Sulaiman Moola – Tafseer of Surah An Naml #23 This is the creation of Allah
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The title of Islam is the creation of the sky and the earth, which is the ability to bring into existence anything from nothing. The title references the use of "has" and "hasn't" to describe the process of creation, and the importance of understanding the dynamics of the earth and the differences between the physical and spiritual aspects of it. The speaker also discusses the importance of not exhausting oneself in loyalty to fellow humans and reflect on the importance of not letting things happen to the next person.
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So we concluded the 19 Jews in the
previous segment and the note on which Allah
wraps up the Jews, not the Surah. The
chapter continues into the 20th Jews.
So hamza is
istifham
amayushrikoon
is Allah greater is Allah better or that
which they ascribe partners to Allah. So one
of the themes of the Quran, you would
know my brother and my sister, is Allah
repeatedly
shows us his grandeur, his greatness, his might,
his power, his authority, his magnanimity,
and coupled with that, Allah exposes
the feebleness and the weakness and the inability
of every other so called power and ism
that people choose to worship.
The seeker
and that which has been sought are both
feeble.
The worshipper
and the object of worship are both weak.
Allah
is Allah greater.
Just just appreciate
the format, the layout. I mean, it's divine.
It's divine.
Or that which they ascribe partners with Allah.
Verse 60. Opening verse of the 20th Jews
of the Quran.
He created the sky and the earth. Now,
we need to be clear on this here.
In Arabic refers to creation.
Creation by the Arabic definition of the word
means
to bring into existence
something from nothing.
The most you can call man is a
maker and the truth be told, more than
often he's more a breaker than a maker.
But anyway, to give him the credit and
to give him, the due, we call him
a maker. You cannot call man a creator
because man is dependent on raw materials,
on ingredients to make something. There was nothing
and Allah made it into a sky. There
was nothing and Allah made it into a
earth.
So Allah
Yes. Allah knows every way of creating.
So Allah can create from nothing.
Allah can create
from the most
impure
and,
simple
ingredients.
He can shape and fashion the best of
humans. So when you look at the common
expression in the Quran
regarding the ingredients of man,
originally from sand, sal, sal, sounding,
hamma, muddy, masnoon, giving off a foul smell.
And then, of course, it continued the procreation
through the meeting of male and female,
the mixture of fluids of male and female,
impure water,
spurtine fluid, etcetera.
From all of this year, Allah
shapes
Ask the best of chef. If you give
him inferior ingredients,
can he make a wholesome product? Impossible.
On the reverse, sometimes you give wholesome ingredients
and, unfortunately, the outcome is not wholesome.
So verse 60,
Is your idols and objects better or the
being who created?
Remember the word creation?
From bringing into existence something from nothing.
He knows how to create in every way.
So he created Sayyidina Isa
without the medium of a father. He created
Sayyidina Adam
without the medium of a male or a
female. He created Sayidina Yahi Alaihi Salam when
both parents had passed the period of fertility.
Everything is the the the Qudrat and the
power of
Allah. I mean, I you know, you just
got to read this process, this comprehend
this. And He sends down water for you
from the clouds, from the top, from the
skies.
Pure water,
through which we revive the dead land and,
of course, we feed the creation.
And then of course there's
in the adoption and the expression academic language.
And then we cause gardens to grow of
beauty and
splendor. So is is is these gods who
are so weak and feeble that
that if a fly has to * something,
they cannot retrieve it.
The so called object idol that you worship
in cannot retrieve what a fly has taken.
Is that great? Or is the Allah who's
created the skies and the earth, you see,
you witness, you marvel
without any pillars. So my brother and my
sister, we we make zikr which is great
and wonderful. We recite the tasbih,
etcetera.
But do you know to look at the
creation, the alternation of night and day,
the change of season,
how things become green and lush, how they
wither and become dry. This is a great
form of dhikr, and Allah has repeatedly
so walk in your garden. Walk in your
garden. You have green fingers. Apply ayan. And
I always do this with my kids, with
my family, when I'm traveling, whether we're out
in in in on on a safari,
and we you know what? In the bush,
we in the wild,
You're sitting under a tree.
Don't you see that the shade that Allah
has given you? You're out in the mountains
in a hideout in in a cave.
And he's given you,
you know, what, a hideout there in in
in the top of mountains, a place of
shelter.
And he's given you clothing.
Which saves you against the heat. So you're
wearing some cool,
cotton clothing, which gives you, you know, a
sense of of of cooling effect. The point
I'm saying, the application
of the aya to the situation
is a great form of dhikr.
The Allah who revived us will revive you.
So let's move on. So Allah created the
sky, Allah created the earth, and Allah allowed
for this green and lush
gardens to grow. I mean, walk in your
garden and enjoy this.
And marvel at the color combination
in the flowers.
Probably you got a beehive then just look
at the bees and just look at the
queen bee, and then just see how she
flies and how, it takes nectar,
you know, from the different,
fruit.
And and then it gives off this wholesome
liquid,
in which Allah has kept you.
Wow. I mean, how how does a person
challenge this?
May Allah open our hearts to embrace the
truth. Allah says, This is what I have
done. Now, in the second portion of the
same ayah, you cannot do this.
All humans put together,
you don't have the ability,
the know how, the,
expertise
to cause that seed to germinate, to cause
that seed to grow.
It is Allah who splits the earth.
Just as you have the crack of dawn
and the flash of dawn and the piercing
dawn, Allah pierces the earth and how that
little seed grows out.
How the seed comes out. Initially, it's weak,
then it's a stem, then it becomes a
stalk, then it becomes firm, then it becomes
a lushful garden. La ilaha illallah.
So you know in Surah Al Rahman you
have the repeated phrase, and which of the
bounties of your Lord do you deny? In
this verse here
and the subsequent verses, the repeated phrases,
do you still argue there's somebody with Allah?
Do you still insist that there's somebody else
with Allah?
Do you still do you still persist? Are
you still obstinate and adamant about this here?
I told you what I'm doing, Allah is
saying, and I equally tell you how feeble
and helpless and hopeless you are. Do you
still? A father is telling his son, I
pay your bills, I do this, I cover
your tertiary, I give you a car, I
give you a phone. Do you still say
your friend loves you more than me?
Who equate others to Allah and they ascribe
partners with Allah. Okay. If that is not
something that you could comprehend, look at the
second reflection.
Verse 61. Who is the one who's made
this earth a place of firmness
that can
house the living on its back and accommodate
the deceased in its belly.
You know, sometimes you're walking on a surface
where it's weak and it's flimsy, and then
you you realize,
you know, you could go this way, you
could go that way. Or, Allah forbid, there's
a tremor. There's a quake, there's an earthquake,
and that's the time you realize that how
Allah's given you firmness and how Allah's anchored
you on the land, And you don't appreciate
it until Allah causes a tremor. And remember
before Qiyamat will be the supreme tremor.
When the earth will be shaken at its
optimum,
and it will vomit out its burdens.
It will throw out. It will spit out.
People will say, what's wrong with this earth?
You know, you're trying to dial on your
phone and the network is not right. What's
wrong with the phone? What's wrong with the
network? What's wrong with this here? Are you
trying to press brakes in your car and
your brakes are failing? What's wrong with the
brakes? What's wrong with the brakes? Well, suddenly
everybody will say, what's wrong with the earth?
What's the earth doing? This is strange.
Because your Lord has inspired it.
Verse 61
Who is the being who has made this
earth?
You know, walk wherever you are by Allah.
There isn't a situation I've seen in my
life but there's an in the Quran for
it relevant to it. Yes. Your mind needs
to be connected and you need that bond
with the Quran,
to appreciate
the relevance to the moment.
Just the other day, I was driving. I
was going through some emotions
and then I switched on the recitation in
the car and the verse that played out
and surely Allah is aware of everything.
Oh my word, what a direct answer to
my situation. Like, you know Allah knows, and
of course, that's how our iman Allah knows
everything. But sometimes when you you you you
you just so depressed or sad or you
just want to, you know, you you need
to just cry out or you just need
to offload and then well, don't worry, Allah
knows everything. He knows. He knows. His timing
is perfect. His knowledge is complete.
Who made the earth firm.
And then he's made rivers beneath it I
mean, be between it. So you you you
see these, you know,
rivers,
and water flowing and streaming
and cascades.
It's it's so beautiful. It gives such beauty,
such splendor.
You know, it just gives such nice meaning
to the whole thing here. The rivers.
And who's the one who's put mountains?
Is the plural of the word.
In Surah Al Naba, we read. Right? Watered.
And he's made the mountains like pegs,
and how they are firmly anchored, and how
they give stability to the earth as well.
And today's scientists will tell you as well,
you know, how they keep the earth firm
and anchored.
And then travel and traverse and then you
would see the 2 oceans.
This is sweet and palatable.
And this is salt and
butter. And then there is
no physical apparent tangible
line, but the waters are separated.
The color is different here. The taste is
different there. The texture is different there. The
look is different there. So there's no physical
absolute barrier separating the 2, but you can
just see the water. That side is different,
the water this side. Or in certain places,
as scholars say the water on top is
different than the
water.
Verse 61.
But the majority of them just don't heed
and comprehend and understand.
Next question.
Repeated repeated phrase, is there someone with Allah?
I gave you the analogy. You still say
your friend is better. You still feel your,
you know, your colleagues have done more for
you than your parents.
Who is the one who responds to the
call of the distressed?
Is the one who's the spread the distressed,
you know, who is,
in crisis and who feels lonely, who feels,
In Tajweed, we have.
You know, the desperate, the distressed one.
Who responds?
Who responds to the distressed one? I must
mention here as the scholars have explored
that it doesn't mean that every time that
you call out instantly Allah is going to
answer,
because that is in his knowledge and wisdom.
So someone might say, well, I've called out
in desperation, but I didn't get an immediate
response. So the immediate response that is Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala's prerogative.
But let's be honest and frank, when you
call out, and again the English,
proverb is well known, there is no atheist
on a sinking ship. So when the ship
sinks and you are in a crisis, then
who do you call out to? And the
scholars have written why. Why is the prayer
of a distressed individual answered?
Because in the prayer of a distressed person
is sincerity.
Everyone has failed
him. Everyone has failed him and now he's
like, Allah, you're the only one. So it's
unfortunate that he had to,
you know, he was first
disappointed by others, then he turned to Allah.
The truth is you ought to come to
your Lord first, and that will be adequate
and sufficient for you. But sometimes, unfortunately,
it takes a fall out with your spouse,
it takes a drop out with your boss,
it takes out, it takes an argument with
your neighbor, it takes a quarrel with your
sibling, and then you say, hey, you know
what, man? No, man. Uh-uh.
There's no sense of loyalty in the creation,
man.
There's no sense of loyalty.
The poet says, How strange is the world?
Everyone was silent
when it came to my virtue and my
accolades.
But then when it came to my mistakes
and my folly,
suddenly even the mute were articulate.
Even those who couldn't speak were were were
now expressing on his bad. He's like,
When it was my good, then nobody had
a had a had a word or a
comment or a compliment.
And suddenly, when it comes to exposing me
and unveiling me and I'm oh, then everyone's
on me.
The Urdu poet said, don't exhaust yourself in
loyalty to fellow humans because they are capable
of erasing all your virtue because of one
mistake.
Who is the bin? Who is the bin
who responds
to the distressed person?
And then removes that difficulty or that pain
or that sickness or that cancer
or diverts that accident or discharges you from
that hospital
or removes you from that financial crisis
or reforms your son who had succumb to
drug abuse or whatever. You know what your
crisis was and who did it for you
but
and makes you deputy and makes you successors
and vicegerents on the earth, meaning each one
replacing the next one. The previous lot went
and then you came, you'll move on and
the next lot will come.
Is there a God with Allah? Is there
someone? You reflect very little. You take very
little lesson
because the truth be told, if we were
to
process this
in a wholesome way, then that ought to
change our life permanently.
We We ask Allah
to make us amongst those people
who look around. The prophet
got up at night and
he
said,
Indeed, he read this verse of Surah Al
Nisa,
of Surah Alai Imran chapter 3, verily in
the creation of the heavens and the earth
and the alternation of night and day, there
are great signs
for people of
intelligence.