Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Tafsir Surah AlKahf, P1, Ayaat 110.
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muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
and his noble family and his companions.
May Allah subhanaw taala open our hearts to his remembrance to His
words, to facilitate our understanding
of the Quran, as he subhanho wa Taala intended it for us
and not our own understanding, based on
our own force, our own
biases and inclinations. May Allah smart Allah show us truth as the
truth and falsehood as falsehood help us to follow the truth as
best as we can and to stay away from falsehood. May Allah subhanaw
taala open our hearts to accepting, loving and lovingly
surrendering to his will
as expressed in his words the Quran
so at the request of some of you, we are going to be starting surah
number 18 which is Surah Al Qaeda
which is only 110 iet.
And this will probably go for five or six sessions
which means more than two months
which means if you memorize only two ideas a day
when we conclude the surah all of you here would have memorized
Surah calf and understood Surah half and then would be able to
recite it every friday from memory and focus in your Salah
does everybody have this Nia This is my desire for all of you and
myself just to is every day
inshallah maker from near and make the near make the effort 20
minutes every day that's all it is to is repeating repeating
understand.
And then
we do the work and then we say Allah helped me memorize this and
internalize it so everybody is going to do this not nobody is
exempt from this or the module will memorize useable memorize
Dr. Mateen will memorize
eldest eldest eldest to the youngest will all memorize this
they have easier because easy for the youngsters. Has anybody here
already memorized it?
Okay,
all of it, Masha.
Okay, so for anyone who memorizes it fully, inshallah we will pull
in some gifts for them. New memorization.
And the gifts is not money. It could be a book it could be the
fear of of Surah cab. There are a whole volumes written so only on
Surah cough
and of course, all of that plus, just remember, it's for Allah's
parameter. So the surah takes its name, it's a Moroccan Surah has,
you know, it was revealed when the Prophet sallallahu sallam was in
Mecca.
And most of the professor would have said that it's from the
second half of the Moroccan period, probably somewhere six to
eight years of Naboo which is a few years before. The hedger
and Soraka have is exactly
Read the middle of the Quran
Okay, so when you're reciting go to the middle open and you'll open
surah calf. And some of the scholars have said that the exact
words who have done a word cow well I have a lot of
hope that is the middle word of the Quran. The interesting thing
is the Quran starts with what?
Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen the middle of the Quran starts
with Alhamdulillah
Allah. So that's an interesting thing.
Now,
there is something we've talked about as Baba Newzoo means is
there some history as to what occasion this was revealed on.
Then there is a narration from Sierra abdulai. Now Abbas the
greatest Mufasa of the Quran, the cousin of the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam who was blessed with a special dua from Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam put his noble hand on his chest and said Ya
Allah, give him the understanding of the Quran. So there is no one
who explained the Quran better than Abdullah. So this narration
is attributed to him.
As you know, the scenario is Makkah, there is hostility, the
Quraysh are trying to prove the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam
is not a true messenger is an imposter. He is the Shire is every
kind of accusation they make. So then some of the leaders said,
Look,
in your trip, your trip is what Medina became
the People of the Book live the peep the Jews live, and they
because of the trade routes, they knew that these people would have
knowledge, let us send a delegation to Maccha to yatra.
Talk to the Jewish rabbis and ask them that there is a man here who
claims to be a messenger of God.
How can we prove him one way or the other whether he is true or
not.
So they sent two of the leaders, another internal hearth, and
aucuba it now be more eight, two leaders were sent to your trip.
They met with the rabbis. And they said to Him, to them, that we have
a man who was from us, we knew him for 40 years. Now suddenly, he has
started saying that he gets a revelation from above, and we
don't believe it. And you are people of the Torah. And you must
have you know some knowledge. Give us an idea how we can know if he
is
imposter or if he is real.
So the rabbi said,
they thought they said, Ask him three questions.
Ask him what is the story about the young people who ran away from
the
Ask him?
Who is the one that Allah gave power that he traveled from the
east to the west?
And the third question asked him, What is the rule?
And then they told him the third is a trick question.
They said nobody knows what the rule is. So if he gives you a long
explanation, He's an imposter.
What asked these three questions.
So the first one asked them about the young men from the ancient
times, what was the story? That was very strange. Number two, the
man who travelled from east to west reached both ends of the
earth that we know Eastern West, what is his story and ask him
about the rule?
And if you answer this correctly, then follow.
And if he doesn't, then you can do what you want with them. So they
came back,
met Rasulullah sallallahu listello. And they asked him these
three questions
that time Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihe. Salam used to regularly
get Gibreel Alayhis Salam coming to visit and he was expecting that
he would come next day. So rasool Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam said,
Come back tomorrow I'll give you the answers.
Gibreel Allah Salam did not show up.
Next day Gibreel and Sam did not show now Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi salam is getting anxious. The narration said that for 15
days.
Nowhere he came, and the McCanns was starting to rejoice that he
doesn't know the ends. Then after 15 days Gibreel esalaam came with
portions of Surah Kahf. The beginning was
The story of, of the Sabbath corrupting the youth of the cave,
and the end is the story of von Karman, or the one who traveled
and a portion of Surah Bani Israel, which addresses the
question of the rule.
So,
what the Prophet sallallahu Sallam had said to them
mero Khumba done among them, and I will inform you tomorrow about
your questions, this is what he had said.
So, he did not say, Inshallah, and this will come as part of that,
that even Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam is being told, yes,
you are my messenger.
But what does this also prove?
The importance of Insha Allah, but we'll come to that when we come to
that, but what does it prove? For people who doubt
that the Quran is divine revelation, because they were
saying he invented it, if he was inventing, he could have given
them the answer next day.
But himself, he was put in such a difficult position. Now people are
starting to talk and there's nothing that it's only Allah
subhanaw taala when he decides, so this is a proof one of the proofs
in direct that the Quran is from Allah subhanaw taala because he
could have given any answer
part of that early reverie revelation also contain
something to Rasulullah sallallahu Listen, that she was very anxious
that these people should,
should accept and he was anxious that if I can convince them, they
will not accept so Allah subhanaw taala part of those early ayat,
the the sixth idea he says, For Allah Allah Barfield enough Sakala
Ilam Ukraine will be added by the US
or profit you Will you kill yourself with out of stress and
concern for them grief over them if they do not believe in this
message.
Would you be so sad that I'm so sorrowful that you will actually
destroy yourself over there? So that was one of the things so
we'll deal with the question of the road first because then we can
put that aside. So Allah subhanaw taala revealed part of Surah
Bunny's right which has the higher well yes alone aka annual ROI and
they ask you about the
holy rush Minh Amrita be tell them that the Roar is an affair or a
command of my Lord
Rama, who Tito Minella Elomi Illa kalila. And in this regard, you
have not been given any knowledge acceptability.
So there wasn't a long and Allah Swatara left it at that. And there
is no other mention about the road in description or anything in the
park
to describe what the rules are. So that answered that question that
they said, you know, he'll make something about the rule. Allah
subhanaw taala says said tell them this is an affair command of my
Lord, and you know nothing more. Whenever Allah subhanaw taala
says, You have not been given the knowledge. Then we say the
knowledge is with Allah like when you say Allahu Allah, when we say
that, what does it mean? I'm professing my ignorance that only
Allah knows, I am not going to venture, you know, with ideas and
opinions could be this. No humility, it there is no shame in
saying I do not know.
And the Prophet sallallahu sallam was told but many things, tell
them the knowledge of this is only with Allah. So one of the lessons
of that is we do not have to answer every question that's asked
and try and figure something out if there is a clear answer. And in
the sutra, there are multiple IRAs that talk about only saying about
Allah and only is coming with solid knowledge. Otherwise keeping
quiet that you do not say things which are not true. You don't say
things that you don't know about. You don't put extensions on the
Quran. What I mean by extra that's my own version extension means
you read one portion and then you extrapolate, you get for example,
the most common Allah subhanaw taala says that
Maria, we breathed the row into Maria and she had a son, there was
no father. Okay, there is no father. Now the extension of that
is, since there is no father there should always be a father by extra
insha Allah is the father He is the Son of God, that's an
extension. Okay? Just that's the example. So when you see
something, do not, you know, it must mean this. If knowledge has
not been given Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam has not
explained it. That's it. He said, The Knowledge Allahu Allah. So
this keeps us safe, because it's going to be conjecture, even Rasul
allah sallallahu sallam said, even if it's correct, it's a sin. And
if it's wrong, of course, it's, it's a major crime.
Now, so that's how this
this is the baboon azul or the occasion of Revelation. Now what
are the special virtues the for the Isle of
Surah Alkaff
the prophets of Allah listen them said and which they do, Are we
strong? I mean, of course, you can recite it everyday but which dates
recommended Friday and what does Friday come consist of evening
before the Thursday evening after maghrib that's called Friday night
and all day Friday.
till Sunday, Maghrib of Thursday till Margarita Friday, this is
your time. There are some notations whoever recites it on
the day of Friday. There are some notations on the night of Friday.
Many of our scholars have preferred that we decided on the
night because sometimes you get busy in the day, and you might
miss it. Today will be Thursday night, Thursday night after
sunset, but anytime, if you can, so that's good. So the prophets of
Allah, Allah Salam said,
Whoever recites or reads Surah Surah calf on Friday, it will be a
light that shines from him from one Friday to the next between the
two firms. What is meant by this light is not explained. There is a
special no special light from one Friday to the other.
One of Allah smart Allah talks about nor there are many
explanations. Generally, that means that there is special nor in
general shows you what the path that you will have special
guidance, you will have special code, there'll be a special Anwar
coming out of people that some people who have Ferrazzi maybe we
don't know. But that's the what the Hadith says
that there will be a special light from one Friday to the next or
between two Fridays.
There is another narration from Abu Seidel Hodari or the Allah one
who said that the Prophet sallallahu sallam said whoever is
cites Surah Al Kahf, on the night of Juma in this night is
specified, will have a light that will stretch between him and the
Kaaba.
Again, these are things of the way we don't see those lights because
we are reciting Every Friday we are not seeing any light around
us. That's what it says we believe in it.
There is another narration which says whoever resigned on Friday,
on the Day of Judgment, there will be a light
from his feet going up into the heavens,
from the earth into the heavens, and in this hadith and then goes
on to say that the smaller sins, the sins of the person that are
committed from one Friday to the next will be forgiven.
So now besides the light, there is forgiveness of sins.
And another Hadith the same says the light will shine from him from
beneath his feet, to the clouds in the sky, especially on the Day of
Resurrection, He will be forgiven and all of us so again, it's
talking about some special phenomena of the vibe that Allah
smart Allah has attributed to this. Then there is this well
known Hadith that many of you know,
the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam said, If anyone memorizes the
first 10 ayat of surah, caf, he will be protected from the jar.
And for those who don't know what the jewel the Antichrist, that the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, as you know that the dunya our life
is a test to trial and those Iots will also come in the beginning of
last month, Allah says what is created everything on this earth.
Whatever he is created is labeled welcome a Yoko Massimo Amala to
test you who is the best in your deeds, so it's all a test and
trial. In the end and the holes there are four stories which we're
going to talk about each one is a trial is a test. And in the end,
there's mentioned about
Yeah, Jewish, Jewish, which is another great trial. And after all
of these trials, whether there's physical trials of sickness of
loss, psychological trials, spiritual trials, in social
problems between people and you know, all trials fitnah
This is what the life is the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam
said the greatest trial is at the job.
So this surah has the power, the first 10 are specified that
whoever memorizes this, that's why we're memorizing the whole Surah
will have protection against the child.
There is another narration which also says which is sort of little
weaker, weak this this is all authenticated, it says whoever
also recite memorizes, or recites the last 10 highest. So we've got
them both covered because we are going to memorize the whole song.
The Prophet sallallahu Sallam one day, the Companions looked very
disturbed. So he came, he said, What's the matter? They looked
very scared. What had happened is the yellow sort of love, we were
talking about the jar.
And we got so carried away. For us, it seemed that the three out
there that the jealousy
So the Prophet sallallahu Sallam gave the whole description of the
jar and what he is going to be like, what what he's going to do
the jewel is someone that Allah subhanaw taala will give very
special powers to and that will be the biggest test of Eman. What
kind of special powers Allah will give. The powers that only Allah
manifests such as controlling the risk, controlling the rain
controlling, where what grows, word doesn't grow, giving you
food, if you believe in me, stopping water from you, if you if
you don't believe in me, providing for people, putting people to
debt, bringing them back to life. Only things that these kinds of
things this creation of Allah will do. So he gave us all of that all
therefore it's going to be majority of people who think yes,
and he will say I am God worship because nobody else can do this.
But we already told about it. So the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
reassured them he said if he comes that Joel comes while I am with
you, that I am your protection against but if he comes after I am
gone, then you're all on your own. And then at the end of that he
said, and if you live to that time,
okay, if you live to that time, and you encounter that the gel
recite the first one is of Surah Kahf. And that will be your
protection from this trial. In other words, Allah because of that
will protect you, we will help you recognize because the prophets of
Allah is some said in the Hadith, authentic hadith, that the
believer when he looks at the journal will see with a special
eye Cafaro written on his forehead, gaffer and we'll know.
Now, so there is something very special about these 10 Iots that
we will go over. Because there is a lot that's encompassed in this.
And interestingly, it only covers the first two ideas of the whole
story of calf. It's not the whole story of calf.
And what it helps us develop is a strong connection. Because of what
Allah smart Allah says about the Quran that we're going to start
with, and it gives us strength and we'll come to talk about that in a
little moment.
Another hadith is narrated by a companion by the name of Bara,
Ignazio, who says that one of the companions of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi. Salam at night was reciting Surah Kahf in his
modest house and his force was tight.
And he was praying at night to hedger, and he was reciting Surah
calf and the horse became very disturbed making LOD was unusual.
So, obviously, somehow, he looked up and he saw all these lights in
the sky, in this companion.
And then when he looked up, they seem to disappear. And then he
continued recitation again the horse and again the lights came.
So next day he came to the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, and
narrated that they seemed like a cloud that came of lights.
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said that that was Sakina descending on
your recitation, and the Mufasa rune in Hajer. Alice Kalani the
grid
Narrator of Hadith explained that he said that means there were
angels who are descending to listen to the Quran so that this
surah has special
blessings where the angels descend the come as we know, there are
many Hadees that when people gather in one of the houses of
Allah for remembrance Sakina descends and angels descend so
they just for one person, they were descending because of, of the
sower
there are some others, but I'm going to know, just go on to
we've already talked about when to read surah calf of course you can
read it every day, it's good whenever you but on Fridays,
particularly and we've talked about how much what time and we've
talked about the the
benefits of memorizing Surah Alkaff now at this point, before
we start this, I'm going to talk about some general rules of the
seal. Okay, so we have the sciences of the Quran which are
called Perumal or one of which one of them is that of 00 Okay, which
means the explanation of the Quran.
Now, there are two terms use one is tafsir one is called Tajweed.
Originally, in the early generations, the first two three
generations up to the time of Emma Tabari who has the biggest tafseer
the earliest of see the two words were used interchangeably.
Later on, what started to happen is I've seen means an explanation
of of waters Okay, from the word fissara, which Allah Swatara talks
about means explanation, that will now became known as interpretation
okay. And some of those interpretations deviated from what
was there and therefore, that becomes now Tao will is considered
not a very favorable terms because I could interpret things
differently. Okay. So, this is just an aside
and there are many example of what the examples of that Dawie means,
specifically. So, coming back to tafsir, when we read an IR, we
never read it in isolation, you read one higher and you come to
conclusion. So, the first level of the seed is the offset of Quran by
the Quran. So, if you see it somewhere, you need to have all
the Iots which are relevant to that, that is the explanation. Why
is that because there is Allah subhanaw taala may have revealed
something chronologically at different times. And sometimes you
look at it and it may seem like there is contradiction and all of
them have to be reconciled of what the real meaning is.
And there is also concept of called Nasik and monsoon that
sometimes Allah subhanaw taala revealed things in stages. And
what came last sort of
abrogate abrogates what came before negates what came before
for example, if you just read the IR the simplest example, Allah
subhanaw taala says camera which is intoxicants, there is good in
it, and there is bad in it, but the bad outweighs the good. Now if
you just read this isolation, that means it's permissible to just
take it easy with it. That is good enough to Okay, it's good for the
heart 111
But then there is that soup that wipe that out. So that's why it's
important. First, that we understand the Quran by the Quran
putting all of that together. How have the scholars reconciled?
Number one. Number two is the fit of the Quran through the Sunnah of
Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam because the Sahaba first, as soon
as something came down, that wasn't obviously clear, they would
go to the surah masala lism jasola. What does this mean?
For example, the common example given is Allah subhanaw taala says
that those who believe and do not mix their belief
with loom
will be in Jannah otherwise means you are injured. Don't everybody
does? You've done some so they got very scared. What does this mean?
So Ross, they went to Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam he said What
girl means here is Schick Okay, volume is used in different so
understanding what is meant by that through the Sunnah.
Then were these if there is something that's not understood
was not explained by the Quran and Sunnah. Then we have
The Sahaba because they were from the time, who were experts in the
language as it was used at that time, because with time, the word
meanings change, okay? Or different regions, the same word
may have different meanings. So they understood the meaning they
understood the grammar, they understood the context where it
was being revealed. So we go back to the Sahaba, which is called
Tafseer of the Quran, by the author, by the relics of the
Sahaba, how they understood it, and thereafter was the target one,
which is the next generation of the companions of Rasulullah
sallallahu sallam, and with them, some of them then started looking
into sources of from Christianity and Jewish. That's how this
Israeli art came into the picture from the Taliban, if they, for
example, the story of Alkaff. So, some of them I said, Well, let's
see if there any, any is because it was asked by the Jewish rabbis,
it was, do we have something from there and see what the notion, but
the whole thing is to keep that separate the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi salam said about Israel yet that do not confirm them. And do
not deny that that's our attitude, because he also knew about what
they were saying, because they could be correct. But we have no
confirmation unless it's confirmed by the Quran.
Then there is the fear based on language, understanding the words
because there are words in the Quran that have meanings that can
change completely, for example, oral which means period.
The rules of read, and you know how many months a woman has to
wait before she gets married, if she becomes widow, or if she gets
divorced. So that word is used for the menstrual period itself and
for the period in between. So watch it no changes it by whole
month, and this is a ruling. So what was meant by it? And they
only they knew, because they had verified it, so by the language.
And then comes the Tafseer by opinion, opinion of the scholars
of Islam who have studied all of this LOM and who know the grammar
and who know and their opinion cannot contradict what is
understood.
You cannot just come up with a new explanation, especially if it
clashes or contradicts the classical explanation. Now, today
we have what we would consider free interpretation of the Quran,
me, Mr. ignoramus who knows nothing who's read a few little
books who doesn't understand the Arabic language except a few
words?
Who has philosophical ideas, scientific ideas, sectarian ideas.
Starts to speculate this might mean this. Now that is forbidden.
Because if you start putting everybody's opinion, what's going
to happen?
The Quran is going to essentially disintegrate and meaning because
it will introduce meanings, which has done to previous scriptures,
all kinds of confusion. So since this is the foundation of Islam,
it must remain pure and unadulterated by people's opinion.
So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam said,
Al Mara will fill Quranic Cofer al Mara who fill Quranic cover Almara
who filled Quranic
rendering your opinions, your opinions means independent of what
we have talked about arguing Mara means to argue about the Quran
with from your personal opinion he said this is go for three times.
And then he says for man out of two men who family so what do you
understand of the Quran? Which is clear? I love to you know it,
act on it
will manage your health to Minoo
for rudo, Illa Alamy and what you do not know the refer it to an
alum of the Quran for explanation
and this is a Hadith from Messina argument. Now, with that
introduction, we come to Soraka.
So, overview of Surah calf, the construct of Surah kaha for the
structure is
that
it's not divided but we can for understanding divided into eight
portions. So first, there is an introductory hotbar in which Allah
subhanaw taala tells us something which is our
is number one to eight
then comes. So this hot bath this address to Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi salam and to us,
the believers, it addresses six fundamental you know the three
fundamentals of faith which is the hate of Allah subhanaw taala which
is always part of MK consumer number two rissalah confirming the
messenger ship of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam and
confirming the Quran number three is Afra Jana Anna. And then it
talks about three aspects of our connection with Allah subhanaw
taala, just in the first three, four or three hours, hug of Allah
love of Allah, Raja, and hope, hope and fear, which are our
relationship with Allah subhanaw taala is that a good idea, or
Ibadah worship is essentially based on that love of Allah
because a loving surrender.
And then for our actions, we have hope that the likes apps, and we
have fear that we might feel this is our relationship with Allah. So
that's all in there.
Allah subhanaw taala. Also in those first is talks about the
purpose of life and death
that we created
Harlequin and Hyatt Hyatt our
Lea blue comma,
Amanda, that we created life and death to see who is the best of
actions.
So it tells us that then after the first eight comes the four stories
there are so there are four major stories in this. So from Iowa,
number nine to Iowa number 26 is the story of us horrible calf, the
people of the cave, the youth of the cave.
And this, as you know, is a special miraculous thing and
that's why they asked the Jews asked him about the strange thing
that happened. Okay. So it's miraculous story, which is, as we
said, Life is full of trials. This is a trial of faith, of religion
of persecution, that these youth will come to that they had fear,
they were being tested for their faith in Allah subhanaw taala.
They were true believers, they were muslims have the time before
Islam.
And it was that or become careful. And they that was their test. So
it was a fitna or test of
faith, persecution, religion.
After that, comes another goodbye from Allah subhanaw taala,
addressing the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam and addressing us,
which also has lessons from the beginning and lessons from the
first story of Surah Cathe. And then that goes into the second
story, which is the story of the owner of the two gardens about a
person who had a lot of wealth, material and
human resources. And he owned these massive orchards. He had
wealth. So this was a trial of wealth by somebody given wealth,
the fitting of wealth, what was his attitude and his attitude was
not correct. It's on you know, this is it. And the end of that
will also after that comes another chutzpah from Allah smart Allah,
which has some of those lessons addressed Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi salam and the believers after that come two stories back
to back the story of Musa alayhis salam, and a special servant of
Allah salAllahu
Alaihe Salam, this is the story fitna of what
knowledge,
because Musa alayhis salam, being the prophet will, as of the time,
obviously had more knowledge of the
religion that is practiced externally exoteric religion, if
you will, all the fifth high and all of that. So in one encounter,
somebody said, Who's the most knowledgeable and he rightfully
said, I am the most knowledgeable person and Allah subhanaw taala
did not like that. So he sent him to someone who had knowledge of
other things that are not obvious sort of esoteric knowledge to
teach him humility. So this was the fifth another trial of
knowledge. Because sometimes when we learn a little bit, sometimes
it gives us arrogance. I know and he doesn't know she doesn't. Okay,
so that's the next level. So we have to be careful of all of
these. Then comes the story that answers again that those questions
Who was the one which is the story of the car name,
don't coordinate the word Carnegie means the horns to our name to
carnism, two horns as one of the thing, the one possessor of true,
and he was, from the story, a believing king, a believing
general, whatever he was, who conquered from as far as you could
go to the west, till we reach there, and then he traveled all
the way to the east as far as you could go with the sunrises, so he
apparently owned or conquered all of that. So the story of don't
karma and what is the fifth in our trial there?
The trial of power, which is what corrupts, right?
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. You had
absolute power from east to west. Again, a fitna of one who's given
that kind of power, how does he handle it? And everywhere in the
story, he always remembers Allah subhanaw taala. He does, he wasn't
a saint. He may made mistakes, but he did things, according to that.
So the trial of power.
And then Allah subhanaw taala concludes the surah with the last
one. So eight parts for stories and for what was before. So that's
how
the construct is so 100 And how many verses are then this 110 71
verses are stories out of 100. And so it should be easy to memorize
because stories are easy to remember.
So a general comment about stories in the
Quran has many stories now. narrations stories, these are not
fables. These are actual events that had happened in the past. So
what is the objective of bringing in these stories is to drive home
a point make a lesson, there are morals there is wisdom.
Okay, lesson moral wisdom, to learn from those things. That's
why it's not to just make it interesting, you know, but what
else does generally a storytelling do? It catches everybody's
attention, whether you are a little kid here, or an old man.
One is sleeping. One is that I'm the third one.
It catches everybody's attention, and we pay attention. Yet, Allah
subhanaw taala. In the Quran, when he tells a story, he does not put
details. They're very brief stories. He doesn't say so and so
so no so and so was related to him move from this place to that place
to that, because all of those details for the story, then dilute
the moral of IT people forget that get sidetracked, Allah subhanaw
taala says a few things. And that's the lesson.
He skips all the details. This is the eloquence of the Quran. And
we'll see that even in the longest the most detailed story in the
Quran is the story of who
used to for this use of escena. Even in that, do you know the name
of the Aziz or the woman who tempted? No,
it's not no nuts, people have said, do we know the names of his
brothers who did all of this?
Or just very little, but just the important things. So
Allah subhanaw taala, drives home, things that are relevant, that
will keep our focus on highlighting the lessons, the
morals and the wisdom from the story. So they're not simply for
you know, academic theoretical discourse. Now, in some of the
books, if some of you have read, if you open stories of the Bible,
pages after pages of who was related to who after, by the time
you get to the end, you forget what it's all about, really.
And the same thing is true about the story of the calf. If you read
the version, the Christian version of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus,
which is the first narration from the Christians, which dates back
to it was written by somebody Jakob, somebody who put this
together from Greek sources in Syriac. So this is that story is
was written 520. So about 50 years before Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihe
Salam was born. And that was from original sources from before.
Now, if you read the stories, you have two pages of what the names
of the people were, and there are differences of opinion there
There is dispute in that, whether they were there 375 years, 372
years, 195 years, all different, whether there were three, whether
there were five, there were seven, there were nine, there were 11.
All does any of that really matter? No. And Allah subhanaw
taala condemns that in the story that they argue about this thing
which has no relevance to it. But then Allah subhanaw taala mentions
the story just to correct all of that. So just remember that
stories are brief.
And to the point to drive home a lesson.
So in general in the Surah, that's how we the construct is the surah
begins and ends with declaring Allah subhanaw taala store heat
and rejecting any concept of any partners and associates with Allah
subhanaw taala. It begins by confirming the revelation the
Quran and the messenger ship of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam
making a clear distinction between Allah the Creator and the creation
okay.
And establishing what the correct values are.
So, now
we go to our the bIllahi min ash Sherry upon your Raji This means,
your work manual working Alhamdulillah hymnody
keytab welcome. Yeah, John level
Hamdulillah.
All praise, Glory Thanks be to the one Allah.
Allah, a lady unzila the one who revealed who sent down Allah Arbor
Day on his servant
al Kitab, which is the cotton, wala myalgia Allah Who Elijah in
which there is no deviation there is no crookedness. So the first is
Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah is different than sugar. Okay.
Alhamdulillah has components of sugar grat. When do you do sugar?
When somebody does you a favor
Alhamdulillah as above that, even if he doesn't do a favor, he
deserves to be praised. That's Alhambra. But there are countless
live favors. So there is elements of chakra and so with starts with
an Hamdulillahi ledee unzila Allah up the hill kita. So this confirms
that this book was sent down by Allah, on who his OB rasool Allah
salAllahu Alaihe Salam, Allah subhanaw taala calling him his
ABD. Now commonly what do we understand the word to me? Slave,
if you use that word, what does a slave do?
Take care of the master
slave ownership is the Masters is is the owner. Does he have any job
descriptions? No whatever the owner says whenever the owner
says, but what is the other word of abd meaning from Buddha. The
true worshipper of Allah smile We were created for Buddha we are
created as the abbot of Allah subhanaw taala, male and female.
So this also means the ultimate de Ovid of Allah subhanaw taala which
is Rasul Allah salAllahu alayhi. Salam, the best many places in the
Quran, Allah subhanaw taala calls him that, but today if you call
somebody or you're a slave, you think it's an insult. This is
honorific mentioned Allah's mantle is a revealed you could have said
on His Rasul, but he said on his appt when he took him on the
journey of Mirage, what did he say? Subhan Allah de Estrada Abdi
again uses the same word.
In Kuntum, Robin mimma Nasrallah, Allah Abdullahi,
Surah Baqarah many places Cosmo is abd because he is the ultimate
prototype of what an app this should be. So this is an honor.
Rasool Allah SallAllahu sallam said when you mentioned my name,
say Abdullah who are assuming
I could clear so just remember that so Allah subhanaw taala here
is confirming
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam is messenger ship. If somebody
says how do you know he was a messenger? Allah says he revealed
his book on his app.
So the Quran is confirming right here in the beginning, the topic
of Allah that Allah
revealed the Quran revealed it on Messenger Salallahu Alaihe Salam
and what is the the distinction of the Quran wallum year Jalama
Elijah, there is no crookedness in this there is no deviation there
is no variation in time and place that okay if you are there then it
becomes different values change. If it's 1400 years later his
values have changed, which happens in cultures and you know, same
thing that were considered terrible
40 years ago are considered very honorable in cultures today, okay,
this this doesn't change values of Allah subhanaw taala are permanent
values.
Then, after saying this, he says, I em and Liam Robertson, Shaadi de
Mille lagoon, what you wish it meaning Alladhina Yama, Luna Sala,
and Allahu Algerian Hassan IEMA. Allah subhanaw taala saying it's
perfectly upright firstly said there is no crookedness and it is
perfectly upright means this is what you need to hold on to. Okay,
there is no deviation from the truth and this
as opposed to people who have changed their books and their
values. If you look at some of the people have previous scriptures,
whole things, the value has completely changed, what was
forbidden for them has become permissible and so on so forth.
And it keeps changing, including in the Catholic Church, what was
not permissible because permissive and so on so forth.
Then Allah subhanaw taala says it's perfectly upright lay young
Robertson to warn them as another Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam and
the book is another Warner and a machine giving glad to
warn them of what should have been essentially of a grievous Penalty,
which is what,
Jen?
For people who disbelieve or reject to disobey Mila don't move
from him.
From Allah alone, that punishment, while you Bashir and movement in
Aladdin and to give glad tidings good news, Bashara to believers
who believe in this and who show their belief by what Allah Nina
Yeah, Yama, Luna Solahart, they do Amal salah, good deeds, virtuous
deeds, what's the good deed what Allah loves and pleased with what
He commands done? According to the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi salam with the intention of pleasing Allah, that's all solid.
And Allahu Akbar didn't Hassan that for them, there is a
beautiful reward.
So one is
severe punishment, one is a beautiful reward. And in this ayah
Allah is one that doesn't say what the beautiful rewards which is
going to come in the next marketing fee, where they will
live
a byte forever. So what is that that are that it 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 humor. But what is referred
here is Jen because that's the only place where you will live
forever
where you will live in a call loop taka Allahu Allah and to warn
those who say that Allah has taken a son
who's that?
Later Christianity 325 years or so after Jesus, he Silas Salah when
they had this Nicean declaration by the Roman emperor who had
become Christian, of this the Trinity was put into effect as the
fate and said, you know, he's the son of God. Allah subhanaw taala
says and to warn them even though the Quran is coming down to the
Macan, 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 or there are less Allah as son of
Allah smarter. And as you know, the credential Maka used to say
that Allah smart Allah has daughters and who are the
daughters.
So they assign the female * to the angel, okay, which Allah did
not, and made them, Daughters of others.
And Allah subhanaw taala 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 turns black and you barrier and you have no
problem assigning daughters to Allah.
If you think that
So Allah smart Allah says and to warn them those who claim that
Allah has taken a
son.
What happened to
anybody got a massage because I'm not on a hot spot
Marla Hubei Minelli, mu Walla.
Allah subhanaw taala says they have no knowledge. Neither did
their forefathers the parents.
Couple that Kalamata and tafro Jimena fire him in here coluna
Illa Khadija, what they utter with their mouths is grave. It's this
is serious. This is not a joke saying Allah has taken a son. So
what comes out of the mouth that regimen of why and just just what
they say, in Yaku, Luna Illa, aka DiVita is nothing except lies.
What do we learn from that? We never say anything about Allah
that He has not authorized. This Kabara Okay. Only what he has
authorized what he has said what is known for sure. He said it in
the Quran. Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam told us that's what we say
about Allah.
Then Allah subhanaw taala again, that slight reprimand to
Rasulullah sallallahu there's some anxiety to convert with the belief
file unlike a backhoe. NAFSA kala 30 Ilam up knew we had that hadith
Asafa
we will you destroy yourself just grieving over them that they will
accept. In other words, this is also telling Rasulullah sallallahu
Islam, 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 subhanaw taala says in Jannah ma Allah or the zenith
Allah Allah novela. Whom are you home Axel amla? Indeed, Allah
subhanaw taala says we Jana, ma, ma, the word Ma is open
everything, everything that's on the earth or last month, Allah
says, We have made
Xena as something that's a declaration of beautified it for
what purpose? Lena blew up so that we may try Bella not believable. A
yo asked to see who is the best of them.
Now what does it mean what ma what is on the earth? What are we
talking about?
Commonly what do we think of?
Well, two resources mentions companions, this physical things
we see.
emotions, feelings,
thoughts, everything is created. All of them
are a test for you.
You have a child. I have an emotional attachment I have love.
That'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
spriters through Allah subhanaw taala wanting to please Allah,
secondary to that. Because otherwise it becomes a real fitna
that Malu will Manola Xena to how to dunya Allah Swatara said this
Xena this beautiful
elsewhere he says
man and your balloon are in normal Amazon while while in, in my
manual balloon fitna is trying that way. So we have to understand
that Allah smart Allah is telling us that everything created is to
see what we will do.
And I certainly am Allah action. Not all I know
What's the right thing to do? It's not about just having a URL.
Do you actually do it? Okay? Unless wild Allah wants to see
action.
We're in Nerja eluna ma la house ie then Jurusan. And indeed,
whatever we have created, we will dry it up and level can destroy
it, it will become light stubble.
And this is interesting. If you take these two things that Allah
Swatara indirectly talks about the Zener of this dunya the natural
resources.
When the fitna this is part of those first 10 is when the fitna
of the JAL comes, he will regulate those Xena he will make things
good. You believe in me. Whatever you want, I will give you of the
dunya 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 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 that's going to be the trial. But Allah Samantha is
reminding us that ultimately, all of that belongs to him including
the power that was that is given to adventure. Don't so once we
know that it strengthens us when we are faced with that feeling of
the job. Yeah, you're doing it. I know that but I know who is. Okay,
so I'm not impressed. You people bringing people back to life and
cutting them into and putting them to I'm not impressed. Because I
know it's only Allah
Now comes the first if we only want to do 10 About that starch,
the story of the calf. I'm Huseby an herbal cafe. We're ropy Mecanim
in Iowa dinner.
Last one Tala saying that. Do you think that this story of the
Hubble curve is such a wondrous story?
I J. You're so fascinated by it. In other words, you think it's so
fascinating? In the big picture of Allah Swatara This is nothing.
Yes for you. It's very wondrous. That's why they're asking these
questions, but for Allah.
So Allah is asking a question. Do you think that this story of the
US herbal calf were a team the Ruppin is translated as an
inscription by most of the scholars that perhaps there was a
plaque with something commemorating that that was put on
where the cave was? A rock team, by most people means an
inscription, something carved into the stone, so we don't know for
sure. But that's the understanding. Can you Minaya to
know that it is from our signs, something very wondrous, and then
the 10 tire, Allah subhanaw taala just giving us the introduction,
it will fit here to El Kaffee for Paul Robina Artina Mila dhankar
rockbottom high yielding and I'm in a marinara Shuddha as one Tara
says, And when the Fitty fPtr means young people, Letty 20s that
they were this is how we'll cut half the people of the kids were
youngsters, young men, okay, we're not talking about young men.
Last month, Allah says, when they took refuge in this cave
and they went for a theater alert Kathy for calm. So when they went
there, what did they say?
Or abana? In other words, Allah Swanton, he doesn't say why they
mentioned he's not even saying right now that they were being
persecuted for the religion they were going to be killed. They went
to the care and the first thing they go there and they make the
Robina Cortina Mila dunka yeah Allah bestow on us from you. Rama
mercy
Well hey yet Lana, I'm in a marinara Shala and make our affair
on the right guidance guide us to do what is right.
That's where the 10 is end.
And next comes the responsible unless Montana to that door. But
if you think of that picture of protection from the job, we have
the IRS of the hate to tell us who alized revelation that just like
the cave the calf was what was the 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
Christian said
They were Christians, they could have been from the Jews because
that there is no exact period given. But they were believers of
the time believers in 13.
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 to the Seven Sleepers
of emphasis and emphasis is today call center joke, which is in the
Izmir province of, 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 of Zeus and Apollo and Artemis, the, the structure of
art the Temple of Artemis still exists, its ruins there, okay. And
said, Everybody come in, worship and pay your respects and these
people said,
We believe in Allah. Okay, which means that penalty, if you don't
believe means you're rebelling against what the king says. So to
protect themselves, they, these were supposedly the elite young
people from wealthy families. They left everybody they left their
parents, they left it, they ran away together because they were
believers. They were buddies. They were friends strengthening each
other, let's run and they ran to 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, watch what is within your ability,
but don't depend on that. What is the first thing they did? Da.
So, when the Jarl comes, we are encouraged. He said, some of the
lawlessness that the believers should run into the mountains.
Don't go and fight him. Yes, ultimately the jail will be
destroyed. But if you encounter him recite this.
So GAF was the physical protection for these seven
using the word seven
for these youth. So our protection in case of fitna is what is
mentioned.
What is that al Qaeda?
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
calf and mica have is not a cave physical cave, even though
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam was, was given way in a cave of Hira
and he was protected in the cave of Thor. Our cave is the Quran.
That's our protection.
Okay. And so when we have a problem, any kind of fitna in our
life, once you return to the n, that's our cave, that's where we
find protection. And then we do the art to Allah, Ya Allah solve
my problem helped me, okay, that's what we learn. So, this is what
happened. And Allah subhanaw taala stops with this Bob, because after
this, the next I lost one that says what he did in response to
that, which is not your protection. That's why the the
protection comes here. Next is the response when Allah subhanaw taala
says,
felt more benign than him Phil tifosi, Nina Adelaida. Then what
did Allah subhanaw taala do and respond? Allah Subhana Allah says
that we put on the hearing, complete loss of sound.
For years, just mentioned, he doesn't say I put them to sleep.
He said, God I have no Allah, Allah, Allah him is also means
like, on the years, something happened that they could hear
nothing. They were undisturbed. And they were put to, we know they
slept because comes later. But that's all he says. 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 the
jungle, our protection is not going to be by being put to sleep.
Our protection from the jail is going to be true
He Silas Allah, who will come and he will kill the job. Okay, so
Allah Swatara doesn't go beyond that. Hi. That's just the relevant
you understand what I'm saying? That it ends with making you do
your precautions, we have your email, make dua for protection,
and that's okay. So, that's where we will end on Iron number 11 And
then we will inshallah continue with the story on the next one.
And then the quote by that comes after the lessons of attention
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