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. 00:00:12.949 --> 00:00:16.390 Surah al-Tahrim. 00:00:19.050 --> 00:00:23.570 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:23.690 --> 00:00:30.129 “O Prophet! Why bannest thou that which Allah hath made lawful for thee, seeking to please thy wives? And Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” (66:1) 00:00:30.329 --> 00:00:33.850 Seeking the pleasure of your wives. 00:00:34.170 --> 00:00:38.130 And Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. 00:00:39.700 --> 00:00:44.340 "O Prophet, why do you forbid [yourself] what Allah has made lawful for you?" 00:00:44.659 --> 00:00:47.380 Seeking by that the pleasure of your wives. 00:00:47.899 --> 00:00:52.179 Why do you forbid for yourself the lawful things that Allah has permitted for you? 00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:56.380 You are seeking, by that prohibition, the pleasure of your wives. 00:00:56.859 --> 00:01:01.579 The thing that the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, forbade for himself 00:01:01.899 --> 00:01:04.859 was something that Allah had already made lawful for him. 00:01:05.260 --> 00:01:08.299 It is possible that this was his slave-girl. 00:01:08.739 --> 00:01:12.019 It is possible that it was a certain drink. 00:01:12.540 --> 00:01:15.140 And it is possible that it was something else. 00:01:15.739 --> 00:01:18.180 Regardless of what it was, 00:01:18.540 --> 00:01:22.379 it was the prohibition of something that had been lawful for him. 00:01:22.939 --> 00:01:28.180 So Allah admonished him for forbidding for himself what He had made lawful for him. 00:01:28.849 --> 00:01:34.290 "And Allah is Forgiving," O Muhammad, regarding the sins of those among His servants who repent. 00:01:34.769 --> 00:01:39.370 He has forgiven you for forbidding for yourself what Allah made lawful for you. 00:01:39.890 --> 00:01:46.170 He is Merciful to His servants, in that He does not punish them for sins they have repented from. 00:01:47.629 --> 00:01:52.230 “Allah hath made lawful for you (Muslims) absolution from your oaths (of such a kind), and Allah is your Protector. He is the Knower, the Wise.” (66:2) 00:01:52.629 --> 00:01:54.950 "And Allah is your protector." 00:01:55.349 --> 00:01:59.390 And He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. 00:02:00.670 --> 00:02:04.670 Allah, the Almighty, has made clear to you the way to dissolve your oaths. 00:02:05.069 --> 00:02:07.269 He has defined it for you, O people. 00:02:07.790 --> 00:02:12.270 Allah is your protector, supporting you with His victory, O believers. 00:02:12.750 --> 00:02:14.830 He is All-Knowing of your best interests. 00:02:15.229 --> 00:02:17.789 All-Wise in His management of your affairs. 00:02:18.189 --> 00:02:20.710 And in directing you toward that which He knows best. 00:02:22.030 --> 00:02:28.310 “When the Prophet confided a fact unto one of his wives and when she afterward divulged it and Allah apprised him thereof, he made known (to her) part thereof and passed over part. And when he told it her she said: Who hath told thee? He said: The Knower, the Aware hath told me.” (66:3) 00:02:28.870 --> 00:02:38.389 “When the Prophet confided a fact unto one of his wives and when she afterward divulged it and Allah apprised him thereof, he made known (to her) part thereof and passed over part. And when he told it her she said: Who hath told thee? He said: The Knower, the Aware hath told me.” (66:3) 00:02:38.949 --> 00:02:45.389 “When the Prophet confided a fact unto one of his wives and when she afterward divulged it and Allah apprised him thereof, he made known (to her) part thereof and passed over part. And when he told it her she said: Who hath told thee? He said: The Knower, the Aware hath told me.” (66:3) 00:02:45.909 --> 00:02:50.509 “When the Prophet confided a fact unto one of his wives and when she afterward divulged it and Allah apprised him thereof, he made known (to her) part thereof and passed over part. And when he told it her she said: Who hath told thee? He said: The Knower, the Aware hath told me.” (66:3) 00:02:52.229 --> 00:02:58.469 And when the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, confided a matter to one of his wives, 00:02:58.909 --> 00:02:59.909 and she was Hafsah. 00:03:00.550 --> 00:03:02.750 The matter that he confided to her 00:03:03.310 --> 00:03:06.990 was what he had forbidden for himself from that which Allah had made lawful for him, 00:03:07.430 --> 00:03:09.030 and his swearing an oath regarding that, 00:03:09.590 --> 00:03:12.909 and his saying, "Do not mention this to anyone." 00:03:13.669 --> 00:03:21.349 But when she disclosed the matter that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had confided to her, to her companion 'A'ishah, 00:03:21.870 --> 00:03:29.469 and Allah made His Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, aware that she had informed her companion of it, 00:03:30.069 --> 00:03:36.270 the Prophet, peace be upon him, informed Hafsah of part of that matter. 00:03:36.830 --> 00:03:38.789 And he refrained from informing her of some of it. 00:03:39.580 --> 00:03:45.699 When the Prophet of Allah, peace be upon him, informed Hafsah of what Allah had revealed to him, 00:03:46.139 --> 00:03:51.219 regarding her disclosing the secret of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, to 'A'ishah, 00:03:51.379 --> 00:03:57.719 Hafsah said to the Messenger of Allah, "Who informed you of this news and told you about it?" 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:01.340 Muhammad, the Prophet of Allah, said to Hafsah, 00:04:01.340 --> 00:04:06.719 "The All-Knowing of the secrets of His servants and the innermost thoughts of their hearts informed me of it." 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:11.259 The All-Acquainted with their affairs, from whom nothing is hidden. 00:04:11.259 --> 00:04:34.810 “If ye twain turn unto Allah repentant, (ye have cause to do so) for your hearts desired (the ban); and if ye aid one another against him (Muhammad) then lo! Allah, even He, is his Protecting Friend, and Gabriel and the righteous among the believers; and furthermore the angels are his helpers.” (66:4) 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:45.740 The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:04:45.740 --> 00:04:50.839 regarding the prohibition of what was lawful for him that he had forbidden for himself, 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:57.839 then Allah is his protector and helper against them both, and against everyone who seeks to harm him. 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:01.139 And Jibril is also his protector and helper. 00:05:01.139 --> 00:05:05.060 And the righteous among the believers are also his supporters and helpers. 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:08.980 And the angels, along with Jibril and the righteous believers, 00:05:08.980 --> 00:05:15.980 are helpers to the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, against those who harm him and wish him ill. 00:05:15.980 --> 00:05:33.209 “It may happen that his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your stead wives better than you, submissive (to Allah), believing, pious, penitent, devout, inclined to fasting, widows and maids.” (66:5) 00:05:33.209 --> 00:05:55.870 “It may happen that his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your stead wives better than you, submissive (to Allah), believing, pious, penitent, devout, inclined to fasting, widows and maids.” (66:5) 00:05:55.870 --> 00:06:03.870 "Perhaps his Lord, if he divorced you," O wives of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:06:04.170 --> 00:06:07.870 "would substitute for him wives better than you," 00:06:08.470 --> 00:06:15.529 submissive to Allah in obedience, believing in Allah and His Messenger, obedient to Allah, 00:06:16.029 --> 00:06:22.129 returning to what Allah loves of their obedience, away from what He dislikes of them, 00:06:22.709 --> 00:06:27.410 devout worshippers, humble before Allah in obedience, fasting. 00:06:27.870 --> 00:06:31.470 Previously married women who have been intimate, 00:06:31.930 --> 00:06:35.430 and virgins who have not been touched or intimate. 00:06:36.930 --> 00:06:44.769 "O you who have believed, protect yourselves and your families from a Fire," 00:06:45.310 --> 00:06:54.529 a Fire whose fuel is people and stones, over which are angels, harsh and severe. 00:06:55.089 --> 00:07:11.189 “O ye who believe! Ward off from yourselves and your families a Fire whereof the fuel is men and stones, over which are set angels strong, severe, who resist not Allah in that which He commandeth them, but do that which they are commanded.” (66:6) 00:07:12.500 --> 00:07:15.500 O you who have believed in Allah and His Messenger, 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:20.699 teach one another that by which you may protect yourselves from the Fire you know of, 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:25.000 and ward it off from them by acting upon the obedience of Allah, 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:27.399 and acting in obedience to Allah. 00:07:27.899 --> 00:07:33.899 And teach your families the deeds of obedience to Allah by which they may protect themselves from the Fire. 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:37.399 The firewood that is kindled for this Fire 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:40.300 is the children of Adam and sulfurous stones. 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:44.600 Over this Fire are angels from among the angels of Allah, 00:07:45.060 --> 00:07:48.459 harsh toward the people of the Fire, severe against them. 00:07:48.860 --> 00:07:52.600 They do not disobey Allah in what He commands them. 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:56.399 And they carry out what their Lord commands them. 00:07:57.899 --> 00:08:03.699 “(Then it will be said): O ye who disbelieve! Make no excuses for yourselves this day. Ye are only being paid for what ye used to do.” (66:7) 00:08:04.339 --> 00:08:10.300 "You are only being recompensed for what you used to do." 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.759 O you who denied the oneness of Allah, 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:16.759 "make no excuses today." 00:08:17.259 --> 00:08:19.019 That is on the Day of Resurrection. 00:08:19.779 --> 00:08:25.879 You are only being rewarded and given the recompense for the deeds you used to do in the world. 00:08:26.379 --> 00:08:28.779 So do not seek excuses for them. 00:08:30.699 --> 00:08:38.299 “O ye who believe! Turn unto Allah in sincere repentance! It may be that your Lord will remit from you your evil deeds and bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, on the day when Allah will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him. Their light will run before them and on their right hands; they will say: Our Lord! Perfect our light for us, and forgive us! Lo! Thou art Able to do all things.” (66:8) 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:43.100 “O ye who believe! Turn unto Allah in sincere repentance! It may be that your Lord will remit from you your evil deeds and bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, on the day when Allah will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him. Their light will run before them and on their right hands; they will say: Our Lord! Perfect our light for us, and forgive us! Lo! Thou art Able to do all things.” (66:8) 00:08:43.100 --> 00:08:49.100 “O ye who believe! Turn unto Allah in sincere repentance! It may be that your Lord will remit from you your evil deeds and bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, on the day when Allah will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him. Their light will run before them and on their right hands; they will say: Our Lord! Perfect our light for us, and forgive us! Lo! Thou art Able to do all things.” (66:8) 00:08:49.500 --> 00:08:56.299 “O ye who believe! Turn unto Allah in sincere repentance! It may be that your Lord will remit from you your evil deeds and bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, on the day when Allah will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him. Their light will run before them and on their right hands; they will say: Our Lord! Perfect our light for us, and forgive us! Lo! Thou art Able to do all things.” (66:8) 00:08:56.299 --> 00:09:03.000 "And He will admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow." 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:06.399 “O ye who believe! Turn unto Allah in sincere repentance! It may be that your Lord will remit from you your evil deeds and bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, on the day when Allah will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him. Their light will run before them and on their right hands; they will say: Our Lord! Perfect our light for us, and forgive us! Lo! Thou art Able to do all things.” (66:8) 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:10.700 “O ye who believe! Turn unto Allah in sincere repentance! It may be that your Lord will remit from you your evil deeds and bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, on the day when Allah will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him. Their light will run before them and on their right hands; they will say: Our Lord! Perfect our light for us, and forgive us! Lo! Thou art Able to do all things.” (66:8) 00:09:10.700 --> 00:09:13.399 And those who believed with him. 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:17.000 “O ye who believe! Turn unto Allah in sincere repentance! It may be that your Lord will remit from you your evil deeds and bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, on the day when Allah will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him. Their light will run before them and on their right hands; they will say: Our Lord! Perfect our light for us, and forgive us! Lo! Thou art Able to do all things.” (66:8) 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:23.200 “O ye who believe! Turn unto Allah in sincere repentance! It may be that your Lord will remit from you your evil deeds and bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, on the day when Allah will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him. Their light will run before them and on their right hands; they will say: Our Lord! Perfect our light for us, and forgive us! Lo! Thou art Able to do all things.” (66:8) 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:29.399 “O ye who believe! Turn unto Allah in sincere repentance! It may be that your Lord will remit from you your evil deeds and bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, on the day when Allah will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him. Their light will run before them and on their right hands; they will say: Our Lord! Perfect our light for us, and forgive us! Lo! Thou art Able to do all things.” (66:8) 00:09:29.899 --> 00:09:36.600 "Indeed, You are over all things competent." 00:09:38.259 --> 00:09:41.259 O you who have believed in Allah and His Messenger, 00:09:41.659 --> 00:09:43.059 "repent to Allah," 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:44.460 meaning, 00:09:44.860 --> 00:09:47.860 return from your sins to the obedience of Allah, 00:09:48.259 --> 00:09:53.059 and to that which pleases Him, with a repentance from which you will never return to sin. 00:09:53.659 --> 00:09:59.759 "Perhaps your Lord," O believers, "will remove from you your misdeeds" that you have committed, 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:04.659 "and admit you into gardens beneath whose trees rivers flow," 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:11.659 on the day when Allah will not disgrace the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, nor those who believed with him. 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:16.759 Their light will proceed before them, and their record will be in their right hands. 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:19.960 They will ask their Lord to preserve their light for them, 00:10:20.460 --> 00:10:23.460 so that it is not extinguished until they cross the Bridge (al-Sirat). 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:28.960 That is when the hypocrite men and women say to those who believed, 00:10:29.460 --> 00:10:31.960 “On the day when the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women will say unto those who believe: Look on us that we may borrow from your light! it will be said: Go back and seek for light! Then there will separate them a wall wherein is a gate, the inner side whereof containeth mercy, while the outer side thereof is toward the doom.” (57:13) 00:10:32.460 --> 00:10:34.460 "And cover our sins for us," 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:38.460 "and do not expose us by punishing us for them." 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:44.460 For He is capable of perfecting our light for us and forgiving our sins. 00:10:45.860 --> 00:10:53.860 "O Prophet, fight against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be harsh upon them." 00:10:54.360 --> 00:11:00.860 "And their refuge is Hell, and wretched is the destination." 00:11:02.289 --> 00:11:05.789 O Prophet, fight the disbelievers with the sword, 00:11:06.289 --> 00:11:08.789 and the hypocrites with warnings and the tongue. 00:11:09.289 --> 00:11:11.789 And be stern with them for the sake of Allah. 00:11:12.289 --> 00:11:13.789 Their dwelling is Hell. 00:11:13.789 --> 00:11:17.789 And their destination, to which they will return, is the Fire of Hell. 00:11:17.789 --> 00:11:21.789 And wretched is the place to which one is destined: Hell. 00:11:21.789 --> 00:11:26.399 Allah has set forth an example for those who disbelieve: 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:30.399 the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut. 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:36.399 They were under two of Our righteous servants, 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:40.399 but they betrayed them. 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:49.399 “Allah citeth an example for those who disbelieve: the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot, who were under two of Our righteous slaves yet betrayed them so that they (the husbands) availed them naught against Allah and it was said (unto them): Enter the Fire along with those who enter.” (66:10) 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:54.399 And it was said, "Enter the Fire with those who enter." 00:11:54.399 --> 00:12:00.909 Allah has set forth an example for those who disbelieve among people and all of creation: 00:12:00.909 --> 00:12:03.909 the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut. 00:12:03.909 --> 00:12:06.909 They were under two of Our servants, 00:12:07.909 --> 00:12:09.909 but they betrayed them. 00:12:09.909 --> 00:12:13.909 It is mentioned that the betrayal of Nuh's wife to her husband 00:12:13.909 --> 00:12:15.909 was that she was a disbeliever, 00:12:15.909 --> 00:12:19.909 and she used to tell people that he was insane. 00:12:19.909 --> 00:12:22.909 And the betrayal of Lut's wife 00:12:22.909 --> 00:12:25.909 was that Lut used to hide his guests, 00:12:25.909 --> 00:12:27.909 and she would reveal them. 00:12:27.909 --> 00:12:31.909 So Nuh and Lut could not avail them at all against Allah. 00:12:31.909 --> 00:12:35.909 When He punished them for their betrayal of their husbands, 00:12:35.909 --> 00:12:39.909 it did not benefit them that their husbands were prophets. 00:12:39.909 --> 00:12:42.909 And Allah said to them on the Day of Resurrection, 00:12:42.909 --> 00:12:48.909 "Enter, you two women, the Fire of Hell with those who enter it." 00:12:48.909 --> 00:12:55.360 And Allah has set forth an example for those who believe: the wife of Fir'awn, 00:12:55.360 --> 00:13:03.360 “And Allah citeth an example for those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh when she said: My Lord! Build for me a home with thee in the Garden, and deliver me from Pharaoh and his work, and deliver me from evil-doing folk;” (66:11) 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:09.360 "and save me from Fir'awn and his deeds," 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:15.360 "and save me from the wrongdoing people." 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:19.929 Allah has set forth an example for those who believed in Allah and affirmed His oneness: 00:13:19.929 --> 00:13:24.929 the wife of Fir'awn, who believed in Allah and affirmed His oneness, 00:13:24.929 --> 00:13:27.929 and believed in His Messenger, Musa. 00:13:27.929 --> 00:13:30.929 She was under an enemy of Allah, a disbeliever. 00:13:30.929 --> 00:13:33.929 But the disbelief of her husband did not harm her, 00:13:33.929 --> 00:13:36.929 because she was a believer in Allah. 00:13:36.929 --> 00:13:39.929 And it was among the decrees of Allah regarding His creation 00:13:39.929 --> 00:13:42.929 that no bearer of burdens shall bear the burden of another, 00:13:42.929 --> 00:13:45.929 and that each soul shall have only what it has earned. 00:13:45.929 --> 00:13:50.929 “And Allah citeth an example for those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh when she said: My Lord! Build for me a home with thee in the Garden, and deliver me from Pharaoh and his work, and deliver me from evil-doing folk;” (66:11) 00:13:50.929 --> 00:13:54.929 So Allah answered her, and built for her a house in Paradise. 00:13:54.929 --> 00:13:57.929 "And save me from the punishment of Fir'awn," 00:13:57.929 --> 00:14:00.929 and from doing his deeds, 00:14:00.929 --> 00:14:03.929 which was his disbelief in Allah. 00:14:03.929 --> 00:14:10.539 "And deliver me and save me from the deeds of the people who disbelieve in You, and from their punishment." 00:14:10.539 --> 00:14:15.539 And Maryam, the daughter of 'Imran, who guarded her chastity, 00:14:15.539 --> 00:14:22.539 “And Mary, daughter of 'Imran, whose body was chaste, therefor We breathed therein something of Our Spirit. And she put faith in the words of her Lord and His scriptures, and was of the obedient.” (66:12) 00:14:22.539 --> 00:14:27.539 “And Mary, daughter of 'Imran, whose body was chaste, therefor We breathed therein something of Our Spirit. And she put faith in the words of her Lord and His scriptures, and was of the obedient.” (66:12) 00:14:27.539 --> 00:14:33.539 and she was of the devoutly obedient. 00:14:33.539 --> 00:14:36.539 “And Allah citeth an example for those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh when she said: My Lord! Build for me a home with thee in the Garden, and deliver me from Pharaoh and his work, and deliver me from evil-doing folk;” (66:11) 00:14:36.539 --> 00:14:42.179 “And Mary, daughter of 'Imran, whose body was chaste, therefor We breathed therein something of Our Spirit. And she put faith in the words of her Lord and His scriptures, and was of the obedient.” (66:12) 00:14:42.179 --> 00:14:47.179 He says: she who protected her garment's opening from Jibril, peace be upon him. 00:14:47.179 --> 00:14:52.179 So We breathed into her garment's opening from Jibril, who is the Spirit. 00:14:52.179 --> 00:14:55.179 And she believed in 'Isa, and 'Isa, 00:14:55.179 --> 00:14:59.179 and she believed in His books, meaning the Torah and the Gospel. 00:14:59.179 --> 00:15:03.179 And she was of the obedient people. 00:15:03.179 --> 00:15:07.179 A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari.