Shakiel Humayun – Life on Mars Tarawih Talk 11 Ramadan 2023
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The speaker discusses the use of surah Al Qaeda, which is the story of man and the creation of life on Mars. The speaker explains that the surah is not negating the existence of life elsewhere, but rather bringing the subject first and then the " AD" comes second. The speaker also clarifies that the definition of exclusivity is not for the human race, but for the beast's creation.
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Alhamdulillah. Tonight, we have entered this beautiful Surah,
Al A'raf,
which means
something that's very elevated.
Al A'raf is the position
where people will stand
on the day of
judgment between the hellfire and paradise, people whose
good deeds
equal their bad deeds,
and they await the judgment of Allah
So imagine
just saying one more,
one more,
would have tipped the scales
and made the good deeds greater than the
bad deeds. But this surah is the story
of man.
As Allah addresses man by call by saying,
oh, children of Adam.
Allah talks about the creation of man, talks
about
the time in paradise,
Adam and Eve, and then the fall because
of Iblis or shaitan,
talks about the messengers,
the time on on on this earth, and
talks about the hereafter,
the people of the hellfire, the people of
paradise,
and the conversation that happens between them.
And within all this,
Allah also speaks about life on Mars.
Did you catch that ayah?
The life on Mars ayah?
Anyone catch that ayah?
So Allah speaks about the life on Mars.
So
Allah says, Allah says,
after
the prohibition was violated in paradise,
Allah tells Adam and Eve and the Belize,
he says, go down.
Each one of you, meaning the species of
man and the species of the shayateen, will
be an enemy to each other.
And for you on the earth,
there will be a residence
for an appointed term.
This verse here talks about the life on
Mars.
Because Allah says here, and for you on
earth,
there will be
a provision for an appointed term.
Now one can say, well, this is affirming
that we will have life on earth,
but it's not negating that we can have
life elsewhere.
But if we dig deeper into
the balaga,
the structure the sentence structure,
the standard sentence structure in the Arabic language
is to bring the subject first,
al muftada,
and then the predicate,
al Khabr, second.
Sometimes in the in the in the Quran,
the the sentence structure is flipped. In other
words, the subject comes first, and the,
the the predicate comes first, and the subject
comes second.
So the standard is subject predicate. If you
flip it, it's predicate subject.
And if you flip it, it changes the
meaning of the verse.
As the principal says,
That if you
advance something, a word in a sentence, you
advance it upfront,
then it denotes
a meaning of exclusivity.
So Allah didn't say there's a residence, which
is a subject,
for you on earth. He said for you
on earth, which is a predicate, there's a
residence,
which means once it's advanced, there's exclusivity,
meaning
that exclusively
on earth we have
residence in the world.
Now this doesn't mean that we can't reach
Mars. This doesn't mean that we can't establish
maybe a station or 2 in Mars, but
what this does mean
is that there will not be a permanent
residence on Mars for the human race. That's
not gonna happen because this verse tells us
that.
Someone may say, well, Allah was speaking to
Adam and Eve and the Belize. Maybe he's
talking to them,
and it's for for them to be on
Earth, and maybe the
offspring of Adam could probably live on other
planets.
The next verse, Allah subhanahu clarifies that.
The next verse Allah speaks speaks repeats the
almost the same meaning,
but there's no meaning of repetition in the
Qur'an, except that it's bringing additional information.
So Allah then says, and on the earth
you will live, and on the earth you
will die, and from the earth you will
come out.
So if the first verse is speaking about
Adam and Eve, then the second verse, which
has the same meaning, is speaking about the
descendants
of Adam and Eve, meaning the permanent residence
that will be for mankind will be only
be on the face,
of this earth.
This could save Elon Musk a lot of
money, but Allah knows best.