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 --> 00:00:08,080 A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari. 3 00:00:08,539 --> 00:00:12,740 Abridged by Dr. Aqil ibn Salim al-Shammari. 4 00:00:12,900 --> 00:00:16,410 Surah al-Ahzab. 5 00:00:18,370 --> 00:00:22,570 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 6 00:00:23,260 --> 00:00:27,339 “Allah already knoweth those of you who hinder, and those who say unto their brethren: "Come ye hither unto us!" and they come not to the stress of battle save a little,” (33:18) 7 00:00:27,339 --> 00:00:33,460 “Allah already knoweth those of you who hinder, and those who say unto their brethren: "Come ye hither unto us!" and they come not to the stress of battle save a little,” (33:18) 8 00:00:33,780 --> 00:00:38,219 “Allah already knoweth those of you who hinder, and those who say unto their brethren: "Come ye hither unto us!" and they come not to the stress of battle save a little,” (33:18) 9 00:00:39,369 --> 00:00:46,090 Allah indeed knows those among you who hinder others from the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 10 00:00:46,450 --> 00:00:49,890 They turn them away from him and from witnessing the battle alongside him. 11 00:00:50,130 --> 00:00:54,009 Out of hypocrisy and a desire to discourage people from Islam and its followers. 12 00:00:54,409 --> 00:00:59,609 They say to their brethren, "Come to us, and abandon Muhammad." 13 00:00:59,890 --> 00:01:02,289 "Do not attend any battle with him." 14 00:01:02,609 --> 00:01:05,890 "For we fear that you will perish if he perishes." 15 00:01:06,370 --> 00:01:10,849 They do not attend war or combat, and if they do, it is only as a mere pretense. 16 00:01:11,209 --> 00:01:14,209 And to defend themselves from the believers. 17 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,040 Being stingy toward you. 18 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:26,840 “Being sparing of their help to you (believers). But when the fear cometh, then thou (Muhammad) seest them regarding thee with rolling eyes like one who fainteth unto death. Then, when the fear departeth, they scald you with sharp tongues in their greed for wealth (from the spoil). Such have not believed. Therefor Allah maketh their deeds fruitless. And that is easy for Allah.” (33:19) 19 00:01:27,239 --> 00:01:33,120 “Being sparing of their help to you (believers). But when the fear cometh, then thou (Muhammad) seest them regarding thee with rolling eyes like one who fainteth unto death. Then, when the fear departeth, they scald you with sharp tongues in their greed for wealth (from the spoil). Such have not believed. Therefor Allah maketh their deeds fruitless. And that is easy for Allah.” (33:19) 20 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:42,200 “Being sparing of their help to you (believers). But when the fear cometh, then thou (Muhammad) seest them regarding thee with rolling eyes like one who fainteth unto death. Then, when the fear departeth, they scald you with sharp tongues in their greed for wealth (from the spoil). Such have not believed. Therefor Allah maketh their deeds fruitless. And that is easy for Allah.” (33:19) 21 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:48,920 “Being sparing of their help to you (believers). But when the fear cometh, then thou (Muhammad) seest them regarding thee with rolling eyes like one who fainteth unto death. Then, when the fear departeth, they scald you with sharp tongues in their greed for wealth (from the spoil). Such have not believed. Therefor Allah maketh their deeds fruitless. And that is easy for Allah.” (33:19) 22 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:53,239 And that is easy for Allah. 23 00:01:54,879 --> 00:01:58,159 Stingy toward the believers regarding the spoils of war and goodness. 24 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,840 And stingy in spending in the way of Allah upon the poor among the Muslims. 25 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,079 When danger approaches and fighting breaks out. 26 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,520 You see them, O Muhammad, looking at you with eyes rolling like one who is fainting. 27 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,560 Their eyes darting in fear of being killed. 28 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:18,240 Like the rolling of the eyes of one who is swooning from the death descending upon him. 29 00:02:18,870 --> 00:02:21,469 But when the war ends and they feel secure. 30 00:02:21,870 --> 00:02:24,349 They assail you with sharp tongues. 31 00:02:24,750 --> 00:02:28,509 Stingy with the spoils of war when the believers are victorious. 32 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,879 These are the ones whose characteristics I have described. 33 00:02:32,159 --> 00:02:34,360 They did not believe in Allah and His Messenger. 34 00:02:34,879 --> 00:02:37,479 Rather, they are people of disbelief and hypocrisy. 35 00:02:38,039 --> 00:02:41,439 So Allah rendered their deeds fruitless and nullified them. 36 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:49,080 And the nullification of the deeds they performed before their apostasy and hypocrisy was easy for Allah. 37 00:02:59,539 --> 00:03:02,900 Because they are dwellers in the desert. 38 00:03:03,460 --> 00:03:08,099 “They hold that the clans have not retired (for good); and if the clans should advance (again), they would fain be in the desert with the wandering Arabs, asking for the news of you; and if they were among you, they would not give battle, save a little.” (33:20) 39 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:12,659 They ask about your news. 40 00:03:13,180 --> 00:03:18,659 “They hold that the clans have not retired (for good); and if the clans should advance (again), they would fain be in the desert with the wandering Arabs, asking for the news of you; and if they were among you, they would not give battle, save a little.” (33:20) 41 00:03:20,259 --> 00:03:24,379 These hypocrites think the confederates have not departed. 42 00:03:24,780 --> 00:03:26,659 Even though they have already departed. 43 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:29,139 Out of cowardice and panic. 44 00:03:29,860 --> 00:03:32,099 And if the confederates were to come against the believers. 45 00:03:32,659 --> 00:03:38,340 They would wish, out of fear and cowardice, that they were away from you in the desert with the Bedouins. 46 00:03:38,740 --> 00:03:40,180 For fear of being killed. 47 00:03:40,900 --> 00:03:45,180 These hypocrites inquire about your news from the desert. 48 00:03:45,780 --> 00:03:47,979 Asking if Muhammad and his Companions have perished. 49 00:03:48,740 --> 00:03:51,740 Even if they were among you, they would not have benefited you. 50 00:03:52,340 --> 00:03:55,379 And they would not have fought the polytheists except as a pretense. 51 00:03:55,860 --> 00:04:00,419 Because they do not fight for the sake of Allah nor in hope of reward. 52 00:04:02,509 --> 00:04:07,990 “Verily in the messenger of Allah ye have a good example for him who looketh unto Allah and the Last Day, and remembereth Allah much.” (33:21) 53 00:04:08,430 --> 00:04:17,829 “Verily in the messenger of Allah ye have a good example for him who looketh unto Allah and the Last Day, and remembereth Allah much.” (33:21) 54 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,720 “Verily in the messenger of Allah ye have a good example for him who looketh unto Allah and the Last Day, and remembereth Allah much.” (33:21) 55 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:27,439 And you will be with him wherever he is. 56 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:32,759 “Verily in the messenger of Allah ye have a good example for him who looketh unto Allah and the Last Day, and remembereth Allah much.” (33:21) 57 00:04:34,389 --> 00:04:42,550 “And when the true believers saw the clans, they said: This is that which Allah and His messenger promised us. Allah and His messenger are true. It did but confirm them in their faith and resignation.” (33:22) 58 00:04:42,990 --> 00:04:50,189 “And when the true believers saw the clans, they said: This is that which Allah and His messenger promised us. Allah and His messenger are true. It did but confirm them in their faith and resignation.” (33:22) 59 00:04:50,670 --> 00:04:56,629 “And when the true believers saw the clans, they said: This is that which Allah and His messenger promised us. Allah and His messenger are true. It did but confirm them in their faith and resignation.” (33:22) 60 00:04:58,220 --> 00:05:03,060 When the believers in Allah and His Messenger saw the groups of disbelievers. 61 00:05:03,379 --> 00:05:09,060 “And when the true believers saw the clans, they said: This is that which Allah and His messenger promised us. Allah and His messenger are true. It did but confirm them in their faith and resignation.” (33:22) 62 00:05:09,699 --> 00:05:17,180 The gathering of the confederates only increased them in faith in Allah and submission to His decree and command. 63 00:05:17,620 --> 00:05:21,060 And He granted them victory and triumph over their enemies. 64 00:05:22,689 --> 00:05:29,410 “Of the believers are men who are true to that which they covenanted with Allah. Some of them have paid their vow by death (in battle), and some of them still are waiting; and they have not altered in the least;” (33:23) 65 00:05:29,930 --> 00:05:37,410 Among them are those who have fulfilled their vow, and among them are those who wait. 66 00:05:38,009 --> 00:05:40,769 And they have not altered [their commitment] by any alteration. 67 00:05:42,540 --> 00:05:50,180 Among the believers in Allah and His Messenger are men who fulfilled what they covenanted with Him regarding patience in hardship and adversity. 68 00:05:50,740 --> 00:05:56,819 Some of them have completed the work they vowed to Allah and which He made obligatory upon them. 69 00:05:57,379 --> 00:06:01,779 They were martyred on the day of Badr, the day of Uhud, and other occasions. 70 00:06:02,379 --> 00:06:05,819 And others are waiting to fulfill their vow and complete their task. 71 00:06:06,220 --> 00:06:10,220 Just as those who passed before them fulfilled their covenant with Allah. 72 00:06:10,740 --> 00:06:13,100 And [awaiting] the victory from Allah over His enemy. 73 00:06:13,620 --> 00:06:17,579 And they did not change the covenant they made with their Lord in any way. 74 00:06:21,170 --> 00:06:29,250 And He will reward the truthful for their truthfulness and punish the hypocrites. 75 00:06:29,769 --> 00:06:37,810 “That Allah may reward the true men for their truth, and punish the hypocrites if He will, or relent toward them (if He will). Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” (33:24) 76 00:06:38,290 --> 00:06:43,600 Indeed, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. 77 00:06:44,319 --> 00:06:49,360 So that Allah may reward the truthful for their truthfulness in what they covenanted with Him. 78 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,519 And [punish] their hypocrisy, or accept their repentance from their hypocrisy. 79 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,879 Indeed, Allah is ever-covering of the sins of those who repent. 80 00:06:58,439 --> 00:07:02,279 Merciful to those who repent, that He would not punish them after their repentance. 81 00:07:03,959 --> 00:07:10,000 “And Allah repulsed the disbelievers in their wrath; they gained no good. Allah averted their attack from the believers. Allah is ever Strong, Mighty.” (33:25) 82 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,959 “And Allah repulsed the disbelievers in their wrath; they gained no good. Allah averted their attack from the believers. Allah is ever Strong, Mighty.” (33:25) 83 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,079 And Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty. 84 00:07:20,829 --> 00:07:27,589 Allah turned back those who disbelieved in Him and His Messenger—from the tribes of Quraysh and Ghatafan—in their anger and grief. 85 00:07:28,069 --> 00:07:30,470 Because they missed out on the victory they had hoped for. 86 00:07:30,910 --> 00:07:34,670 And their disappointment in what they had coveted of triumph. 87 00:07:35,230 --> 00:07:38,829 They did not obtain any wealth or captives from the Muslims. 88 00:07:39,430 --> 00:07:41,910 “And Allah repulsed the disbelievers in their wrath; they gained no good. Allah averted their attack from the believers. Allah is ever Strong, Mighty.” (33:25) 89 00:07:42,310 --> 00:07:46,589 With hosts of angels and the wind that He sent against them. 90 00:07:47,470 --> 00:07:51,310 And Allah is All-Powerful to do whatever He wills. 91 00:07:51,829 --> 00:07:55,709 He grants victory to whom He wills among them over whom He wills to forsake. 92 00:07:56,310 --> 00:08:00,550 His retribution is severe against those of His enemies whom He punishes. 93 00:08:17,839 --> 00:08:24,980 And Allah brought down those who aided the confederates against the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, from the People of the Scripture. 94 00:08:25,379 --> 00:08:27,540 He meant by them the tribe of Banu Qurayza. 95 00:08:28,060 --> 00:08:33,620 From their fortresses, which they thought would protect them from Allah, the Blessed and Exalted. 96 00:08:34,100 --> 00:08:36,899 And He cast into their hearts fear of you. 97 00:08:37,379 --> 00:08:39,299 You killed a group of them. 98 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:43,539 They are the ones whom the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, killed. 99 00:08:43,779 --> 00:08:46,899 They are the ones whom the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, killed. 100 00:08:46,899 --> 00:08:49,139 Among them when he prevailed over them. 101 00:08:49,620 --> 00:08:51,620 And you took a group of them captive. 102 00:08:52,019 --> 00:08:55,940 They are their women and children who were taken as captives. 103 00:08:56,500 --> 00:09:04,799 And He caused you to inherit their land, their homes, their wealth, and land you had not yet trodden. 104 00:09:05,279 --> 00:09:10,320 And Allah is over all things competent. 105 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:16,370 And He gave you possession after their destruction of their farms, plantations, and homes. 106 00:09:16,769 --> 00:09:18,769 And their dwellings and wealth. 107 00:09:19,409 --> 00:09:21,730 And land you had not trodden on that day. 108 00:09:22,289 --> 00:09:24,610 It was not Makkah, nor Khaybar. 109 00:09:25,009 --> 00:09:27,730 Nor the lands of Persia, Rome, or Yemen. 110 00:09:28,129 --> 00:09:30,529 Of what they had trodden on that day. 111 00:09:30,929 --> 00:09:32,929 Then they trod upon that later. 112 00:09:33,250 --> 00:09:35,250 And Allah caused them to inherit it. 113 00:09:35,570 --> 00:09:38,370 All of that is included in the land. 114 00:09:38,769 --> 00:09:43,090 All of that is included in the land which you had not trodden. 115 00:09:43,649 --> 00:09:49,009 And Allah is, regarding causing the believers to inherit that and other matters, 116 00:09:49,570 --> 00:09:53,490 Possessed of power; nothing He wills is impossible for Him. 117 00:10:09,299 --> 00:10:22,259 “O Prophet! Say unto thy wives: If ye desire the world's life and its adornment, come! I will content you and will release you with a fair release.” (33:28) 118 00:10:22,820 --> 00:10:33,139 “But if ye desire Allah and His messenger and the abode of the Hereafter, then lo! Allah hath prepared for the good among you an immense reward.” (33:29) 119 00:10:33,460 --> 00:10:39,220 “But if ye desire Allah and His messenger and the abode of the Hereafter, then lo! Allah hath prepared for the good among you an immense reward.” (33:29) 120 00:10:39,299 --> 00:10:41,379 A great reward. 121 00:11:10,379 --> 00:11:15,659 He has prepared for those of you who act according to the command of Allah and His Messenger a great reward. 122 00:11:15,659 --> 00:11:18,659 Which is Paradise. 123 00:11:18,659 --> 00:11:37,940 “O ye wives of the Prophet! Whosoever of you committeth manifest lewdness, the punishment for her will be doubled, and that is easy for Allah.” (33:30) 124 00:11:38,419 --> 00:11:42,100 And that is easy for Allah. 125 00:11:43,519 --> 00:11:50,559 O wives of the Prophet, whoever among you commits the known indecency for which Allah has ordained a punishment. 126 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:58,000 The punishment for her immorality will be doubled for her in the Hereafter, twice that of the immorality of other women. 127 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:04,559 And such doubling of the punishment for those who do that among them is easy for Allah. 128 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:10,500 A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari.