Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect on the Quran #57 Surah Surah AtTin P1
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Salam alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah ala alihi
wa sahbihi woman
we ask Allah subhanaw taala to bless our gathering today
with his acceptance, and to make us among those who continuously
witnesses still ahead
and who strive to be the best
in the way that Allah subhanaw taala wants us to the best of our
potential
you and to lead our lives in a way that fulfills the purpose for
which Allah Subhana Allah has created us and that he be pleased
with us.
We make sincere dua for his acceptance, and for His pleasure,
especially in these blasted days today being the 11th of July hija.
So first of all, I want to
congratulate all of you with read Mobarak
those that we haven't seen,
and those that we have seen,
that these are the days to glorify and do taxpayer of Allah subhanaw
taala
not just these days, but every day, but particularly these days.
So keeping that in mind, we send peace and blessings on our beloved
Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam, we ask Allah
subhanaw taala to cleanse our hearts, so that we can receive the
generosity of his nor
into the innermost recesses of our hearts
that illuminate us with the right guidance. And that should give us
Tofik
to act on what He has commanded us to do, and to abstain from what he
has forbidden us
to lead our lives in compliance and in the etbr of the best of his
creation.
So you're gonna Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa
sallam.
So our session today is dealing with
the 95th Surah, which is Surah 13,
or translated as the fig.
So this surah is from the early McCann, period.
And again, we have to look at the context of the Quran, always as to
the time of Revelation, the circumstances, particularly what
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam was encountering in a hostile
environment of Makkah, what he was facing of rejection, what his
companions are the Allah on homebirth were facing of
persecution and ridicule.
And, in the call, an invitation that was being extended to those
who had not accepted the faith.
And as we have mentioned before, that many of these MK consolas
are, they start with
a person, oh, oath,
sometimes a single load sometimes multiple oats. And as we remind
ourselves, that the purpose of the oath, one is to honor that which
Allah subhanaw taala is swearing by, which is the object of the
oath the person and Allah subhanaw taala alone has the right to swear
by His creation, whereas we can only swear by Allah subhanaw taala
himself alone.
And secondly, most importantly, the purpose of the person is to
signify the importance of the subject of the person or gerbil
person
to which Allah subhanaw taala is trying to bring our attention. And
of course, Allah subhanaw taala is on the hook. The truth, the most
truthful of all truthful, does not need to take an oath to confirm
anything. But this is what she has done to to
focus our attention on certain important aspects that he wants us
to grasp very clearly. So whenever the axon occur, we always are on
an alert as to the job and Kasam what is the subject because that's
the main message.
So the surah starts now hold him in a shape on your Raji Bismillah
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So we will translate it in the simplest form. first and then we
will deal with it with a background and I are by
so Allah subhanaw taala starts with the old thesis by he swears
by the fig, the team and the zaytoun the olive and by the mount
to seen in the Mount Sinai, and by this city, the city that's
entrusted and which is secure and safe.
So these are the three OXA and then he Allah smart Allah says the
the Javan custom, he said, we indeed have created man in the
finest form,
then we brought him down to the lowest of the low
except
for those who believe and do good deeds.
And for them, there shall be an unending unfailing recompense or
reward.
And finally, a last one that ALLAH says who then
can, after this
cause you to deny the Last Judgment or to deny the dean
or what
can cause you to deny the Day of Judgment and or this day
is not Allah, the Most just of judges
or, in another translation, the wisest of the wise.
So this is the the brief translation, literally.
So let's go back that Allah subhanaw taala takes the oath in
three aisles. In the first aisle, there are two oats, what thenI was
a tomb.
Literally the fig and the onif. And if you take in literally Allah
subhanaw taala is honoring two foods or two fruits.
Or one flower one fruit if you consider fig as a as a flower as
some people consider it.
So
the oath is on the fig. And the olliffe I will come back to this
literally that's what the oath is on two fruits.
And the next thought is we're tourists seen in the mount of see
Nene which is also Sinai, because elsewhere Allah subhanaw taala has
used in the Quran to Sinai, Sinai, because both are used in Hebrew
for the same Mount Sinai and sin. So Allah subhanaw taala here has
sworn by a place a special mount, which is the mountain on which
Musa alayhis salam had an encounter with a las Panatela
where Allah subhanaw taala spoke to him directly without any
intermediary on the mountain where he saw the light returning from
meridian, and he went to get guidance, and he was given
prophethood
the mount on which there was this burning
ever
Essent bush or a tree.
So it was even before a sacred place because elsewhere in the
Quran Allah subhanaw taala says when Musa alayhis salam gets
there, he says, take off your shoes because you are standing on
sacred ground.
To this is a sacred place on which revelation was given to one of the
great prophets, the cooloola Asthma Musa Lacey.
And the fourth thought, which isn't the third I will handle
Ballard, Amin, la semana de la swears by this, and this was
revealed in Makkah, by this sacred city. Makkah has always been
sacred. Allah subhanaw taala. He calls it Baladi, Amin,
and it can be interpreted in two ways from Amman means where there
is safety where there is security, because even for the Mexicans who
are being addressed, the Koresh who used to fight with the with
the list, excuse and shed blood, the precincts of Macau was sacred,
there was safety.
So it has always been sacred. And in Islam, it is sacred. We can
even cut down trees and things like that within the precincts or
kill anything of Makkah. So it's always been a secure city of
safety. If you take the the, the other interpretation of Amin from
a man from safety and from a mean the one that is trusted, because
this city was given to us as a trust. The Kaaba was given to us a
trust, so the entrusted city if you want to translate it that way.
So what is the significance of these oats? And of course, as we
know how that Bella dill, Amin Maca is also connected to two
great prophets, the one who established it, the messenger, our
father, Ibrahim alayhi salam
who built the Kaaba and the final messenger, the best of all
creation, the leader of all the Gambia and mursaleen sayonara
Surah la sala Salallahu Salam. So the melody Amin is related to the
final revelation.
And to have the oral oral Azim the two great prophets
of great significance Ibrahim alayhis salam and finally
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam. So where does this what tienen was
they don't fit? Well, there are many different interpretations
many of the scholars including going back to the Sahaba, they
said that this is not literal, what is meant by it is another
location, not the fruits because the other two are locations. And
some have said that Thien, the fig relates to the valley or next to
mount Judy, Judy, where the Ark of Noah Ali Salam came to rest.
And some have also said that when when new Hala salam after the
flood released the bird, the pigeon, or the dove to go and find
if there is dry land, it came back with a fig branch or olive branch.
So they said that this relates to the mound and the valley, the area
of the Earth where the Ark of Noah Allah Salam came to rest. If that
is the correct interpretation, then that would fit with the other
two, that this is another great place, sacred place where Allah
subhanaw taala
had sent one of his old Azzam no Malasana.
Now as far as the, the zaytoun. As we know, in Jerusalem, there is
the mount of the olives.
So many of the interpreters have said that this refers to Jerusalem
by the Lockness that both the teen and was a tune are grown in that
area and abundance and then the best quality in there. Therefore,
this refers to Jerusalem, the author of another sacred area
where more prophets and more messengers came than anywhere else
on the earth.
So you can take all of those together, that Allah subhanaw
taala if we take the first idea to refer to another place, it would
mean either just Jerusalem,
metal martyrs with the Mount of Olives or all of che
I'm because that's that area and Damascus. Or it could mean that
area and the valley and the mount where no unless alarms are
cleared. So Jerusalem, as we know, represented the east valley
salaams messenger ship because that's where he came. So if we
take that, then these audits deal with places where Allah subhanaw
taala sent the best of his creation, with his messages. We
have no Allah Salam, we have Ibrahim alayhis salam, we have new
Musa alayhis salam, we have Elisa Salam. And finally we have
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam, so the five
all in asthma are covered by this.
Because Ibrahim alayhis salam and Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam came
to the paladin Amin, Musa alayhis salam came to to the scene and
Eastside esalaam came to do was a to that area of Jerusalem. And if
we include no La Silla to what de
Mille Some have also interpreted that this watin refers to other
Malasana because they say that after they had eaten from the
tree, they tried to cover themselves with the large leaves
of the the fig tree, that thing so this is another interpretation. So
Allah subhanaw taala is taking an oath in general on sacred places
that have special encounter of the best of Allah's creation, His
messengers, and in that the top echelon, the five
and we were given revelations for the guidance of mankind to take
mankind to its peak.
So, in general, when we look at these oats, they're always
relevant to the subject of the Earth, what is coming the julabo
casa. So Allah subhanaw taala here is referring to the best of
places, the best of
people created and the best of guidance.
So now we come to the next idea, which is the subject of this
autojumble Allah subhanaw taala says Lefkada Holika NL, Santa Fe x
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the lamb before bad is for tacky to stress indeed, surely, quite.
It has happened it is a certainty. Indeed with certainty Hala now
that Allah subhanaw taala this now this first person plural is the
the plural of majesty of Allah's greatness and His absolute control
and power over it halacha now we indeed We created
insane everyone knows what insane is the senator Queen accent means
in the best
Hudson suit superlative of that accent the best there's nothing
better that when we created in the finest form the word WM also comes
from, from the calm, which means to be upright, you know, like we
said, Parliament is set up, stand up, right, you know, but yeah, um,
because Allah subhanaw taala is telling us that something that is
perfect
and upright. Allah subhanaw taala says, we have created insane
in the best and most perfect form, no one does the best and most
perfect form means in every way, physically,
intellectually,
psychologically,
spiritually, the most important.
And if we look at the word duck whim, we are the only creation
that walks upright. So you take that karma, but we are the only
creation which has spirituality. We are the only creation that has
significant intellect. I mean, animals know some things that they
have some intelligence, but none of them have intelligence to the
level of insight.
And Allah subhanaw taala saying that of all of his creation, the
best that she has created is inside
this decorative declaration from Allah subhanaw taala. Now as we
know insaan has two components, the body and the spirit, and the
body is earthly.
I created from clay and then from the sperm and the ovum from fluid,
mixed fluid. And we have what Allah sends down through the
angels which is the roar, the spirit which makes us who we are.
And if we remember as a reminder, when Allah subhanaw taala created
our father, or the mother salah, from from the clay,
he lived there for a long time.
It was only when Allah subhanaw taala breathed, he said when I
refer to it, when I breed from into him rule,
then Allah subhanaw taala ordered the angels to do the Sajida of
honoring him. That means the honoring of insaan came with the
infusion of the rule, not just the body. So what gives us the
ultimate honor and which gives us this axon atabrine is the
spiritual aspect more than the physical aspect and as we know,
even physically, we are one of the we are the most beautiful
creation. But we are not the strongest, we are not the fastest
the animals have more strength, they have more speed, they have
more skilled many other things. Yet Allah subhanaw taala has
called us the best elsewhere in the Quran, Allah subhanaw taala
tells us that, that Welaka but Karina Bonilla, we have honored in
San, okay. And Allah smart Allah says and we have created Murphy's.
Law cool math is similar to what we have created for you everything
that's in the heavens and for you, to be of service to you that
everything else was created to serve us.
And part of the most important part of serving us is to remind us
of who provided all of this for us, which is Allah subhanaw taala
that no matter where we look in creation, everything that we see
physically, everything that happens to us, every event that
occurs, is seen through a lens that sees the towhid of Allah
subhanaw taala that recognizes that the command the Jamal
of Allah subhanaw taala, the Journal of Allah Subhana Allah,
His might, his beauty, His Majesty, his his creative ability,
his his Audra has control of everything, that everything
reminds us in the heavens and the earth.
Within us, and outside is the last one fella says we will continue to
show you our science in the in the in the heavens in the earth and
within you till it becomes clear to you what becomes clear, the
tertiary the philosophy.
So we have to always look with that lens of towhead at everything
that we see it art, nothing is a coincidence. Nothing has power of
its own. Nothing has ability of its own. Nothing can control
anything even though it appears La hawla wala Quwata illa Allah.
So Allah subhanaw taala here himself is a testing with
certainty how first by taking an oath to stress this point and then
saying Lefkada
means that I have no doubt that the best of creation is insane.
So this enzyme has the potential to be higher than the angels if he
fulfills His purpose for which he was created. And as we know Allah
subhanaw taala created us for what as he tells us, for his booty as
Allah subhanaw taala says
because we've gone over many times he said we're Mahala to gin while
inside in Lolly, Abdul, that the main purpose or the only purpose
and he says it by saying we have not created you for anything else
other than
the ability of Allah subhanaw taala the worship of Allah
subhanaw
The recognition of Allah subhanaw taala as our Lord, the recognition
of Allah subhanaw taala is the only one worthy of worship.
When we fulfill that purpose to its fullest, Allah subhanaw taala
elevates us to the point where we reach levels above the noble
creation, which does not sin which is the angels.
That's why if you remember in that famous journey of the mirage of
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, a point came at Sidra
Want To * with the greatest of the angel Jibreel alayhi salam
said to Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said,
You proceed beyond this, because this is my limit beyond this, I
cannot go,
showing us that the status
of the human being, in this case, the best of human being, versus
the best of the angels, the best of human being status as greater.
Similarly, on a common level
Insan, that fulfills the purpose for which he has created Allah
ennobles him greater than the angels
but inside, as we say, the insan the word comes from NASA, which
means to forget, and when insaan forgets,
he can forget everything he can forget his Lord, he can forget the
purpose of His creation, he can forget the commandments of Allah
subhanaw taala.
So, when that happens,
that in son from that elevated status and rank, he starts to
fall.
Last one and Bella says it elsewhere in the Quran, he says.
Don't
forget, Otherwise Allah will make you forget yourself, make you
forget who you are.
Plus one analysis of Allah takuna Kalinina, NASA Allah for answer
and foresight.
And don't forget Allah that's the ultimate forgetfulness
heedlessness. Because then Allah will make you forget yourself,
your humanity, your elevated status, your purpose,
where you are going, what is ahead of you, He will make you forget
all of that he will make you forget you are the elevated inside
and you will drop to the level of animals and worse and may Allah
subhanaw taala continue to bless us with His acceptance and help us
to understand his words and internalize them to the best of
our abilities. Subhana Allah Humala him the commercial do Allah
Allah Hi, Lana stockbroker when a taboo in Africa Salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.