Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect On The QurAn – Tafsir Surah Al Kahaf – Part 3
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Then after saying this, he says, قَيِّمًا لَيُنذِرَ
بَأْسًا شَدِيدًا مِن لَدُنْهُ وَيُبَشِّرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ
الصَّالِحَاتِ أَنَّ لَهُمْ أَجْرًا حَسَنًا قَيِّمًا Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala saying it's perfectly upright.
First, he said there's no crookedness and he
says perfectly upright.
Means this is what you need to hold
on to.
Okay, there is no deviation from the truth
in this.
As opposed to people who have changed their
books and their values.
If you look at some of the people
of previous scriptures, whole things, the value has
completely changed.
What was forbidden for them has become permissible
and so on and so forth.
And it keeps changing including in the Catholic
Church.
What was not permissible becomes permissible and so
on and so forth.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says it's
perfectly upright.
لَيُنذِرَ بَأْسًا To warn them.
نَذِير رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم.
And the book is a nadheer, warner and
a basheer giving glad tidings.
Warn them of what?
بَأْسًا شَدِيد Of a grievous penalty.
Which is what?
جَهَنَّة For people who disbelieve, who reject, who
disobey.
مِن لَدُنْه From him.
From Allah alone, that punishment.
وَيُبَشِّرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الَّذِينَ And to give glad tidings,
good news.
بَشَارًا To believers who believe in this.
And who show their belief by what?
الَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ الصَّالِحَاتَ They do عَمَل صَالِح.
Good deeds, virtuous deeds.
What's a good deed?
What Allah loves and pleased with, what he
commands.
Done according to the Sunnah of Rasulullah ﷺ
with the intention of pleasing Allah.
That's عَمَل صَالِح.
أَنَّ لَهُمْ أَجْرًا حَسَنًا That for them, there
is a beautiful reward.
So one is severe punishment, one is a
beautiful reward.
And in this ayah, Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala doesn't say what that beautiful reward is.
Which is going to come in the next.
مَا كِثِينَ فِيهِ أَبَدًا Where they will live
forever.
Live, abide forever.
So what is that?
That ayah doesn't mean that it's the reward
in the dunya.
Yes, there will be reward in the dunya
for doing good deeds and having iman.
But what is referred here is Jannah.
Because that's the only place where you would
live forever.
وَيُنذِرَ الَّذِينَ قَالُوا اتَّخَذَ اللَّهُ وَلَدَى And to
warn those who say that Allah has taken
a son.
Who's that?
Later Christianity.
325 years or so after Jesus.
When they had this Nicene declaration by the
Roman Emperor who had become Christian.
The Trinity was put into effect as the
faith.
And said, you know, he's the son of
God.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and to
warn them.
Even though the Quran is coming down to
the Meccan, there is a warning for them.
Because it will go to them.
But they have taken a son.
And there is also reference in the Quran
that some of the Jewish sects had taken
Uzair as son of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
And as you know, the Quraish of Mecca
used to say that Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala has daughters.
And who are the daughters?
The angels.
So they assign the female * to the
angel.
Okay, which Allah did not.
And made them daughters of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, one of
the arguments he gives to them is, you
are so ashamed to have a daughter.
That if a daughter is born, your face
turned black and you bury her.
And you have no problem assigning daughters to
Allah.
If you think that way.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and
to warn them, those who claim that Allah
has taken a...
Anybody got a Mus'haf?
Because I am not on a hot spot
here.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, they have
no knowledge.
Neither did their forefathers, their parents.
What they utter with their mouths is grief.
This is serious.
This is not a joke saying Allah has
taken a son.
So what comes out of their mouth?
Just what they say.
It is nothing except lies.
What do we learn from that?
We never say anything about Allah that He
has not authorized.
Because this is...
Only what He has authorized, what He has
said, what is known for sure.
He said it in the Quran.
Rasulullah s.a.w. told us that is
what we say about Allah.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala again, that
slight reprimand to Rasulullah s.a.w. Some
anxiety to convert, will they believe?
...
Will you destroy yourself just grieving over them
that they will accept?
In other words, this is also telling Rasulullah
s.a.w. that you are not the
one who can guide them.
You can only give them the message.
You can feel badly for them.
But don't think that I have to convert
them otherwise this way.
Only Allah, only Allah controls the guidance.
So yes, his job is to convey the
message in the most beautiful way to the
people.
So that they may believe.
Then Allah s.a.w. says...
...
Indeed Allah s.a.w. says...
...
The word ma is open.
Everything, everything that's on the earth Allah s
.a.w. says, we have made zina.
As something that's a decoration, beautified it.
For what purpose?
...
So that we may try them.
To see who is the best of them.
Now what does it mean?
What is on the earth?
What are we talking about?
Commonly what do we think of?
Wealth, resources, mansions, companions.
These physical things we see.
Emotions, feelings, thoughts.
Everything is created.
All of them are attached.
You have a child.
I have an emotional attachment.
I have love.
It's a creation of Allah.
Also a test.
Does that love lead to me disobeying Allah?
My love for my mother, does it lead
me to disobey Allah?
So there can be no love, no attachment,
independent of Allah s.a.w. It is
through Allah s.a.w. Wanting to please
Allah s.a.w. Secondary to that.
Because otherwise it becomes a real fitna.
...
Allah s.a.w. says, this is a
zina, this is beautiful.
Elsewhere he says, Wealth and your children are
a fitna.
It's a trial.
So we have to understand that.
Allah s.a.w. is telling us that
everything created is to see what we will
do.
...
Action.
Not, I know what's the right thing to
do.
It's not about just having ilm.
Do you actually do it?
Allah s.a.w. wants to see action.
...
And indeed, whatever we have created, we will
dry it up and level it and destroy
it.
It will become like stubble.
And this is interesting.
If you take these two things that Allah
s.a.w. indirectly talks about.
The zina of this dunya.
The natural resources.
When the fitna, this is part of those
first ten ayahs.
When the fitna of dajjal comes.
He will regulate those zina.
He will make things good.
You believe in me, whatever you want I
will give you.
You want wealth.
He will command the earth and the earth
will put out its gold.
This pile of gold is yours.
You believe in me.
You want to eat, you risk.
He will control the risk.
If you believe in me, rain will come
here.
Crops will produce.
You will eat.
If you don't believe in me, I will
dry it up.
You will die of hunger or thirst.
But Allah s.a.w. is reminding us
that ultimately, all of that belongs to Him.
Including the power that is given to the
dajjals.
So once we know that, it strengthens us
when we are faced with that fitna of
dajjal.
Yeah, you are doing it.
I know that.
But I know who is the real one.
So I'm not impressed.
People bringing people back to life and cutting
them in two and putting them together.
I'm not impressed.
Because I know it's only Allah.
Now comes the first ayah.
We're only going to do ten.
That starts the story of the kahf.
Allah s.a.w. is saying that, do
you think that this story of the Ashab
ul Kahf is such a wondrous story?
You're so fascinated by it.
In other words, you think it's so fascinating.
In the big picture of Allah s.a
.w., this is nothing.
Yes, for you it's very wondrous.
That's why they're asking these questions.
But for Allah, it's nothing.
So Allah is asking a question.
Do you think that this story of the
Ashab ul Kahf, The raqeem is translated as
an inscription by most of the scholars.
That perhaps there was a plaque commemorating that.
That was put on where the cave was.
Raqeem by most people means an inscription.
Something carved into the stone.
We don't know for sure, but that's the
understanding.
That it is from our signs.
Something very wondrous.
Then the tenth ayah.
Allah s.a.w. is just giving us
the introduction.
Ith iwal fityatu ilal kahfi faqaloo rabbana aatina
min ladhunka rahmatan wa hayyiznana min amrina rashana
Allah s.a.w. says, and when the
fitya.
Fitya means young people.
Late teens, 20s.
These Ashab ul Kahf, the people of the
cave, were youngsters.
Young men.
Okay, we're not talking numbers.
Young men.
Allah s.a.w. says, when they took
refuge in this cave.
And they went.
Fityatu ilal kahfi faqaloo.
So when they went there, what did they
say?
Rabbana.
In other words, Allah s.a.w. doesn't
say why they went.
He's not even saying right now that they
were being persecuted for their religion.
They were going to be killed.
They went to the cave.
And the first thing they go there and
they make dua.
Rabbana aatina min ladhunka.
Ya Allah, bestow on us from you.
Rahmatan.
Mercy.
Wa hayyiznana min amrina rashana.
And make our affair on the right guidance.
Guide us to do what is right.
That's where the 10 ayahs end.
And next comes the response of Allah s
.a.w. to that dua.
But if you think of that picture of
protection from Dajjal.
We have the ayahs of the Tawheed to
tell us who Allah is.
The revelation that just like the cave.
The kahf was what?
Was a physical protection for these people.
They found refuge in this.
Just to give you a background.
From the Christian sources that these were believing
youngsters.
And the Christians said that they were Christians.
They could have been from the Jews.
Because there is no exact period given.
But they were believers of the time.
Believers in Tawheed.
And they were living under the rule of
the Roman Empire at the time.
Which was a pagan empire.
So if this and the closest story that
comes is the seven sleepers of Ephesus.
And Ephesus is today called Seljuq.
Which is in the Izmir province of Turkey.
And if you want to see those pictures.
I'll show you the pictures of what the
cave looks like.
And where it is from a few years
ago.
So their story is that they lived in
this pagan culture.
And they were believers.
And then the emperor or the king came.
And he had built this temples over there
to the kings.
Zeus and Apollo and Artemis.
The structure of the temple of Artemis still
exists.
It's ruins there.
And said everybody come and worship.
And pay your respects.
And these people said.
We believe in Allah.
Which means death penalty.
If you don't believe means you are rebelling
against what the king says.
So to protect themselves.
These were supposedly the elite young people from
wealthy families.
They left everybody.
They left their parents.
They ran away together.
Because they were believers.
They were buddies.
They were friends.
Strengthening each other.
Let's run.
And they ran into some mountains.
And they found a cave.
And they took refuge.
So they did physically what you're supposed to
do when a fitna comes.
Is to protect yourself.
They didn't say okay.
Kill us we'll be martyrs.
Right?
So they did that.
What we're supposed to do when you face
a trial.
Is take your precautions.
What is within your ability.
But don't depend on that.
What is the first thing they did?
So when Dajjal comes.
We are encouraged.
He said.
That the believers should run into the mountains.
Don't go and fight him.
Yes.
Ultimately Dajjal will be destroyed.
But if you encounter him.
Recite this.
So.
Kahaf was the physical protection for these seven.
I'm using the word seven.
For these youth.
So our protection in case of fitna.
Is what is mentioned in the book.
What is that?
Al-kitab.
With no crookedness.
That is straight.
That you hold on to the book of
Allah.
The rope of Allah.
And that's your protection.
Your kahaf and my kahaf.
Is not a cave.
Physical cave.
Even though Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Was given wahi in a cave of Hira.
And he was protected in the cave of
Taur.
Our cave is the Quran.
That's our protection.
Okay.
And so when we have a problem.
Any kind of fitna in our life.
What should we turn to?
The Quran.
That's our cave.
That's where we find protection.
And then we do dua to Allah.
Ya Allah.
Solve my problem.
Help me.
Okay.
That's what we learn.
So.
This is what happened.
And Allah swt.
Stops with this dua.
Because after this.
The next time Allah swt.
Says what he did in response to that.
Which is not your protection.
That's why the protection comes here.
That is the response.
When Allah swt.
Says.
Then what did Allah swt.
Do in response?
Allah swt.
Says that we put on the hearing.
Complete loss of sound.
For ears.
Just mention.
He doesn't say I put them to sleep.
He said.
It also means like.
On the ears.
Something happened.
That they could hear nothing.
They were undisturbed.
And they were put to sleep.
We know they slept.
Because it comes later.
But.
That's all he says.
So Allah's protection for them was.
To put them to sleep.
Till such time.
309 years later.
When they woke up.
Everything had changed.
Including.
The Roman emperor at the time.
Had become Christian.
And was promoting that.
So now they come back into.
Very sort of.
Friendly.
Environment from a hostile environment.
But.
From Dajjal.
Our protection is not going to be.
By being.
Put to sleep.
Our protection from Dajjal is going to be
through.
Isa a.s. Who will come.
And who will kill the Dajjal.
Okay.
So Allah swt doesn't go beyond that ayat.
That's just irrelevant.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
That it ends with.
Making you do your precautions.
Have your iman.
Make dua for protection.
And that's that.
So.
That's where.
We will end.
On ayah number.
11.
And then we will.
Inshallah.
Continue.
With the story on the next one.
And then the khutbah that comes after.
The lessons of it.
Inshallah.
Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdik.
Nishadu.
La ilaha illah.
Astaghfirullah.