you do they record what you do.
At that time, 1400 years ago, this would have been because of the
image they had no doubt but to figure out how can the earth
keep a record of thing would be not something that they
Would you even imagine? We live in a time
where records are kept.
Not in gigs, but terabytes, kept on watch
on chips made of what? Silica
from the earth,
same component. So human beings are keeping records, detailed
records on particles that are part of the earth. Allah subhanaw taala
told us that the earth is recording everything. So it should
be even clearer for us and more
certainty that yes, everything is being So may Allah subhanaw taala
because all people have the moment to fulfill its right people have
the consciousness of Allah subhanaw taala at all moments,
people who look for knowledge of what would please Allah subhanaw
taala at this moment, people who know that then people who know
Allah subhanaw taala and love Allah subhanaw taala people who
know rasool Allah Allah, Allah Solomon lovers with Allah
salAllahu Alaihe Salam and love to follow his sunnah, knowing at
every moment this is what he would have done, and doing them, doing
them lovingly doing them willingly not as a burden, not as
fatigued by it, but rejuvenated by It energized by obeying Allah
subhanaw taala and following the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu
Subhanak Allahumma with him the Kenisha to Allah Hola, hola. Hi,
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