Mustafa Khattab – Tafsir Quran Gems 1
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About
this is the first halakh of the
this of series series inshallah.
So,
the halal, I'm gonna keep it short in
about 15 minutes,
because they have their, tazweed halal,
the group here. I don't want to take
home their time.
So, but come November inshallah with the time
change, would we start preparing be praying asha
at 7?
Then we have about an hour, and they
start this Tazhiz Halakah at 8 inshallah. So
there would be no conflict.
Why do you need to study tafsir? Understand
the tafsir.
And the last of tafsir,
will,
It's We'll, nahuwa aktah siyalah in the next
15 minutes to answer these two questions.
Why do you need to study tafsir?
And also,
what are the the best tafsir resources we
have?
So
So if someone does not understand the Quran,
first of all they would not be able
to understand the message of the Quran
And number 2, the Quran will not impact
them.
So say for example, if whether you are
Arab or non Arab, then SubhanAllah even hadafu
waqtil Nabi SAWSAWHAN
So even at the time of the Sahaba,
the masters of the Arabic language,
some of the words in the Quran were
not known to them because they were used
by other tribes and
other dialects. So the word some of the
words were not known to them. Like this
Ayah, Inahu, Dhanahl, and Yahuur, and Juz'amah.
So Umar Ridullah Anhu and some other Sahawares
said, I didn't know what this word meant,
Yahuur.
Because we don't use it. It's an Arabic
word, but I I I don't know what
it means.
So he said, one time I was traveling,
and I came across this Alabiya Bedouin,
and they are very, like, very deep in
the language.
And she had a daughter, and her daughter
was running away, and she told her Khorid
Khorid, come back.
So he said, I know Fakih Atan Mu'Abba
and Abba
I know Fakih Atan, it means fruit, but
what about this word Abba? I I don't
know what it means.
Even at the time of the Sahaba.
So the Abba is basically the fodder or
the grass that you give to your animals,
and so on and so forth. So some
of the words were not understood to them.
And also some of the concepts in the
Quran, and I'm gonna give a few examples,
how they were explained in the Quran and
in the sunnah of the prophet.
And this explains why in in Tarawiyah, for
example, in Ramadan,
those who understand the meaning they are touched,
and they start crying and so on. But
those who don't know what the Ayat are
talking about, they're just standing there like they
don't know what is going on. Right? So
the first step towards understanding in the Quran
is to be touched by the Quran. And
and you know what it means.
And, some of ithanihuwa
masala talat tadabbur
reflecting on the Quran and extracting all these
gems in in the Quran. You cannot do
this if you don't know what the Quran
means.
If you don't understand how can you apply
the Quran to your life?
So you need to understand
and study the Tafsir to know the meaning
of the Quran so you'll be touched by
the Quran, you apply it to your life
and so on and so forth. And then
Amrithali
al Thalif
So usually those who start,
new deviant groups in Islam,
they manipulate the Quran to make a point.
Yani Methilen
I'm not sure if I mentioned this before.
So I gave one example for a different
digging group, Ashad Khalifa was an agent he
came from Egypt.
Back in the 1980s, he moved from the
Egypt to the US,
and he became very popular when he
released
this, study on,
the,
the numerical message of the Quran, and he
said the number 19 is the core of
the Quran. And people appreciated him, they applauded
him, and everything, and at some point
late in the 19 eighties, early 19 nineties,
he claimed to be a prophet,
Ida Anubhoo. And there are so many videos
by him talking about how he is a
prophet, and he's warning people that in the
early 19 nineties,
Al Qiyamah will begin and everyone would die
and you have to believe in me and
so on and so forth.
So the 19 nineties came and gone and
no Qiyamah. Actually his Qiyamah came. He died
in 1991.
He was killed in his, so called Masjid.
No one knows who killed him until this
day. Right?
But the point was when people asked him,
You claim to be Nabi, Prophet.
What is your Dalil? What is your proof?
He said, It's right there in the Quran.
In Surah Baqarah, ayah,
33 in the Surah, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says, Inni jayunfil Abdul Kalifa.
And He said, I'm placing a Khalifa on
Earth,
and it says right there, Khalifa, and this
is my last name, it has to be
me. So they said people said, Abiyan,
and tens of thousands of people, they followed
him. And and the examples are so many.
Another thing is,
lamat Ismail
You don't understand the meaning. If someone has,
Shubha or an argument or doubts about Islam,
and you don't know the meaning, you will
not be able to respond
to
them. Taba'anfil,
fitahasiriyyan,
a few days ago,
there was this YouTube
video,
about an hour, and and the title was
Scientific Miracles of the Quran. And this is
something I'd like to, to explore.
It turned out to be an attack on
the Quran. So this guy, I think he's
an Egyptian,
then Muslim, and he's attacking the Quran.
And in this video, he's listing some of
the scientific mistakes in the Quran and one
of them according to him these are not
mistakes and of course he's using
the Tajama. I think he's using Yusuf Ali
or someone says look what these mistakes in
the Quran and he's using translation.
The Quran is not a translation. This is
someone's understanding of the Quran. So it should
not be used against the
Right? So it says in the Tajaba, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is is the one who
built,
the heavens, Samah,
with pillars that you cannot see.
But the actual understanding of the Ayyat, Allah
is the one who created the heavens, the
earth the heavens and the earth without pillars,
as you can see. There are no pillars.
Right? And he said, based on this, that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala plays the mountains on
earth, so
the heavens
does not collapse on you.
The actual understanding of the Ayay Allah plays
the mountains so the earth doesn't shake. It
doesn't talk about the the heavens, It talks
about the Earth.
So it doesn't move the tectonic movements and
so on and so forth.
And because of his misunderstanding of the pronoun,
he says, Allah is saying, just because He
put put the mountains on Earth,
the heavens do not fall down on us.
It's a totally different understanding based on the
translation of the Quran. You Nizamah
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So a lot of people they're saying, yeah,
you are right. These are, mistakes and so
on and so forth because they don't know
the meaning of the Quran or the tafsir
of the Quran. And if there is any
Muslim who's not well educated, they will say,
Yeah. Exactly the same thing. I have no
problem with that.
So, Yani, when they listen to some of
the big Quran,
you know, they say Allah Yani, they are
excited when he reads Ayat about Jannah.
And they say, Yeah Allah, yes we are
excited, and so on and so forth. And
they do the exact same thing when he
talks about Jahannam. People are being roasted and
you know, in Jahannam, and and and they
saw the same excitement and mashaAllah Takbeer. What
are you doing man? You don't understand the
meaning.
Your reaction should be different. Hatan al Nabi
sah Wassalam, we know from the Hadith, when
he passed by an Ayah that talks about,
Jannah he said, You Allah give us Jannah.
And when he came across an ayah that
says that talks about Jahanam, he would say,
You Allah protect us from Jahanam. And and
so on and so forth.
So the Quran has been
associated with someone's voice. Like I was giving
the example when you get in someone's car,
you know, they say, Well, would you like
me to play something in the car? They
say, Yeah, play Abdu Basim, play Hasari, play
this. They are not talking about the Quran,
they talk about the voice of the Sheikh,
not because they like a certain Surah because
of the of the meanings of the Ayat.
Fiyarajal inshallah fiflal,
Dafar munafi shawba.
And, Abdal Taliqalifamil
So if you want to understand the Quran,
the Quran explains itself. No one can explain
the Quran better than Allah and the Prophet
SAW. When Quran Yashla Nassuqtarib thing.
Tariq Muqashil Wutaribir Muqashil.
You remember that Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala Mepur was
Samayi Wa Taar po Ma'aduraqimatara.
What is the Taar? We don't know. So
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in the next Ayah,
He will say,
Umal Anajmuuthaatin
kalaka Allah will explain it right away.
This nightly star is a piercing star, and
it does this and this and this.
So for about several ayaat, it explains what
a Zaqum is in Surah Safat. Right after
it says,
do you know what Zaqum is?
Because the Sahaba didn't know and the Wushigu
they didn't know. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
explained to them on the spot in the
next about 10 ayaats, this is what this
tree is all about
and so on and so forth. It talks
about its stains, taste, it talks about its
fruit, and it it talks about,
this tree growing in the depth of *,
and so on and so forth. Fasarih Qur'al
Inafsi Mubasharat, the right after
it explains terms and meanings and so on
and so forth, or it explains somewhere else
in the Quran. And this is why it
is good to read the Quran from cover
to cover. Otherwise, you wouldn't know.
So when this ayah was revealed in the
Quran that talks about Zul, those who believe
they have faith and they don't mix their
faith or Zul. So the Sahaba said, You
Rasulullah, but we commit Zulullah all the time.
We make mistakes.
And the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam explained to
them, No, this is not the meaning. The
meaning is mentioned in Surah Al Uqman. It
says, latushriq billah in nasirkal al zumminarim. Don't
commit shirk. Shirk is the worst of all
wrongs.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala explains zulm as
shirk in this ay.
The other way
Allah has
the keys of the unseen. No one knows
what this means. Surah An'am is surah
6.
And this is explained
the very last ayah of Surah Nuqman.
So
the last ayah of Surah Uqman explains the
keys of the unseen that no one knows
except Allah. Like the time for Qiyamah,
where you are going to die, how much
money you will make,
you know, all the information about rain and
what is in the wounds, if this baby
would be male or female,
if this person will go to Jannah or
go to Jahannam, if this person will do
good deeds or bad deeds, and and so
on and so forth. So the Ayat explained,
each other but in different places.
So the prophet says,
this is the way Jahannam would be brought
forth to people,
pulled by 70,000
angels, and the prophet
described the manner of pulling. So he gave
them a hadith
to explain.
Fihadif din alintembezikhas
1 minute will be non insolent, so don't
shoot.
So
the
Ayat talks about the people of Himan, and
it says those who do whatever they do
and their hearts are shaking with fear.
She said, You Rasulullah, does this ayah talk
about the people who commit zina, they drink,
they steal and so no no no. Vaqal
al Nabi al Salam no. It's la laysahada
It doesn't talk about this.
The meaning of this ayah,
those who do good deeds, they pray namaz,
they fasten Ramadan, they give zakat, they do
Hajj,
and they are not sure whether Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala will accept them their deeds and
reward them for it, or He will throw
their deeds back on their faces based on
their niyyah intention.
So
the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam explained
the meaning of this ay. The last one
I
will mention,
So when this ayah was revealed in Surah
Tawba,
it talks about the, you know, the Christians,
the and the Jews, they take the rabbis
and priests as lords besides Allah. Priests as
lords
besides
Allah.
So the highest says that they take
the the Jews and the Christians, they take
their rabbis and their priests as lords besides
Allah, but this is not true. They they
don't worship them.
So the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam said, do
the Rabbis and the Priests,
they do they turn halal into haram for
them? He said, yes. And he said, do
they turn halal into haram for them? He
said, yes.
And the Prophet SAWHAN said, Do they obey
them? And he said, Yes. So the Prophet
SAWHAN said, This is how they worship them.
They take them as lords besides Allah. Because
it's Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala who declares what
Haram is and what halal is, not these
people.
So if they turn halal into Haram and
Haram into halal, they take
the authority of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. This
is the job of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and not them.
So we'll continue next week inshaAllah. We ask
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give us beneficial
knowledge.