WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:08.039 A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari. 00:00:08.589 --> 00:00:12.710 Abridged by Dr. 'Aqil ibn Salim al-Shammar. 00:00:14.019 --> 00:00:16.460 Surah al-Infitar. 00:00:16.460 --> 00:00:23.570 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:23.570 --> 00:00:29.010 When the sky is cleft asunder. 00:00:29.010 --> 00:00:32.969 And when the stars are scattered. 00:00:33.170 --> 00:00:35.929 And when the seas are made to burst forth. 00:00:35.929 --> 00:00:38.729 And when the graves are overturned. 00:00:38.729 --> 00:00:45.420 “A soul will know what it hath sent before (it) and what left behind.” (82:5) 00:00:45.420 --> 00:00:47.780 When the sky is split apart. 00:00:47.780 --> 00:00:52.100 And when its stars are scattered and fall away. 00:00:52.100 --> 00:00:55.820 And when Allah causes the seas to burst into one another. 00:00:55.820 --> 00:00:57.939 Filling them all up. 00:00:57.939 --> 00:00:59.740 And when the graves are stirred up. 00:00:59.740 --> 00:01:03.759 And those within them are brought forth as living beings. 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:09.840 Every soul shall know what it has sent forth for that day of righteous deeds that will benefit it. 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:14.950 And what it left behind of a Sunnah that was subsequently practiced. 00:01:14.950 --> 00:01:22.430 “O man! What hath made thee careless concerning thy Lord, the Bountiful,” (82:6) 00:01:22.430 --> 00:01:26.709 “Who created thee, then fashioned, then proportioned thee?” (82:7) 00:01:26.709 --> 00:01:34.629 “Into whatsoever form He will, He casteth thee.” (82:8) 00:01:34.670 --> 00:01:37.150 O you ungrateful human being. 00:01:37.150 --> 00:01:40.430 What has deceived you concerning your Generous Lord? 00:01:40.430 --> 00:01:44.469 Who created you, O human, and perfected your form. 00:01:44.469 --> 00:01:45.829 And fashioned you in due proportion. 00:01:45.829 --> 00:01:50.189 Meaning, He made your creation balanced, upright, and well-formed. 00:01:50.189 --> 00:01:51.590 Or, He balanced you. 00:01:51.590 --> 00:01:55.670 Meaning, He directed and shaped you into whatever form He willed. 00:01:55.670 --> 00:01:58.030 Whether into a beautiful form. 00:01:58.030 --> 00:02:00.750 Or into an ugly form. 00:02:00.750 --> 00:02:04.680 Or into the likeness of some of your relatives. 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:09.199 “Nay, but ye deny the Judgment.” (82:9) 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:14.120 And indeed, there are watchers over you. 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:17.960 Noble, recording angels. 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:23.069 They know whatever you do. 00:02:23.069 --> 00:02:24.150 Nay, but you deny the Recompense. 00:02:24.150 --> 00:02:27.750 The matter is not, O disbelievers, as you claim. 00:02:27.750 --> 00:02:31.830 That you are upon the truth in your worship of others besides Allah. 00:02:31.870 --> 00:02:35.349 Rather, you deny the reward and the punishment. 00:02:35.349 --> 00:02:37.789 And the recompense and the reckoning. 00:02:37.789 --> 00:02:40.750 And indeed, there are observers and guardians over you. 00:02:40.750 --> 00:02:44.590 They preserve your deeds and keep an account of them for you. 00:02:44.590 --> 00:02:46.189 Noble in the sight of Allah. 00:02:46.189 --> 00:02:48.629 They record your deeds. 00:02:48.629 --> 00:02:55.060 These guardians know whatever you do, whether it be good or evil. 00:02:55.060 --> 00:03:00.530 Indeed, the righteous will be in bliss. 00:03:00.530 --> 00:03:05.889 “And lo! the wicked verily will be in hell;” (82:14) 00:03:05.889 --> 00:03:09.530 They will enter it on the Day of Recompense. 00:03:09.530 --> 00:03:14.490 And they will not be absent from it. 00:03:14.490 --> 00:03:19.330 And what can make you know what the Day of Recompense is? 00:03:19.330 --> 00:03:25.330 Then, what can make you know what the Day of Recompense is? 00:03:25.330 --> 00:03:31.250 “A day on which no soul hath power at all for any (other) soul. The (absolute) command on that day is Allah's.” (82:19) 00:03:31.250 --> 00:03:37.539 And the command on that day will be entirely with Allah. 00:03:37.539 --> 00:03:42.580 Indeed, those who were righteous by fulfilling the obligations of Allah and avoiding His prohibitions. 00:03:42.580 --> 00:03:46.439 Will be in the bliss of the Gardens, enjoying themselves therein. 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:51.199 And indeed, the wicked who disbelieved in their Lord will be in a blazing fire. 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:55.280 These wicked ones will enter the blazing fire on the Day of Resurrection. 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:59.819 The day when the servants are judged for their deeds and recompensed accordingly. 00:03:59.819 --> 00:04:06.099 And these wicked ones will never be able to depart from the fire, nor will they be absent from it. 00:04:06.099 --> 00:04:09.740 But they will be abiding therein forever. 00:04:09.740 --> 00:04:13.099 And likewise, the righteous will be in bliss. 00:04:13.099 --> 00:04:15.860 And what has made you understand what the Day of Recompense is? 00:04:15.860 --> 00:04:20.259 It asks: What is the nature of the Day of Reckoning and Recompense? 00:04:20.259 --> 00:04:23.220 Magnifying its significance, may His mention be exalted. 00:04:23.259 --> 00:04:29.379 Then, what has made you understand, O Muhammad, what the Day of Recompense is? 00:04:29.379 --> 00:04:31.560 To emphasize its gravity. 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:33.160 That day. 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:36.800 A day when no soul shall have power to do anything for another soul. 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:40.160 To ward off from it any calamity that has befallen it. 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:42.600 Nor will it be able to benefit it in any way. 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:48.120 Even though, in the worldly life, it might have protected it and defended it against those who sought to harm it. 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:50.480 All of that will be rendered void on that day. 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:56.990 Because the command will belong to Allah, whom no victor can overcome and no oppressor can subdue. 00:04:56.990 --> 00:05:01.430 Kingdoms will vanish there, and authorities will pass away. 00:05:01.430 --> 00:05:04.670 And sovereignty will belong to the King, the Compeller. 00:05:04.670 --> 00:05:09.110 And the entire command on that day will be His, to the exclusion of all His creation. 00:05:09.110 --> 00:05:16.300 No one among His creation will have any command or prohibition alongside Him on that day. 00:05:16.300 --> 00:05:20.459 A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari.