Mustafa Khattab – Tafsir Gems 2

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The Quran explains the importance of the holy month and keeping the balance between faith and actions of the creator. The T Aceir al Hayariott tafsir is discussed, including mistakes made by the Prophet and the focus on the linguistics of the dry eye. The speaker gives advice on using the old T Aceir and the history of the book of Kings, citing the use of the old tafsir for authentic Hadith and the proper understanding of Islam for everyone. The T Aceir is used for political gain and the proper understanding of Islam for everyone.

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			So close to the end of, Surah Rum,
		
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			Surah number 30,
		
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			the word Daaf, weakness is mentioned 3 times.
		
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			So in Quran, house which is very popular
		
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			in India, Pakistan, and
		
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			the Arab world.
		
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			You can say or.
		
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			Both are acceptable in the
		
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			and the meaning is always the same, weakness.
		
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			So today, we'll continue,
		
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			our discussion about the, science of tafsir.
		
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			And in the future, inshallah, we'll talk about
		
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			some gems in the tafsir,
		
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			but, this introduction is very important.
		
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			So as I mentioned,
		
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			So the most reliable,
		
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			type of tafsir is when the Quran,
		
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			explains itself.
		
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			And I gave some examples,
		
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			that, for example, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			talks about Mafatul Ghayib, the keys of the
		
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			unseen.
		
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			So there's no we don't have a lot
		
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			of details in Surah Al Anam to explain
		
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			what Mafatul Ghayib are. But at the end
		
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			of Surah Al Qumran, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			gives the 5 keys of the unseen.
		
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			Yawmul Qiyamah. This is one of them. No
		
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			one knows, this time except Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. And no one knows about the risk
		
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			except him. No one knows what is in
		
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			the wounds, how much money you will make,
		
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			and so on and so forth. These are,
		
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			the 4 keys of the unseen. So the
		
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			Quran explains itself, as we mentioned last time.
		
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			So it will explain right after,
		
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			or, like, say for example, Al Qari'atu, amal
		
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			Qari'a, Adraka, Al Qari'at explains. The rest of
		
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			the Surah explains what Al Qari'a means. But
		
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			in some places in the Quran,
		
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			the Quran will talk about a concept, and
		
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			the explanation comes in a totally different surah
		
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			somewhere else. And this is why it's important
		
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			to read the whole Quran because the Quran
		
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			explains itself.
		
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			Yani. They are faithful to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala and they don't mix their faith with
		
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			Zul. So the Sahaba said, You Rasool Allah,
		
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			who among us does not mix their faith
		
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			with Zul? We we make mistakes all the
		
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			time. So the prophet
		
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			says the word
		
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			Zul here is explained in another Surah,
		
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			and he says he mentioned Lukman alaihi salam
		
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			when he was teaching his son, and he
		
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			said, indeed,
		
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			Promoting shirk is the worst of all wrongs.
		
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			So the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam explained to
		
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			them.
		
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			So a man came to,
		
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			Aisha al Anha, and he said, you know,
		
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			I want to castrate myself so I would
		
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			not have the ability to get married. So
		
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			I focused all my life to Ibad,
		
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			and she said,
		
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			you don't understand this ayah in the Quran,
		
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			Surah Azab. The
		
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			Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam is the best example
		
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			for all Muslims, and the Prophet SAW Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam get married.
		
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			Like, he the prophet, sallam, yani,
		
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			tried to keep the balance between duniya getting
		
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			married, having a family, providing for them, and
		
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			also working for Agha. So you have to
		
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			keep the balance because you're not better than
		
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			Muhammad, sallam. You cannot be a better Muslim
		
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			than him. So she explained,
		
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			to him. And the example is so many.
		
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			When you look at the different tafasir,
		
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			especially the old ones of Qurtubi, Tabari, and
		
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			Nikafir, these different tafasir.
		
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			Every mufasir,
		
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			Yani did their own tafsir based on the
		
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			knowledge,
		
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			they were experts in. And you say for
		
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			example, Al Fortubi,
		
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			his tafsir is focused on fiqh.
		
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			Tafsir al fortubi. Lakamil Quran.
		
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			So he explains a lot of issues related
		
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			to firk in his tafsir. This is the
		
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			focus of his tafsir.
		
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			When you look at someone like Ibn Kathir,
		
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			for example, he mentioned a lot of Hadith.
		
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			They mentioned a lot of Hadith to explain
		
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			the meaning of the ayat.
		
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			Ayat. Hatajid Mahal Wahid Zayi za Mashari
		
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			is famous tafsir al kashaf. His focus is
		
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			al luwa,
		
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			the linguistics of Arabic. And every time there
		
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			is a controversial ayah or there is an
		
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			ayah that is misunderstood,
		
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			Al Kashaf,
		
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			his focus was the linguistics of the Ayat.
		
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			And this man is amazing. So what he
		
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			did basically
		
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			when he, wanted to make tafsir of the
		
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			Quran, he went to the Kaaba, and he
		
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			stayed there for about 2 months, and he
		
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			did a tafsir, about 2,000 pages.
		
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			This is the Tafsir al Kasher.
		
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			So, what is very special about this Tafsir
		
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			is the linguistics of it. This man was
		
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			like amazing. Unbelievable. The way he understands the
		
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			ayat, and and the one he explains them.
		
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			But there is nothing perfect. Lainu
		
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			through his tafsir, yes,
		
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			they benefited from his, linguistic aspects.
		
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			Yes. His linguistics were the best, and all
		
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			the scholars who came after him, like Nasafi
		
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			and many others, they copied him. They learned
		
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			from him. From, you know, the linguistic aspect.
		
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			From but from Aqidah aspect
		
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			in the basement.
		
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			So he made some terrible mistakes in his
		
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			tafsir. One of them, for example, he denied
		
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			that the believers will be able to see
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on Yomul Qiyam. He
		
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			said it will not happen.
		
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			And Ta'olam said, okay. What about
		
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			So he tried to twist the Ayat in
		
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			his tafsir
		
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			and and, so according to him, it doesn't
		
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			mean that they will be able to see
		
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			Allah, but
		
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			they have great hopes in Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. This is all understanding, and this is
		
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			totally false, and and it is proven in
		
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			many Ayat and even in authentic ahadith of
		
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			the Prophet SAWS
		
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			People will be able to see Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala. Very clearly, the Prophet SAWS said
		
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			in Bukhari Muslim, you will be able to
		
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			see Allah on Yawul Qiyamah just like you
		
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			are able to see the moon
		
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			in in when it is full, like 14th
		
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			15th of the month. Authentic adi. I mean,
		
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			you can't you can't deny this.
		
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			Allah says in the Quran Surah Al Tawfafi
		
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			in other places that the Kuffar will not
		
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			see Allah Uyamul Qiyamr,
		
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			so the believers should be able to see
		
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			Him because this is a punishment
		
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			for the Kuffar, so this is an honor
		
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			for the believers. So there are so many,
		
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			Ayat and Hadith, but we're not gonna dwell
		
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			on this.
		
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			So the Raman says that the Razi's Tafsir
		
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			has everything inside
		
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			except Tafsir.
		
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			Like, Tafsir is not his focus. So he
		
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			talks about philosophies, he talks about philosophers, refutations,
		
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			this that, and and so on and so
		
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			forth.
		
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			So if you use Tafsir,
		
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			2 recommendations here. Use the old tafsir, but
		
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			make sure that they have been authenticated,
		
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			by someone. Like, someone, they went through the
		
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			tafsir, they made sure that the Hadith are
		
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			authentic.
		
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			Because in some cases, Ibn Kathir would use
		
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			some Hadith that are not authentic.
		
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			99% of his book is authentic, but sometimes
		
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			the hadith is not very authentic.
		
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			So, these books have been authenticated.
		
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			And sometimes they rely
		
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			on Isaiyat,
		
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			which are not supported by Ayat or Hadid,
		
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			and sometimes the meaning is not acceptable. I
		
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			I'll give you one example.
		
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			Madhala fisur al Sad.
		
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			Insur al Sad Ayat wa Haqbarashil al kamsar
		
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			al Hashdim. 1 attack in Abu al Khasmi
		
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			ista samar al mihrabiblahalah aladahu the The story
		
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			of the wood when the 2 people came
		
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			and they scaled the wall, they went inside,
		
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			and one said, I have 1,
		
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			sheep. My brother has 99, and so on
		
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			and so forth till the end of the
		
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			story.
		
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			In the book of kings in the old
		
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			testament and in Yehud.
		
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			So to say that, yes,
		
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			Dawud alaihis salam had 99 wives, and his
		
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			neighbor had 1 wife. He took his wife,
		
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			and he got her husband killed so he
		
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			can take it and so on and so
		
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			forth. Yes. The story is mentioned in the
		
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			Bible, in the Old Testament, in the book
		
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			of Kings, but this is totally unacceptable Islamically.
		
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			How can a prophet
		
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			kill someone to take his wife? This is
		
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			not acceptable.
		
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			And, again, it is not supported by,
		
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			Quran. It is not supported by,
		
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			Hadith.
		
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			The other Tafsir for the same Hayat that,
		
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			wastaghharabbawukhar
		
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			alakaanwala
		
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			that he made a Tafar at the end
		
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			and he made Surjdah
		
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			because he he heard 1 of the 2
		
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			people and he didn't hear listen to the
		
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			other one.
		
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			And he made a judgment very quick, so
		
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			he made a mistake in the judgment.
		
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			And this is totally unacceptable.
		
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			So the proper tafsir for this, for these
		
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			ayat is that Dawud alaihi salam focused on
		
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			Ibad so much
		
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			that he didn't pay any attention to his
		
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			one of his main duties, which is to
		
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			make judgment between people. And Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala told him in the next ayah, I
		
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			placed you in the land to make judgment.
		
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			Now you locked yourself up in the temple,
		
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			you make Ibadah day and night,
		
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			so much so that the people have to
		
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			climb your walls like thieves,
		
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			so you they get you to make judgment
		
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			between them, and this is not the right
		
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			thing to do. And this is why he
		
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			made Tawba, and he asked Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala to forgive him.
		
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			So I'm saying this is the last thing
		
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			inshallah. One minute, and I'll I'll be done
		
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			in the later time.
		
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			The old tafasir, sometimes there are some scientific
		
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			things in the Quran,
		
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			and because they were not clear to the
		
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			mafasir, like,
		
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			they
		
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			ruled out the meaning, although it was very
		
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			clear. One exam.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Yaqul Watahajibala.
		
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			So the Ayah says, Now when you look
		
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			at the mountains,
		
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			thinking they are firmly fixed, but they are
		
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			traveling just like the mountains.
		
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			This is the marvelous design of Allah. So,
		
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			in every Tarsir,
		
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			they say, this talks about Yawul Qiyamah, how
		
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			the mountains will be destroyed, blown away,
		
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			and this is the marvelous design of Allah.
		
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			Does it make sense like this?
		
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			Because in Yawul Al Qiyam, Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala will not talk about the marvelous,
		
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			the marvelous design,
		
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			because
		
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			it's dust now.
		
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			Dust is flying, blown away.
		
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			So, it talks about this Dunya, Watarajibala,
		
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			now you see the mountains
		
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			thinking they are firmly fixed.
		
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			Otherwise, if it is talking about akhirah,
		
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			the mountains are blown away, they become sand
		
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			and dust,
		
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			and you think they are firmly fixed,
		
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			but they're traveling like clouds?
		
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			I mean, it's it's not
		
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			this understanding is not acceptable.
		
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			Fathaban, if you look at the Ayat, and
		
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			this is like, fakulil ayatul Quran.
		
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			So this is very common in the Quran.
		
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			Allah
		
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			will talk about his power,
		
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			the marvels of His creation,
		
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			like in these ayat at the end of
		
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			Surah Naml, He talks about, I created the
		
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			day and night,
		
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			then I can bring people back to life.
		
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			Then He says, I make the earth
		
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			evolve around its axis,
		
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			and I can bring the dead back to
		
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			life. So he gives two examples for his
		
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			powers, then in 2 ayaat he talks about
		
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			his ability to bring the dead back to
		
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			life. And this is the proper understanding.
		
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			We ask
		
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			Allah to give us the best in this
		
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			life and the best in the life to
		
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			come.