1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,200 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:08,039 A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari. 3 00:00:08,580 --> 00:00:12,740 Abridged by Dr. 'Aqil ibn Salim al-Shammari. 4 00:00:13,949 --> 00:00:16,030 Surah al-Baqarah. 5 00:00:17,739 --> 00:00:22,660 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 6 00:00:22,660 --> 00:00:32,060 Alif Lam Mim. 7 00:00:32,060 --> 00:00:36,060 Allah, whose praise is exalted, made these disjointed letters. 8 00:00:36,060 --> 00:00:38,259 They are not connected to one another. 9 00:00:38,539 --> 00:00:42,259 Unlike the rest of speech where letters are joined. 10 00:00:42,259 --> 00:00:44,259 This is because He, the Exalted in remembrance, 11 00:00:44,259 --> 00:00:49,259 intended by their articulation to signify, through each letter, many meanings, 12 00:00:49,259 --> 00:00:51,259 not merely a single meaning. 13 00:00:52,289 --> 00:00:56,289 “This is the Scripture whereof there is no doubt, a guidance unto those who ward off (evil).” (2:2) 14 00:00:56,289 --> 00:01:00,829 Guidance for the God-fearing. 15 00:01:00,829 --> 00:01:04,829 This which I have mentioned and clarified for you, O Muhammad, 16 00:01:04,829 --> 00:01:08,829 is the Book in which there is no doubt that it is from Allah. 17 00:01:08,829 --> 00:01:12,829 It is guidance away from misguidance for those who feared their Lord, 18 00:01:12,829 --> 00:01:16,829 by obeying Him in what He commanded of His obligatory duties, 19 00:01:16,829 --> 00:01:20,829 and avoiding what He forbade them of His acts of disobedience. 20 00:01:20,829 --> 00:01:25,989 “Who believe in the Unseen, and establish worship, and spend of that We have bestowed upon them;” (2:3) 21 00:01:25,989 --> 00:01:30,989 And from what We have provided them, they spend. 22 00:01:32,379 --> 00:01:36,379 They are those who believe in what is unseen to them regarding Paradise and Hell, 23 00:01:36,379 --> 00:01:39,379 the reward and the punishment, and the Resurrection. 24 00:01:39,379 --> 00:01:42,379 And in what Allah mentioned in the Qur'an, 25 00:01:42,379 --> 00:01:46,379 such as believing in Allah, His angels, His books, and His messengers. 26 00:01:46,379 --> 00:01:51,379 They establish prayer by performing it with its limits and requirements, 27 00:01:51,379 --> 00:01:55,379 just as it was ordained for them, with complete bowing and prostration, 28 00:01:55,379 --> 00:01:58,379 recitation, and humility. 29 00:01:58,379 --> 00:02:02,379 And from what We have provided them, they pay the zakat or provide maintenance 30 00:02:02,379 --> 00:02:06,379 to those whose support is incumbent upon them, such as family and dependents. 31 00:02:18,699 --> 00:02:23,979 They are those who believe you regarding what you brought from Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, 32 00:02:23,979 --> 00:02:27,979 and what the messengers before you brought. 33 00:02:27,979 --> 00:02:29,979 They do not make distinctions between them, 34 00:02:29,979 --> 00:02:34,979 nor do they deny what came to them from their Lord. 35 00:02:34,979 --> 00:02:37,979 They believe in the matters of the Hereafter: the Resurrection and the gathering, 36 00:02:37,979 --> 00:02:41,979 the reward, the punishment, the reckoning, and the Balance, 37 00:02:41,979 --> 00:02:47,979 and all else that Allah has prepared for His creation on the Day of Resurrection; they are certain of it. 38 00:02:47,979 --> 00:02:50,979 This is an allusion censuring the People of the Scripture, 39 00:02:50,979 --> 00:02:58,979 who claimed to believe in what the messengers of Allah brought before Muhammad, peace be upon him, 40 00:02:58,979 --> 00:03:03,979 while they disbelieve in Muhammad, peace be upon him. 41 00:03:15,460 --> 00:03:17,750 Those are the God-fearing. 42 00:03:17,750 --> 00:03:22,750 And those who believe in what was revealed to Muhammad, peace be upon him, 43 00:03:22,750 --> 00:03:25,750 and to the messengers before him, 44 00:03:25,750 --> 00:03:28,750 are upon light from their Lord and a clear proof, 45 00:03:28,750 --> 00:03:30,750 and upon uprightness and correctness, 46 00:03:30,750 --> 00:03:34,750 through Allah’s guidance and success granted to them. 47 00:03:34,750 --> 00:03:41,750 Those are the successful ones, attaining what they sought from Allah, the Exalted, of reward, 48 00:03:41,750 --> 00:03:43,750 and eternity in the Gardens, 49 00:03:43,750 --> 00:03:48,750 and salvation from the punishment Allah has prepared for His enemies. 50 00:04:06,750 --> 00:04:11,009 Indeed, those who deny what was revealed to you from your Lord, 51 00:04:11,009 --> 00:04:15,009 it is all the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them, 52 00:04:15,009 --> 00:04:17,009 because they do not believe. 53 00:04:17,009 --> 00:04:21,009 Allah has set a seal upon their hearts and their hearing. 54 00:04:33,170 --> 00:04:35,300 Allah has placed a seal upon their hearts, 55 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:38,300 so that faith has no path into them, 56 00:04:38,300 --> 00:04:41,300 and disbelief has no way out of them. 57 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:44,300 And He has placed a covering over their vision, 58 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:46,300 preventing them from seeing the path of guidance, 59 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:51,300 so they do not recognize the ugliness of the misguidance and ruin they are upon. 60 00:04:51,300 --> 00:04:53,300 And for them is a great punishment. 61 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:59,459 And of the people are some who say, "We believe in Allah." 62 00:04:59,459 --> 00:05:05,459 “And of mankind are some who say: We believe in Allah and the Last Day, when they believe not.” (2:8) 63 00:05:05,459 --> 00:05:08,649 And of the people—and they are the hypocrites— 64 00:05:08,649 --> 00:05:13,649 are those who say, "We believe in Allah and in the Resurrection on the Day of Judgment," 65 00:05:13,649 --> 00:05:19,649 while they are not believers in what they claim to believe. 66 00:05:19,649 --> 00:05:23,649 This is a refutation of their claim regarding their own beliefs, 67 00:05:23,649 --> 00:05:27,649 and an informing of His Prophet, peace be upon him, 68 00:05:27,649 --> 00:05:30,649 that what they manifest with their tongues 69 00:05:30,649 --> 00:05:33,649 is contrary to what is in the depths of their hearts, 70 00:05:33,649 --> 00:05:36,649 and the opposite of what is in the intentions of their souls. 71 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:41,839 “They think to beguile Allah and those who believe, and they beguile none save themselves; but they perceive not.” (2:9) 72 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:47,839 “They think to beguile Allah and those who believe, and they beguile none save themselves; but they perceive not.” (2:9) 73 00:06:07,029 --> 00:06:09,029 He is deceiving himself, 74 00:06:09,029 --> 00:06:14,029 because he shows his soul through his actions that he is granting it its desires, 75 00:06:14,029 --> 00:06:17,029 and giving it the cup of its pleasure, 76 00:06:17,029 --> 00:06:20,029 while he is actually leading it to the pools of its own destruction, 77 00:06:20,029 --> 00:06:24,029 and making it taste of Allah’s wrath and painful punishment 78 00:06:24,029 --> 00:06:26,029 that which it cannot withstand. 79 00:06:26,029 --> 00:06:31,029 They do not perceive that Allah is deceiving them by granting them respite, 80 00:06:31,029 --> 00:06:33,290 and gradually leading them to their ruin. 81 00:06:37,290 --> 00:06:40,290 So Allah increased them in disease, 82 00:06:40,290 --> 00:06:46,290 “In their hearts is a disease, and Allah increaseth their disease. A painful doom is theirs because they lie.” (2:10) 83 00:06:46,290 --> 00:06:51,449 in the conviction of their hearts regarding their religion, 84 00:06:51,449 --> 00:06:55,449 and in their belief in Muhammad, peace be upon him, 85 00:06:55,449 --> 00:06:58,449 and in what he brought from Allah. 86 00:06:58,449 --> 00:06:59,449 It is a sickness and doubt. 87 00:06:59,449 --> 00:07:05,449 Allah increased them—through the limits and obligations He ordained which they had not previously been bound by— 88 00:07:05,449 --> 00:07:10,449 in doubt and confusion, added to the disease and doubt already in their hearts. 89 00:07:10,449 --> 00:07:16,449 And for them is a painful punishment for the lies they told with their tongues. 90 00:07:16,449 --> 00:07:20,449 “And of mankind are some who say: We believe in Allah and the Last Day, when they believe not.” (2:8) 91 00:07:20,449 --> 00:07:24,610 “And when it is said unto them: Make not mischief in the earth, they say: We are peacemakers only.” (2:11) 92 00:07:24,610 --> 00:07:29,610 “And when it is said unto them: Make not mischief in the earth, they say: We are peacemakers only.” (2:11) 93 00:07:29,610 --> 00:07:35,019 And when it is said to the hypocrites, "Do not cause corruption on the earth," 94 00:07:35,019 --> 00:07:37,019 by disobeying your Lord upon it, 95 00:07:37,019 --> 00:07:41,019 and by committing what He has forbidden you to commit, 96 00:07:41,019 --> 00:07:43,019 and by neglecting His obligations, 97 00:07:43,019 --> 00:07:45,019 and by doubting the religion of Allah, 98 00:07:45,019 --> 00:07:52,019 and by supporting those who deny Allah, His books, and His messengers against the allies of Allah, 99 00:07:52,019 --> 00:07:58,019 they say, "We are only reformers on the earth, and upon guidance and righteousness." 100 00:07:58,019 --> 00:08:06,220 “Are not they indeed the mischief-makers? But they perceive not.” (2:12) 101 00:08:06,220 --> 00:08:10,220 Unquestionably, it is they who are violating the command of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, 102 00:08:10,220 --> 00:08:12,220 transgressing His limits, 103 00:08:12,220 --> 00:08:14,220 committing acts of disobedience, 104 00:08:14,220 --> 00:08:16,220 and abandoning His obligations, 105 00:08:16,220 --> 00:08:19,220 and they know that they are as such. 106 00:08:19,220 --> 00:08:24,220 “And when it is said unto them: believe as the people believe, they say: shall we believe as the foolish believe? are not they indeed the foolish? But they know not.” (2:13) 107 00:08:24,220 --> 00:08:29,220 “And when it is said unto them: believe as the people believe, they say: shall we believe as the foolish believe? are not they indeed the foolish? But they know not.” (2:13) 108 00:08:29,220 --> 00:08:37,220 “And when it is said unto them: believe as the people believe, they say: shall we believe as the foolish believe? are not they indeed the foolish? But they know not.” (2:13) 109 00:08:37,220 --> 00:08:39,539 And when it is said to them, 110 00:08:39,539 --> 00:08:44,539 "Believe in Muhammad and in what he brought from Allah," 111 00:08:44,539 --> 00:08:47,539 just as the believers have believed, 112 00:08:47,539 --> 00:08:52,539 who believed in Muhammad, his prophethood, and what he brought from Allah, 113 00:08:52,539 --> 00:08:56,539 they say, "Should we believe as the ignorant have believed?" 114 00:08:56,539 --> 00:09:00,539 "And should we believe in Muhammad, peace be upon him," 115 00:09:00,539 --> 00:09:05,539 "as these people who have no intellect or understanding have believed?" 116 00:09:05,539 --> 00:09:09,539 Unquestionably, it is they who are the ignorant in their religion, 117 00:09:09,539 --> 00:09:15,539 weak in judgment regarding the beliefs and choices they have chosen for themselves, 118 00:09:15,539 --> 00:09:19,539 consisting of doubt and suspicion regarding the command of Allah and His Messenger, 119 00:09:19,539 --> 00:09:22,539 yet they think they are doing good. 120 00:09:22,539 --> 00:09:25,539 That is the very essence of foolishness, 121 00:09:25,539 --> 00:09:30,539 for the fool only causes corruption while thinking he is bringing about reform. 122 00:09:30,539 --> 00:09:32,539 Likewise, the hypocrite 123 00:09:32,539 --> 00:09:36,539 disobeys his Lord while thinking he is obeying Him, 124 00:09:36,539 --> 00:09:40,539 and disbelieves in Him while thinking he is believing in Him, 125 00:09:40,539 --> 00:09:45,539 and harms himself while thinking he is doing good to himself. 126 00:09:45,539 --> 00:09:50,860 And when they meet those who believe, they say, "We believe." 127 00:09:50,860 --> 00:10:03,860 But when they are alone with their devils, they say, "Indeed, we are with you; 128 00:10:03,860 --> 00:10:09,269 we were only mocking." 129 00:10:09,269 --> 00:10:14,269 When they meet the believers who believe in Allah, His Book, and His Messenger, 130 00:10:14,269 --> 00:10:20,269 they say to them, "We believe and have faith in Muhammad and what he brought from Allah," 131 00:10:20,269 --> 00:10:24,269 as a deception to protect their lives, wealth, and offspring. 132 00:10:24,269 --> 00:10:29,269 And when they are alone with their ringleaders and those of arrogance, evil, and malice among them, 133 00:10:29,269 --> 00:10:33,269 they say to them, "Indeed, we are with you in your religion, 134 00:10:33,269 --> 00:10:37,269 and we are your supporters against those who oppose you in it." 135 00:10:37,269 --> 00:10:42,269 "We are only mocking the companions of Muhammad, peace be upon him," 136 00:10:42,269 --> 00:10:48,269 "by telling them when we meet them, 'We believe in Allah and the Last Day.'" 137 00:10:48,269 --> 00:10:56,429 Allah mocks them and prolongs them in their transgression, wandering blindly. 138 00:10:56,429 --> 00:11:01,690 Allah’s mocking consists of granting the hypocrites in this world 139 00:11:01,690 --> 00:11:06,690 rulings that include them in the count of those covered by the name of Islam, 140 00:11:06,690 --> 00:11:09,690 even if they harbor the opposite in their hearts, 141 00:11:10,690 --> 00:11:15,690 despite Allah’s knowledge of their lies and His awareness of the malice of their beliefs, 142 00:11:15,690 --> 00:11:20,690 until they think He will gather them in the Hereafter with the believers. 143 00:11:20,690 --> 00:11:25,690 But Allah has prepared for them His painful punishment and severe torment, 144 00:11:25,690 --> 00:11:29,690 mocking, ridiculing, deceiving, and plotting against them. 145 00:11:29,690 --> 00:11:34,690 He grants them respite and leaves them to persist in their transgression and disbelief, 146 00:11:34,690 --> 00:11:37,690 wandering in confusion and error, 147 00:11:38,690 --> 00:11:41,690 finding no way to escape from it. 148 00:11:58,230 --> 00:12:02,230 Those are the ones who have purchased misguidance and abandoned guidance, 149 00:12:02,230 --> 00:12:04,230 so they have lost and have not gained, 150 00:12:04,230 --> 00:12:09,230 nor were they guided in their choice of misguidance over guidance, 151 00:12:09,230 --> 00:12:12,230 and their exchange of disbelief for faith. 152 00:12:35,549 --> 00:12:38,940 The example of the hypocrites’ illumination 153 00:12:38,940 --> 00:12:43,940 by what they manifest of affirmation of Allah and Muhammad, peace be upon him, 154 00:12:43,940 --> 00:12:48,940 and what he brought—in speech, while they deny it in their hearts— 155 00:12:48,940 --> 00:12:51,940 is like the illumination of one who kindles a fire; 156 00:12:51,940 --> 00:12:54,940 once it lit up and he saw what was around him, 157 00:12:54,940 --> 00:12:56,940 the fire died down and was extinguished, 158 00:12:56,940 --> 00:12:58,940 so his light departed, 159 00:12:58,940 --> 00:13:02,940 and the one who was illuminated by it returned to darkness and confusion. 160 00:13:03,940 --> 00:13:05,940 Likewise are the hypocrites; 161 00:13:05,940 --> 00:13:07,940 Allah has taken away their light, 162 00:13:07,940 --> 00:13:13,940 and left them in darkness, unable to see after the light they were in during this world, 163 00:13:13,940 --> 00:13:17,940 due to what they manifested with their tongues of affirmation of Islam, 164 00:13:17,940 --> 00:13:20,940 while they harbored the opposite. 165 00:13:29,450 --> 00:13:31,450 They are deaf to guidance and the truth, 166 00:13:31,450 --> 00:13:35,450 so they do not hear them due to Allah’s abandonment of them. 167 00:13:35,450 --> 00:13:37,450 They are dumb regarding speaking of them, 168 00:13:37,450 --> 00:13:39,450 so they do not utter them. 169 00:13:39,450 --> 00:13:43,450 They are blind to seeing them so as to understand them, 170 00:13:43,450 --> 00:13:47,450 so they will not return to abandoning their misguidance. 171 00:14:01,740 --> 00:14:13,740 “Or like a rainstorm from the sky, wherein is darkness, thunder and the flash of lightning. They thrust their fingers in their ears by reason of the thunder-claps, for fear of death, Allah encompasseth the disbelievers (in His guidance, His omniscience and His omnipotence).” (2:19) 172 00:14:13,740 --> 00:14:19,740 And Allah is encompassing of the disbelievers. 173 00:14:20,990 --> 00:14:24,990 The example of the hypocrites’ illumination by the light of their affirmation of Islam, 174 00:14:24,990 --> 00:14:26,990 while concealing disbelief, 175 00:14:26,990 --> 00:14:28,990 is like a rainstorm traveling by night 176 00:14:28,990 --> 00:14:31,990 in a dark cloud and a dark night, 177 00:14:31,990 --> 00:14:37,990 driven by thunder, with lightning flashing at its edges, intense in its brilliance. 178 00:14:37,990 --> 00:14:41,990 The flash of its lightning almost takes away their sight and snatches it, 179 00:14:41,990 --> 00:14:44,990 due to the intensity of its brightness and the light of its rays. 180 00:14:44,990 --> 00:14:47,990 And from it, thunderbolts descend at times, 181 00:14:47,990 --> 00:14:52,990 almost causing souls to perish from the intensity of their terror. 182 00:14:52,990 --> 00:14:57,990 Allah struck the rainstorm as a parable for the outward faith of the hypocrite, 183 00:14:57,990 --> 00:15:01,990 and the darkness within it as a parable for his misguidance, 184 00:15:01,990 --> 00:15:05,990 and the light of the lightning as a parable for the light of his faith, 185 00:15:05,990 --> 00:15:10,990 and his shielding himself from the thunderbolts by putting his fingers in his ears 186 00:15:10,990 --> 00:15:16,990 as a parable for the weakness of his heart and the terror of his soul at the arrival of Allah’s punishment at his doorstep, 187 00:15:16,990 --> 00:15:18,990 and his walking in the light of the lightning 188 00:15:18,990 --> 00:15:21,990 as a parable for his steadfastness on the light of his faith, 189 00:15:21,990 --> 00:15:23,990 and his standing still in the darkness 190 00:15:24,990 --> 00:15:28,990 as a parable for his confusion in his misguidance and his relapse into his blindness. 191 00:15:28,990 --> 00:15:32,019 And Allah is the Gatherer of the disbelievers, 192 00:15:32,019 --> 00:15:34,019 so He will inflict His punishment upon them. 193 00:15:54,120 --> 00:16:06,629 Then He, the Exalted in remembrance, returned to describing the hypocrites’ affirmation with their tongues, 194 00:16:06,629 --> 00:16:08,629 and said: 195 00:16:08,629 --> 00:16:14,629 The affirmation they manifested with their tongues regarding Allah, His Messenger, and what he brought 196 00:16:14,629 --> 00:16:20,629 almost takes away their sight and snatches it due to the intensity of its brightness and the light of its rays. 197 00:16:20,629 --> 00:16:23,629 Whenever the light of faith shines for them, 198 00:16:23,629 --> 00:16:26,629 they see in it what pleases them in their immediate worldly life, 199 00:16:26,629 --> 00:16:28,629 such as victory over enemies, 200 00:16:28,629 --> 00:16:31,629 obtaining spoils in military expeditions, 201 00:16:31,629 --> 00:16:34,629 and safety for their bodies, families, and children; 202 00:16:34,629 --> 00:16:37,629 they remain steadfast upon it and persist in it. 203 00:16:37,629 --> 00:16:39,629 But when it becomes dark, 204 00:16:39,629 --> 00:16:42,629 and they do not see in Islam what pleases them, 205 00:16:42,629 --> 00:16:46,629 they persist in their hypocrisy and remain steadfast in their misguidance, 206 00:16:46,629 --> 00:16:50,629 just like the traveler walking in the darkness of the night and the darkness of the rainstorm; 207 00:16:50,629 --> 00:16:55,629 when a flash of lightning occurs, he sees his path, 208 00:16:55,629 --> 00:16:58,629 but when the light of the lightning departs from them, 209 00:16:58,629 --> 00:17:02,629 he is confused in his path and does not know his way. 210 00:17:02,629 --> 00:17:06,630 If Allah had willed, He would have taken away the hearing and sight of the hypocrites. 211 00:17:06,630 --> 00:17:09,630 Indeed, Allah is over all things competent, 212 00:17:09,630 --> 00:17:14,630 and over inflicting His wrath upon them and sending down His vengeance upon them. 213 00:17:20,789 --> 00:17:23,789 O all of mankind, 214 00:17:23,789 --> 00:17:26,789 whether disbelievers, hypocrites, or others, 215 00:17:26,789 --> 00:17:29,819 from among all of His creation who are held accountable: 216 00:17:29,819 --> 00:17:33,819 Worship your Lord alone, He who created you and created your forefathers, 217 00:17:33,819 --> 00:17:37,819 your ancestors, and all of creation besides you, 218 00:17:37,819 --> 00:17:40,819 so that you may guard against His wrath and anger 219 00:17:40,819 --> 00:17:42,819 from descending upon you, 220 00:17:42,819 --> 00:17:45,819 and so that you may be among the righteous. 221 00:17:45,819 --> 00:17:48,819 So that they may descend upon you, 222 00:17:48,819 --> 00:17:53,950 and you may be among the righteous with whom their Lord is pleased. 223 00:17:53,950 --> 00:17:58,950 “Who hath appointed the earth a resting-place for you, and the sky a canopy; and causeth water to pour down from the sky, thereby producing fruits as food for you. And do not set up rivals to Allah when ye know (better).” (2:22) 224 00:17:58,950 --> 00:18:07,950 And the sky as a canopy. 225 00:18:07,950 --> 00:18:14,720 And He sent down water from the sky, 226 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:18,720 and thereby brought forth fruits as a provision for you. 227 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:27,720 “Who hath appointed the earth a resting-place for you, and the sky a canopy; and causeth water to pour down from the sky, thereby producing fruits as food for you. And do not set up rivals to Allah when ye know (better).” (2:22) 228 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:30,099 Worship your Lord, 229 00:18:30,099 --> 00:18:33,099 who made the earth a resting place and a foundation for you, 230 00:18:33,099 --> 00:18:36,099 and a stable place for you to dwell upon. 231 00:18:36,099 --> 00:18:39,140 And the sky as a structure above the earth, 232 00:18:39,140 --> 00:18:41,140 in the form of a dome. 233 00:18:41,140 --> 00:18:43,140 And He sent down rain from the sky, 234 00:18:43,140 --> 00:18:46,140 and thereby brought forth from their crops and plantations 235 00:18:47,140 --> 00:18:49,140 fruits as a provision for them, 236 00:18:49,140 --> 00:18:51,140 as nourishment and sustenance. 237 00:18:51,140 --> 00:18:55,140 So do not set up rivals or equals to Allah in obedience, 238 00:18:55,140 --> 00:18:59,140 while you know that you have no lord who provides for you other than Him, 239 00:18:59,140 --> 00:19:03,140 and that He is the Originator of creation and its Creator. 240 00:19:03,140 --> 00:19:07,200 “And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful.” (2:23) 241 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:11,200 “And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful.” (2:23) 242 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,200 Then produce a surah. 243 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,259 “And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful.” (2:23) 244 00:19:17,259 --> 00:19:23,259 “And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful.” (2:23) 245 00:19:23,259 --> 00:19:30,259 “And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful.” (2:23) 246 00:19:30,259 --> 00:19:34,259 If you are truthful. 247 00:19:34,259 --> 00:19:37,519 And if you, O polytheists, are in doubt 248 00:19:37,519 --> 00:19:42,519 regarding what has been revealed to My servant of the Qur'an from Me, 249 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:45,519 then produce a surah similar to this Qur'an, 250 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:49,519 from your own speech that is comparable to it in the Arabic language, 251 00:19:49,519 --> 00:19:51,519 since you are Arabs. 252 00:19:51,519 --> 00:19:57,519 And call upon your helpers and witnesses to assist you in producing a surah like it, 253 00:19:57,519 --> 00:20:02,519 those who observe you and aid you in your denial of Allah and His Messenger, 254 00:20:02,519 --> 00:20:05,519 if you are truthful in your claim 255 00:20:05,519 --> 00:20:11,519 that what Muhammad, peace be upon him, has brought you is a fabrication and a lie. 256 00:20:11,519 --> 00:20:19,619 “And if ye do it not - and ye can never do it - then guard yourselves against the Fire prepared for disbelievers, whose fuel is of men and stones.” (2:24) 257 00:20:19,619 --> 00:20:25,619 “And if ye do it not - and ye can never do it - then guard yourselves against the Fire prepared for disbelievers, whose fuel is of men and stones.” (2:24) 258 00:20:25,619 --> 00:20:29,869 Prepared for the disbelievers. 259 00:20:29,869 --> 00:20:35,869 But if you fail to produce a surah like it, even though you and your partners have conspired against it, 260 00:20:35,869 --> 00:20:39,869 and you will never be able to produce a surah like it, 261 00:20:39,869 --> 00:20:44,869 then fear the Fire whose fuel is people and stones, 262 00:20:44,869 --> 00:20:49,259 prepared for those who deny that Allah is their Lord. 263 00:20:49,259 --> 00:21:06,259 “And give glad tidings (O Muhammad) unto those who believe and do good works; that theirs are Gardens underneath which rivers flow; as often as they are regaled with food of the fruit thereof, they say: this is what was given us aforetime; and it is given to them in resemblance. There for them are pure companions; there for ever they abide.” (2:25) 264 00:21:06,259 --> 00:21:11,259 “And give glad tidings (O Muhammad) unto those who believe and do good works; that theirs are Gardens underneath which rivers flow; as often as they are regaled with food of the fruit thereof, they say: this is what was given us aforetime; and it is given to them in resemblance. There for them are pure companions; there for ever they abide.” (2:25) 265 00:21:11,259 --> 00:21:16,259 “And give glad tidings (O Muhammad) unto those who believe and do good works; that theirs are Gardens underneath which rivers flow; as often as they are regaled with food of the fruit thereof, they say: this is what was given us aforetime; and it is given to them in resemblance. There for them are pure companions; there for ever they abide.” (2:25) 266 00:21:16,259 --> 00:21:19,259 And they are brought similar [fruits]. 267 00:21:19,259 --> 00:21:24,259 “And give glad tidings (O Muhammad) unto those who believe and do good works; that theirs are Gardens underneath which rivers flow; as often as they are regaled with food of the fruit thereof, they say: this is what was given us aforetime; and it is given to them in resemblance. There for them are pure companions; there for ever they abide.” (2:25) 268 00:21:24,259 --> 00:21:28,259 And they will abide therein forever. 269 00:21:28,259 --> 00:21:33,450 O Muhammad, give glad tidings to those who believe that you are My Messenger, 270 00:21:33,450 --> 00:21:38,450 and who confirm that belief by performing righteous deeds, 271 00:21:38,450 --> 00:21:42,450 that for them are gardens beneath which rivers flow. 272 00:21:42,450 --> 00:21:46,450 Whenever they are provided with fruit from the trees of the gardens, 273 00:21:46,450 --> 00:21:51,450 “And give glad tidings (O Muhammad) unto those who believe and do good works; that theirs are Gardens underneath which rivers flow; as often as they are regaled with food of the fruit thereof, they say: this is what was given us aforetime; and it is given to them in resemblance. There for them are pure companions; there for ever they abide.” (2:25) 274 00:21:51,450 --> 00:21:57,450 and they are brought what they are provided with of its fruits, similar in appearance and color to the fruits of the world, 275 00:21:57,450 --> 00:22:00,450 yet different in taste and flavor. 276 00:22:00,450 --> 00:22:03,450 And for those who believe and do righteous deeds, 277 00:22:03,450 --> 00:22:11,450 [there are] spouses purified from all filth, impurity, and doubt that may exist in the women of this world. 278 00:22:11,450 --> 00:22:20,450 And they will abide in the gardens forever, remaining in the joy and everlasting bliss that Allah has granted them therein.