WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:05.169 --> 00:00:08.009 A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari. 00:00:08.630 --> 00:00:12.710 Abridged by Dr. ‘Aqil ibn Salim al-Shamr. 00:00:14.109 --> 00:00:16.309 Surah Yasin. 00:00:18.460 --> 00:00:22.539 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:23.820 --> 00:00:30.820 “Did I not charge you, O ye sons of Adam, that ye worship not the devil - Lo! he is your open foe! -” (36:60) 00:00:31.019 --> 00:00:36.420 Indeed, he is a clear enemy to you. 00:00:36.740 --> 00:00:42.780 And that you should worship Me; this is the straight path. 00:00:44.100 --> 00:00:50.859 Did I not enjoin upon you, O people, in the worldly life, not to worship Satan, lest you obey him in disobedience to Allah? 00:00:51.340 --> 00:00:55.659 Indeed, Satan is an enemy to you, and he has made his enmity toward you manifest. 00:00:56.189 --> 00:01:02.310 And did I not command you to worship Me alone, to the exclusion of all other deities and rivals? 00:01:02.630 --> 00:01:08.069 For the sincerity of My worship and the disobedience of Satan is the straight path. 00:01:09.219 --> 00:01:18.620 “Yet he hath led astray of you a great multitude. Had ye then no sense?” (36:62) 00:01:19.790 --> 00:01:24.109 And indeed, Satan has led astray a great multitude of you from His obedience. 00:01:24.549 --> 00:01:27.750 Did you not then possess reason, O polytheists? 00:01:28.189 --> 00:01:32.549 That it is not fitting for you to obey your enemy and the enemy of Allah. 00:01:34.049 --> 00:01:40.489 “This is hell which ye were promised (if ye followed him).” (36:63) 00:01:40.849 --> 00:01:46.129 “Burn therein this day for that ye disbelieved.” (36:64) 00:01:47.500 --> 00:01:53.060 This is Hell, which you were promised in the worldly life for your disbelief in Allah. 00:01:53.579 --> 00:01:56.140 Burn in it today, and endure it. 00:01:56.620 --> 00:02:00.819 Because you used to deny it in the worldly life and treat it as a lie. 00:02:02.390 --> 00:02:08.189 “This day We seal up their mouths, and their hands speak out to Us and their feet bear witness as to what they used to earn.” (36:65) 00:02:08.550 --> 00:02:16.469 “This day We seal up their mouths, and their hands speak out to Us and their feet bear witness as to what they used to earn.” (36:65) 00:02:17.849 --> 00:02:20.729 Today, We shall set a seal upon the mouths of the polytheists. 00:02:21.210 --> 00:02:25.610 Their hands will speak to Us of what they committed in the worldly life of disobedience to Allah. 00:02:26.169 --> 00:02:31.009 And their feet will bear witness to what they used to earn in the worldly life of sins. 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.479 And if We willed, We could have blinded them, depriving them of guidance. 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:51.800 So they would not be able to see the way. 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:53.719 So they would hasten to the path. 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:57.560 But in what direction would they be able to proceed? 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:02.120 For We have blinded their eyes, so how could they be guided to the truth? 00:03:03.550 --> 00:03:17.310 “And had We willed, We verily could have fixed them in their place, making them powerless to go forward or turn back.” (36:67) 00:03:18.789 --> 00:03:24.030 And if We willed, We could have paralyzed these polytheists in their places. 00:03:24.629 --> 00:03:29.469 So they would not be able to move forward, nor would they be able to return. 00:03:40.060 --> 00:03:42.939 And he whom We grant long life, We reverse his development. 00:03:43.379 --> 00:03:47.500 We return him to a state like his childhood, in terms of frailty and old age. 00:03:48.060 --> 00:03:52.340 So he becomes knowing nothing after the knowledge he once possessed. 00:03:53.020 --> 00:03:57.699 Do these polytheists not use their reason to grasp Allah’s power over whatever He wills? 00:03:58.139 --> 00:04:05.180 By witnessing what they observe of His disposal of His creation as He wills and pleases, from infancy to old age. 00:04:19.180 --> 00:04:24.620 We have not taught Muhammad poetry, nor is it fitting for him to be a poet. 00:04:25.259 --> 00:04:32.620 Muhammad is but a reminder to you, O people, by which Allah reminds you through sending him to you. 00:04:33.259 --> 00:04:42.139 And this which Muhammad has brought to you is a Qur'an, making it clear to whoever contemplates it with intellect and heart that it is a revelation from Allah. 00:04:50.430 --> 00:04:57.810 Muhammad is but a reminder to you, to warn those among you, O people, who are alive of heart. 00:04:58.290 --> 00:05:05.889 Who understands what is said to him, and the punishment is justified against those who disbelieve in Allah and turn away from following it. 00:05:21.420 --> 00:05:29.500 “And have subdued them unto them, so that some of them they have for riding, some for food?” (36:72) 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:39.279 Do these polytheists not see that We have created for them, from what Our hands have fashioned, that which We have created? 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:43.680 Livestock: camels, cattle, and sheep. 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:49.040 They are subject to them, to use as they wish, through their dominance and control over them. 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:56.399 We have made these livestock subservient to them; some they ride, such as camels, for their travels. 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:59.439 And some of them they eat. 00:06:09.649 --> 00:06:15.089 And they have other benefits in these livestock, in their wool, their fur, and their hair. 00:06:15.649 --> 00:06:18.129 And drinks, for they consume their milk. 00:06:18.769 --> 00:06:24.689 Will they not then be grateful for this blessing of Mine by obeying Me and singling Me out in divinity and worship? 00:06:34.750 --> 00:06:39.949 Yet these polytheists have taken deities other than Allah, whom they worship. 00:06:40.350 --> 00:06:43.949 Hoping that they might help them against the punishment and torment of Allah. 00:06:50.540 --> 00:06:57.759 These deities cannot help them against Allah if He intends any harm for them. 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:02.959 These polytheists are like an army brought forth for their deities in the worldly life. 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:06.319 They become angry on their behalf and fight in their defense. 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:11.040 Yet they (the idols) can neither bring them any good nor ward off any evil from them. 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:13.519 They are merely idols. 00:07:21.139 --> 00:07:25.699 “So let not their speech grieve thee (O Muhammad). Lo! We know what they conceal and what proclaim.” (36:76) 00:07:27.089 --> 00:07:32.290 So do not let the words of these polytheists grieve you, O Muhammad, when they say you are a poet. 00:07:33.089 --> 00:07:37.329 We know that what drives them to say that is envy. 00:07:37.970 --> 00:07:41.730 For they know that what you have brought them is not poetry. 00:07:42.370 --> 00:07:47.089 We know what they conceal of their knowledge of the truth of what you call them to. 00:07:47.569 --> 00:07:51.970 And what they declare of their denial of it with their tongues openly. 00:08:10.220 --> 00:08:12.939 Does this human being, who says such things, not see? 00:08:13.500 --> 00:08:15.819 “And he hath coined for Us a similitude, and hath forgotten the fact of his creation, saying: Who will revive these bones when they have rotted away?” (36:78) 00:08:16.379 --> 00:08:21.019 That We created him from a drop of fluid, then fashioned him into a complete human being. 00:08:21.579 --> 00:08:24.060 Yet he becomes an open adversary to his Lord. 00:08:24.540 --> 00:08:29.740 It is clear to anyone who hears his argument that he is disputing with his Lord who created him. 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:44.720 And he presents us with a comparison, saying: 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:47.679 “And he hath coined for Us a similitude, and hath forgotten the fact of his creation, saying: Who will revive these bones when they have rotted away?” (36:78) 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:52.480 He makes us like one who is unable to bring such creation back to life. 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:56.159 And he forgets how We created him in the first place. 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:01.919 He should know that He who created him from a drop of fluid until he became a complete human being. 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:09.039 Is not incapable of restoring decayed bones to the form they were in before they perished. 00:09:15.940 --> 00:09:18.740 Say, O Muhammad, to this polytheist: 00:09:19.220 --> 00:09:25.330 He who brought them into existence the first time, when they were nothing, will give them life. 00:09:25.889 --> 00:09:28.289 And He is, of all creation, fully knowing. 00:09:28.690 --> 00:09:32.769 How He causes death, how He gives life, and how He originates. 00:09:48.659 --> 00:09:54.669 He who produces for you fire from the green tree, with which you kindle fire. 00:09:55.070 --> 00:09:58.750 So you use this tree to light your fires. 00:09:59.149 --> 00:10:01.950 Nothing is impossible for Him to do if He wills it. 00:10:02.269 --> 00:10:06.190 And He is not incapable of reviving bones that have decayed. 00:10:07.620 --> 00:10:16.019 “Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the like of them? Aye, that He is! for He is the All-Wise Creator,” (36:81) 00:10:16.179 --> 00:10:21.220 “Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the like of them? Aye, that He is! for He is the All-Wise Creator,” (36:81) 00:10:22.820 --> 00:10:29.379 Is He who created the heavens and the earth not able to create the likes of them? 00:10:29.940 --> 00:10:36.179 For the creation of the likes of them from decayed bones is not greater than the creation of the heavens and the earth. 00:10:36.659 --> 00:10:39.700 Rather, He is fully capable of creating the likes of them. 00:10:40.019 --> 00:10:42.259 And He is the Creator of all that He wills. 00:10:42.580 --> 00:10:44.580 The Doer of all that He intends. 00:10:45.059 --> 00:10:47.940 The All-Knowing of everything He has created and will create. 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:58.559 “But His command, when He intendeth a thing, is only that He saith unto it: Be! and it is.” (36:82) 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:07.440 “Therefor Glory be to Him in Whose hand is the dominion over all things! Unto Him ye will be brought back.” (36:83) 00:11:08.740 --> 00:11:14.340 “But His command, when He intendeth a thing, is only that He saith unto it: Be! and it is.” (36:82) 00:11:14.980 --> 00:11:19.299 So exalted is He in whose hand is the dominion of all things and their treasures. 00:11:19.860 --> 00:11:23.620 And to Him you will be returned and brought after your death.