Zia Sheikh – Tafseer Of Surah BaniIsrael Session 18

We are going through the tafsir of Surah

Bani Israel or Surah Al-Isra.

And today inshallah we are going to be

starting from ayah number 80.

In the previous lesson we learned how Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded the Prophet a

.s. to pray special the five times prayer

and in addition to that how Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala commanded the Prophet ﷺ also

to perform the tahajjud prayer, Allah is still

addressing the Prophet ﷺ in these verses which

we continue with.

And the first ayah, Allah subhanahu wa ta

'ala is commanding him to make a specific

dua.

What is the dua?

Allah says, So

what does this mean?

Ibn Abbas radi allahu ta'ala says that

when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded the

Prophet ﷺ to perform the hijrah, he told

him to also make this dua.

So, keeping this point in mind, the scholars

say that the entrance of, the entrance of,

which is mentioned here, the entrance of truth

and the exit of truth, it refers to

the exit from Makkah Mukarramah and entrance into

Madinatul Munawwarah, okay, so leaving Makkah and entering

into Madinah.

Another meaning given by the scholars is that

the entrance refers to Makkah and the exit

also refers to Makkah.

How so?

So, as he's leaving Makkah, it is because

of the command of Allah SWT, Allah is

telling him make hijrah, protect yourself, go to

Madinah where you'll be helped, so leaving Makkah

was with the command of Allah SWT and

when he came back and conquered Makkah many

years later in a bloodless war, he came,

a bloodless conquest, he came and basically he

entered into Makkah one time again, so he

exited with the truth and he entered back

again with the truth, so both entrance and

exit refers to Makkah.

Another meaning is mentioned by the scholars that

it refers to the grave, so when a

person, he enters into the grave, the command

is, or the dua is to Allah SWT,

Allah when I enter the grave, make it

an entrance of truth and when I exit,

meaning when I'm resurrected, let me stand up

with the truth that I am in the

state of Iman and standing in front of

you, Allah SWT, this is one meaning.

Another meaning, the scholars say, it refers to

when he was migrating and he, the very

famous story that he took refuge in the

cave and the disbelievers, they were basically looking

for him, tracking him and they were standing

right in front of the cave or right

above the cave, all they had to do

was look down and they would have seen

the Prophet SAW and Allah SWT protected them

and they weren't seen.

So some scholars say that it refers to

the entrance into this cave and the exit

out of that cave in a state of

safety.

And the final meaning given by the scholars,

it refers to Nubuwwah itself, Prophethood, O Allah,

enter me into this responsibility of Prophethood with

the truth and when I've finished and completed

this responsibility, let me complete it in a

very good way, so let me exit in

a state of truth also.

So these are the different meanings given to

this specific du'a.

Allah says again, and say O Prophet of

Allah, رَبِّي أَدْخِلْنِي مُدْخَلَ صِدْقٍ O Allah, enter

me into an entrance of truth and make

me exit وَأَخْرِجْنِي مُخْرَجَ صِدْقٍ and make me

exit from the exit of truth وَجَعَلْنِي مِن

لَدُنْكَ سُلْطَانًا نَصِيرًا and make for me from

yourself سُلْطَانًا نَصِيرًا سلطان, it has two meanings.

One meaning is a clear truth and clear

proof.

Give me a clear proof that I can

give to the people and another meaning is

give me strength.

سلطان refers to strength.

Allah says, يَا مَعْشِرَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنسِ إِنِ اِسْتَطَعَتُمْ

أَن تَنْفُذُ مِنْ أَقْطَارِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ فَانْفُذُوا لَا

تَنْفُذُونَ إِلَّا بِسُلْطَانِ You will not be able

to exit the heavens and the earth except

with extreme force.

So here, one meaning is strength and force

that Allah SWT gives.

So give me from yourself the strength and

help so that I can fulfill this mission

that you've given me.

This was the dua'a given to the

Prophet SAW to make and actually we can

make this dua'a also.

It is one of the masnoon dua'as

that we can recite.

Whenever we are about to do something, this

is the dua'a that we should try

to recite.

وَقُلْ جَاءَ الْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ الْبَاطِلِ إِنَّ الْبَاطِلَ كَانَ

زَهُوقًا And also say, O Prophet of Allah,

that the truth has come and the batil,

the falsehood, is being eliminated.

It has been eliminated.

Indeed, the batil, the falsehood, will only be

eliminated.

It is something that will be eliminated and

it will not remain.

Falsehood, truth always prevails and always lasts long.

Falsehood, it always gets eliminated and it finishes

once and for all.

So Allah SWT told him to make this

dua'a.

And when did this actually happen?

When did this dua'a actually occur?

As the Prophet SAW conquered Makkah and he

is going into the Ka'bah and he

is taking a stick with him and he

is smashing all of the 360 idols that

are in this honoured and sacred place in

the Ka'bah that was created for the

worship of Allah SWT alone but instead it

has been used for shirk for many many

years.

The Prophet SAW is smashing those idols and

he is stating جاء الحق وزهق الباطل إن

الباطل كان زهوقا جاء الحق وزهق الباطل إن

الباطل كان زهوقا So the haq came, the

truth came, it prevailed and batil, falsehood, meaning

shirk, was eliminated.

Indeed, this falsehood is something that will always

be eliminated.

وننزل من القرآن ما هو شفاء ورحمة للمؤمنين

ولا يزيد الظالمين إلا خسارة The previous ayah

or two ayahs before Allah SWT says make

the dua that give me proof, give me

assistance so Allah SWT is responding to that

and he is saying that what kind of

proof will you get Indeed, we will reveal

to you from the Quran that which is

a shifa, which is a cure Many people

they take this word to mean specifically physical

ailments You have a headache, read the Quran

and it will cure you You are sick,

make ruqya of the Quran it will cure

you And this is true, and there is

no doubt in this Allah SWT has put

shifa in the Quran in making of the

ruqya But the biggest shifa, the biggest cure

that the Quran is for is the internal

illnesses we have The weakness of iman Hatred

Jealousy You know, hypocrisy Bad thoughts And you

know the different kind of wasawis that the

shaitan puts inside there So it is a

cure as Allah SWT says in another place

in the Quran It is a cure for

what is in the heart what is in

the chest Meaning all those illnesses that are

in the chest it is the biggest cure

for that So Allah says, we are revealing

from the Quran that which is a shifa

it is a cure and is a mercy

for the believers It is a mercy for

the people of iman And as for the

wrongdoers it will only increase them It will

only increase them in khasarah, in loss Now

pay attention to this verse because it is

very very powerful if you really think about

it Whenever we come across a verse in

which a person is being told that such

and such people will be punished the munafiqeen

will be punished or the people who commit

zina will be punished the murderers will be

punished If a person is engaged in that

type of activity he will become he will

become kind of disgusted with this kind of

threat that he is facing Why?

Because he is doing that thing and automatically

he falls under that threat of punishment by

Allah SWT because of the fact that he

is doing what is wrong And as for

the person who is not engaged in sin

and he is trying his best to live

a clean life and a pious life and

an obedient life whenever he hears the verses

of punishment he is relieved that he is

not from amongst those people that he is

engaged in those type of sins And when

he hears the ayat which refer to the

reward of Allah SWT, the paradise and the

fruits of Jannah and the trees of Jannah

and the gardens of Jannah and the rivers

of Jannah he becomes ever more hopeful His

hope increases more and more the more he

reads it Why?

Because he knows that he is doing his

best to please Allah SWT in his life

So really this is there is nothing true

I mean all the Quran is true but

what Allah is telling us here is the

mentality of the human being when he is

obedient or disobedient if he is obedient he

will get closer to Allah SWT through listening

to the Quran, through reading the Quran through

understanding the Quran and the person who is

far away from Allah SWT he will get

more and more further away from Allah SWT

because of the fact that he knows what

he is doing is wrong and we reveal

from the Quran that which is a cure

and a mercy for the believers and it

only increases the wrongdoers in loss the more

the wrongdoers read it the more they understand

it they understand that they are heading towards

loss unless and until they make Dawah before

their death then in the last ayah Allah

SWT the last two ayahs Allah SWT talks

about the mentality of the human being how

does a person spend his life and most

humans will fall under the things which are

mentioned in this verse Allah says وَإِذَا أَنْعَمْنَ

عَلَى الْإِنسَانِ أَعْرَضَ وَنَآبِ جَانِبِهِ when we bless

the human being he turns away and he

gets further away from Allah SWT so what

happens usually what happens is when the human

being is afflicted with some kind of a

trial, then he will turn to Allah SWT

much more, he will make Dua much more

he is being diagnosed with some kind of

illness he will start coming to the Masjid

and asking Allah Allah take me away from

this illness take this illness away from me

he has financial problems he turns to Allah

SWT he has domestic problems, he will turn

to Allah SWT but as soon as Allah

blesses a human being with money or position

or something that he aspires to then what

does he do, he turns away from Allah

SWT and forgets who gave him that blessing

in the first place so this is what

this is referring to وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ كَانَ

يَؤُسَىٰ when we bless the human being he

turns away and gets further and further away

from Allah SWT and وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ كَانَ

يَؤُسَىٰ and when he is afflicted with difficulty

he becomes hopeless again this refers to a

person who has weak Iman a person who

has Iman he has always clings to the

hope of Allah SWT he always knows that

this difficulty I'm going through Allah will take

me out of it and I'll become better

and I'll become stronger and I'll be in

a better place than I was before whereas

the person who has weak Iman he becomes

hopeless and he thinks that it's the end

of the world he loses his job, he

thinks it's the end of the world his

kids start disobeying him he thinks it's the

end of the world so trial after trial

comes and he becomes more and more hopeless

and he becomes more and more despondent this

is referring to that person وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ

كَانَ يَؤُسَىٰ when the sharr touches him the

word used is mas mas basically means just

touching okay, touching when sharr, when evil just

touches him he becomes hopeless it's only just

touched you and you've only been you know

tested with it a little bit you've only

been pricked by it a little bit and

you become so hopeless what if you were

in this situation all the time if we

as humans think of our lives what they

are like there are always going to be

ups and downs in our life and usually

what happens is if we reflect back at

the times that we were down when we

came out of that situation usually we were

in a much better place than we were

before the only thing is that we have

to be a little bit patient during that

difficult time during that down time فَإِنَّ مَعَ

الْأُسْرِ يُسْرَىٰ Indeed with every difficulty there is

ease Indeed there is with every difficulty ease

so this is what a person who has

true belief this is the attitude that he

will have Allah SWT then tells the Prophet

قُلْ كُلُّ يَعْمَلْ عَلَى شَاكِلَتِهِ فَرَبُّكُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ

هُوَ أَهْدَسَ Say O Prophet of Allah everyone

is working according to his intention everyone is

working according to his intention meaning we are

all leading our lives in a certain way

what is our intention in leading our lives

are we pleasing Allah SWT do we want

to please Allah SWT or is it just

to fulfill our nafs what kind of life

do we have do we have a purpose

driven life do we have a focus life

in which we want to please Allah SWT

or is our life just about making money

and being comfortable in this life according to

that intention a person works شاكلة the meaning

is intention and there are other meanings too

one is طبيعة طبيعة meaning a person's instinct

a person's nature a person's works according to

that the other meaning is نية Ibn Zaid

says a person goes according to his Deen

according to his conviction but at the end

فَرَبُّكُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْهُ أَهْدَ سَبِيلَ Your Lord He

has more knowledge about those people that have

the most guidance obviously they are the ones

who are going according to what Allah SWT

tells them and according to what the Messenger

of Allah told them a person who is

not practicing that then obviously he is getting

further and further away from Allah SWT so

Allah knowing what it means is that he

is fully aware that what's going on and

the punishment and the reward will be according

to that in the hereafter with that we

finish, I pray that Allah SWT gives us

sufiq to understand and practice what has been

said and heard Al

Fatiha