WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.160 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:05.169 --> 00:00:08.070 A summary from the Tafsir of al-Tabari. 00:00:08.580 --> 00:00:12.740 Abridged by Dr. Aqil ibn Salim al-Shammari. 00:00:14.140 --> 00:00:16.739 Surah al-Haqqah (The Inevitable Reality). 00:00:18.579 --> 00:00:22.739 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:22.980 --> 00:00:27.579 The Inevitable Reality. 00:00:27.820 --> 00:00:32.799 What is the Inevitable Reality? 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:38.990 And what can make you know what the Inevitable Reality is? 00:00:40.380 --> 00:00:44.060 It is the Hour of Resurrection, in which matters are confirmed and settled. 00:00:44.420 --> 00:00:47.060 And in which requital for deeds becomes mandatory. 00:00:47.700 --> 00:00:50.140 What is the Hour of the Inevitable Reality? 00:00:50.780 --> 00:00:54.979 And what could make you know and understand what the Inevitable Reality is? 00:00:56.490 --> 00:01:01.409 “(The tribes of) Thamud and A'ad disbelieved in the judgment to come.” (69:4) 00:01:01.890 --> 00:01:06.609 “As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the lightning.” (69:5) 00:01:08.109 --> 00:01:12.109 Thamud, the people of Salih, and ‘Ad, the people of Hud, denied it. 00:01:12.109 --> 00:01:15.510 They denied the Hour that strikes the hearts of the servants. 00:01:15.510 --> 00:01:17.269 By its sudden onslaught upon them. 00:01:17.870 --> 00:01:19.950 As for Thamud, the people of Salih: 00:01:20.430 --> 00:01:23.230 Allah destroyed them with a devastating, overwhelming blast. 00:01:24.930 --> 00:01:33.090 “And as for A'ad, they were destroyed by a fierce roaring wind,” (69:6) 00:01:33.650 --> 00:01:40.930 “Which He imposed on them for seven long nights and eight long days so that thou mightest have seen men lying overthrown, as they were hollow trunks of palm-trees.” (69:7) 00:01:41.489 --> 00:01:48.409 You would see the people therein lying prostrate, as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees. 00:01:48.930 --> 00:01:53.730 “Canst thou (O Muhammad) see any remnant of them?” (69:8) 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:57.079 And as for ‘Ad, the people of Hud: 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:00.920 Allah destroyed them with a wind of intense, howling violence. 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:02.760 Accompanied by extreme cold. 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:05.719 It defied its keepers in its blowing. 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:11.599 It exceeded, in its intensity and howling, the known limits of wind and cold. 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:18.479 That wind was unleashed upon ‘Ad for seven nights and eight days in succession. 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:22.360 You would see, O Muhammad, the people of ‘Ad destroyed. 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:25.400 As if they were the roots of palm trees that had rotted away. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:30.080 So do you see, O Muhammad, any remnant of the people of ‘Ad? 00:02:31.860 --> 00:02:39.340 “And Pharaoh and those before him, and the communities that were destroyed, brought error,” (69:9) 00:02:39.939 --> 00:02:45.139 They disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so He seized them with a mounting, severe seizure. 00:02:46.659 --> 00:02:48.180 And there came Pharaoh. 00:02:48.740 --> 00:02:53.180 And those before him, from the nations that denied the signs of Allah. 00:02:53.860 --> 00:02:57.259 Like the people of Nuh, ‘Ad, and Thamud, who committed sins. 00:02:58.060 --> 00:03:00.219 And the cities that were overturned upon their inhabitants. 00:03:00.659 --> 00:03:03.659 Their tops were turned to their bottoms due to their sins. 00:03:04.340 --> 00:03:08.979 Their sin was their practice of sodomy. 00:03:09.810 --> 00:03:12.650 These people whom Allah mentioned disobeyed. 00:03:13.169 --> 00:03:17.449 Namely Pharaoh, those before him, and the people of the overturned cities, they all disobeyed the messenger of their Lord. 00:03:18.050 --> 00:03:24.210 So their Lord seized them for their denial of His messenger with an excessive, severe, and growing seizure. 00:03:31.819 --> 00:03:34.219 We carried you in the sailing ship. 00:03:34.939 --> 00:03:41.780 “That We might make it a memorial for you, and that remembering ears (that heard the story) might remember.” (69:12) 00:03:43.620 --> 00:03:47.300 When the water rose and exceeded its known limits. 00:03:47.939 --> 00:03:51.060 We carried you in the ship that sails upon the water. 00:03:51.740 --> 00:03:55.500 So that We might make the sailing ship in which We carried you. 00:03:56.139 --> 00:03:59.020 A lesson and an admonition for you to take heed. 00:03:59.500 --> 00:04:04.020 And that a receptive ear might grasp and understand from Allah what it has heard. 00:04:23.420 --> 00:04:26.899 When the Trumpet is blown by Israfil, the first blast. 00:04:27.620 --> 00:04:32.259 And the earth and the mountains are lifted and leveled with a single crushing blow. 00:04:33.019 --> 00:04:36.620 On that day, the Hour will occur and the Resurrection will be established. 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:45.639 “And the heaven will split asunder, for that day it will be frail.” (69:16) 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:50.639 And the angels will be at its borders. 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:57.000 “And the angels will be on the sides thereof, and eight will uphold the Throne of thy Lord that day, above them.” (69:17) 00:04:57.639 --> 00:05:04.120 “On that day ye will be exposed; not a secret of you will be hidden.” (69:18) 00:05:05.819 --> 00:05:10.899 The heaven will split asunder, for on that day it will be torn and fractured. 00:05:11.699 --> 00:05:16.259 And the angels will be at the edges and fringes of the heaven as it splits. 00:05:16.980 --> 00:05:22.500 And the Throne of your Lord will be borne above them on that day by eight ranks of angels. 00:05:23.060 --> 00:05:25.300 None knows their number except Allah. 00:05:25.819 --> 00:05:27.300 Or eight mighty angels. 00:05:28.220 --> 00:05:31.540 On that day, O people, you will be presented before your Lord. 00:05:32.139 --> 00:05:34.699 No secret of yours will be hidden from Allah. 00:05:35.379 --> 00:05:39.259 For He is All-Knowing of you all, encompassing you all. 00:05:41.149 --> 00:05:48.670 “Then, as for him who is given his record in his right hand, he will say: Take, read my book!” (69:19) 00:05:49.269 --> 00:05:54.389 He will say, "Here, read my record!" 00:05:54.949 --> 00:06:00.949 “Surely I knew that I should have to meet my reckoning.” (69:20) 00:06:02.709 --> 00:06:09.149 As for the one who is given his record of deeds in his right hand, he will say, "Come, read my record!" 00:06:09.910 --> 00:06:16.310 "I knew that I would meet my reckoning," when he arrived before his Lord on the Day of Resurrection. 00:06:18.100 --> 00:06:20.860 So he will be in a pleasant life. 00:06:21.379 --> 00:06:24.339 In a lofty Garden. 00:06:24.939 --> 00:06:26.939 Its fruits will be hanging low. 00:06:27.579 --> 00:06:35.939 “(And it will be said unto those therein): Eat and drink at ease for that which ye sent on before you in past days.” (69:24) 00:06:37.459 --> 00:06:42.180 The one whose state I have described is he who was given his record in his right hand. 00:06:42.740 --> 00:06:46.819 In a life that is pleasing, or a life in which there is contentment. 00:06:47.339 --> 00:06:50.300 The life is described as being one of contentment, and it is indeed pleasing. 00:06:50.620 --> 00:06:55.899 For that is a praise of the life in a high, elevated garden. 00:06:56.420 --> 00:07:01.540 The fruits of the Garden that are plucked are near to the one plucking them. 00:07:02.019 --> 00:07:08.819 It is mentioned that whoever desires its fruit may take it as he wishes, whether standing or sitting. 00:07:09.139 --> 00:07:14.180 Neither distance prevents him from it, nor do thorns stand between him and it. 00:07:15.029 --> 00:07:18.870 "Eat," O you with whom I am pleased and whom I have admitted into My Garden. 00:07:19.189 --> 00:07:22.550 Eat of its fruits and the goodness of the food therein. 00:07:23.149 --> 00:07:25.029 And drink of its beverages. 00:07:25.550 --> 00:07:31.709 Enjoy it as a reward for what you sent forth in your worldly life for your Hereafter, through obedience to Allah. 00:07:32.189 --> 00:07:35.230 In the days of the world that have passed and gone. 00:07:36.899 --> 00:07:41.699 “But as for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say: Oh, would that I had not been given my book” (69:25) 00:07:41.699 --> 00:07:45.939 “But as for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say: Oh, would that I had not been given my book” (69:25) 00:07:46.459 --> 00:07:49.060 "And I did not know what my reckoning would be." 00:07:49.660 --> 00:07:52.939 “Oh, would that it had been death!” (69:27) 00:07:54.629 --> 00:07:58.829 But as for the one who is given his record of deeds in his left hand on that day. 00:07:59.430 --> 00:08:02.550 He will say, "Oh, I wish I had not been given my record!" 00:08:03.230 --> 00:08:05.790 "And I did not know what my reckoning was." 00:08:06.579 --> 00:08:09.660 "Oh, I wish the death that I died in the world." 00:08:10.220 --> 00:08:13.019 "Had been the end of everything thereafter." 00:08:13.459 --> 00:08:16.420 And that there had been no life or resurrection after it. 00:08:27.250 --> 00:08:33.970 Meaning that the wealth he possessed in the world will not save him from the punishment of Allah at all. 00:08:34.649 --> 00:08:37.049 "My arguments have vanished and are lost." 00:08:37.529 --> 00:08:39.850 I have no argument to plead my case. 00:08:41.539 --> 00:08:44.500 "Seize him and shackle him." 00:08:46.009 --> 00:08:49.049 "Then into the Hellfire drive him." 00:08:50.389 --> 00:08:58.070 "Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits, insert him." 00:08:59.190 --> 00:09:03.429 The Almighty says, instructing His angels, the keepers of Hell: 00:09:04.149 --> 00:09:05.590 Seize him and shackle him. 00:09:06.230 --> 00:09:09.669 Then cast him into Hell to burn therein. 00:09:10.149 --> 00:09:14.230 Then insert him into a chain whose length is seventy cubits. 00:09:14.870 --> 00:09:18.309 By the cubit of Allah, for He knows the extent of its length. 00:09:19.899 --> 00:09:25.100 “Lo! He used not to believe in Allah the Tremendous,” (69:33) 00:09:25.740 --> 00:09:29.980 And he did not encourage the feeding of the poor. 00:09:30.620 --> 00:09:35.419 “Therefor hath he no lover here this day,” (69:35) 00:09:36.059 --> 00:09:40.620 “Nor any food save filth” (69:36) 00:09:41.259 --> 00:09:46.220 “Which none but sinners eat.” (69:37) 00:09:47.850 --> 00:09:52.889 Do this to him as a recompense for his disbelief in Allah in the world. 00:09:53.529 --> 00:09:57.450 He did not believe in the Oneness of the Almighty Allah. 00:09:58.009 --> 00:10:02.250 Nor did he encourage people to feed the needy and those in want. 00:10:02.889 --> 00:10:07.690 So on the Day of Resurrection, in the Hereafter, he will have no close relative to defend him. 00:10:08.169 --> 00:10:10.970 Or to save him from the affliction he is in. 00:10:11.690 --> 00:10:12.970 Nor will he have any food. 00:10:13.529 --> 00:10:17.289 Just as he did not encourage the feeding of the poor in the world. 00:10:17.929 --> 00:10:20.730 Except for food from the discharge of the people of the Fire. 00:10:21.450 --> 00:10:23.850 No one eats the food that comes from the washing of wounds. 00:10:24.250 --> 00:10:25.450 Except the sinners. 00:10:25.850 --> 00:10:28.570 Those whose sins are disbelief in Allah. 00:10:34.169 --> 00:10:36.970 And what you do not see. 00:10:37.370 --> 00:10:42.970 It is the word of a noble messenger. 00:10:43.450 --> 00:10:46.009 “It is not poet's speech - little is it that ye believe!” (69:41) 00:10:46.490 --> 00:10:50.409 Little is it that you believe. 00:10:50.970 --> 00:10:53.129 And it is not the word of a soothsayer. 00:10:53.529 --> 00:10:57.210 Little is it that you remember. 00:10:57.769 --> 00:11:04.730 It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds. 00:11:06.149 --> 00:11:06.789 Nay. 00:11:07.190 --> 00:11:12.149 The matter is not as you say, O you who deny the Book of Allah and His messengers. 00:11:12.789 --> 00:11:14.950 I swear by all things. 00:11:15.269 --> 00:11:18.789 Those of which you see and those which you do not see. 00:11:19.429 --> 00:11:21.830 This Qur'an is not the word of a poet. 00:11:22.389 --> 00:11:25.190 Because Muhammad does not know how to compose poetry. 00:11:25.590 --> 00:11:27.110 Yet you say it is poetry. 00:11:27.750 --> 00:11:30.470 You believe in it but little. 00:11:31.029 --> 00:11:32.950 Nor is it the word of a soothsayer. 00:11:33.429 --> 00:11:35.830 Because Muhammad is not a soothsayer. 00:11:36.230 --> 00:11:38.870 Yet you say it is the rhymed prose of soothsayers. 00:11:39.509 --> 00:11:42.149 You take little admonition from it. 00:11:42.470 --> 00:11:44.870 And little do you reflect upon it. 00:11:45.350 --> 00:11:49.509 But it is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds, sent down upon him. 00:11:51.220 --> 00:11:56.259 “And if he had invented false sayings concerning Us,” (69:44) 00:11:56.820 --> 00:12:00.820 We would have seized him by the right hand. 00:12:01.379 --> 00:12:06.059 “And then severed his life-artery,” (69:46) 00:12:06.620 --> 00:12:12.460 “And not one of you could have held Us off from him.” (69:47) 00:12:14.090 --> 00:12:18.330 If Muhammad had fabricated against Us some false sayings. 00:12:18.730 --> 00:12:20.169 And lied about Us. 00:12:20.809 --> 00:12:23.850 We would have seized him with Our might and power. 00:12:24.570 --> 00:12:27.210 Then We would have cut his life-artery. 00:12:27.929 --> 00:12:33.929 By this, He means that He would have hastened his punishment and not delayed it. 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:39.000 And there is no one among you, O people, who could prevent Us from dealing with Muhammad. 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.000 Who could stop Us from punishing him or doing what We will to him. 00:12:44.490 --> 00:12:50.330 It is indeed a reminder for the righteous. 00:12:50.809 --> 00:12:58.570 “And lo! We know that some among you will deny (it).” (69:49) 00:12:59.210 --> 00:13:04.409 “And lo! it is indeed an anguish for the disbelievers.” (69:50) 00:13:04.970 --> 00:13:10.250 It is the absolute truth. 00:13:10.970 --> 00:13:16.570 So glorify the name of your Lord, the Great. 00:13:23.049 --> 00:13:29.610 For the righteous who fear the punishment of Allah by performing His obligatory duties and avoiding His prohibitions. 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:35.240 We know that there are some among you, O people, who deny this Qur'an. 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:42.039 And indeed, denying it will be a source of regret and remorse for the disbelievers in the Qur'an on the Day of Resurrection. 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:48.039 It is the absolute truth, about which there is no doubt that it is from Allah. 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.440 Muhammad (peace be upon him) did not fabricate it. 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:59.240 So glorify the name of your Lord, the Great, before Whom everything is small in His greatness.