Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect on the Quran #64 Surah Al Fil P2
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So, in the meantime Abraha also sent His Messengers into Makkah
and said, We want your leader to come and meet with our general our
ruler abroad. So Abdon Muttalib came, and when he entered this
gender, whatever they had setup for Abraha He was a tall, very
handsome, very impressive man. And it had an aura about him. So
Abraha was sitting on whatever equivalent of a throne that was in
the desert for him. When he saw this man come and sit on the
carpet, he came off that and came down and sat with him because he
was so impressed with
and then through an interpreter, he asked him,
What do you want from me? So first, Abdulmutallab was the
grandfather of Rasulullah, salallahu, Salam
Achmed start to make some deal with him. He said, Look, we will
give you 1/3 Of all of the wealth of some of our tribes which he was
authorized to give them 1/3 of it, we will give you you leave us
alone and you go by, he said, No, I have come to destroy the cow.
He said to Abdulmutallab, what else do you want
of the motel and said, You have captured 200 of my camels, I want
them back.
So Abraha was face changed. He said all this while I was in awe
of you and I had respect for you, because of your ambience and
things. But you are, you know, you are just nobody, because I have
come to destroy your ancestral home of worship the Kaaba. And you
asked me nothing about it to spare that you are only concerned about
200 chemists.
So I have lost all respect for you.
So I'm done with the lab responded. He said, I am the rub
of the 200 camels.
So I want to protect them.
The Kaaba has its own rub, who will protect it.
So but I have sort of sniggered and said, You see my army you see
my elephants you think anybody can protect? You said Abdulmutallab
said we cannot. And we will not fight.
But if you want to take on the rub of this bite,
then it is up to you.
So Abraha gave him the 200 camels, he took them and he came back to
Makkah.
And he told the people, this is what happened. Now let us all go,
we are not going to fight. Let us see what happens. Because if Allah
wills because this is his house, you will protect it. And he made a
special dye in the form of a poem which essentially meant this, that
you're Allah you are we are not in a position to to fight them. We
can only protect what we are the rub off we what we own our
property. This house is your property and it is up to you to
protect it
and then move into the mountains to see what happens. Now some
people were left in Makkah, not everybody moved out. And there is
a narration that there was one young woman who live near the
Kaaba,
who is pregnant at the time, who stayed there because she couldn't
go up on the mountains because she was pregnant. And her name was
Annie,
who was the widowed daughter in law of Abdulmutallab
when we met married to his son, Abdullah who had passed.
So they move into the mountains around muck around the Kaaba.
And next day Abraha decides to attack and level the Kaaba.
Now, the Army is ready to move and they are
guarding the elephants to move and this massive elephant mode refuses
to get.
So they are hitting with these they are puncturing him with these
things. They are beating him he will not get up.
And they can understand why this is going on.
So they can figure it out. So then the guy who was in charge of the
elephant points is direction towards Yemen.
And the the elephant gets up and starts going towards Yemen.
So then the
Make him sit back down, that turned him back towards is now his
his his inertia is gone turn him back towards the Kaaba get up, he
refuses to get, they turned him to the east, he gets up and starts
walking right where they turn them to the west he starts going back
there but he will not go towards.
At this point, the sky starts to darken. And it appears like dark
clouds are coming from everywhere from towards the sea from
everywhere. And as they come closer, it appears that there are
massive flocks of birds. Some of them are green, some of them are
small, like swallow some of them are big like herons all mixed. And
in massive groups, so much so that the sky cannot be seen. And
they're all flying. At massive speeds from this height they are
coming. And all of them have three stones with them, one in each of
their claws and one in their beaks. And the size of the stone
is like that, that size a little bigger than like a chickpea.
And as they come from those heights, they start dropping the
stones were starts raining down on these people like bullets, they
are penetrating the people's bodies, some of them, it hit on
the top of the head penetrating the skull came out from the back
that just like bullets, and nobody is spared, they're all being hit
by this.
And people are dying, they're falling and running their complete
chaos, including Abraha gets hit, but not all of them died.
So some of them start to run.
And some of them actually gradually make it back now where
these wounds have been produced by these, they start to get infected.
And there is diseases and there is a type of a plague that spread
among them, parts of their bodies are being dismantled and falling.
All of this was witnessed by the people of Makkah in 507
This was such a spectacular event.
One, the people of Makkah are not used to seeing elephants. So this
itself was such a such a great thing for them to see and then to
see this massive army that had never been assembled to be
completely decimated with birds, little creatures, they knew that
this was only the work of Allah subhanaw taala. So they witnessed
this protection of the of the Baitullah
Abraha makes it back all the way to center. And then he dies from
the impact of these stones and the diseases that they cause to the
point that he had almost become crazy and parts of his bodies were
falling apart. It says in the end that actually his chest split open
some sort of gangrene or something in our medical terminology. So as
a result of this, you know, sometimes when armies get
defeated, they bring another army afterwards, the people of Yemen
were so scared that this is what happened to our army, we are never
going to go back there to exact revenge on these people.
So, this was witnessed by the people have
everyone witnessed it was not a one person witness. So this then
became the hot story that was told from generation to generation to
people. So much so that they started keeping that calendar
according to that they said so many years after the ear of the
elephant,
um will feel as it is called the ear of the elephant. Five years
after the year of the elephant 10 years or so, so many years before
the ear of the elephant they kept the calendar by this event.
And it is narrated that that was the year
that Allah subhanaw taala not only decided to protect his house from
destruction, but he decided to ultimately purify his house from
all the Jassa of shirt and the idols by sending the ultimate of
profits. The cattleman Nabi and Rasool Allah Subhan Allah lives in
them. So this event heralded
the good news the Bashara of the birth of Rasulullah Salallahu
Alaihe Salam who was born in that year according to some narrations
approximately 50 days or so after. So if we take care of you allow
And as the month of birth, then this event probably took place at
some point in June
of that year.
So, this is the background that Allah subhanaw taala now starts to
reveal for an about this event which is known to all the Arabs.
Now the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam was born that year this
event happened before his birth. So obviously he had not seen it,
but he had heard it enough times that it was well known, it was
worth a lot and everybody knew about it. So it was as as good as
he had seen it because all the details were available.
Actually, some of those stones were preserved. They were in the
possession of some of the Sahaba afterwards, they were little black
stones with some red markings on them.
So Allah subhanaw taala starts the surah how old we lay him in a
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cater for Allah rabuka The US having fi LM LM translated as its
negation, have you not?
Tara seen?
Have you not seen and I'm trying to kaisa How?
How remember that not just what Allah did, but how we did it and
we've talked about the details of how it happened. Elements are a
kafer for Allah rabuka
Have you not seen how your Lord Oh Mohamed Salah this bootcamp,
second person singular male, addressing the Prophet sallallahu
your Lord, have you not seen how your Lord for Allah? What he dealt
with?
With the assembled fee, the Companions, the people of the
elephant?
So it's a question but the
it does not need an answer because some of these questions are to
stress something that is well known or obviously in other words,
you already know.
Even though you haven't seen it, you know about it LM Tara, have
you not seen asking the Prophet Have you not seen now if you look
at it literally know the prophets of Allah, Allah Salam had not seen
it. But she knew about it so well. It was as if he had seen it. In
other words, this event occurred there is no doubt about it. There
is absolutely opinion it okay.
How Allah your Lord dealt with the people who came with an agenda to
destroy his house. And his house represents Allah subhanaw taala
and his Deen of monotheism, for which this house was created of
faith, even though at that time, it was full of and surrounded by
idols
for centuries.
So,
Allah subhanaw taala
is telling the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam, not about the story,
because the story was well known. He is telling the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam in the early part of messenger ship, that
I am your Lord.
You specifically
you see how I have protected my house
from my enemies from those who wanted to destroy the house that
represents the hate, and you all messenger sallallahu alayhi salam
are greater than this house.
It should be reassurance for you that I will protect you. I will
protect your doubt. I will protect the deen that you are going to
bring to them that you are bringing to them.
So this is a special Tavi and reassurance and ROM.
honor of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam that even
For your birth, I sent him I sent birds as a special miracle to
Harold, your birds that you're going to be born.
And let this be an assurance to you that no matter how great the
opposition's seems to you, is not going to be as great as that
60,000 army against the cow. So don't worry about it. Don't be
concerned.
See how I took care of
reflect and that's something we need to reflect on. That last one
developer would have destroyed armies with earthquake or wind or
sandstone, anything lightning
floods, you know,
hail coming down.
But against these massive elephants, you send small
creatures birds
amazing
the elephants for the for the people of macabre very, very
amazing. And because they're not generally in that desert, and
there is a story was just taken a minute as an aside that 90 years
after the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam when Imam Malik was born.
As you know Imam Malik
in the INS the great Maliki imam of Medina.
He is the the author of the collection of the burrata of Malik
the first Hadith collection.
He used to have a lot of students with him
and one students by the name of Dr. Ben Yehuda, lately, Al
Andalusi came from under us from Spain
to study with him, and he was born in 769. Yeah, here in New York
here and he is famous because the mawatha that we have of Imam Malik
the collection of Hadith comes to us through the most reliable
student of him, which is Yeah, he is. So he was a young man who had
come to study with Imam Malik and Imam Malik was having a diverse
with his students. And Imam Malik had a lot of reverence people
respected him or about him. And then somebody suddenly said that
Afghan like a jatheon. The elephants have come and all the
students because elephants all the students ran away outside to see
the elephants.
And Imam Malik was left there sitting alone in the middle of his
Duff's
only one student remained.
His name was yeah, he gave me Yeah.
So Mr. Malik said to him,
yeah, and the Lucia Yahia. Don't you want to go and see the
elephants?
So yeah, he I said to him, and Malik
said, Sadie, I did not come here to see elephants, I came to learn
from you.
That also tells you what serious students are.
And that's why he is remembered relative to some of the other
students. So this is how important the elephants were that even after
so many years, people were in amazement of the elephants and how
they were dealt with.
So
Allah subhanaw taala tells us and we should reflect on this after
the session is over.
Have a picture because Allah Swanton has painted this picture.
And we should let her imagination, visualize this desert Valley, the
mountains and the Kaaba, nobody to protect it. People on mountaintops
and this massive army of elephants and what happens and what happens
to the skies because that will build our Eman so that we will
learn not to fear creation, only to fear the Creator.
So this is an important thing that we should reflect on because Allah
subhanaw taala says, doesn't say they don't you know, what Allah
did with them, but kafer how he did it.
And the word that's used there is fat Allah Fila Jalla Amarula
halacha they all have different meanings of what Holika is, you
know is to create something Jhala means to something that exists to
change it to something else.
So I'm allowed to do and phyla are somewhat similar. But the
grammarian said that Fila means when you do something without
making any effort, whereas an AMA, you have to make an effort. So
Allah subhanaw taala is telling us that he dealt with these without
making any effort. For Allah, the effort is good. That's it. And for
Allah also includes all of the things of the other, doing such as
he's the one who created them, he created the elephant, he created
the people, he he created the land, how they behave, what they
do, what is the cause, what is the effect, how he uses one against
the other. This all comes under Fang
and again, as we said, Allah subhanaw taala use the word rabuka
to the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, to honor him to reassure
him and to remove any fear from
then interestingly Allah subhanaw taala uses the word
us Harbin fie us have Allah Swanton been said the owners of
the elephants,
the Malik he used the word as help us have a companions you know,
like the sub and they are a sub of something. Now, that something or
someone is considered greater than the US hub, like the companions of
the Prophet sallallahu Sallam are considered less lesser in rank
then Rasulullah sallallahu so when you say as haben fie Allah, Allah
saying the companions of the elephant means Abraha and the army
that came were lesser than the elephants, and we'll talk about
that. Secondly, the word softball means you have a long
relationship.
long relationship that cannot end as opposed to your age, which
means to live Allah Samantha talks about marriages yesh ish means you
live with your wife because it may not be very long but for a period
but when he talks about how to deal with your parents, Allah
Swanton he uses the word of
Sahiwal Saheba him. The social bar you have which is long with your
parents, it's endless. So Allah subhanaw taala, saying these
people live with the elephants and became like the elephants means
like, animals, but lower than the animals because even the elephants
refuse to attack the cow.
And this was referred to by Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam
on more than one occasion. Like for example, when he came to do
Umrah and customer his camel would not enter the Maccha and the the
Sahaba said the customer has become rebellious Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi salam said no cassava it does not have an ounce
of rebelliousness in in her it is the the Lord that stopped the
elephant is the one that is stopping customer from entering
the market.
So,
Allah subhanaw taala tells us that these people they had
they are lower than the elephants they had less brains because even
the elephants knew that we cannot we should not attack this house or
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down k means
a plot of plan a secret plan which has a hidden agenda. Okay, so
Abraham what was the hidden agenda Abraha wanted to demolish the
Kaaba so that people would come to his his monument and the train
would ship so he had a hidden agenda. He wasn't saying he was
just saying that they are desecrated my place. I'm going to
level it out. But she had a greater agenda.
So okay, there's a plan a plot that is made. There are some
secrets in it. There's a hidden agenda. Allah subhanaw taala
allowed them to make this case he allowed them to decide to
strategize to gather the army, some came from Abyssinia, some
other tribes that they gathered to march across the desert all the
way to Kaaba to bring the elephants to have all of this to
fight off armies. No It allowed all of this till the end. So Allah
subhanaw taala sometimes to people in power gives a long leash, long
leash.
Some have given the example that if you have a dog, and you have a
leash
That's only one foot long the dog can go much and he knows his
limits. But if you tie a dog with 100 yard leash to a post, the dog
runs around and he thinks he thinks he's free.
And then he runs and then he runs till he gets to the end and
suddenly when he gets to that 100 yard, it yanks his neck and that's
what it must tell adults he lets these people go to the end salon
was allowed to go to the very end. You know, Abraham was allowed to
get to the almost to the cab and then unless one fella pulled the
plug on them.
So Allah subhanaw taala says, alarm did he not Big Al Qaeda home
feet of lint did he not make their plan their plot the secret,
strategizing feed pot leave, be immersed in Puglia when Galala
means in misguidance and being brought to nothing
that their plans were utterly confounded. They were laid to
waste they didn't come to anything except destruction.
Oddly
then Allah subhanaw taala said describing in brief what happened
he said, well, our salah, lay him tyrant Abadi. And we sent I sent
off salah
or salah, send, I lay him I lay him is used. To lay him means to
lay him means on upon the word Allah means something that comes
from above. And generally when Allah uses this for sending
things, it is sent as a punishment.
Re wins, I lay
and when he sends a messenger he lay towards them, to call them to
guide us to Turkey. So are Salam aleikum, Byron, Bobby, birds,
creatures, the details of the that we don't know just birds, about
bees is a Gemma which means flocks in groups in massive numbers. And
Allah SWANA these birds were known to people that these words came so
they should have been in the definitive
at prior but he says
by Iran which is indefinite. So some have said this is indefinite
because there were so many just to magnify it then it cannot be
defined there were so many birds so toy run with a 10 wing is also
meant that they were of all different types and all different
groups.
What did the birds do? Tell me him Rami to help them to stone and
Thermae him the word use thermia is in the present continuous. Even
though this event had happened in the past present continuous is
used is being used for a past event to show that's how it is
used. To show that it went on continuously. It was an endless
process of being pelted Thermae him the hedgehog keratin with
stones
mean CG from baked clay.
That's also interesting that it was from baked clay from clay that
had been heated to show that it came from dust. It was something
it wasn't hard rocks that were coming down yet.
Little birds with particles of dust put together and pebbles were
used coming down from a height like bullets like besides each one
had their names written who's going to strike where and what
happened.
5g I love him and we said Jhala means to change one form to
another for therefore with that, as a consequence, for Ajala home.
We transform them care. Like us Finn casts him back to us means
dried leaves and hey, that animals chew on that gets
Asifa when the wind blows it up. It's so light carries no weight.
So just imagine dry leaves that a camel or an animal is chewing.
Some of it is going inside. What goes inside then comes out as
excrement. Some falls out of their mouth. They're worthless, they're
weightless. That's how that army of 60,000 was left.
Okay, unless Martellus painting a picture. You want to know how they
were. They were like what you see oh
Have a field that's left with nothing just pay and some dried
leaves that have been chewed coal that has been eaten.
That has been eaten, but cool.
So Allah subhanaw taala
is telling us, giving us this picture, in a few words of this
event that happened, which we've talked in great detail,
reminding the Prophet sallallahu Sallam about it. And through this,
reminding this was not just for him, reminding us and reminding
the Quraysh that you are guardians of the scar by you have violated
the towhid. Allah has tolerated it. Now I am sending a messenger
to you. So don't oppose him and his message, because what happened
to Abraha and his army will happen to you, you will face destruction.
You can't go against the lord of this house and you know that well
you have witnessed it yourself. Take lessons from it.
So some of the essential lessons from this surah is that in the
beginning, it is the act around the retarding the honoring of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam, and reassurance for him, that
the rub in this surah Allah doesn't, doesn't say rabu rabu
rabu will bite in the next Surah which we can cover today. You said
robber hadn't bait he will say that. But in this surah he says
rabuka Your Lord Obama symbolizes so honoring him, that the one who
protected this house will protect you.
And also that your
been will prevail. Like the truths that Kava Kava prevailed with
commands Allah prevail over that arm.
So Allah subhanaw taala fulfilled that component of Ibrahim Allah
salons da of keeping that Kaaba in Mecca safe from this massive army
the size of which has never come before nor since to attack the
cabin. Allah protects it. So make this ballad ammonite one of peace
and security Allah made it. This is the ultimate example of making
that house a house of peace and security.
Now
also remember
that, that rabuka Even I read it the Quran rabuka to me means Allah
is telling me, your Lord, that the same protection, the same
protector of the Kaaba, the same protector of Satan Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi salam is also my project and your protector. So if
he is our protector, he is our Rob, should we not submit to Him?
He didn't say how Allah does he said Rob Buka this is a personal
relationship. The word Rob is a personal relationship between two
therefore what should be my obligation to submit to it? In
your Buddha in full surrender in full slavery?
Not to question not to challenge anything.
We have to learn never to be sad or worried no matter how bleak the
things look on the surface, because we have
all we need to do is show our with
the surah also tells us about the mightn't power that Allah subhanaw
taala has geonode his armies he says, No one knows. Lai Alamo julu
Judo iLoud
no one knows armies of Allah accept him. He has sent winds he
has sent rain he has sent spiders yes and diseases. He has sent
birds.
His armies yes and angels might and power of Allah is supreme.
See how he dealt with those who opposed fate? Those who opposed
his house those who opposed his messenger. So we should have no
fear of anyone but Allah subhanaw taala that anyone who plans
secretly no matter how smart, intelligent they are with their
IQs of planning and Cade, the evil plans to destroy Islam to
contaminate Islam. All secret plans are known to Allah, we give
them a leash. Ultimately, we will negate it when the right time
comes. Some are given a longer leash some are given 50 years 100
years. So when we see things happening in justices for 50
years, 100 years don't why time will come when Allah will pull
back the leash and unleash his punishment on the people who
opposes them.
Now it's interesting you might ask
Allah subhanaw taala protected the Kaaba from its physical
destruction by the Sami. Why did he not protect it from the
spiritual contamination with the idols for centuries?
It's an interesting question. Some say that the
positioning of the idols the sheikh, is a violation of Allah's
rights.
Allah subhanaw taala, let's go off his rights for a period of time
with the physical destruction of the Kalba would have been a
violation of the religious rights of the people who revered the
house, even though they worship.
So Allah subhanaw taala protected the house from physical
destruction, even though he allowed for a period of time,
the idols to be placed, but he also made provision for the items
to be removed forever.
In the same year, that he
protected physically, by sending say another sort of law, celluloid
is the greatest of all, the greatest of births, the greatest
of message, the greatest of character, the closest of Allah,
the mercy to all of mankind.
So,
what I learned, is to put my trust in Allah, but I can only put my
trust in Allah, if I treat him as well. And I can only treat him as
my Rob, if I obey him at all times, if I submit my will, my
likes and dislikes to his that I follow his chosen messenger in
every detail as I can, to the best of my ability. And if I fall,
sometimes if I lapse out of my weakness and out of temptation
that I get back up and keep going, because I have to make my I have
to be interested in others.
So inshallah we are going to finish this here, I'm not going to
start suit operation, but we will do a summary of this in five
minutes next time, and then continue with the connection
between the two surah of Kadesh. Inshallah, in two weeks, when we
meet in person,
so I want you to reflect on the surah it's, it's a beautiful Surah
to reflect on, and think, put yourself in that time period.
Think of the encounters of Abdulmutallab who did not know
what was going to happen.
And people don't know, after would tell him, died before the rissalah
in the sense of revelation coming down. So he did not know he knew
there was something special about my grandson, but he didn't know
Amina didn't know knew there was something special because of the
light she can see it coming out of a womb, what would happen she
died.
That we are alive. We know who came, who was sent, who he was
what she brought, and we By Allah's grace have all of that
preserve his book, and the Sunnah, and the seer of us.
And if we still don't follow it, there's no one to blame
acceptance. May Allah subhanaw taala open our hearts
to his revelation. Open our hearts to loving him unconditionally
loving his deen and his his Kitab loving Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi salam and conditionally his island by it is as hub and loving
Allah by showing the Theva as Allah subhanaw taala says in the
Quran to the Prophet, pull in control to hipbone Allah fit to
their own, say to them on Messenger saliva so if you love
Allah if you claim to love him, and follow me, we show our love of
Allah subhanaw taala and Rasul allah sallallahu Sallam by
following their last month Allah make us the best of his followers
mean Subhana Allah,
masha Allah
we're not to
sit down