WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:05.129 --> 00:00:08.050 An abridgment of the Tafsir of al-Tabari, 00:00:08.589 --> 00:00:12.710 Summarized by Dr. 'Aqil ibn Salim al-Shammari. 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:16.399 Surah Al 'Imran. 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:22.000 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:22.969 --> 00:00:26.809 They are not all alike; 00:00:26.969 --> 00:00:32.770 Among the People of the Book is an upright community, 00:00:32.770 --> 00:00:42.049 “They are not all alike. Of the People of the Scripture there is a staunch community who recite the revelations of Allah in the night season, falling prostrate (before Him).” (3:113) 00:00:42.049 --> 00:00:44.850 And they prostrate. 00:00:46.020 --> 00:00:48.100 The groups among the People of the Book are not identical; 00:00:48.500 --> 00:00:52.420 The believers among them and the disbelievers are not equal. 00:00:53.060 --> 00:00:58.380 Among the People of the Book is a group holding fast to the Book of Allah and adhering to it, 00:00:58.859 --> 00:01:01.179 Steadfast in acting upon what it contains, 00:01:01.659 --> 00:01:04.379 Reciting the Book of Allah during the hours of the night, 00:01:04.700 --> 00:01:06.939 While they prostrate in worship alongside that. 00:01:08.170 --> 00:01:14.810 “They believe in Allah and the Last Day, and enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency, and vie one with another in good works. These are of the righteous.” (3:114) 00:01:15.450 --> 00:01:23.650 “They believe in Allah and the Last Day, and enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency, and vie one with another in good works. These are of the righteous.” (3:114) 00:01:24.290 --> 00:01:29.090 And those are among the righteous. 00:01:30.549 --> 00:01:33.989 They believe in Allah and the Resurrection after death, 00:01:34.549 --> 00:01:37.790 Enjoining people to believe in Allah and His Messenger, 00:01:38.189 --> 00:01:42.189 Forbidding people from disbelieving in Allah and belying Muhammad, 00:01:42.709 --> 00:01:44.870 And hastening to do good deeds, 00:01:45.230 --> 00:01:49.709 Fearing that they might miss them before their appointed times of death overtake them; 00:01:50.109 --> 00:01:52.989 And those are counted among the righteous. 00:01:53.890 --> 00:02:00.129 “And whatever good they do, they will not be denied the meed thereof. Allah is Aware of those who ward off (evil).” (3:115) 00:02:00.530 --> 00:02:06.370 And Allah is All-Knowing of the righteous. 00:02:07.950 --> 00:02:10.349 Whatever good this community does, 00:02:10.870 --> 00:02:13.710 And whatever deed they perform wherein lies Allah's pleasure, 00:02:14.270 --> 00:02:17.030 Allah will never invalidate the reward of their deed, 00:02:17.629 --> 00:02:19.710 Nor will He leave them without recompense; 00:02:20.229 --> 00:02:22.750 Rather, He will grant them an abundant reward. 00:02:23.270 --> 00:02:28.349 And Allah is fully aware of those who fear Him through obedience to Him and avoidance of His sins. 00:02:29.370 --> 00:02:37.050 Indeed, those who disbelieve, neither their wealth nor their children will avail them; 00:02:37.610 --> 00:02:45.849 Neither their wealth nor their children will avail them anything against Allah, 00:02:46.370 --> 00:02:51.650 And those are the companions of the Fire; 00:02:52.210 --> 00:02:55.409 They will abide therein eternally. 00:02:56.830 --> 00:03:01.389 Indeed, those who rejected the prophethood of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:03:02.189 --> 00:03:07.590 Neither the wealth they amassed in the worldly life nor the children they raised will ward off 00:03:08.069 --> 00:03:10.949 Anything of Allah's punishment on the Day of Resurrection; 00:03:11.629 --> 00:03:16.909 And those are the companions of the Fire, never to leave it nor be parted from it, 00:03:17.469 --> 00:03:19.310 Abiding therein perpetually. 00:03:20.610 --> 00:03:29.169 “The likeness of that which they spend in this life of the world is as the likeness of a biting, icy wind which smiteth the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves, and devastateth it. Allah wronged them not, but they do wrong themselves.” (3:117) 00:03:29.889 --> 00:03:38.530 “The likeness of that which they spend in this life of the world is as the likeness of a biting, icy wind which smiteth the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves, and devastateth it. Allah wronged them not, but they do wrong themselves.” (3:117) 00:03:39.169 --> 00:03:45.930 “The likeness of that which they spend in this life of the world is as the likeness of a biting, icy wind which smiteth the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves, and devastateth it. Allah wronged them not, but they do wrong themselves.” (3:117) 00:03:46.490 --> 00:03:53.129 “The likeness of that which they spend in this life of the world is as the likeness of a biting, icy wind which smiteth the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves, and devastateth it. Allah wronged them not, but they do wrong themselves.” (3:117) 00:03:54.629 --> 00:04:00.270 The likeness of what the disbeliever spends of his wealth while rejecting the oneness of Allah 00:04:00.830 --> 00:04:03.509 Is like a wind containing biting frost 00:04:04.030 --> 00:04:07.590 That strikes the harvest of a people who had hoped for its profitable return, 00:04:07.949 --> 00:04:09.830 But they disobeyed Allah, 00:04:10.229 --> 00:04:12.150 So the wind destroyed their harvest. 00:04:12.870 --> 00:04:17.750 Such is what Allah does with the disbeliever's spending and charity in his worldly life; 00:04:18.310 --> 00:04:20.790 When he meets Him, He invalidates its reward. 00:04:21.509 --> 00:04:24.870 Allah did not do what He did to these disbelievers 00:04:25.430 --> 00:04:30.189 By placing His retribution upon them unjustly or unsuitably; 00:04:30.910 --> 00:04:33.430 Rather, He placed His action entirely in its rightful place, 00:04:33.910 --> 00:04:35.829 And did to them what they deserved; 00:04:36.589 --> 00:04:38.829 Instead, it is the disbeliever who wrongs his own soul 00:04:38.829 --> 00:04:42.750 By acquiring disobedience to Allah and opposing His command. 00:05:09.100 --> 00:05:12.220 “O ye who believe! Take not for intimates others than your own folk, who would spare no pains to ruin you; they love to hamper you. Hatred is revealed by (the utterance of) their mouths, but that which their breasts hide is greater. We have made plain for you the revelations if ye will understand.” (3:118) 00:05:12.860 --> 00:05:17.139 We have made the signs clear to you, 00:05:17.699 --> 00:05:22.100 If you would but understand. 00:05:23.750 --> 00:05:26.709 O you who have believed in Allah and His Messenger! 00:05:27.389 --> 00:05:32.230 Do not take allies and intimate friends for yourselves from among non-believers; 00:05:32.790 --> 00:05:36.029 They spare no effort in bringing about your corruption, 00:05:36.709 --> 00:05:39.910 Wishing for your distress and ruin in your religion. 00:05:40.589 --> 00:05:43.550 Their hatred has already shown itself through their tongues, 00:05:44.069 --> 00:05:50.029 And what their breasts conceal is far greater than the hatred that has appeared from their tongues. 00:05:50.750 --> 00:05:53.470 We have made the lessons clear to you, O believers, 00:05:54.029 --> 00:05:58.629 If you would comprehend from Allah His admonitions, His commands, and His prohibitions. 00:06:11.019 --> 00:06:14.420 “Lo! ye are those who love them though they love you not, and ye believe in all the Scripture. When they fall in with you they say: We believe; but when they go apart they bite their finger-tips at you, for rage. Say: Perish in your rage! Lo! Allah is Aware of what is hidden in (your) breasts.” (3:119) 00:06:15.139 --> 00:06:18.740 “Lo! ye are those who love them though they love you not, and ye believe in all the Scripture. When they fall in with you they say: We believe; but when they go apart they bite their finger-tips at you, for rage. Say: Perish in your rage! Lo! Allah is Aware of what is hidden in (your) breasts.” (3:119) 00:06:19.259 --> 00:06:21.939 And when they are alone, they bite their fingertips at you in rage. 00:06:22.500 --> 00:06:24.939 Say, "Die in your rage!" 00:06:25.500 --> 00:06:30.819 Indeed, Allah is All-Knowing of what is within the breasts. 00:06:41.180 --> 00:06:43.660 Here you are loving these disbelievers, 00:06:44.220 --> 00:06:48.579 Whom I forbade you from taking as intimates instead of the believers, 00:06:49.139 --> 00:06:51.420 Showing them affection and maintaining ties with them, 00:06:51.939 --> 00:06:53.540 While they do not love you; 00:06:54.019 --> 00:06:56.860 Rather, they harbor enmity and deceit toward you, 00:06:57.339 --> 00:06:59.540 Even though you believe in all the Scriptures: 00:07:00.060 --> 00:07:02.740 Your Book, which Allah revealed to you, 00:07:03.220 --> 00:07:06.019 And their Book, which He revealed to them. 00:07:06.620 --> 00:07:11.060 You know that those whom I forbade you from taking as intimates 00:07:11.300 --> 00:07:18.339 Deserve your enmity more than you deserve theirs, given their rejection of some Scriptures and their disbelief in others. 00:07:19.100 --> 00:07:25.019 When they meet the believers, they feign belief with their tongues out of fear for their lives, 00:07:25.500 --> 00:07:26.220 Saying, 00:07:26.699 --> 00:07:32.139 "We have believed and affirmed what Muhammad, peace be upon him, brought." 00:07:32.860 --> 00:07:36.740 But when they are in seclusion where the believers cannot see them, 00:07:37.220 --> 00:07:43.459 They bite their fingertips in anguish over the unity and harmony they see among the believers. 00:07:44.259 --> 00:07:45.980 Say to these Jews: 00:07:46.620 --> 00:07:49.860 "Perish in your rage that you harbor against the believers!" 00:07:50.500 --> 00:07:54.060 Indeed, Allah is fully aware of what lies in the breasts of these people, 00:07:54.620 --> 00:07:57.060 And of what lies in the breasts of all His creation. 00:08:07.660 --> 00:08:15.100 “If a lucky chance befall you, it is evil unto them, and if disaster strike you they rejoice thereat. But if ye persevere and keep from evil their guile will never harm you. Lo! Allah is Surrounding what they do.” (3:120) 00:08:15.579 --> 00:08:21.660 “They seek to hide from men and seek not to hide from Allah. He is with them when by night they hold discourse displeasing unto Him. Allah ever surroundeth what they do.” (4:108) 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:28.120 If any joy reaches you, O believers, through your triumph over your enemy, 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:31.000 The succession of people entering your religion, 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.200 Or being assisted against your foes, it grieves them; 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:39.759 But if misfortune touches you through the setback of a raiding party of yours, 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.559 A casualty inflicted by an enemy upon you, 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:47.279 Or discord arising among your ranks, they rejoice at it. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:52.799 Yet if you are patient, O believers, in obeying Allah and fear your Lord, 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:58.720 Their treachery and plotting against the Muslims to turn them away from guidance will not harm you. 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:04.000 Indeed, concerning what these disbelievers do among His servants and in His lands 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:06.799 By way of corruption and barring people from His path, 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:09.919 Allah fully encompasses it all and records it, 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:14.000 Until He repays them their full recompense for all of it. 00:09:27.490 --> 00:09:34.049 And remember when you set out in the morning from your household, O Muhammad, to post the believers at battle stations to fight their enemy; 00:09:34.769 --> 00:09:37.730 And Allah is All-Hearing of what the believers said to you 00:09:38.370 --> 00:09:42.129 Concerning the counsel they gave you about where to encounter your enemy, 00:09:42.769 --> 00:09:46.129 And of the advice you offered them, O Muhammad; 00:09:46.850 --> 00:09:50.129 All-Knowing of the best of those opinions for you and for them, 00:09:50.610 --> 00:09:53.409 And of all other matters concerning you and them. 00:10:05.059 --> 00:10:08.259 So let the believers put their trust in Allah. 00:10:36.370 --> 00:10:40.289 "I shall assist him in his affair so as to strengthen him according to his intention." 00:10:53.490 --> 00:10:57.090 And Allah had already given you victory at Badr over your enemies 00:10:57.570 --> 00:10:59.570 When you were few on that day, 00:11:00.129 --> 00:11:04.450 Until Allah granted you triumph over your enemy despite their large numbers. 00:11:05.169 --> 00:11:08.769 So fear your Lord by obeying Him and avoiding His prohibitions, 00:11:09.330 --> 00:11:15.649 That you may give thanks to Him for the victory over your enemies and the exaltation of your religion that He bestowed upon you. 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:43.519 “Nay, but if ye persevere, and keep from evil, and (the enemy) attack you suddenly, your Lord will help you with five thousand angels sweeping on.” (3:125) 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:56.000 “Nay, but if ye persevere, and keep from evil, and (the enemy) attack you suddenly, your Lord will help you with five thousand angels sweeping on.” (3:125) 00:12:06.370 --> 00:12:11.970 Allah promised them three thousand angels sent down as reinforcement for them. 00:12:12.370 --> 00:12:18.529 Then He promised them after the three thousand that if you are patient before your enemies and fear Allah, 00:12:18.929 --> 00:12:22.129 And the polytheists advance upon you suddenly from this direction of theirs— 00:12:22.610 --> 00:12:28.289 Which was the start of their march when they set out to support their fellow polytheists— 00:12:28.769 --> 00:12:33.730 Your Lord will reinforce you with five thousand angels marked for battle, 00:12:33.970 --> 00:12:39.009 With the tails and forelocks of their horses trimmed and bearing white wool. 00:12:57.299 --> 00:13:01.779 Allah did not make His promise to you of reinforcing you with the angels 00:13:02.179 --> 00:13:04.500 Except as good tidings to give you cheer, 00:13:04.980 --> 00:13:06.980 And so that your hearts might be reassured thereby, 00:13:07.460 --> 00:13:11.620 Finding tranquility in it and not despairing over the vast numbers of your enemy. 00:13:12.259 --> 00:13:16.580 Your victory, if you defeat your enemy, comes only with the help of Allah, 00:13:16.980 --> 00:13:20.659 Not merely by virtue of the reinforcements that reach you from the angels. 00:13:21.220 --> 00:13:25.460 So rely upon Allah alone, not upon armies or vast numbers, 00:13:26.100 --> 00:13:29.460 For He is the Almighty in taking vengeance upon the people of disbelief 00:13:29.779 --> 00:13:32.659 At the hands of His allies among the people of His obedience, 00:13:33.059 --> 00:13:36.259 The All-Wise in His planning against your enemies 00:13:36.580 --> 00:13:38.580 And in all other affairs of His. 00:13:53.740 --> 00:13:56.139 “Allah had already given you the victory at Badr, when ye were contemptible. So observe your duty to Allah in order that ye may be thankful.” (3:123) 00:13:56.620 --> 00:14:00.779 That He might cut off a faction of those who disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger, 00:14:01.179 --> 00:14:05.179 Or disgrace them with failure regarding the victory they had hoped to gain over you, 00:14:05.659 --> 00:14:07.659 So that they turn back from you disappointed, 00:14:08.139 --> 00:14:11.340 Having attained nothing of what they had hoped for against you. 00:14:23.090 --> 00:14:26.049 It is not up to you, O Muhammad, to decide the fate of My creation, 00:14:26.529 --> 00:14:29.330 Whether He accepts their repentance or punishes them; 00:14:29.970 --> 00:14:31.970 For indeed, they are wrongdoers, 00:14:32.210 --> 00:14:35.250 Having deserved that punishment through their disobedience to Me; 00:14:35.889 --> 00:14:40.529 For nothing of the creation's affairs belongs to anyone other than their Creator; 00:14:41.250 --> 00:14:43.250 Rather, their affair belongs solely to Me, 00:14:43.250 --> 00:14:45.250 And the judgment concerning them is in My hand. 00:15:00.419 --> 00:15:04.139 You have no part in the decision, O Muhammad. 00:15:04.700 --> 00:15:08.539 To Allah belongs all that is within the realms of the heavens and the earth; 00:15:09.340 --> 00:15:12.539 He accepts the repentance of whomever He wills among His disobedient creation, 00:15:12.860 --> 00:15:14.379 And then forgives him, 00:15:14.700 --> 00:15:17.659 And He punishes whomever He wills among them for his crime. 00:15:18.139 --> 00:15:22.139 He is the All-Forgiving, who conceals the sins of whomever He wills among His creation, 00:15:22.620 --> 00:15:26.220 And the Most Merciful to them in withholding their immediate punishment 00:15:26.220 --> 00:15:28.220 Despite the enormity of what they commit. 00:15:28.220 --> 00:15:33.950 “O ye who believe! Devour not usury, doubling and quadrupling (the sum lent). Observe your duty to Allah, that ye may be successful.” (3:130) 00:15:34.509 --> 00:15:39.549 And fear Allah, that you may be successful. 00:15:40.429 --> 00:15:43.710 O you who have believed in Allah and His Messenger! 00:15:44.029 --> 00:15:47.120 Do not consume usury in your Islam 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:52.320 As you used to consume it in your pre-Islamic ignorance, multiplied manifold; 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.840 Where it becomes compounded many times over, 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:57.440 Doubled and multiplied; 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:01.919 Whereby a man would owe another man money until a specified term, 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:05.440 And when the term fell due, the creditor would demand it from his debtor, 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:08.320 So the one who owed the money would say to him, 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:12.080 "Extend the deadline of your debt for me, and I will increase your money," 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:14.000 And they would do so; 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:17.679 That is usury compounded manifold. 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:22.799 So fear Allah, O believers, concerning the matter of usury and do not consume it, 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:27.120 And in all else that He has commanded you or forbidden you, 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:30.159 So that you may prosper and be saved from His punishment. 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:44.639 And fear, O believers, the Fire which I have prepared for those who disbelieve in Me, lest you enter it 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:47.919 By consuming usury after I have forbidden it. 00:16:54.820 --> 00:16:59.340 And obey Allah, O believers, in what He has forbidden you, 00:16:59.820 --> 00:17:02.379 Such as consuming usury and other prohibited matters, 00:17:02.940 --> 00:17:05.819 And obey the Messenger in what he has commanded you, 00:17:06.220 --> 00:17:08.460 That you may receive mercy and not be punished.