WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.160 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:05.169 --> 00:00:08.050 The Summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari. 00:00:08.619 --> 00:00:12.679 Abridged by Dr. 'Aqil ibn Salim al-Shammari. 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:18.489 Surah al-Kahf. 00:00:18.489 --> 00:00:22.449 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:23.210 --> 00:00:29.109 "And We will leave some of them that day to surge over others." 00:00:29.109 --> 00:00:33.829 "And the Trumpet will be blown, and We will gather them all together." 00:00:34.859 --> 00:00:39.619 And We will leave Our servants on the day when Our promise, which We promised them, comes to pass. 00:00:39.619 --> 00:00:44.020 That We shall crush the mountains and scatter them from the earth completely. 00:00:44.020 --> 00:00:46.859 Their jinn will mingle with their mankind. 00:00:46.859 --> 00:00:48.579 And the Trumpet will be blown. 00:00:48.579 --> 00:00:54.759 We will gather all of creation at that time for the station of reckoning, all together. 00:00:54.759 --> 00:01:02.289 "And We will present Hell that day to the disbelievers, fully displayed." 00:01:02.490 --> 00:01:06.049 We will bring forth Hell on the day the Trumpet is blown. 00:01:06.049 --> 00:01:09.049 We will manifest it to those who disbelieve in Allah. 00:01:09.049 --> 00:01:13.939 So that they may see it and witness it like the appearance of a mirage. 00:01:13.939 --> 00:01:25.840 “Those whose eyes were hoodwinked from My reminder, and who could not bear to hear.” (18:101) 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:29.480 And We will present Hell that day to the disbelievers. 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:33.280 Those who did not look into the signs of Allah. 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:35.760 Nor did they contemplate His proofs. 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:40.959 And they could not bear to hear the reminder of Allah with which He reminded them. 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:42.719 So that they might take heed. 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:48.140 And distinguish guidance from misguidance, and disbelief from faith. 00:01:48.140 --> 00:01:57.500 “Do the disbelievers reckon that they can choose My bondmen as protecting friends beside Me? Lo! We have prepared hell as a welcome for the disbelievers.” (18:102) 00:01:57.500 --> 00:02:06.230 “Do the disbelievers reckon that they can choose My bondmen as protecting friends beside Me? Lo! We have prepared hell as a welcome for the disbelievers.” (18:102) 00:02:06.230 --> 00:02:09.030 Did those who disbelieve in Allah think? 00:02:09.030 --> 00:02:14.189 That they could take My servants as protectors instead of Allah? 00:02:14.189 --> 00:02:17.590 No, rather they will be their enemies. 00:02:17.590 --> 00:02:23.210 We have prepared Hell as a dwelling for those who disbelieve in Allah. 00:02:23.210 --> 00:02:28.849 “Say: Shall We inform you who will be the greatest losers by their works?” (18:103) 00:02:28.849 --> 00:02:33.129 “Those whose effort goeth astray in the life of the world, and yet they reckon that they do good work.” (18:104) 00:02:33.129 --> 00:02:40.770 While they think that they are doing good work. 00:02:42.259 --> 00:02:46.979 Say, O Muhammad, to those who argue with you in falsehood. 00:02:46.979 --> 00:02:52.539 And debate with you regarding the issues, from the people of the two Scriptures, the Jews and the Christians. 00:02:52.539 --> 00:02:54.620 Shall We inform you, O people? 00:02:54.620 --> 00:02:57.500 Of those who exhausted themselves in deeds. 00:02:57.539 --> 00:03:00.500 Seeking profit and favor thereby. 00:03:00.500 --> 00:03:03.060 Yet they attained only ruin. 00:03:03.060 --> 00:03:07.860 They are those whose deeds, which they performed in their worldly life, were not. 00:03:07.860 --> 00:03:10.060 Based on guidance and uprightness. 00:03:10.060 --> 00:03:12.819 Rather, they were based on deviation and misguidance. 00:03:12.819 --> 00:03:17.819 And they think that by that action of theirs, they are obedient to Allah. 00:03:17.819 --> 00:03:22.870 And that they are diligent in what He has urged His servants toward. 00:03:22.870 --> 00:03:30.069 Those are the ones who disbelieved in the signs of their Lord and in meeting Him. 00:03:30.069 --> 00:03:35.069 So their deeds have become worthless. 00:03:35.069 --> 00:03:39.990 “Those are they who disbelieve in the revelations of their Lord and in the meeting with Him. Therefor their works are vain, and on the Day of Resurrection We assign no weight to them.” (18:105) 00:03:39.990 --> 00:03:47.310 “That is their reward: hell, because they disbelieved, and made a jest of Our revelations and Our messengers.” (18:106) 00:03:47.310 --> 00:03:53.009 And they took My signs and My messengers in mockery. 00:03:53.050 --> 00:03:56.289 These are the ones whose characteristics We have described. 00:03:56.289 --> 00:03:59.849 Those who disbelieved in the proofs and evidences of their Lord. 00:03:59.849 --> 00:04:01.729 And denied meeting Him. 00:04:01.729 --> 00:04:03.810 So their deeds were invalidated. 00:04:03.810 --> 00:04:08.289 And there was no reward for them that would benefit their owners in the Hereafter. 00:04:08.289 --> 00:04:10.849 So We will not assign any weight to them. 00:04:10.849 --> 00:04:15.129 Because the scales are only weighed by righteous deeds. 00:04:15.129 --> 00:04:19.250 And these people have no righteous deeds. 00:04:19.290 --> 00:04:23.170 Their reward is Hell because of their disbelief in Allah. 00:04:23.170 --> 00:04:28.209 And their taking the signs of His Book and the proofs of His messengers as a mockery. 00:04:28.209 --> 00:04:31.699 And their ridiculing of His messengers. 00:04:31.699 --> 00:04:36.180 Indeed, those who believe and do righteous deeds. 00:04:36.180 --> 00:04:41.420 “Lo! those who believe and do good works, theirs are the Gardens of Paradise for welcome,” (18:107) 00:04:41.420 --> 00:04:47.610 “Wherein they will abide, with no desire to be removed from thence.” (18:108) 00:04:47.649 --> 00:04:52.490 Indeed, those who believed in Allah and His Messenger and acted in obedience to Him. 00:04:52.490 --> 00:04:57.009 For them will be the gardens of Firdaws as dwellings and residences. 00:04:57.009 --> 00:05:03.139 Abiding therein forever, never desiring any change from them. 00:05:03.139 --> 00:05:07.579 “Say: Though the sea became ink for the Words of my Lord, verily the sea would be used up before the words of my Lord were exhausted, even though We brought the like thereof to help.” (18:109) 00:05:07.579 --> 00:05:15.060 “Say: Though the sea became ink for the Words of my Lord, verily the sea would be used up before the words of my Lord were exhausted, even though We brought the like thereof to help.” (18:109) 00:05:15.060 --> 00:05:19.519 Say, O Muhammad, if the sea were ink. 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:23.120 For the pen with which the words of my Lord are written. 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:27.920 “Say: Though the sea became ink for the Words of my Lord, verily the sea would be used up before the words of my Lord were exhausted, even though We brought the like thereof to help.” (18:109) 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:33.759 And if We added as much ink again to it, with which to write. 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:41.740 Say, "I am only a man like you, to whom it has been revealed." 00:05:42.699 --> 00:05:49.579 It is revealed to me that your God is one God. 00:05:49.579 --> 00:05:58.300 “Say: I am only a mortal like you. My Lord inspireth in me that your Allah is only One Allah. And whoever hopeth for the meeting with his Lord, let him do righteous work, and make none sharer of the worship due unto his Lord.” (18:110) 00:05:58.300 --> 00:06:01.660 So let him perform righteous work. 00:06:01.660 --> 00:06:07.180 “Say: I am only a mortal like you. My Lord inspireth in me that your Allah is only One Allah. And whoever hopeth for the meeting with his Lord, let him do righteous work, and make none sharer of the worship due unto his Lord.” (18:110) 00:06:07.180 --> 00:06:12.129 Say to these polytheists, O Muhammad. 00:06:12.129 --> 00:06:15.970 I am only a human being like you, from the children of Adam. 00:06:15.970 --> 00:06:19.329 I have no knowledge except what Allah has taught me. 00:06:19.329 --> 00:06:21.730 And indeed, Allah reveals to me. 00:06:21.730 --> 00:06:26.850 That your object of worship, whom you must worship, is One. 00:06:26.850 --> 00:06:29.250 So whoever fears the day of meeting Him. 00:06:29.250 --> 00:06:33.569 Let him make his worship sincere to Him and single Him out in Lordship. 00:06:33.569 --> 00:06:38.769 The Summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari.