Mohammad Qutub – Quran Tafseer al-Baqarah – Excluded From His Covenant
AI: Summary ©
The speakers discuss the importance of protecting the holy Bible and the holy Bible, emphasizing the need for time to make decisions and the importance of honoring the first few prophets. They also touch on the negative consequences of the statement that Microsoft's campaign is a rejection of his request and the connection between the APbod and APbod's history. The discussion also touches on the controversial topic of the covenant between the Bible and the church, which is often over, causing confusion and problems for Christians, and the connection between the APbod and APbod's history.AI: Transcript ©
Cannot
possibly be the inheritors of the covenant.
Even if they were the descendants of Ibrahim
alayhi salaam.
I pray to Allah Almighty and I send
prayers and blessings upon prophet Muhammad
his
noble family, righteous companions and all those follow
them with right guidance until the day of
judgement. Ameen.
Glory be to you, o Allah. No knowledge
have we accept that which you have taught
us. Indeed, you are the all knowing. We
are wise, my dear brothers and sisters. Assalamu
Alaikum.
Wa Rahmatullahi wa barakatu.
Hope everyone is doing well on this fine
night. And we continue with the tafsir of
Surat Al Baqarah
and with the tafsir of this
very
crucial ayah
that, we have been talking about for a
while
and we just can't seem to get enough
of in terms of trying to extract
lessons and wisdom and guidance. And this is
the saying of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, la
da'udulalaminashaitanarajeem
smilaarrahmanarrahim.
We spoke quite a bit about
the first portion of the ayah and we
were talking about how,
Duraim alayhi salaam then requested
from Allah
according to many of them of as Sirin,
it was a request
where he also requested
that that which he was given before which
is the
be also passed on to his progeny,
his descendants.
And we said this is normal and everyone
wants the best for their descendants, wants
their legacy to continue on.
And we saw this even with
prophet Zakariyah alaihis salam. And prophet Zakariyah alaihis
salam was asking for a for someone to
come after him. Why?
Not just because of worldly reasons. The we
are talking about the prophets and messengers, peace
be upon them all, because they want the
legacy of the deen to continue,
the guidance to continue. Because that's what Zakariyah
alaihi salaam was. And he was afraid when
he didn't have a child,
that then that guidance would stop. Right? That
da'wah
would stop.
So this is why he wanted when Ibrahim
alayhi salaam is asking, this is not for
worldly reasons. This is not like you and
me.
Because we want, you know, our name
to continue in time. No. They they're doing
it because of guidance.
And this is why interestingly,
Al Imam Abu Jahr al Qabari, when he
was mentioning
this request,
Right?
So Ibrahim alayhi salam same
Many of the mufas siri understood this request
after Allah told Ibrahim alayhi alayhi salam, I
am going to make you as an imam
for the people. And then Ibrahim said, and
my descendants.
Some of the tried to tie it with
the other ayah, where Ibrahim alaihi salam asks
Allah and says,
Protect me
and my children
from worshiping
idols.
So they tried to connect it to that.
That here, when he says,
this is similar to this. Essentially, he's asking
Allah to make his progeny and descendants
Muslims like him.
And Imam Abu Kabari says no.
This is clearly linked to what he has
just been given
as an accolade, which is
the This is what he's requesting for his
progeny. Not just the baby Muslims
and be worshipers of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
which is great in itself. He wants them
to be imams like him.
Imams to be followed in the deen.
Of course,
to get to the level of Ibrahim alaihis
salam, we said,
is
impossible because it's already
finished.
He is the 2nd
best
human being after prophet
Muhammad because he is second only to
prophet Muhammad
Right?
The answer
then comes
This needs time.
It's
just a few words.
4 words.
But hold on, there's a lot to say
here.
Many may understand and interpret
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
did not therefore
give Ibrahim Alaihi Salam what he requested
because
the answer was
My ahad, my covenant
does not come to, does not include.
Okay?
Now and that's what it seems like. It
seems like
the answer is no.
However,
when we look at,
the other verses of the Quran, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala told us.
He
said,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has made in the descendants of Ibrahim Alaihi
Salam what? Al Lubu Wa Prophethood
and
book
the books.
So meaning,
the progeny of Ibrahim alaihi salaam are prophets
and messengers, peace be upon them all. And
they were the ones who received the books
of Allah, the divine books.
What an honor.
In fact
In fact,
no prophet that came after Ibrahim Alaihi
Salam or Messenger
that came,
came out of the progeny of Ibrahim alaihis
salam. They were all
part of the descendants of Ibrahim alaihis salam.
So any prophet or messenger that came after
Ibrahim Alaihi Salam was not necessarily
one of the descendants of Ibrahim. And this
is why we call him Abu al Anbiya,
the father of the prophets.
Because all of them afterwards are prophets.
Meaning all of the prophets rather,
that came afterwards are necessarily
of his descendants, not that all of his
descendants are prophets.
But mind you, the first few SubhanAllah immediately
in his line are prophets.
Right?
Ibrahim and then
Ismail
but then Ismail
there is nothing happening
for a long time, right?
But if you look at the line of
his brother, Ishaq
alayhis salam
Ibrahim and then Ishaq and then
Yaqub and then
Yusuf.
That's why the prophet
said,
Kareem, Ibnul Kareem, Ibnul Kareem.
The normal one, son of the normal one,
son of the normal one, son of the
noble one. Four prophets
consecutive
consecutively one after another.
Subhanallah.
And
then the line of the prophets of Bani
Israel
all coming from the line of
is Haqqaniahu.
For us,
we want to see the other wing as
well.
The brother of Isha, Ishmael alayhis salaam,
who came from the progeny of Ishmael?
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
The best human being to walk on the
Earth.
So for us,
we absolutely
honor
Ibrahim alaihis salaam
as the father of prophets. Hallelujah. And interestingly,
the bible calls him the father of nations.
Mind you,
how important is Ishmael
in the bible, alaihis salam?
Not very important.
Almost sideline.
Almost an afterthought. Even though he's the son
of Ibrahim Alaihi Salam and the brother of
Ishaq.
But it's all about Ishaq and his progeny.
Ishmael,
not so important.
So if that's the case, if if Ishmael
is not important to you, then why is
Abraham important to you?
Right? Ishmael comes from Ibrahim Alaihi Salam.
Ishmael is not so important? Okay.
Why don't we If we go with the
Christian idea with the bible, then
Ishaq is the important one for you because
all of the prophets, come back to Ishaq.
Furthermore, they come back to Jacob.
Forget about Ishaq. Jacob, let's call Jacob the
father of nations.
No.
Ibrahim is the father of nations
because of Ishmael who you ignored.
From whom came the best
human being to ever walk on this planet?
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Ibrahim alayhis salaam,
the father of the prophets and the father
of nations and the khalil of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Okay.
So We said
that
the other ayah seems to tell us
that
he was responded to that Allah responded to
his request
and gave him his request.
So
you had all of these Imams as part
of his descendants and his progeny.
And this was the opinion of the imam
ibn Kathir and others as well.
But if you look at the
expression
we need to stop there
and this was something that some of the
Mufassiri also noticed
and
kind of went back and forth about
because the answer seems to be a negation.
The Wali
Min will not
be part of this ahad, this covenant.
And they started saying, if it was indeed
a rejection
of his request, it might have been
In other words, I have given you your
request, Obrahim.
However,
the ones who are wrongdoers,
who have
or who will be,
they will not have part of the covenant
or this
because that's what it is.
Interestingly,
you don't see the word in the beginning
of the ayah. He
mentions
He mentions it as a covenant. This covenant
is the imamah.
This is the ultimate
covenant and it shows
you. Imamah
in the deen to be an imam, to
be someone who is looked at and followed
and a role model.
This is a covenant between you and Allah.
This is no simple thing.
This is a responsibility
you will be asked about.
This is a ad.
This is a ad from
So if we look at the expression
and we then try to understand
why it seems to be a negation.
This is
very interesting.
La yalaalu ahadiv walimin
and scholars,
spoke about this ayah and the possible meaning.
If it is indeed a negation,
we can see several lessons from this.
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
And let me get to it, but before
I forget,
for our Arabic
connoisseurs
and Arabophiles.
So who is the and who is the
Mafar al Mahi brother?
Yeah. Please tell me. I I think you
you got it.
Don't be afraid.
Okay.
Right. So who's the fa'id?
Allah will not give them money.
Money. Uh-huh. So, basically, the idea for for
okay. We're having this conversation for those who
do not speak
Arabic. We might think for,
if we look at the usual construction of
the Arabic sentence, we have
a. The verb, the one who did the
verb, and then the object
of that action or that verb.
Now usually,
we might think in this situation
that,
when we talk about the covenant and we
talk about the verb,
We would imagine
that the Valimin
are the ones who are
performing the action either
reaching and
receiving
the ahl, the covenant or not.
Okay?
But in the Ayah,
it is not like that. It's not
the Wali Min who will either receive the
covenant or not, or will get the covenant
or not. It's the covenant
that will come to them or not.
That's why, Ayana lu Ahab Albalimid. The Ahid
is the 5.
The Ahid
will not come to Avbalimin.
The Ahid, the covenant will not include
the ones who perform
Okay? It's clear now. So it means the
covenant comes to you or it doesn't.
Not you go after the covenant. This is
this is an accolade. This is a prize
Allah is giving. Either it comes or it
doesn't.
Clear brother Nawa.
You you got it? Yeah. Yeah. The
ahad will not come to those people, to.
If
we say Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala actually
granted him his request
and made
amongst
his progeny
and his descendants, the prophets
and messengers who received the books of Allah
So why is the response coming in what
seems to be
a negation,
a rejection?
One of the possible reasons
is that
this is an issue about which there is
a lot of misunderstanding
and some controversy and,
differing opinions.
The issue of the Walim
and the issue of Imam.
Can a Walim
be an Imam?
Will an imam ever be a Walim
or a Walim be an imam?
You ask, okay, but Sheikh, what is Zul?
How do we understand Zul? Well,
we can understand Zul,
2 ways.
The ultimate which is to myself.
When a person does to himself
with Kufr and Sheikh and wrongdoing.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala called
a shirk
in the Quran.
But that also applies
to not of myself
but of
those around me.
That is as well.
What we also translate usually as oppression or
persecution.
To persecute and oppress others, this is zulm.
And the person who does this is a
valim.
And this is what the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
said about in the hadith
is It is darknesses on the day of
judgment.
Allah is telling
his slave servants. And here, we're not talking
about kufr.
And Allah
has made prohibited
upon himself.
And I have made it prohibited amongst you,
so do not oppress one another or persecute
one another. This is
And usually when we mention
in the modern parlance, this is what comes
to people's minds.
Persecution of others
or wronging them
so it includes both
so now
can Allah be an Imam?
How many have read about
this issue and don't know
the ins and outs of this issue? Raise
your hand. Don't be shy. Don't be modest.
I'm assuming everyone,
has either read about it or heard about
it.
Can Awalim be an imam?
And does
Awalim deserve to be an imam? What are
the conditions of imam?
Interestingly, scholars of tafsir brought this issue up
even though here it seems what we are
talking about when we talk about imamah is
the imam of the deen.
Ibrahim alayhi salam is not asking for imamah
to be a king or a ruler, but
rather is asking to be an imam in
the deen, to be followed.
But nevertheless,
they brought up this issue,
the issue of the imamah.
And the relationship between imam and Gulim. And
some of the sahaba and the Tabi'il
mentioned it.
So this is why for instance, Imam Mujahid
said,
the will never be an imam.
And it seems here, he is talking about
the not
the meaning the kafir.
Because that is obvious.
A kafir will not be an imam. Right?
Whether an imam in the deen or a
ruler.
So he is talking about a one.
This person who does injustice
to others
will not be an imam.
This is the opinion of imam.
Right?
And remind me if I forget to tell
you the the opinion of and
Ibrahim and and others,
lessons that we get from it, the wisdom
is this.
Allah is saying clearly.
In other
words, do not underestimate
the issue of Dhulub, my brothers and sisters.
And we have seen this.
We have seen it in Islamic history and
especially today
where
is treated as something secondary.
It's okay.
It's okay if he's a balim. He can
be an imam. He can be a ruler
of the Muslims,
and he can be the one who should
be followed. No. He should be obeyed as
well.
Subhanallah.
Even though he is a,
a known,
evil doer to himself
and to the
people.
Where are all the conditions the imams put
for becoming an imam?
Meaning to become a ruler for the Muslims.
There are conditions.
And one of the first ones is that
he not be
That he be just.
And some of them even said that he
has to be knowledgeable and a
scholar.
Allah
said,
Very clear
injunction in the Quran.
My ahad, my covenant
does not come to the
So they
said, imam this is what imam Bujayed is
saying. The the imam cannot be
and cannot be an imam.
This is unacceptable.
No matter how
you turn it around,
The controversy continued
but after he becomes an imam.
Before,
it is very clear he cannot become an
imam.
He cannot become a ruler for the Muslims.
What if he does become?
What do the Muslims do then?
That is
another issue and much more controversial
which we will not deal with here.
But
in the beginning, absolutely,
it is not acceptable and the Quran is
clear.
This is one of the possible reasons. And
since we are still on it, this is
why
we might ask ourselves,
is this, my brothers and sisters,
the ahad, the covenant
will not include the.
Is this a fact Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is mentioning?
Or is it a command?
If we understand it as a fact,
then one may say then how come
there were people
who were Dalimin
and they became Imams?
And it seems this is why
Imam Qathada and Ibrahim and Nakai and others
understood this and said this is in Akhira,
not in the dunya
because of this.
And they said the ahad,
the covenant here means the covenant
of protection.
You know how we talk about the
and we see the in the Quran in
different places to mean the covenant of protection.
So they said,
this covenant of protection
protected
the
for so long here in the dunya.
And they ate and drank and laughed and
lived
with this covenant and through this covenant.
So they understood to
be in Al Akhira.
They
will not have
the protection of Allah or his security in.
So it seems they understood it
as a fact. And
therefore,
they said it seems that this applies to
the not here in the dutian. But if
we apply it as a command
rather than a fact
or
a statement
that means
a command
that therefore
the Ivaalim should not be allowed to be
an Imam
then there wouldn't be an issue.
You remember when we talked about woman Al
Those,
they are not allowed to enter those Masajid,
those who destroy the Masajid,
they are not allowed to enter it except
in a state of
fear.
We said there as well, is this a
fact
or is this a command?
And we mentioned Ibn Kathir
understood it as a statement
that requires implementation.
Meaning, do not allow
those who destroy the to
enter the except in a state of fear.
So here we say
If we understand it as
do not allow
the imam do not allow a Walim to
be an imam or an imam to be
a Walim,
then
it wouldn't be an issue.
But if we understood it as a fact,
then we might say that,
there are those
who seem to have benefited
according to Imam Qatada
and others from the protection of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and
in our day and age, we see a
lot of this, subhanAllah.
Some of the
worst of people
being the quote unquote rulers
of the Muslims,
right?
And some of those who deserve
that post less or least
having such a role. Allah Azza wa Jal
said This
is not to be the case.
This is unacceptable
And this is why some of the scholars
in the Mufasirim would talk about this issue
when mentioning this Ayah, the issue of Imam.
But there they are talking about the imamah
of the dunya.
In other words, rule
as opposed to the imamah of the deen.
And this is why a Maliki scholar mentioned
I believe by
possibly Imam Khotabi,
Ibn Huwesemindad,
he said
the Walim
cannot be a Khalifa,
cannot be a Hakim, a ruler, cannot be
a Mufti,
cannot be a witness, cannot be a narrator.
None of this is suitable.
Just based on
And this is why, also,
Rashid Riba
in Tasil Manar,
he
commented on
the fact that some of the Mufas Sirid
tried to understand
here only as
that this is a reference to only and
he said there is nothing
that shows
that here is to be restricted to.
And he said that
any of the Waleemin
of the Muslims
of Lebua Hadeen,
but they are Waleem, they are known for
their injustice and the wrong being of people.
They do not deserve to be a role
model or a ruler or an imam because
they are going to corrupt
the people's Deen
and their Dunya.
This is one possibility
for why, subhanallah,
it came,
as a statement
of negation.
Even though
many of his progeny
did
and were
included in this covenant, and they were great
prophets. And if they were great prophets, they
were necessarily great
Imams.
This is one possibility. But there's another possibility,
and this is very important as well.
Because we mentioned
that
when we ended the section about Bani Israel
And then we came to the story of
Ibrahim, alaihis salam, and we tried to find
the secret behind the transition and the connection
between
those stories and that section. And now the
story of Ibrahim alaihi salam, here is another
connection.
The
Jews
and the Christians
who broke the covenant of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, and especially the Jews,
the Bani Israel, all of those stories,
who violated that covenant
time and time again
cannot possibly be
the inheritors of the covenant.
Even if they were the descendants of Ibrahim
alaihis salam.
This is another important reason
for the connection.
Because they are going to be Gwalimin from
your progeny.
Oh Ibrahim
who have wronged themselves
the many Israel.
We have been going through the tabseel pages
and pages about many Israel
and their violations of the covenant of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Will they also
be imams?
Allah Azzawajal said,
Many will
many will be included in the covenant but
we need to emphasize a point
because this is all the Wali Min talk
about now especially today SubhanAllah.
Nowadays
it's all about the covenant
to the extent
that there are
wars.
There
are battles,
theological
battles
between
the
not the Jews and the Christians, the Christians
themselves
in understanding their bible
and this so called covenant
with Ben Israel.
So if we go to the bible
we see in the old testament we see
in Genesis
the famous covenant with Ibrahim alaihis salam that
they keep mentioning
day and night.
The Lord said to
Abraham
and later on
he was called Abraham.
What did the Lord say to him? I
will establish my covenant
between me
and you
and your descendants
and your descendants.
And he sent
as an everlasting
covenant SubhanAllah
to the end of time.
This is
a very big problem. The
adulteration
of the,
holy Bible that we see. Look at the
problems that it has caused.
Why? They are understanding
this covenant as an everlasting
Ibrahim alaihis salaam namely
the Bani Israeel.
So he said it's an everlasting
covenant.
And
then afterwards he said also
I will give you and your descendants
the land.
I will give you and your descendants the
land. Which land? O Allah?
The land of Canaan
Palestine
again as an everlasting
possession You Allah.
Allah azza wa Jal said
don't play with the words of Allah.
Don't play with the covenant of Ibrahim.
This has caused
so much bloodshed.
Because of this strange understanding
that this is an everlasting covenant no matter
what.
Allah said,
Those are the Valimin.
Those are the wrongdoers.
Those are the ones of injustice
and iniquity.
They will not be included in the covenant.
The covenant
has been broken with them.
We deal with this now
and we mentioned this before
because of a
a a rather
novel
understanding
of this covenant.
Why is that?
Because the church and Christians
for many many centuries
did not understand
Israel to mean
modern
Jewry.
They understood
Israel
to have been replaced
by the church.
So anytime
there is mention of a covenant between Allah
and the Jews or Israel,
they understood this as a covenant between
God and the Christians, the church.
Not
Israel in a nationalistic
modern sense.
This only started happening later
especially with the Protestant
tradition
and the protestant
understanding.
So
that's why you have something called Covenant
Theology
versus
Dispensationalism.
Their understanding
A lot of Christians today
are understanding
this covenant
as a covenant between Allah
and Bani Israel themselves.
In a modern nationalistic
sense
and therefore they understood from that that
necessarily
Allah is going to give them this land
to the Jews to the Bani Sahid
and therefore we have to support Israel. No
matter how many Palestinian children they kill,
we have to support them. It's a religious
duty.
This is the way they understand it.
Almost like it's an obligation
based on their their false understanding of this
covenant. This is fairly new.
In the past, it was not there. So
you will still find Christians who argue otherwise.
And they say no this is completely incorrect
completely wrong understanding of the bible.
The issue of the covenant of Ibrahim, how
do we understand it? The Quran tells you
how to understand it.
The covenant is over. You broke the covenant
time and time again. So you did not
you do not deserve the covenant of Allah.
You are no longer
the chosen people.
There is no covenant between you. And by
the way, some of those Christians
they will agree with this. They broke the
covenant time and time again.
The Quran said it clearly.
They will not be included
in this ahad. They do not deserve the
imam.
Allah is telling Ibrahim alayhi salam, there are
going to be walimin from your progeny
and they will not be included in this
covenant. Everyone else, fine.
So this might be another reason, o Allahu
Alam,
why it came
in that way.
Even
though
every single prophet and messenger that came after
Ibrahim alaihi salam was of his progeny.
Yes.
These are the favors
of Allah subhanahu ta'ala upon Bani Israel, and
he told them and he reminded them absolutely.
Also he mentions that
the other ayah that we have made amongst
you,
prophets also, right?
So these are all the favors of Allah.
Yes.
That he gave to them
that they did not honor and they did
not respect,
Wallahu Alaa.
You
do not mean that this is, how do
we understand that with respect to
But this is why,
it seems
that the imamah here that is being mentioned
is imamatullib.
Right? Ibrahim alaihi salam, as far as we
know, was not a king like David and
and and Solomon. Right? He was a he
was a he was an imam in the
Deen.
Yeah. Ibrahim.
Right?
This is what we're saying.
Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala gave a lot of his project.
Dawud and Suleiman, are they not from, Al
Ibrahim?
They're from Al Ibrahim.
Were they kings? They were kings. They were
the greatest kings of the Jews of Israel.
They were the kings of the the first,
kingdom,
what they call the
United Kingdom of David and and Solomon.
Absolutely. This is work.
Here that's why we say here, it seems
this
is
a.
So
he
said Right?
The the covenant being the imam of the
deen. Right?
Dawud and Suleyman
are not the Valimin.
These are the the ones who have been
given the covenant, right?
When he said,
this is the Bani Israel who
wronged themselves.
Even when Allah
in the midst of
criticizing them in all of that long history
that we were doing the tafsirah,
Allah subhanahu ta'ala sometimes would
the covenants they violated.
These are Diwalimin,
Wallahu Ta'ala Aalam. The people who did not
follow Khudawood,
who gave problems to Sulaiman
and to Musa before them.
Peace be upon them all.
Is obvious. Right?
And Allah
said that he has made amongst them prophets
and messengers
right? The mulk
is the
is rule is rule of the dunya is
mulk Like,
we will get to it eventually,
when they asked for,
a king and the king then appointed
a sorry a prophet
and then a king was appointed for them.
Right?
When we talk
about Saul
and the
story
of
Palut and Jalut eventually.
So this was a king that was sent
to them. Right? King Saul.
So that's why I said
when the Mufassareen
talked about
imam and Walid,
they understood
they they took the broad term of imama
because in religious Islamic parlance when we talk
about imam,
when we talk about Al Imam, the Imam,
sometimes we are talking about the ruler
so the Khalifa will be called imam the
imam of the muslims
right
And this is
why in the issue of
when they talk about this, they talk about
it under the category of imam.
So this is why they brought up
imam
or
imam and the issue of
Anything else,
brothers,
sisters?
Related Episodes
- Daood Butt – 30 in 30 – Ramadan Tafseer – Day 01
- Sajid Umar – Lessons from the Farewell Sermon Part 2 the Sermon of Rasulullah SAW
- Ali Albarghouthi – This is Love #15 Allah does not Punish His Beloveds
- Zakir Naik – Abstaining from Falsehood in Ramadhaan
- Abu Usamah At-Thahabi – Abandoning the Quran – Not Believing in it or Listening to it
- Yasir Qadhi – The First Story Revealed In The Quran – Surah Al Qalam
- Ahmed Hamed – Protecting Our Children From Drugs