Zia Sheikh – Tafseer Of Surah Bani Israel Session 10

Because he is so ashamed to show his

face in public.

So, this was the attitude that they had

towards having daughters.

But at the same time, they were willing

and prepared to attribute daughters to Allah SWT.

So, this was kind of illogical.

It seems illogical on the face of it

that you don't want daughters yourself and you

want daughters for Allah SWT.

It doesn't make sense.

And even if you look at the western

culture, the description of angels, how they are

depicted in modern, if you see movies and

pictures and things of that nature, they are

always displayed in a way that they look

feminine.

So, this is not the case.

Angels are neither masculine nor feminine.

They don't have any gender.

But the main issue here is that the

shirk that the people were committing with Allah

SWT was, in addition to the shirk that

they were committing with the idols, the shirk

that they were committing was also that Allah

SWT has daughters and the angels are his

daughters.

So, Allah SWT addresses that issue.

He said, أَفَأَصْفَاكُمْ رَبُّكُمْ بِالْبَنِينَ وَاتَّخَذَ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ

إِنَاثًا Did Allah SWT choose for you sons

and he himself, he took from the angels

females?

So, basically Allah SWT is criticizing them.

You want sons for yourself, but when it

comes to Allah SWT, you attribute daughters to

him.

So, the attribution of any children to Allah

SWT is wrong in the first place, but

the ironic thing here is that you don't

want daughters for yourself, but you attribute daughters

to Allah SWT.

So, that doesn't make sense.

إِنَّكُمْ لَتَقُونُونَ قَوْلًا عَظِيمًا Indeed, you are saying

a huge thing.

You are saying something that is very very

big.

And in other place in the Quran, Allah

SWT describes this issue of attributing children to

Allah SWT.

تَكَادُ السَّمَاوَاتُ يَتَفَطَّرْنَ مِنْهُ وَتَنْشَقُ الْأَرْضُ وَتَخِرُ

الْجِبَالُ هَدًى أَنْ دَعُوا لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ وَلَدًا وَمَا يَنْبَغِ

لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ أَنْ يَتَّخِذَ وَلَدًا The thing that they

are saying about Allah SWT that they are

attributing children to him, it is something that

the heavens and the earth would basically destroy

themselves at the audacity of making such a

claim.

So, this is how huge this issue was

about attributing children to Allah SWT.

And particularly what the disbelievers of Makkah said,

that he had female children in the form

of the angels.

After that Allah SWT says, وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَا فِي

هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ لِيَذَكَّرُ وَمَا يَزِيدُهُمْ إِلَّا نُفُورًا To

explain to these people who are committing shirk,

Allah says, that we have explained in many

many different ways to in the Qur'an,

people can take heed.

How did Allah SWT explain?

Sometimes by giving examples, sometimes by giving comparisons,

sometimes by giving proofs, sometimes by narrating stories

of the previous nations and the Anbiya' alayhimu

sallatu wa sallam.

Allah SWT brings this again and again in

the Qur'an.

The Mufasireen say that the Qur'an is

basically made up of three things.

It's made up of Aqaid, belief, and Qisas,

meaning stories, and the third thing is Ahkam.

Aqaid, beliefs, and what belief we are supposed

to have about Allah SWT, the angels, the

Hereafter and so on.

The Qisas means the stories of the previous

nations and the previous Anbiya' alayhimu sallatu wa

sallam.

And Ahkam means the orders of Allah SWT

that you should give Zakat, you should perform

Hajj, you should do this, you should not

do that.

These are Ahkam.

So the Qur'an is made up of

these roughly three things.

So what Allah is saying here is, وَلَقَدْ

صَرَّفْنَا فِي هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنِ لِيَذَكَّرُوا۟ We explained different

things in the Qur'an so that people

would take heed.

Especially, specifically those people that are attributing daughters

to Allah SWT.

Allah SWT gave many examples in the Qur

'an so that they would take heed.

وَمَا يَزِيدُهُمْ إِلَّا نُفُورًا But it only increased

them in running away, in moving away, in

despising what was being said to them.

So you have...

It keeps cutting off for some reason.

Is somebody doing something?

I think it's overheating or something, I don't

know.

It's okay.

So Allah SWT says in other places in

the Qur'an, يُضِلُّوا بِهِ كَثِيرًا وَيَهْدِي بِهِ

كَثِيرًا Allah SWT, through the Qur'an itself,

He misguides people.

So basically, many people, they take up the

Qur'an and they would take ayat from

it with an intention to disprove Islam and

to try to claim that there are contradictions.

So those people obviously, despite the fact that

they're reading the Qur'an, despite the fact

that they're reading the Qur'an, يُضِلُّوا بِهِ

Allah SWT misguides them through those same verses.

And many people, they pick up the Qur

'an with the same intention to try to

disprove Islam, but Allah SWT يَهْدِي بِهِ Allah

SWT guides those people to Islam through that.

So it really depends on what a person

wants and what a person is seeking.

If a person is open-minded to the

truth, then Allah SWT guides him.

If not, he can be pushed further and

further away.

So this is what Allah says, وَمَا يَزِيدُهُمْ

إِلَّا نُفُورًا The Kuffar of Quraysh, they didn't

want anything to do with it.

And instead of getting closer to Allah SWT

and getting closer to guidance, وَمَا يَزِيدُهُمْ إِلَّا

نُفُورًا They got further and further away and

hated and despised the Qur'an saying more

and more, the more that they were advised.

Allah SWT addresses them and says, قُلْ لَوْ

كَانَ مَعَهُ آلِهَةٌ كَمَا يَقُولُونَ إِذَا لَبْتَقَوْا إِلَىٰ

ذِي الْعَرْشِ سَبِيلًا Allah is telling those people

that commit shirk that if Allah SWT had

gods, if there were gods other than Allah

SWT, then even those gods would seek Allah

SWT and worship Him.

If they were given a life, if they

were given senses, if they had any senses,

they would not want to be worshipped.

They themselves would worship Allah SWT.

Allah is saying here, قُلْ Tell them a

prophet of Allah.

If there were with Him, with Allah SWT,

Aliha, gods, كَمَا يَقُولُونَ As they are saying,

إِذَا لَبْتَقَوْا Most certainly they would seek إِلَىٰ

ذِي الْعَرْشِ سَبِيلًا A way to the one

who is on the throne.

Meaning they themselves would try to seek the

one on the throne.

Meaning they would try to seek Allah SWT

themselves.

So why are you worshipping these idols that

if they had a life, they would worship

Allah SWT?

Instead, why don't you just worship Allah SWT

directly?

سُبْحَانَهُ Allah SWT is pure.

وَتَعَالَىٰ And He is above.

عَمَّا يَقُولُونَ What they are saying about Him.

عُلُوًا كَبِيرًا Very very high and very very

above what they are saying.

So basically Allah SWT makes a declaration that

any claim that is made about Allah SWT,

He has any partners, He has any sons,

that He has any daughters.

Allah SWT is far above and beyond those

kinds of claims.

And those claims cannot be attributed to Allah

SWT.

He is very far away from them.

After that, Allah SWT then He talked about

the issue of the idols if they had

a heaven, a life, they would be worshipping

Allah SWT.

Then related to that, the next ayah says

that everything in the creation, everything in the

heavens and the earth actually praises Allah SWT

and worships Him.

تُسَبِّحُ لَهُ السَّمَاوَاتُ السَّبْعُ وَالْأَرْضُ وَمَنْ فِيهِنَ Whatever

is in the heavens and whatever is in

the seven heavens and the earth, whatever is

in them praises Allah SWT.

It makes the tasbih of Allah SWT.

So, we understand the animals and the trees

and anything that has a life, actually there's

two different opinions.

Everything basically, there's one opinion that everything makes

the tasbih of Allah SWT.

Whether it has a ruh or a soul

in it or not.

That's one opinion.

And the other opinion is that only those

creations that have a ruh in it like

animals and humans, they are the ones that

praise Allah SWT.

Other than that, they do not.

So, these are the two opinions there.

So, I'll do the translation and then I'm

going to go through some various hadith which

talk about this issue.

تُسَبِّحُ لَهُ السَّمَاوَاتُ السَّبْعُ وَالْأَرْضُ وَمَنْ فِيهِنَ Whatever

is in the heavens, the seven heavens and

the earth, praise Allah SWT.

By Him, pronounces purification.

وَمَنْ فِيهِنَ And whoever is in those heavens

and the earth, praise Allah SWT.

وَإِمِّنْ شَيْءٍ إِلَّا يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِهِ وَلَكِنْ لَا تَفْقَهُونَ

تَسْبِيحَهُمْ Everything actually makes the tasbih of the

praise of Allah SWT.

But you do not understand.

Oh humans, you do not understand their tasbih.

إِنَّهُ كَانَ حَلِيمًا غَفُورًا Indeed, Allah SWT, He

is Halim and He is Ghafoor.

He is forbearing and He is forgiving.

What that means is, that Allah SWT doesn't

punish people immediately for the sins that they

commit.

He lets them go and lets them go

and lets them go.

Which is known in Arabic as استدراج.

إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيُمْلِي لَهُمْ Allah says in another

verse in the Quran.

He gives them, He lets them go, lets

them go.

But when the time comes, إِنَّ أَخْذَهُ شَدِيدًا

Indeed, His punishment is very, very severe at

that particular time.

So, if I think that I'm not being

punished for my sins, maybe Allah is just

giving me استدراج and He's letting me go

for a while.

But when that punishment comes, it's going to

be a huge problem for me.

Okay.

So let's go through certain hadith about this

issue, about things making tasbih of Allah SWT.

Firstly, a riwayat from Ibn Mas'ud r

.a. He said, كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ تَسْبِيحَ الطَّعَامُ وَهُوَ

يُؤْكَلُ Ibn Mas'ud r.a. says, that

we used to hear the food making tasbih

while that food was being eaten.

So Allah SWT gave them an insight that

they could actually hear the tasbih of the

food while it's being consumed by the sahaba.

And in a riwayat of Abu Dharr r

.a, the Prophet SAW, he took in his

hand some hasayat.

He took in his hands some pebbles and

the people could hear from those pebbles the

tasbih of Allah SWT just like the buzzing

of bees.

كَحَنِينَ النَّحْلِ Just like the buzzing of bees,

the pebbles had a kind of sound coming

from them.

So the Prophet SAW told them that this

is their tasbih.

And in a riwayat of Anas r.a,

who narrates from the Prophet SAW, that he

saw upon a people while they were standing,

while they were stationary on their animals.

Okay.

Basically they were standing.

Okay.

Horses, camels, whatever it was, they were standing

on them, not riding, and they were chatting

to each other while they were standing on

those animals.

So what did the Prophet SAW said?

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ إِرْكَبُوهَا سَالِمَةً وَدَعُوهَا سَالِمَةً Ride them

in a good way and leave them in

a good way.

وَلَا تَتَّخِذُوهَا كَرَاسِيً Don't treat them as chairs.

Don't treat them as chairs لِأَحَادِيثِكُمْ فِي الطُّرِقِ

وَالأَسْوَاقِ for your conversations in the streets and

in the marketplaces.

Okay.

Meaning don't use your horses and camels as

chairs.

Meaning don't overburden them, don't sit on them

for no reason.

Okay.

And the next thing he says is very

powerful.

He said, فَرُبَّ مَرْكُوبَةٍ خَيْرٌ مِّنْ رَاكِبِهَا There

are many animals that are better than the

one that is riding them.

There are many animals that are better than

the one that is riding them.

وَأَكْثَرُوا ذِكْرًا لِلَّهِ مِنْهُ And more remembering of

Allah SWT than the rider itself.

Just imagine.

The animal itself is better and closer to

Allah SWT than the rider itself.

This is a very powerful hadith.

And in another hadith, the Prophet ﷺ, Abdullah

ibn Amr narrates, نَهَى رَسُولُ الله ﷺ عَنْ

قَطْرِ الضِّفْضَعِ He forbade from killing the frog.

And he says that نَقِيقُهَا تَسْبِيحِ So the

sound, the ribbiting sound, what we call in

English that the frog makes is a form

of tasbih.

The Prophet ﷺ forbade the killing of frogs

because that is, as the Prophet ﷺ, is

the tasbih.

Jabir ibn Abdullah RA the Prophet ﷺ said,

أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِشَيْءٍ أَأَمَرَ بِهِ نُوحٌ إِبْنَهُ إِنَّ

نُوحًا عَلَيْهِ ﷺ قَالَ لِبْنِهِ يَا بَنِي آمُرُكَ

أَنْ تَقُولَ سُبْحَانَهُ فَإِنَّهَا صَلَاةُ الْخَلْقِ وَتَسْبِيحَ الْخَلْقِ

وَبِهَا يُرِزَقُ الْخَلْقِ The Prophet ﷺ said, Shall

I not tell you something, what Nuh ﷺ

said to his son?

He said to him, Oh my son, I

order you that you should say subhanallah because

this is the prayer of the creation.

This is the prayer of the creation.

And the tasbih of the creation and through

this tasbih the creation is provided sustenance.

So say subhanallah a lot.

This is something that we should try to

do as much as possible.

Now, there is one hadith, now this was

the opinion of those scholars that they say

that all animals and all stones and everything

basically makes the tasbih of Allah ﷻ.

Just as a side note, you've probably seen,

if you've been to a hajj and you

visit Medina, there is one particular pillar where

if you go into the road of the

Prophet ﷺ, where the member of the Prophet

ﷺ was or the mihrab of where the

Prophet ﷺ was, there is a pillar which

is right in front of that mihrab.

That pillar actually is a sign of where

a tree used to be.

The Prophet ﷺ in the beginning when the

masjid was made, he used to lean on

a tree to give the khutbah.

He used to basically put his hand or

lean his back against the tree while he

was giving the khutbah.

And then the sahaba basically built a mimbar

for him.

Then the Prophet ﷺ started standing on the

mimbar to give a khutbah.

And then this tree actually started crying and

the sahaba heard.

All the sahaba heard the tree crying and

the Prophet ﷺ got down from the mimbar

and actually patted it and stroked it until

it calmed down.

And the sahaba said that it was crying

like a little child.

Amazing that Allah ﷻ has given these animals

and these trees even the power of perception

to such a degree that they could feel

that tasbih and the glorification of Allah ﷻ

taking place and the closeness of the Prophet

ﷺ to them.

And that's why actually some people, gardeners actually

they say that you should even talk to

your plants when watering them and so on.

You should actually talk to your plants.

That's an amazing thing.

Basically they can hear, they can perceive, they

have a level of perception.

So this opinion, these riwayat support the opinion

that stones, trees, everything basically makes the tasbih

of Allah ﷻ.

And then the second opinion is that everything

that has a ruh in it, it basically

makes the tasbih of Allah ﷻ.

And they say in support, there's a hadith

in which the Prophet ﷺ he passed by

two graves and he said, both of them

are being punished by Allah ﷻ and they're

not being punished for something big.

One of them, he didn't used to take

precautions while he was urinating and basically the

urine was splashing onto his clothes and his

body and therefore because of that he's getting

punished in the grave.

The other person, he used to just spread

gossip about people.

So both of them are being punished.

Then what the Prophet ﷺ did is the

proof that the scholars have presented.

He said, ثُمَّ أَخَذَ جَرِيدَةً رُطْبَةً فَشَقَّهَا نِصْفَيْنَ

He took a moist branch, moist means he

basically just took it off a tree, it

was a fresh branch and he split it

into two and he put one end into

one grave and the other end into the

other grave and then he said that he

said that لَعَلَّهُ يُخَفِّفُ عَنْهُمَا مَا لَمْ يَيْبِسَى

مَا لَمْ يَيْبِسَى As long as these two

branches don't become dry, they will basically make

the punishment decrease, they will make the punishment

decrease for the dwellers of the grave as

long as they do not dry.

So from this, the scholars have said that

even the trees have a form of rooh

inside them and as long as a branch

is moist, that has the ability to make

the tasbih of Allah SWT and the tasbih

of those branches would have lessened the punishment

of the dwellers of the grave.

So these were the riwayat about the tasbih

of objects and the tasbih of the things

that are around us.

Everything in the creation makes the tasbih of

Allah SWT but you do not understand their

tasbih.

Allah SWT, He is, He has forbearance and

He is forgiving.

With that we finish our lesson today and

inshallah we will continue next week.

I pray that Allah SWT gives us the

tawfiq to understand and practice what has been

said and heard.

You see the flowers I saw that too.

It was amazing That video, there is one

video which is like long video that allah

Like a flower, that's what it is.