Divine Parables #11 Eight Oceans – Allahs Infinite Words 18-109
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When
the pagans of Quraysh were at wit's end
with the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, they
went to the Jews of Madinah and said,
Help us out here. Give us some of
this scripture stuff, this scriptural knowledge so we
can stump the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And so they said to him, Here, you
want to stump Muhammad? Prove him as a
fraud? Ask him about the 7 sleepers in
the cave? He's never gonna know anything about
that story. And ask him about Dhul Qarnayn,
he's never gonna know anything about that story.
And so they present to him these questions
to stump him, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
the avalanche
that is Surat Al Kahf came down not
with those 2 stories and more details than
they even knew about those stories, but 4
stories.
And then the conclusion now bringing us to
the parable of Surah Al Kahf. Allah says
at the end of it,
Now tell them
if the oceans were ink
for the words of my Lord Like you
think because they used to claim that we
have the entirety
of God's knowledge in our Torah, and Muhammad
has no access to the Torah. You think
God's knowledge is in the Torah and that's
it?
Tell them that if the oceans were ink
for the words of my lord,
the oceans would run out before the words
of my Lord ran out, even if you
were to bring another ocean
to reinforce it.
If you had double the oceans
as ink,
the words of Allah are not to be
written. The words of Allah are infinite. They
are endless.
And so this example given about the words
of Allah first and foremost is about His
knowledge. That His knowledge is infinite and endless.
You know, think about that. Think about how
if a person were to write
with ink
for their entire life, 60, 70 years. How
much ink would they need?
You wouldn't even need like a roomful. A
tank the size of a room or something.
Right?
Or think of even like quality writing. Not
just anything writing. Not just like documenting
something secretarial.
If someone were to be like a super
expert,
right?
And they wrote 20 volumes on nerve pain,
They would run out. Tell them, Okay. Can
you give me 20 more volumes on nerve
pain? No. I said, I'm done. I'm out.
How about tell me something about cardiology? Nope.
How about Islam? No. Islamic history. Nope. Right?
That's it. There's a limit. Whereas the knowledge
of Allah has no limits. Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So this is the first inference that we
take. They said The scholar said the second
thing here
is that
the words of my Lord refer also to
His power.
Not just because knowledge is power. Of course
it is. Right? Like the the the physician
has knowledge of anatomy, so he has some
power by Allah's permission to heal our bodies,
or our friend has some knowledge about our
personality, so they can heal us when when
we have a broken heart or need some
advice. Alright?
Yeah. Okay. But no, no. That's not what's
meant here.
Allah's
words meaning His commands.
He is the one that says the word
be and things happen
His commands are endless. He's always commanding,
always creating,
always building, always fixing.
In other words, he has all the solutions.
It is endless. He has endless solutions. You
know Allah, you think about like the story
of Musa alaihi salaam.
Musa alaihi salaam,
mom puts him in a basket, it lands
in the place that we were trying to
get away from, pharaoh's palace. How are we
gonna save Musa? Of course you already know
how the story is gonna end, so you
don't really interact. But imagine you didn't know
how it was gonna end. Like how can
we get Musa out of there? You think,
okay. We need some special ops, navy seals.
It's gonna have to be a night mission
with infrared.
And we're gonna need some very
What did he do? He His solution was
he knew how to do it.
Musa will refuse alaihis salam to suckle from
any woman till we have to look outside
the palace to find an alternative. Right? Or
even the end of the story of Musa
alaihis salam with al kadr. Like think about
it.
Allah sends a nabi and a wali or
another nabi in al kadr. And they go
and Allah knows there's a treasure onto the
wall. The kids don't know, the city doesn't
know, and he restores the wall and fixes
everything, and no one has any idea what's
going on. His power is endless. He says
to things be and they are done. And
so this should of course bring us to
to cry at His door before anyone else's
door, and be humble in front of Him
before you're humble in front of anyone, Subhanahu
wa ta'ala. Because his words are and then
it is.
The third inference the scholars took from the
oceans even doubled will not be enough to
account for the words of my Lord, they
said it's a reference to Allah's generosity
as well.
Why?
Because in Surat Al Kahf, this verse, the
verse right before it is what? The believers
who work good deeds,
they will have the uppermost levels of jannah.
May Allah grant us all.
It says, they will be abiding therein eternally,
And they will never want to be removed
from it.
You know sometimes, a lot of times, shaitan
will come to us and be like, you
know like, well I wanna get bored in
Jannah.
Like
everybody gets
bored. If you're like you you have winter,
you want the summer. When you're in the
summer, I wish I could see some snow.
There's no snow where I live. Right? And
the people that have the perfect balance in
San Diego somewhere, it's 70 or 72 all
year round. I wish I had, you know,
I could see the fall. Yes?
Even if you had like a private jet,
and you had all the connections, you go
to all the hotspots around the world for
vacation, you're gonna be done. 2, 3 years,
you're done. Right?
And so Allah
says, They will have
and never want to leave, and then He
says what?
Say to them, O Muhammad,
if the oceans
doubled
were
the words of my Lord. In other words,
what?
He's going to keep creating unending ways to
mesmerize you, to blow your mind. You're never
going to want to leave. You can't even
imagine the endless cycle of new and infinite
bliss, and enjoyment, and delight, you'll create an.
It will lie if something if you really
just stop and think about it. Like what
do I need to pay? What am I
going to do? What can you do? He's
giving you a for dose. There's really nothing
you could do that could be equivalent to
this because it's endless.
This is endless. That is the idea. The
4th and final one,
they said
that God's words,
is a reference
to His revelation. So He said His knowledge,
His power, His generosity in the akhira
and His revelation.
Why? Because the verse right after it was,
Say to them, I'm not saying I have
God's knowledge the way you guys say you
have God's knowledge in the Torah. I'm not
saying I have all of God's knowledge because
I received the Quran. I just received revelation.
I am sort of the person that was
It was delivered to.
And so the the endless words of Allah
Pay attention with me brothers, this is a
very nuance
point. They said is just His Quran is
endless.
The revelation you currently have, the only one
left pure authentically intact, that one is endless.
Meaning the Quran
is
unlimited solutions,
unlimited reminders.
I already gave you 3, 4 meanings, you
think those are all of them? They're not.
Even this example of Allah's words having 3,
4 No. No one will ever get to
the bottom of it. Every sheikh, every scholar,
every preacher, they're gonna run out of things
to say. Right? The Quran even though it
is limited in its words, it's endless
in its meanings. That is the point. That
is what is intended in that 4th interpretation
and they're all correct.
It is endless It is it is the
wall you can lean on. It is the
book you can always go back to and
find new things.
It is the wisdom that is unfailing,
endlessly
potent, fresh,
useful.
You know that is why, subhanAllah, and I'll
make this my last point.
This actually shows up in one other place
in the Quran outside of Surat Al Kahf.
Allah says in the the surah of Luqman
which is the surah of wisdom, unfailing wisdom.
Right? Luqman is the Luqman the wise and
it begins with Al Hakim, the surah.
It says what towards the middle of
it?
And if every last
tree on earth were pens
And by the way, catch this. It doesn't
say the trees are pens because then every
tree would be a pen.
If every last tree
were pens,
how many pens can you make out of
a tree? Imagine those wooden pens like a
long time ago that you dip into those
inkpots.
If every last tree on earth were we
made out of them pens.
And the
ocean was sort of reinforced
with 7 more oceans.
Now we don't have 2, we have 8.
The scholars said the reason there's 8 oceans
in this one is because there's more pens
now
than ocean. If you think from the beginning
of time, every tree has seeds, makes more
trees. So since the trees are reproducing,
you're gonna need more oceans.
Allah is saying even if they were all
trees,
turned into so many pens You guys know
how many trees are on earth. I actually
drove to Canada last I have a minute.
I drove to Canada last summer, never again,
inshallah. At least Nova Scotia, it was like
20 hours.
And I felt like it was something very
weird on the road. Like
this it was just trees but just too
much. So I wound up looking it up.
Canada, by the way, has about
400,000,000,000
trees.
About a third of the trees of the
world are in Canada.
You know, every one of them, you make
a few 1,000,000 pence
times 3. Just your mind gets fried at
this point. Right?
That's why and then each of them had
seeds. So from the beginning of time till
the end of time, you're gonna need 8
oceans. Right?
And still the words of my lord will
never run out. You will constantly find guidance,
constantly pouring forth. May we never be deprived
of his guidance and give it its due
worth and value.
Quran through this Ramadan.
Quran through this Ramadan.