Mustafa Khattab – Tafsir Gems 7
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alaykum. Assalamu alaykum. So insha Allah we'll be
talking tonight about
the subject of shanunuzul,
Asbab Nuzul.
Taban, the Quran was revealed in the Arabic
language.
And
the Arabic language existed for probably 1,000 of
years. It's probably one of the oldest, it
it is one of the
richest, and so on and so forth.
Some of the Haramat, they authored a book,
and this book included all the words in
the Arabi language for the word lion, the
animal.
And some of them counted as many as
300, some said 600,
some said a1000
for just lion. Right?
Safe, another book, the sword. Another,
you know, hundreds of words. So the Arabic
language is is so rich,
whereas English.
I had to deal with, with this issue
when I was working on
the,
translation.
The Arabic is so powerful,
is so rich, and the English is so
weak and so dumb.
So as I always say, I felt like
those nights in Saint Catherine's when I was
breaking my head to come up with the
closest meaning to the English, I mean, to
the Arabi,
I feel like I had a big bucket
of water that I I just wanted to
pour in a small cup. So the big
bucket of water is like Arabi and the
English is so weak and it's so limited.
So the Arabi language was there for 1000
of years
and nobody even took notice of that language.
It was not known, it was not popular,
and no one cared from outside Arabia, basically.
Then the Quran was revealed, the Quran was
the medium of the Arabic language, and all
of a sudden
the Arabic language became a universal language.
And
I'm sure
if you came from Turkey, if you came
from,
India, Pakistan,
if you came from any other language,
your local language has, in a way or
another, been influenced by the Arabic language. They
have so many so many words in those
languages that came from Arabic,
including,
non Islamic languages, Yani, Mafalan, Farsi,
you know, has so many words from, from
Arabic. Urdu,
Turkey, even African countries like Swahili,
Hausa, all these languages were affected by Arabic,
and also
Spanish, because the Muslims stayed there for a
long time, and English, and French, they have,
they have some words.
So, for the time being, I'm working on
a dictionary of the Quran.
So, in this dictionary,
for example, if if you are a non
Arab, which is the case for 85% of
Muslims, they are not Arab. Only 15% of
Muslims are Arab. Right?
One single country
in Southeast Asia, Indonesia,
one single non Arab country
has more Muslims than all Arab countries put
together. We're talking about 25 countries combined. So
Arabs are actually a tiny minority,
within
Islam.
So
if if if you are non Arab and
you would like to you don't you don't
like to read, translation,
you like to read directly from the source,
you like to read Arabic,
then this book is for you. So Alhamdulillah,
this is a new approach. It will be
released sometime next year if Allah gives us
the health and the ability and the time.
So this dictionary is a new style and
it will make it easier for you,
maybe in, 3 or 4 months you would
be able to master the language of the
Quran. A very new style, very easy approach
to the Quran.
So in the introduction, I listed some of
the words in the English language.
So for example, if you read these words
in the Quran, in Arabi,
you know that there is something in between
Arabi and English. Right?
So, for example,
generally, if you say the word hallucination
This is not in the Quran. I'm just
giving you a general example. Hallucination,
it comes from the Arabic Al Wasa. Right?
I'm not gonna talk about scientific things like
alcohol and algebra and cotton because this,
came from Arabic. Yeah. A word like
girl.
The examples are so many. But even in
the Quran, I collected about a whole page
of words that in, in the English language
that come from the Quran.
Right? And you see, like, this word is
actually is it's it's it's from the Arabi.
It's from the Quran.
So I'll give you the full list inshallah
when the book comes out. But anyway,
so these languages were affected by the Arabi
language and so many sciences
developed from the Quran.
For example,
Tajweed. Where did it come from? From the
Quran.
The 7 different were 10 different From what?
From the Quran.
From
the Quran.
You see for example, calligraphy.
It was done because of the Quran.
Even algebra, they say that it was developed
in part because of the, inheritance shares in
the Quran. They wanted to decide who takes
what, so in part they developed, the Quran.
Nahu and Saf and Balara, they were developed
to serve the Quran. And Nazir al Mansoor.
For example, As Bab al Nuzoor channeled Quran.
Right? So all of these signs were developed
to serve the Quran, balala, literate. It was
developed to to,
to, the you know, to take these jibs
from the Quran, al al Ma'ali, with Bayan,
with Badi'ah, and so on and so forth.
It it all revolved around the Quran, and
without the Quran, we wouldn't have these sciences
in Islam. So one of those sciences
is Sharun Nuzul as Babu Nuzul.
You can never understand the Quran
without understanding Sharun Nuzul. And this is the
focus of this talk in the next 5,
7 minutes inshallah.
So Shan'un Nuzul basically,
will help you understand the historical background of
the Ayat.
And it's as Va'am al Nuzul Bitu'altaylak,
kalfiid nuzul ayat.
So in the books of Sira and in
the books of Hadith and so on and
so forth, they will tell you,
these ayah will appear on a particular occasion.
If you read the ayah in Arabic or
even in Tajama,
and you don't know Saba'av al Nuzul, Ushar
al Nuzul, you cannot fully understand the meaning
of the ayah. And if this is the
case, if you don't fully understand the meaning,
you cannot relate to your life,
and you cannot understand.
And also, if you know the meaning of
the Ayah, or Asba'al Nuzul, or Asba'al Nuzul,
it will become easy for you to memorize.
The problem with a lot of our brothers
and sisters who memorize Quran,
memorizing the Quran is one of the greatest
things, and you will get the reward in
Afrah and so on and so forth.
But it is also important to understand what
you are memorizing.
Right? Because we don't need another copy of
the Quran. We already have so many on
the shelf.
We need people to memorize, but in the
meantime, they understand, and they are able to
apply what is in the Quran. Right?
So
one thing to help you understand and memorize
the Quran is to understand and you'll
be able to relate to your life.
And of course, there are so many books
that have been written on the subject.
Has written a book on aspabnuzul,
alwahidi,
Naysaburi. There are different different books, and they're
amazing.
So they are based on a hadith and
stories from the seelah. They say that this
ayah was revealed because of this and this
and this, and now it makes perfect sense
because now you get the full picture.
So for example, I'm gonna give you a
few examples of Asba'an Rasul
to see,
that it makes it easy to understand the
concept or the ayat. So for example,
there is a higher Surah Ma'idah,
and
it says,
O you who believe or O you believers,
do not ask about things
that if were if they were made to,
known to you if they were made known
to you, they will disturb you.
So in other words, mind your own business.
Don't ask about something that is it has
nothing to do with you. Like someone, for
example, will come to me and say, okay.
What's your mom's name? Well, it's none of
your business. You know? How much do you
make?
You know? What are you cooking for lunch?
I mean, why do you ask about these
things? You know?
So they say in Asaba'an Rasul that this
Ayah was revealed,
because some of the Sahaba would come and
ask unnecessary
questions.
Right? So one of the Sahaba would come
and say, Rasool Allah,
what do I have in my pocket?
Yeah. Because they knew that the prophet was
getting wahian.
So, you know, so they just wanted to
have a good time. So some came with
some good questions, beneficial,
and and some came with unnecessary questions.
I share this with the students of the
Islamic school here. Some of them come with
excellent questions like, InshaAllah, when we live on
the moon, which way will the qiblah be?
Okay. When we get there, InshaAllah, we'll think
about this. We'll have Mujhan Mafakhi, and we'll
talk about this. Someone else will say, Okay,
Shaykh,
Jin. Do they give birth or lay eggs?
Who cares, man? Who cares?
And Shaitan, when the Shaitan whispers to you,
does does Shaitan whisper in the right ear
or the left ear? Who cares? You know,
doesn't really matter.
So they would come, and this is what
we have in the books of As Baba
Nuzzul, some of the saiyan, You Rasulullah, what
do I have in my pocket?
Or, what did I have for breakfast?
Or, where is my camel? I lost my
camel. Do you know where it is? You
know. And someone even come and say, Razzulullah,
who is my dad?
I know my dad, but who really is
my dad?
So, if he told you that this Ibrahim,
for example, is your your dad, the one
you call your dad, he's actually your dad.
Okay. But what if he told you that
your dad was somebody else? Your life would
be drew would be ruined and you would
live a miserable life. Right?
So the Prophet
told him, okay, why do you guys keep
asking all these questions?
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala revealed in the
Quran, if you would like to ask the
Prophet SAW AHSALAM a question, you'll have to
give salatah first.
Now, no one is coming,
including those who had good questions, but they
didn't have money.
So they made it difficult for everyone.
Only this ruling applied only to Alib Nabi
Talib radiAllahu. He had a serious question, he
gave he gave salata, and he asked a
question,
And the prophet
realized that some of those who had some
good questions, they were shy because they didn't
have anything to offer for salatah,
and they kept the questions for themselves. So
you see, when people make things difficult for
everyone, and they ask unnecessary questions. So keep
telling people, if you have a beneficial question,
ask it, Alhamdulillah.
But if it's unnecessary or an unbeneficial question,
don't ask. So on and so forth.
Another example we read at the end of
Surah Jumah, the ayat I just recited in
the first rakah.
So if you read the Ayat,
and you don't read you don't know the
historical background, the Ayat would not really make
a lot of sense to you. Interjama'a or
Imil in Tarsil. You have to read as
Babu Nuzoor or Shahan al Nuzoor.
So, Shahanul Nuzul is,
the Prophet
was in Madinah, it was a time of
famine, people were starving,
and the Prophet was giving,
the way they did salatuljumah
initially was like Eid.
So the Prophet
would start with salah,
then he would do Khuba at the end.
This is what they say in as Bab
al Nuzul.
So what happened? The Prophet
finished the tour against Salatul Jum'ah. He was
standing there giving a Khuba,
and
when the caravan came, getting food and and
stuff from Syria or from Yemen,
they would come with a fanfare,
like, they have drums and stuff and,
you know, nes mashemah marebi tabdilloo ri zammar.
So so when the people who were sitting
in the Masjid for the Khuba, they heard
the fanfare.
Everyone disappeared.
They left the prophet
almost
by himself.
Only a couple of people, 5, 6, 7
people, everybody else gone.
They went to get some to share of
the caravan and and the fanfare, the amusement.
So from that day on, the prophet
said,
Khutba first, salah last.
Because if you prayed,
you will excuse yourself and leave anytime you
want. But if you listen to the Khutba,
even if something is happening outside, you can't
leave because you haven't prayed.
So this is the way it has been
ever since. So when you hear this, Shanaan
Azul and the background,
this will, change your perspective on the Ayat
and you understand. Even when we're translating the
Quran, if you know Shal'an al Azul, it
will help you use the right words.
Use the right words
based on your understanding of Shal'an al Azul.
But if you don't know why the ayat
was revealed, what it is talking about, you
can just use the dictionary,
word, and it doesn't make any sense. And
this is true for a lot of, translations.
They just put words together,
and they don't really mean anything. Right?
So we ask Allah
to give us beneficial knowledge and give us
what is best in this life and what
is best in
the
next
life.