Nouman Ali Khan – Does He Dare Think Bones Wont Come Together – Surah Al-Qiyamah
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The Quran is a title that describes the relationship between the title and the human being. There are multiple narrations and examples related to the title, including the use of " "time" in English translation and the importance of "we" in English for the body after death. The transcript describes the construction of a construction from the earth and the importance of "we" in the process of "ramim," which refers to the process of "ramim," and the "weaker bodies" that is caused by genetic changes. The transcript also touches on the loss of body tissue and the depletion of bones, as well as the process of regeneration of skeletal tissue and DNA. The best DNA comes from the DNA of humans, but the limit is seven hundred thousand years.
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When Allah says, what does he think is
not going to happen?
He dares to think bones will not come
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you What does the Quran do?
The Quran places the human being at the
spiritual center of the skies and the earth
Inna fis samawati wal ardi la ayatin lil
mu'mineen The skies and the earth the vastness
of the universe has ayat for believers for
believers It's it's incredible to me that when
we Have a conversation with Allah in the
Fatiha right If I'm reciting the Fatiha, I'm
speaking and my voice travels at the speed
of sound doesn't it?
What's faster the speed of sound or the
speed of light?
Okay light the universe is measured the age
of the universe is measured with the speed
of light and The speed of light roughly
What is it 14 trillion billion years something
the age of the universe is now being
kind of determined in those numbers, right?
That means light had to travel for that
many billions of years To reach us.
That's the farthest light we can imagine and
that's giving us the age of the universe
so that we know But when I say
the Fatiha and I say alhamdulillah rabbil alameen
my voice Travels through all of this universe,
which is just the first sky Through the
second sky through the third fourth fifth sixth
and seventh sky and reaches the Arsh of
Allah and above the Arsh of Allah it
reaches Allah and Allah responds Hamidani abdi my
servant made humd of me.
How powerful is the rule?
How powerful is the vicar of Allah?
How powerful is the human being that he
or she is connected to Allah beyond so
powerfully that the entire universe and beyond becomes
insignificant in Comparison to the connection that the
human being has with Allah whoa whoa, we
science is saying we're just a particle of
dust and The zikr of Allah makes the
entire universe a particle of dust compared to
our connection with Allah With it gets mind
-blowing.
It's so mind-blowing subhanAllah.
Anyway Let's go on Next ayah.
ayah sabul insanu allan najma aizamahu Wa adaiy
ibn wabi rubai'a wa khatan.
So this is a first narration Let me
just translate this ayah first and I'll read
this narration to you that has the human
being Reckoned as the human being calculated as
the human being figured That we are not
going to gather his bones Re-gather his
bones.
That's the ayah Okay.
This is a narration from Wa khatanu al
-akhnas ibn shuraik wa huma alladhani kan al
-nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam yaqulu fihima allahumma
kfiri jari yassuq Audaiy ibn wabi rubai'a
and khatan al-akhnas ibn shuraik These two
people the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used
to say ya Allah you be enough for
me against evil neighbors And these were the
two evil neighbors, right?
They said to him one day Sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, ya muhabbat hadithni an yawm al
qiyama matayakoon wakayfayakoon amroo Hey Muhammad, tell me
about this resurrection day.
When's it gonna happen?
And how's it gonna be?
Can you describe it?
And they're trolling right?
They're just That's how they're asking Fakhbarahu rasool
Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam faqal So Rasool
Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam described it and
they said or he said law aayantu thalika
al yawm lam usaddiqka ya muhammad If I
saw that day myself, I still wouldn't believe
you Muhammad Look at his arrogance walamu o'min
bihi and I wouldn't believe it and even
if I saw it And then he says
awa yajma'u allahu ta'ala hadhi il
-i'zam Oh God is gonna, we're gonna
become bones and God's gonna what put these
bones together?
And Allah revealed the ayah ayah sabul-insanu
allan najma'a idhamahu Does a human being
reckon that we will not gather his bones?
another narration related to this muqila Abu Jahl,
it was also said that similar statements were
made by Abu Jahl waruwiya ka annahu kana
yaqood yaz'um muhammadun an yajma'u allahu
ta'ala hadhi il-i'zam ba'da balaiha
wa tafarruqiha fa yu'idaha khalqan jadeedan Muhammad
assumes that God the Almighty is going to
bring these bones together after they've decayed and
they've been Separated and he will bring them
back together a new creation And then this
ayah came down So these people thought yeah,
you believe you believe in what?
Also these that if I dig up this
grave and I find some remains of some
bones, they're gonna come back together We're all
gonna be skeletons man Come on, Muhammad.
Seriously, this is what you want us to
believe?
This was the condescending attitude and Allah put
it in the form of a question in
this ayah wa ta'rifu al-insan ta
'rifu al-jins and Allah when he says
al-insan He's not just saying the human
being like Abu Jahl or Akhnas or Uday.
He is talking about Human beings I want
you to understand something about narrations when they
occur Describing an ayah.
Sometimes we have a simplistic understanding of that
The ayat of the Quran, umumul laft yadullu
ala umumil ma'na The when the language
is open the meaning is open and it
can apply to a specific situation, but it
can never be limited to the specific situation
So these examples that were just given in
the narration apply to this ayah, but that
doesn't limit this ayah, you understand There you
think of it as those are two case
studies for this ayah But there can be
a million other case studies where the ayah
applies.
You understand when we don't understand that we
think oh Oh, no, no, no.
No, you can't think about that ayah unless
you only talk about those narrations.
That's not true That's not true.
If Allah wanted that he would have mentioned
their names instead of saying al-insan Allah
is a much better speaker than you and
me Allah can be much more accurate than
you and I can be.
If he means one person He will mention
that one person by name, isn't it?
So when he says al-insan, he is
making it open-ended and that's what he
means here by ta'rif al-jins wa
huwa umumul urfiyan manzoorun fihi ila ghalib al
-nasi yawma yathin yathkana almuminoona qaleelan Alusi says
and by the way, the ayah came down
most people were non-muslims So this cannot
even be referring to just disbelievers or just
believers.
It's referring to everybody Especially at the time
because at the time believers were very few
That they were just they're not that many
wa ji'a bi harfi lan This is
because our mufassirun focus on word by word,
right?
So the ayah says has the human being
assumed that we shall not Put his bones
together.
The shall not is the word lan.
So this is a comment on the word
shall not, okay wa ji'a bi harfi
lan ad-daal ala ta'qid al-nafi
li hikayati itiqad al-mushrikeen lan is used
for Nah, it's never gonna happen Have they
imagined that it will never ever happen.
It's it's absolutely impossible so the strength of
their refutation is Embedded inside the word lan
and I wanted to include notes like this
in this in this lecture because I want
you to know that When you're reading an
English translation of the Quran sometimes the power
of a particular word Allah chose in the
ayah is not coming through in the translation
and It's not the translators fault No other
language can do what God does in his
own original speech right, so There's so much
missing that we miss out on like imagine.
Somebody says, okay, and somebody says, okay, and
Somebody says, okay and All you got was
hey, they said, okay Did you miss something?
Yeah, the intonations the context the emotion something
was missing The same way there is a
lot packaged in the language of the Quran
and the translation sometimes is not able to
capture that Right, and so the false assumption
that I've read the translation.
Therefore.
I know what the Quran is saying You
know a glimpse of what the Quran is
saying you've dipped your finger in the ocean
That was this ayah and it got a
little wet, but you did not experience the
ocean That's that's what I want you to
understand about translation and its limitations.
Okay?
وقرأها قتالة تجبع بتاء الفوقية مبنيا للمفعول Another
reading of this ayah is أَيَحْسَبُ الْإِنسَانُ أَن
لَن تُجْمَعَ عِظَامُهُ The passive form which would
mean has the human being assumed that his
bones shall not be gathered So one reading
is we shall not gather his bones meaning
Allah And the other reading is that his
bones shall not be gathered.
Both of those meanings are possible in the
readings of this ayah فَفِعْلُ نَجْبَعُ مُسْتَعَارٌ لِلْخَلْقِ
الَّذِي هُوَ عَلَى صُورَةَ الْجِسِمِ الَّذِي بَلِيَ And
the word bones is being used as a
reference to the whole body coming back together
Like forget bringing back the skin and bringing
back the veins and bringing back the organs
and bringing back the liver and bringing back
the brain God's not even gonna bring back
the bones That's what they're trying to say
like Forget bringing everything else back.
You can't even bring the bones back So
they're using the bones as a statement for
how impossible the rest of it is How
impossible the rest of it is, you know
By the way, I didn't include it today.
I want you to research yourself.
What happens to the body after death It's
gonna be a gruesome read But read it
Look up articles on what happens to the
body hours after death, weeks after death, months
after death What does the body go through?
Meaning what will I be going through?
There you know, you know, there are episodes
of decay There are certain kinds of you
know, gases that get released, toxins that actually
kill the soil around the dead body they're
that toxic and Then when when maggots come
that's which is a phase and they start
eating away at all of the liquid that
comes out and all Of the bacteria they
consume it eventually the maggots are done and
they borrow holes so the corpse has holes
all around it that the the insects have
left through because they're done and then other
kinds of insects come and consume the rest
and another phase comes in another there's actually
a kind of a We our bodies become
a multi-course meal for multiple species Actually
and Eventually just the bones are left in
the average bones in a normally decay like
buried soil, it takes about 50 years for
them to disappear and the the Pharaohs had
developed a special embalming method where the Bacteria
wasn't able to penetrate the bone to deteriorate
it That's why you find those, you know
records of the mummies mummification and all of
that.
But otherwise these bones just Go keep keep
disappearing.
I found something so fascinating today.
I hope I can explain this to you
in simple form.
I Got you know when when Allah speaks
about something I just my mind just goes
into that universe So when he says bones
will not come together, obviously, he's talking about
dead bodies right and decaying bones He talks
about decaying bones in three ways in the
Quran Okay, Allah talks about decaying bones and
this comment by disbelievers that bones will not
come together This comment is made in three
ways.
So one way is Qala man yuhyi al
-idhama wa hiya ramim So the word used
is ramim as a description of decaying bones.
I'll explain in a second what ramim means
Then aitha kunna idhaman wa rufatan, a'inna
lamab'uthuna khalqan jadida, rufat So ramim and
rufat and then Allah says aitha kunna idhaman
nakhira Qalu tilka idhan kardatun khasira, fa innama
hiya zajratun wahida fa idha'un bisahira.
So ramim, rufat, and nakhir Ramim, rufat, and
nakhir are all three descriptions of decaying bones
So I'm going to briefly tell you about
them.
Ramim is Something that becomes that dilapidates something
that deteriorates something that weakens When a rope
gets old, it's actually also called a rimah.
Well, you know when the fibers start coming
out on a rope That would be a
rimah or you know, some of your hoodies
that get those weird furballs on them It's
starting to become ramim Okay, so when when
the rope starts deteriorating, it's ramim.
When the bone starts decaying It's called ramim
And it's also another important word, al-irmam
is actually silence or barely audible sounds That's
why they say aramma al-qawmu sakatu Or
they say tarmumu al-qawmu idha harraqu afwahahum
bil-kalaam walam yusrihu When they move their
mouths, but they're not clear about what they're
saying In other words when bones become so
decayed that they're crackling sounds like you know
The rope that's about to snap makes this
I'm not good at that The sound you
know I'm talking about That sound that can
be made by dead bones just crackling That
sound is also called tarmum, comes from the
same word ramim.
In other words the sounds of death Lifeless
sound The sound of something that no longer
has any any life in it.
The sound that's the equivalent of silence This
is the word ramim I Want you to
remember that.
So ramim is decay and the sound of
near silence, okay?
Let's go to the next one.
Then we'll come back.
I skipped one.
No, nakhira, okay Nakhira is nakhrata al-anf.
The nostrils are called the nakhra nakhra Urdu
people, bra nakhra iska?
Iskibari naakchari viya?
Okay, this is nakhra.
This is the nostrils.
Anything that is hollow on the inside is
nakhra Anything hollow on the inside is nakhra.
When the bones become hollow on the inside,
meaning the outside is there But actually the
inside's already been eaten up, right?
Then they are bones that have hollowed out.
They are called nakhira So the first one
was it became weak and it's making sounds.
The second one is it's becoming hollow So
it's next level, isn't it?
It's the next level.
Then there's the third level and that is
Why is this right?
Okay.
Rufat, al-hutamu min kulli shay.
Takassar, tafattutu shay, al-hish, al-athna, insihakuhu
duqaqan When something becomes crushed to powder So
if you have for example like Rock salt
or something like that and you beat it
until it becomes powder, that's hutam, that's rufat
So when the bones not only have they
decayed, not only have they become hollow, now
they are powder Now they're just scattered little
particles That's called what?
Rufat, okay?
Rufat Now and by the way, when something
is crushed completely, it means it's completely wasted,
isn't it?
There's nothing of it left It's just dust
left now.
It's turned to dust.
Now, here's the amazing thing I didn't know
this.
I was today years old when I found
this out.
The first one was Rameem.
What do you remember about Rameem?
Hmm.
Watch this.
Surah Yaseen, huh?
Surah Yaseen Allah says, he says, who will
give life to the bones when they are
Rameem?
Man yuhyi al-'idhama wa hiya Rameem?
Yeah?
You know what Allah says right before this?
He says He says Listen carefully.
Didn't we, didn't the human being see that
we created him from a fluid, the sperm?
fa-itha huwa khaseemun mubeen, and he starts
making open arguments wa dharabalana mathalan, and he
starts giving all kinds of theories about God,
about us wa nasiya khalqahu, and he forgot
how he was made himself.
In other words, people do empty talk People
do what?
Empty talk about Allah, and then they have
the audacity to say, and these bones, when
they make empty sounds, Rameem So before Allah
even mentioned their empty sounds, Allah mentioned their
own empty sounds when they make, when they
talk about Allah Their own, their own words
are like Rameem before they become Rameem now
The second one, what did nakhirah mean?
Do you remember?
Hollow.
Hollow means empty on the inside, and they
say yaquluna ayna lamarduduna filhaafira When we are
being put, put down into the holes, when
we are being filled into the graves So
the grave is being filled, and the bones
are being what?
Hollowed, subhanAllah The third one was, what was
it?
What is rufaat, what does it mean?
Becomes completely wasted, crushed, it's no use anymore
By the way, khutam is also used for,
when you know the fall leaves They dried
up leaves, when you step on them, and
they just crackle up And they're just completely
useless stuff on the ground that helps you
get worse allergies That stuff is called khutam
and rufaat also, okay?
Now, Allah says, unzur kayfa darabu laka al
-amthal fa dallu Look how they talk about
you, look the theories they make about you
They are lost, they are put to waste
They are put to waste, dallu, that just
means lost, by the way, dallal in Arabic
means something that's wasted completely Just like what
they say, the bones are going to be
what?
Wasted completely, then he says, I didn't tell
you another meaning of rufaat, rufaat also means
a rope that gets cut A connection that
gets cut A rope connects one end to
the other, right?
Which is similar to a road, because a
road connects one end to the other Allah
says in this ayah, unzur kayfa darabu laka
al-amthal fa dallu fa la yastati'una
sabila, and they can't find the path They
can't, by the way, sabila is also used
for rope And the word rufaat is used
for a rope that gets cut off So
it's just even the subtle usage of words
in the Quran, you know And the deterioration
of bones being presented in such such beautiful
fashion.
Okay, before I conclude this, we're gonna do
ten ayat today This is ayah number three
Before we conclude, cell replacement Let's talk about
that, because they're saying bones can't be replaced.
How are bones gonna come back together?
Listen to this, humans maintain function and health
through continuous cells renewal.
Our cells are dying all the time Each
with its own lifespan.
Gastrointestinal tracts, cells renew every few days Every
few days, your entire gastrointestinal system, the cells
are being regenerated They're dying and new ones
are being born, meaning life and death is
happening inside my body all the time There
are millions of skin cells that die on
us every day You know, most of the
dust in your home is dead skin cells.
Did you know that?
Look it up.
Fun fact You're breathing your own dead skin
cells in and then sneezing them out Red
blood cells, every 120 days they die and
are regenerated.
Over a 24-hour period, almost a million
skin cells are lost Dead skin cells are
the main component of dust that collects on
the surface in your home Jeez, in other
words, resurrection is happening every day.
I am being, my skin is being resurrected
every day My bones are being resurrected every
few months Now let's talk about the bones.
This was just the cells.
Bone regeneration Bones undergo constant remodeling, balancing, resorption,
and formation for strength and repair.
Bones are constantly being reconstructed, basically Osteoclasts, medical
students are gonna laugh at me for not
knowing these things But anyway, osteoclasts break down
old bone tissue and osteoblasts synthesize new bone
formation Rates, meaning the rates at which bones
regenerate changes.
When they're children, they regenerate quicker.
As you get older, they regenerate slower and
slower.
On average, about 10% of bones regenerate
annually.
So 10, every 10 years my bones have
completely been replaced Every 10 years, roughly The
ongoing bone turnover is vital for remaining skeletal
integrity throughout life.
They're like, how is God going to regenerate
bones?
Really They didn't have Wikipedia back then is
the problem.
This question wouldn't have happened.
Allah is regenerating bones already He's already doing
it.
He's already regenerating cells in your body You
know, some people had this philosophical question back
in the day Okay, when we die, our
bodies deteriorate.
Some parts of it is eaten by insects,
some eaten by birds, some eaten by the
soil Right, then they go into plants and
the plant grows and a cow comes and
eats it and the cow does what it
does later And then it goes into soil
and it comes out as a carrot and
then somebody eats that carrot and then they
you know do what they do and so
I've Parts of me have gone through quite
a bit of a cycle So when Allah's
gonna bring it back, how's he gonna bring
all that back?
You know, is it the same cells that
are gonna be brought back?
No, because Allah has actually, look think of
it this way that the mass of this
earth is roughly the same, right?
The earth is roughly the same and people
have lived and died on this earth for
all these generations But they didn't add to
the mass of this earth.
The components from which human beings are made
were already here But they were reused and
were recycled creatures Human beings are recycled.
The organic matter of which I am made,
the atoms of which I am made was
probably sitting on top of some volcano at
some point or it was on the wings
of a bird at some point and now
it's part of my body and Eventually, it's
going to be on the back of some
insect, right?
So I'm being regenerated from منها خَلَقْنَاكُمْ وَفِيهَا
نُعِيدُكُمْ وَمِنْهَا نُخْرِجُكُمْ تَارَةً أُخْرَى We created you
from this earth and in it we will
return you and from it we will resurrect
you again It's not the individual cells, but
the construction itself the construction itself We are
made from this earth and we will be
regenerated from this earth.
The final construction we put back together, right?
So That's a little bit about bone integrity.
I'm almost done with this ayah الْحَمْزَةُ لِإِنْكَارِ
الْوَاقِعَ وَاسْتِقْبَاحِهِ وَالْتَوْبِّيخِ عَلَيْهِ It's as if Allah
is saying, let me translate this in easy
terms أَا يَحْسَبُ الْإِنسَانِ The human being dares
to even think that we will not Resurrect
his bones, not gather his bones again After
those two oaths in the beginning It's as
if Allah is saying and after all of
that evidence, that's so clear.
You have the audacity to think in this
way You dare to imagine this, assume this
and by the way يَحْسَبُ means to assume
As if human beings are not even convinced
that it won't happen.
They just assume it won't happen So it's
as if the lack of faith isn't stemming
from an opposing conviction.
It's just an assumption Allah is offering conviction
and in response.
You're just offering assumption.
SubhanAllah Okay, this is the last one.
I promise DNA, the future of storage data
Fossilization preserves DNA in strands long enough to
gain an animal's entire genome.
All the genes present in an organism are
inside the bones Thank you for sharing that
by the way, really helpful Scientists have extracted
and sequenced the genome of a hundred and
ten thousand year old polar bear and more
recently a 700,000 year old horse Just
one, listen to this, just one gram of
DNA is theoretically capable of containing all the
data of the internet giants Such as Google
and Facebook with room to spare.
One gram of DNA The limit, the time
limit with DNA in fossils is about seven
hundred thousand years But people speculate about finding
1 million year storage data of genomic material
in fossil bones In just bones.
Human bones discovered in the Cima de los
Huesos cave in Spain shows maternally inherited mitochondrial
data, DNA, that is 400,000 years old.
A new record for human remains.
The best DNA comes from sources that are
ceramically dry So teeth, bones and even eggshells
contain DNA information.
In other words, the map of the schematic
design of my entire body is stored inside
what?
The bones Interestingly Allah mentions the bones SubhanAllah.
You think we're not going to bring that
together?
I said that was the last one, right?
I lied Okay, this this was the last
one.
Hey, you know what, you'll get over it.
This is Lucy, he said something so, actually
this is Ibn Ashur.
He said look at it Allah used the
word bala in the next ayah.
Of course not Meaning have you assumed that
we will not bring?
Absolutely false Abtu bala Awalan.
Wahad fi jawabil qasam.
Remember Allah took the oaths, but didn't say
anything after the oaths He didn't say I
swear by judgment day that it's real.
He didn't say that it's real It was
like there was no need to say the
jawab by not giving the jawab.
Wal yithyan bi qawlihi subhanahu ayahsabu By using
the words ayahsabu.
Has he imagined?
Has he assumed?
Wari'ayatu huslubi wathanayaka innaha ighreedun innaha ighreedun,
wathanayaka innaha ighreedun is a famous poem and
Allah used the style that was known to
the Arabs from that poem And what's that
style?
fil qasami bi yawmil ba'thi wal mab'uthi
fihi Meaning Allah mentioned the the oath Which
is about the day of resurrection and the
one who will be resurrected in it Yawmul
qiyamah is resurrection and nafsul lawwama is the
nafs that will be resurrected in it Both
of them combined together and this yellow note
is actually Zamafshiri explaining that that that poem
But let's keep going.
Thumma itharu lafdil husban Then Allah preferring the
word husban Wal yithyan bi hamzati al-inkar
musnadan hila al-jins And then using ayahsabu
al-insan as if Allah is commenting about
any and every human being Bi harfi al
-hijab Then by using the word bala The
harf of hijab Wal halu ba'daha, we're going
to see that in the next session Minal
mubalaghat fi tahqeeqil matloob, wa tafqeemihi, wa tahjeenil
mu'ridhi alil isti'adadi lahu Oof, he
says look at every one of these words
A, yahsabu, al-insan, an, lannajma, idhamal Then
the word bala that's coming in the next
ayah Look at, ponder each one of them
and you will see the grandeur of Allah
in this ayah You will feel the power
of God responding to this defiant human being
And he says, ma tubhiru aja'ibuhu thumma
al-husnu kullu al-husn fi dhimni harfi
al-idwab fi qawlihi subhanahu Man, this wasn't
Ibn Ashun, it was Alusi, rahimahullah, al-ruhu
al-ma'ani Look at every one of
these pieces and just feel the grandeur of
Allah When Allah says, what does he think
is not going to happen?
He dares to think bones will not come
together?
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