Walead Mosaad – Tafseer & Reflection on the Quran Class 17
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So I have been working my mother Helen and Mohammed, Mohammed
Abdullah and Socrates wrangle that.
So
we are into our second third was in our second third of Ramadan,
and are nearing the last third of Milan, describing the Hadith of
the Prophet. I still don't know who it was, you know, now,
emancipation from the hellfire. But before that, we are in the
days and nights of Mal Farah, which means from our part stay far
seeking forgiveness
from Alaska with the ad and the province I sent him he said in our
in our weather you'll find while oppo vivo Estelle for a while me
at Moto venule, Oklahoma author, I seldom criticize him said this
vein.
Or this
cover or distraction covers over covers, comes over my heart. So I
stick as far as seek forgiveness for loss more data, or 100 times
in a day or more. And of course, the promised Mycelium is without
sin. And he taught us and showed us how to do this as a matter of
his legacy in a matter of practice for us. And if this is true about
the province, I don't know why that alimony that there is this
rain or this heaviness or distraction. Then what about us?
What can we say? So we need to seek so far, not only from the
things we think we did wrong, but also the things that we think we
did right?
That's why after the prayer, the first words that come out of our
mouths, we say your stuff for law, that we did not perform it or
didn't have handle the whole time of presence of mind and presence
of heart throughout loss on so we seek is far from a lost battle to
either to forgive us for that.
So Charla me I lost my fellow makers from the Mustafi team, and
the mother 14 from the ones who seek forgiveness and then the ones
who are granted forgiveness by a lot harder either by His mercy and
by His bounty and by His grace, and not because of anything that
we deserve. But something that simply is out of Muhammad Fudd or
Allah is pure grace that He grants it to us. So we have reached the
17th just the 17th night of Ramadan. 17 state of Ramadan also
was the day I'm better as we Bella Cobra, the
Battle of better which was the face of which was the dividing
line dividing point, the watershed moment for Islam to be or not to
be. And it was those 313
companions of the Prophet SAW Selim including the prophesy
salaam that showed up that day, not only in person, but in terms
of their hearts, in terms of their sincerity and a lot of the other a
yet unbeknownst to them, and the ones that as you know, the length
or or a lot of Allah gave them victory from that which he was
obviously capable of doing.
And diligent and thorough and he also sent down this victory on his
aid in Giroud, in the form of soldiers were angels than total
that you may not have been aware of.
So it's a very, very blessed night and we're in a blessed time was a
time of Ramadan. So despite what the outward circumstances look
like,
you know, Allah subhanaw taala we can say yesterday, Vina, mesocycle
MBA with Alia or Salia he'll sit if he lost one time inshallah we
look at it this way, that he's taking us down the path of the
prophets and down the path of the city fee of the Alia and of the of
the saga Hina Shahadat, those of us who have passed away in this
month because of the pandemic, may Allah have mercy and results and
they're in sha Allah amongst the Shahadat
they are amongst the martyrs and those who persevere through it and
come out and shall on the other end,
multiple rune come out forgiving and come out. Monsoon and aided by
Allah subhanaw taala
then in sha Allah, they are amongst the Cydia clean or at
least a solid team of this ummah. And there is not a mitzvah there's
not a test or trial accepted that is is an opportunity from almost
Renata Hana, so that when we come up the other side of it, we will
be also from
Hello, and welcome those who Allah smart Allah has enabled in sha
Allah. So we're going to look at something like that in this
session from the 70s Joe's, sort of an MBA or the prophets and this
is the
21st in terms of the order in the most half in the Quran surah and
we will begin with a number 51
and number 51. And this next few verses are retell the story of
Ibrahim alayhi salam was the direct, great, great, great, great
grandfather of our Prophet Mohammed Salah Salem, and the
trial and tribulation that he went through with his own people with
his whole the whole law as Oh yeah, if you get every disease,
dollars, you must know him. While they're taking Ibrahima rush the
woman who couldn't be here I mean, is already IV he will call me Hema
has intimacy will let he and Sundar if all you were just in
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around no and then equal Mina Shahidi. And sort of a lot of you.
So Allah subhanaw taala, the translation.
Long ago, We bestowed right judgment on Ibrahim and we knew
him well. He said to his father and his people, what are these
images to which you are so devoted? They replied, We found
our fathers worshipping them. He said, You and your father's
clearly have gone astray.
They asked, have you brought us the truth or just playing about?
He said, Listen, your true Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the
earth. You created them. And I'm a witness to this. So we're going to
him at this particular time. And he said, and they said was quite
yard. One or the way that I read said that he was about a teenager
and maybe 16 years of age. And so this is before he had any of his
children. And I believe before he married his wife, Hassan. Ali has
Sudan. And he was a young boy in his career in his village,
somewhere in Mesopotamia or modern day Iraq.
And so begins by saying, The Quran says will offer their teenage boy
Hema rush the who in clubs or could not be here. And we gave
Ibrahim his rushed
his guidance, you know, imagine if I said,
Let it be, he will be unfairly he will Cora of muscle. So at a young
age, he was given, rushed and guidance and fatahna and spiritual
insight and so forth, and full guidance even at this young age.
And
so,
at this point
where he was living, idol worship or idolatry was the DNA was the
religion. There was a corrupt and tyrannical leader at the time, the
mood or the moods,
or the human lives to help who was this corrupt leader. And they had
this large hall as to some of the Royko the narration school, where
they kept these idols and kind of lined in roles in rows. And then
one of them was made out of gold, who was the biggest one, and
that's going to be significant as we see in the verses that follow.
And they had a day of Xena and Gemma, a day of Xena In other
words, kind of a heat so to speak, but then a further for the
idolatry and for the idol worship where they all come together and
sacrifice sacrificial animals
to their idols at the altar of their idols. So we're going to
name was a young boy, teenager, perhaps at this time, but it was
Montana Idaho. Rooster who gave him his strong guidance and the
law of nuova light of love Whoa, whoa, whoa, Quinta, we I mean?
And Allah says that we were quite acquainted with Ibrahim alayhi
salam and what will be of him and what will become of him
in sha Allah.
And then Allah Subhana Allah says,
is quality abhi he will tell me then he said to his father and his
people that had he Timothy Timothy and Tula it for
there is some discussion about
who is the father
word father of Ibrahim. Some of the books of theology if you read
them, especially in the Ashari school,
they maintain that the Sula, the
the direct line of the prophesy said of going all the way back to
Adam money, he said, was full of an only more I don't know
fornicators either. And because the privatize him said about
himself, harsh Dominica when I'm what I'm absolutely insofar that I
came from mica I came from people who were married and wedded and
that's my line and love of course, we will suffer and extrapolate
from this that also, how can it be that one of the ancestors of the
promised accident was
involved in or actively involved in idolatry? So there is some
laugh and discussion about this. And they state that this person
who we call the EBI or father was actually the uncle of Ibrahim,
that's one one interpretation that it was the uncle and they use the
other verse
are you taking idols as your gods and they say there's a delete in
this because why would he call him Why would the Quran to say him by
his name it would have it suffice to say with Claude Ibrahim the
abbey he
then it says the Zara so as if qualifying or which Father is this
and
you know that in even in the Quran,
it refers to sometimes uncles and fathers as as both being like
fathers like in the Sudan of
of Ibrahim himself is half and then yeah, hope and then use of
and then
the
that the use of his father was like a smile he was was referred
to him as his father. And the verse even though his smile is not
in direct line of use of his from the grandson of his heart. But he
is like a father, it says put in with the ad that several ad that
fathers altogether. So this may be a convincing argument, not a very
convincing argument. And there are others, if you read the standard
office, you're likely to be in trouble and so forth. They don't
really make any mention of that. And they just go along that this
was the father or him, whatever the case may be, it doesn't take
anything away from the Naboo of our Prophet SAW Salem.
Allahu Allah. So anyway, so he says to his father, or his uncle,
or someone who was from, you know, amongst his male relatives from
the paternal side
will call me and these people might have eaten a few but at the
end to lackey who what are these idols thermophila Mesilla
the mission means to be a likeness of technically so they fashioned
idols or likeness of usually with some kind of combination of some
animal form and some human form and then this would be that which
I take to worship So as you've seen, like some of the Quranic
relics, and you see like the head of a lion and or you know, the
body of a man and or opposite the body of a person in the body
of a lion, head of a man and so forth. So, this type of Timothy So
what are these Timothy, what are these idols that you have taken?
And that you end to lack your phone? Right, okay, phone that you
have been persistently you're at their altar all the time, and you
take them as gods.
And then he said to them,
or they said, Tim Kahlua jedna. There have been, and this has been
the refrain, often, even with the kurush. This was the same refrain
that they said to the POTUS ourselves, we have taken these
idols because we have found our forefathers doing the same. And
this is what they said here on the ANA lobby, we have found our
forefathers worshipping them.
And then Abraham says emphatically not going to enter the field of
Aladdin movie you and your forefathers are included
misguidance these idols they have no power.
Then they say to blame poor logic, then it will happen antamina Allah
ibn is according to what do you mean? What are you talking about?
This is the dean of our forefathers How can you say that?
Are you playing around with saying the truth?
He said call about Robocon brapu Summer virtual out, he said you
lower the True Lord is the Lord of the heavens in the earth. And let
he felt alone, right, the one who fought on gave them their creation
and put them in it to begin with. Not these false idols you have
here, why not identical miniature hit in and I am witness to all of
this. Now it said at this point before the next verse in the story
that they listen to him and then
they dispersed and we're gonna get ready to worship their idols. And
Ibrahim was asked if he's interested in coming he said no,
no something than another personal prayer or any selfie.
But I wonder I'm humbled to be right. So they turn away from and
they the next morning they went out to the, to do their day of
Xena. But he said in the sub theme in the sense that I have sick and
not able to withstand this ideology that you're seeing. So he
was not a participant but they went home to get ready. And
Ibrahim remained in the area of the so called tempo where the I
was work. And then he pronounced these words with Allah He that he
then
with Allah He then also combined that into well, Lou Mooji, between
wajam Judas and Illa career or La la la la he yelagiri. So they had
walked away. And then he said, by God, I shall certainly outwit your
idols as soon as you have turned your backs, and everyone had
walked away they said, except for one person who overheard Ibrahim
say this to himself. So he didn't say it will mallet he didn't say
it in front of everybody, but one person overheard it. And so
Ibrahim remained he was there by himself. And then he said, Yeah,
I'll do that and in the career alone alone isn't your job. Then
he broke the wall into pieces except but left the biggest one
for them to return to and it said that the biggest one had like a
axe like stone
thing and his hand also you know made of stone and he took that
piece broken apart from the
from the idol or he had an axe himself and and destroyed all the
other idols and then he tied the acts around the neck of the
biggest idol which he had left a lot, obviously to send a message
to them which we'll see what that message was, after they came and
saw this. So
they came and they said, Oh, no, man follow her. They'll be early
had you know and now they've been avoiding mean.
They said was done this to our gods, how wicked he must be.
And even just Mulholland Cohen, looking at what they said,
manufacturer has the early Hatena, who has done this to our gods,
whatever, ridiculous, even proclamation. What do you mean,
who has done this? What type of gods are they if someone could do
something to them? So this was the whole point of Ibrahim and he set
out to show them in the whole I mean of anime, right? They said,
Oh, he's from the people who have done a great disservice. I've done
a great wrong this is what they said about Ibrahim Alayhi. Salam.
All you say manifesto and yes, Quran you call the who? Ibrahim?
This is the man who overheard right, they that's what he has
said we heard a youth called Ibrahim talking about them. So he
had overheard what Ibrahim had said, as everyone was leaving and
no one else had hurt you. All you felt to be a university that I
love them. Yes. Shadowmoon
they said Bring Him before us for the people so that we may witness
His trial because basically that's what it was a type of trial. They
wanted to see what the truth was.
Then they said to him all your enterprise they had the early
Hatena Ibrahim callable fellow Have you heard of as a womb in
Canada young Tikun?
They asked was a you Abraham who did this work as he said no, it
was done by the biggest of them this one and they pointed to the
one that had the axe wrapped around his neck. Ask them if they
can talk if they can speak but if you ask them
for Roger who either unfussy him for all in the command to move on
the moon. So they went back to their selves.
They turned to what I'm saying it is you are in the wrong. So they
realized initially.
He's right. What type of religion is this? What type of worship is
this weekend? Even? The gods cannot even defend themselves and
then we're left to speak to the one who remains he can't answer us
either.
So, but it wasn't long before they lapsed, as the next verse goes for
Roger who for Halloween documentary volume and so Manu
Kisu Allah who seemed
to hoon.
But then they laughs again and said you know very well these gods
cannot speak. Right? We don't have that expectation.
Then Ibrahim said Father EFA, taboo Navin Dooney, la Himalayan
Falcon che and what they have overcome, or Silicon Valley
metabolome in doing Allah if Allah talk to you.
So, but then they lapsed again and said, You know very well these
gods cannot speak, Ibrahim replied, how can you worship what
can neither benefit nor harm you instead of God instead of a loss?
Or free Lakhan as you can emit off, I believe it's only two times
in the Quran, this verse and also in the verse inserted etc.
When it says one of the token by the telco no more often when I've
done her homework about one's parents don't say to them off, and
don't revile them so off is they said, You
is a word that means
disgust or
disillusionment or this taste, I would say, for something that you
see. So it's kind of a flux and an emotion for free lacquered. So,
you know, what is this shame on you sort of or this? How was this
shame on you and the things we worship instead of God? Have you
no sense often look at them while they make taboo, so shame on you
and to the thing that you worship.
In doula Athleta clue, do not have alcohol, do not have intellect do
not see the folly of your way.
And then they reply back.
After all of this, and they didn't actually reply, when they realize
there's nothing that they could say. So last time I gave him the
Hoja gave him the clear kind of forehand demonstrative proof of
the folly of worshipping these idols. And as is the case with
most when you have no answer to say, and when you are not able to
bring forth
a response, then it usually resorts to aggression and
violence. And unfortunately, or fortunately, this is what happened
with Ibrahima, he said, So then they said, Pilu, had a whole one
sort of early attack home in Canton, fair, Haley.
They said burn him, and Avenger Gods if you're going to do the
right thing. So in the Tafseer, it says that the
we chose fire because it is the most agonizing way to die, to be
burned alive. And that's why they chose it. We also know about the
the sub ledger on us hobby of dude, who also were thrown in the
pits of fire as a punishment. And also Pharaoh resources that by
using boiling Calderon's of, of oil and water and throwing people
in there, so it's a very evil and
despicable miserable way to to make somebody die. But that's what
they chose. For him, they wanted the worst thing. And it says it
FCF that they spent 40 days collecting firewood from the
nearby forest and building this fire to a level two degree of
heat. so hot that when birds flew over, they will be instantly
charred, and fall dead. That's how hot this this fire was. And you
know, and they, you know, they maintain it and kept it very hot.
And
the assumption is Abraham was held captive until the fire was ready
to at its apex at its highest peak. And then they were also a
little bit dumbfounded because we can't even walk near to it without
getting burned. How are we supposed to get him into the fire.
And it said that at least one of the way at least came in the form
of a man. And he's has done this before he did this hundreds or
1000 years later with the prophets I send them
when he told the Quraysh about splitting the blood amongst the
tribes. So when they wanted to assassinate the province I sent
them they didn't know how to do it exactly without getting away with
it. So he told them, if each strong young man from Quraysh,
were to split.
You know, he wanted to take a hand and doing it then Manuel Hashem
will not be able to find all of them at once. So it's also did his
machinations here. And they said, they didn't know how to get him
into the fire pit.
And so, they said
IBLEES Satan taught them how to build an engine.
And underneath is a catapult, which was a method of warfare,
which was probably for that time quite revolutionary, to be used at
that particular time. And so, they fashion this mention this catapult
which was a some distance away from the firepit itself, and
then
they put him in that engineer, and they had him tied, they tied his
wrist and his ankles. And he was completely, you know, unable to
get out of that. And when the angel saw this, it's also said
that they said the clearly to Allah smart Allah said Ya Allah.
Ibrahim is the only one on the face of the earth who's white? Who
is worshipping you? And that's one of the interpretations of the
Quran says that Ibrahim can OMA he was an ummah by himself. In other
words, at that particular time, there was no more headin. There
were only people who believed in the oneness of God.
So the angels pleaded with Allah's mouth and say, Allah this is the
only warhead on the face of the earth if something happens to him
what will be left?
Allah smart Allah says to them if you want to go and offer your help
to him, and then you can, it's up to you. So they they launched him
into
cannibalism into the
fire pit, and said, as he was in mid air, the angel Gabriel Gibreel
alayhi salam came to him, and said to him, like a Hajah. If there's
anything we can do for you, anybody might listen and respond
to me for that.
For from you, I don't need anything.
And then he said, Well, what about asking the last final time? He
said,
hospital or in the lie behind me and so any
password will lie behind the answer, he said is enough that
Allah knows my situation that I don't need to ask. And perhaps
this is referring back to the verse in the beginning that we
read for kwinda V. And the mean
Right.
One of the funny thing about English the hook and Pablo or
Cohen V. alanine will give gave Ibrahim brushwood the full
guidance that he there are gonna be limits, and we are well
acquainted with him. So they, I was kind of saying, I want to quit
with Abraham. And even I thought the secondary says and one of the
Hickam Obama attended other valid talks,
Taka talab, perhaps the Edom sometimes the etiquette,
especially of the big earlier and community, some of the prophets
that they don't ask and they say, hustler in the log, how do you
answer that it's enough that Allah Tala knows my situation, and then
he will take care of so that's
a way of having a
owns Villa having this intimate relationship with Allah subhanaw
taala and also asking him, because we find other prophets, asking him
as well, like Musa alayhis salam asked why Charlie was roaming
early. He said, he was like, give me I was here, give me someone to
help me from my hand from my family. And so he gave him how
rune Bush would be as you are sure Kofi Omri came back because you're
on a scoreboard if you're in another country level zero. So
hold on I said I'm in Musa, they said I'm asked. So it depends upon
the particular circumstance. And they said, for us, for people who
are followers of prophets and saw it he said amateur I know that we
also can. Sometimes the makan will be the Muslim of asking, and
sometimes the mythology the Muslim of iniquity, fat, then Allah will
hide I'm Sol enough to suffice one and Allah knows your situation. So
in this situation, this is what Ibrahim said. And then the next
verse, almost all
bobblehead recall one so earlier talkin Incoterm fairly
cool nanocone better than wassalam and Ibrahim were allowed to be he
could have never actually
they said burn him and Avenger Gods if you're going to do the
right thing, but we said Allah smart Allah said, yeah, no fire be
cool. Better than wassalam and ensafe for Ibrahim all the VK
done, which are never when actually they plan to harm him,
but we make them suffer the greatest loss. So it said that
Ibrahim would then when he was cutting to the firepit and he was
in it fire was all around him raging around him. But Allah
Subhan Allah made it cool and safe. They said if Allah only made
it cool, then that also would have been harmful to Ibrahim because
the coolness of Allah is can be made harmful but he said make it
cool and safe for a while so it was cool and safe. And it said
that it will humanism they left him there for days if not weeks.
In this firepit and sued mentioned that they ruined this corrupt
tyrannical king. He saw Ibrahim then he saw some men kind of with
him or sitting next to him
and he said to employ him can you walk out of this fire pit if you
wanted to? So of course I can. So then go ahead. And so then he
walked out of the fire pit and he said Who is that man with you? He
said this is the angel of the zeal. This is the angel of the
shade you can appreciate me and ignore him at that point they're
actually customed to the fire and he didn't have any clothes he was
naked. And when it comes out of the fire he had a kameez. He had a
shirt or a coat on and this they said is the same kameez that
would that was inherited later by his son
is hot and then passed on to Yahoo. And Yahoo. When he had the
Felice and he put it in here is replying from sadness from losing
son use of force that that was zero.
So that commits was the commies of Ibrahim, that they said came from
Paradise itself. And that allows one to either
convert his hour and clothe him while he was in the fire. Although
Adam is solid, that's what the difficile says and
doesn't say this was in the Quran. But these type of things. Some of
us harvest see are the people who can record the syrup, so forth,
include them in in the rewired. So your tennis, tennis means we can
take it and accept it, as long as it's kind of contradicting and
conforming to the general meaning of the verses, what are the weekly
cadence.
And they were the one who were the great losers. And it said after
that, that allows for Madison, this sort of plague of
mosquitoes, both to name Ruth, and all the people of that home. And
they died very painful and horrible deaths. Even the mood
said that the mosquito got into his brain and he went mad, and
died from that. Afterward, federal government Australia, I was home
father, and taught me to be he's the one who is then we'll talking
he swapped engines for his profits. And he said, and then
that was their end.
So in the genre,
here
are kind of some of the meanings we can derive for our own
purposes. If majuba He said this type of Midna look at this great
test, that Ibrahim on insulin went through.
And it was literally sabrosa. Right? It was patience for a
moment or a time. But it was really weeks and perhaps months,
in the case of Ibrahim, but his faith is Dakwah his rushed his
hidayah
he was an amoeba by himself because he was facing a whole
ummah. He didn't have any followers. At that time. No one
believed him. No one thought he was right. Everyone's in the
wrong. And so since you have no allele, you have no friends and
ALLAH SubhanA bay we came he's funny. That's why he's hunted a
lot. Right? He is the close friend of Allah, because Allah replaced,
and hula, then you should have had from his people and from his home
and from
the village and the city dwellers, none of them, followed him. So
Allah smart Allah gave him the whole letter here. He gave him the
divine conduct of the Divine friendship, the friendship of God,
as much as data. And so the manner the test the trial or tribulation
comes about, then we do our best to be patient in it. We notice
that Abraham didn't ask Allah to lift the Tribulation. And we said,
that's a farm some of the the parliament and the LDS say that
sometimes don't be so hasty for the tribulation to go away. You
ask Allah to give you strength and patience and forbearance in it,
because maybe there's a lesson that you're going to learn within
it. And so sometimes the end of the advocate will be to seek
forbearance and patience and sometimes you can also ask the
Lord, for lifted.
We find our prophets.
Also, for example, Yunus, in the body, the belly of the well. He
said, Learn And subhanAllah in the context of what you mean. Right?
And then Allah Azza festa Jevon Allah who he didn't actually ask
Allah, he just stayed in his hand. Right? He said, No, there is no
God except you. So Pilate Glory to you. In the context of volume, I
am the one who have done wrong, I left the 100,000 people and I gave
up on them and I left and I got into the boat. And then I found
myself you know, the loser of the short straw so to speak, when the
waves were taking the boat and then they put me off the plank as
it were, and I fell into the belly of a whale. And then first the
Gemini that went to jail.
And then we saved him from the hump from that very difficult
situation. And then he was saved and went back to his people and
his center. So all of these are different artwork, different
format. There's the mythos oil Yes, you can ask Tada. It's in one
province I said I'm definitely he or a supplicate any asks As a
matter of a bad but at the same time mouth of Sweden eg availa
leaving the answer up to the last panel. So if we do ask we'll do
seek for lifting of trial tribulation. Let me let Allah
small data put complete faith and confidence that will be lifted in
the time that he does designate and in the manner that he
designates in in a way that he designates. So you're asking him
really as a matter of Obadiah is the harder we'll do which means to
actualize your servitude towards God by asking only him and not
asking anybody else by bringing the chakra right by bringing the
pain that you're feeling to Allah and not counting upon people to
lift that pain or tribulation from you. So many of us have had to
make us have a slavery in one account. If and when the trial
tribulation comes and to give us fortitude and patience.
Insha Allah
My
sister Sandra has some questions I don't know the answer to all of
them
there is somebody way that she may and will be the word for the
province Isetan next life on all Ireland and oceans we got here and
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they did they did support one another. But we as we know we got
here already so then was killed by
his people. And so whereas that was not the case with ISA and he
said he was warmer and warmer so that we would I can show behind
the home.
They did not crucify him, nor did they kill him but he was raised to
almost power. And we know as we mentioned in the session the other
day that the Prophet saw some encountered both of them in the
same level of heaven. Yeah, and so
hold on tight.
So 100 I hope and I mean, well, a couple a few quarters off here.
What is the materiality of were laid off in the heartland under
one and you know on a misdemeanor on an EVO Mo and your photo John
heavy bomba
Wuma how we're moving how
you're either
not engineering,
actually.
When you're human ambushed or somewhere, but when you basically
if you left off haven't had a shot at Kareem, where John also to
Lafayette and we're not negative club. It was fantastic. It was
stability to stand in prayer and David thought it solidly and also
to have the great bounty of this month, but a couple of people who
deserve our hair or ceremony