WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:05.169 --> 00:00:08.070 The summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari. 00:00:08.589 --> 00:00:12.689 Dr. Aqil Ibn Salim al-Shammari abridged it. 00:00:14.050 --> 00:00:16.350 Surah al-Anbiya' 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:22.199 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:22.500 --> 00:00:30.199 “Their reckoning draweth nigh for mankind, while they turn away in heedlessness.” (21:1) 00:00:31.730 --> 00:00:37.030 The reckoning of Allah for people regarding the deeds they performed in their worldly life has drawn near. 00:00:37.329 --> 00:00:42.929 While in this world, they remain in a state of heedlessness and negligence regarding what Allah will do with them on the Day of Resurrection. 00:00:43.229 --> 00:00:46.729 They turned away from that and abandoned any reflection upon it. 00:00:47.899 --> 00:00:58.399 “Never cometh there unto them a new reminder from their Lord but they listen to it while they play,” (21:2) 00:00:59.570 --> 00:01:03.869 Whatever Allah brings down of this Qur'an as a revelation for the people. 00:01:04.269 --> 00:01:06.469 He reminds them of it and exhorts them. 00:01:06.769 --> 00:01:09.069 “Never cometh there unto them a new reminder from their Lord but they listen to it while they play,” (21:2) 00:01:09.569 --> 00:01:14.069 They do not take heed from it, nor do they reflect upon His promise and His warning. 00:01:15.540 --> 00:01:19.239 Their hearts are diverted from the truth. 00:01:19.540 --> 00:01:27.840 “With hearts preoccupied. And they confer in secret. The wrong-doers say: Is this other than a mortal like you? Will ye then succumb to magic when ye see (it)?” (21:3) 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:32.840 “With hearts preoccupied. And they confer in secret. The wrong-doers say: Is this other than a mortal like you? Will ye then succumb to magic when ye see (it)?” (21:3) 00:01:34.670 --> 00:01:36.670 Their hearts are heedless of it. 00:01:37.170 --> 00:01:43.170 They do not contemplate His wisdom, nor do they reflect upon the proofs that Allah has deposited within it against them. 00:01:43.670 --> 00:01:46.670 They began to whisper among themselves, saying: 00:01:47.170 --> 00:01:51.670 Is this the one who claims to be a messenger sent to you by Allah? 00:01:52.170 --> 00:01:56.170 Except for a human being like yourselves, in your form and your creation. 00:01:56.670 --> 00:02:01.670 Do you accept sorcery and believe in it, even while you know full well that it is sorcery? 00:02:02.170 --> 00:02:04.670 By this, they mean the Qur'an. 00:02:05.170 --> 00:02:12.919 “He saith: My Lord knoweth what is spoken in the heaven and the earth. He is the Hearer, the Knower.” (21:4) 00:02:13.419 --> 00:02:16.419 And He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:22.430 Muhammad said to those who were speaking, "Do you approach sorcery while you are seeing?" 00:02:22.930 --> 00:02:26.930 My Lord knows every word spoken in the heavens and on the earth. 00:02:27.430 --> 00:02:29.930 Nothing of it is hidden from Him. 00:02:30.430 --> 00:02:34.930 He is the All-Hearing of all that, and of the falsehoods they utter. 00:02:35.430 --> 00:02:38.930 He who is All-Knowing of my sincerity and the truth of that to which I call you. 00:02:40.460 --> 00:02:44.960 “Nay, say they, (these are but) muddled dreams; nay, he hath but invented it; nay, he is but a poet. Let him bring us a portent even as those of old (who were Allah's messengers) were sent (with portents).” (21:5) 00:02:45.460 --> 00:02:55.960 “Nay, say they, (these are but) muddled dreams; nay, he hath but invented it; nay, he is but a poet. Let him bring us a portent even as those of old (who were Allah's messengers) were sent (with portents).” (21:5) 00:02:56.460 --> 00:03:02.349 In fact, some of them even suggested that it was merely the terrifying imagery of a dream he had seen while sleeping. 00:03:02.849 --> 00:03:09.349 Some of them said it is a fabrication and a lie that he invented and concocted of his own accord. 00:03:09.849 --> 00:03:13.349 And some of them said, "Nay, rather, Muhammad is a poet." 00:03:13.849 --> 00:03:21.349 Let Muhammad come to us with proof and evidence for the truth of what he says and claims, if he is indeed truthful. 00:03:21.849 --> 00:03:24.349 Just as it was brought by the messengers who came before. 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:34.719 “Not a township believed of those which We destroyed before them (though We sent them portents): would they then believe?” (21:6) 00:03:35.219 --> 00:03:43.020 None of the people of the towns that We destroyed for their denial before them had ever believed. 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:47.020 When our Messenger came to them with a miraculous sign. 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:53.020 Will these people who deny Muhammad, peace be upon him, believe if a sign were to come to them? 00:03:53.020 --> 00:03:57.520 Nor did the nations of old, who preceded them, believe before them. 00:03:58.689 --> 00:04:05.189 “And We sent not (as Our messengers) before thee other than men, whom We inspired. Ask the followers of the Reminder if ye know not?” (21:7) 00:04:05.689 --> 00:04:12.189 So ask the people of knowledge if you do not know. 00:04:12.689 --> 00:04:19.889 And We have not sent, O Muhammad, any messenger before you to any of the nations that passed away before your Ummah. 00:04:19.889 --> 00:04:27.389 We sent none before you but men to whom We revealed Our commands and prohibitions, just as We revealed them to those who came before. 00:04:27.889 --> 00:04:33.389 There are no angels, so what is it that they denied regarding Our sending you to them? 00:04:33.889 --> 00:04:36.389 You are but a man like the messengers who came before you. 00:04:36.889 --> 00:04:41.389 For if you reject the command of the Messenger, [you are like] those who were before Muhammad, peace be upon him. 00:04:41.889 --> 00:04:48.389 So ask the People of the Scripture, from the Torah and the Gospel, about what they used to tell you regarding them. 00:04:48.389 --> 00:04:57.819 “We gave them not bodies that would not eat food, nor were they immortals.” (21:8) 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:06.589 And We did not make the messengers whom We sent before you, O Muhammad, angels who do not eat food. 00:05:07.089 --> 00:05:11.589 Yet We made them bodies that eat food, just like you. 00:05:12.089 --> 00:05:15.589 Nor were they lords who neither die nor perish. 00:05:15.589 --> 00:05:20.089 Yet they were human beings with physical bodies, and so they passed away. 00:05:20.589 --> 00:05:38.819 “Then we fulfilled the promise unto them. So we delivered them and whom We would, and We destroyed the prodigals.” (21:9) 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:46.819 Then we believed in our Messenger, whom the nations before us had rejected, and we fulfilled the promise that He made to us. 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:53.819 from destruction due to their persistence in disbelief in their Lord, even after the sign they had requested had come to them. 00:05:54.319 --> 00:06:00.819 We saved the messengers and destroyed those who transgressed against their own souls through their disbelief in their Lord. 00:06:02.339 --> 00:06:10.839 “Now We have revealed unto you a Scripture wherein is your Reminder. Have ye then no sense?” (21:10) 00:06:12.300 --> 00:06:17.800 “Now We have revealed unto you a Scripture wherein is your Reminder. Have ye then no sense?” (21:10) 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:32.100 “How many a community that dealt unjustly have We shattered, and raised up after them another folk!” (21:11) 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:40.100 “And, when they felt Our might, behold them fleeing from it!” (21:12) 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:48.000 How many a generation have We destroyed that was unjust due to its disbelief in Allah and its rejection of His messengers. 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:53.500 And after We destroyed those wrongdoers, We brought forth other people in their stead. 00:06:54.000 --> 00:07:00.500 But when they witnessed Our punishment descending upon them, they immediately fled in haste. 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:11.100 “(But it was said unto them): Flee not, but return to that (existence) which emasculated you and to your dwellings, that ye may be questioned.” (21:13) 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:17.870 Do not flee; return to the comforts of the life and the homes you have been granted. 00:07:18.870 --> 00:07:22.370 May you attain deep insight and understanding regarding this matter. 00:07:22.870 --> 00:07:30.370 It has been said that perhaps you might ask for something of your worldly affairs by way of mockery and derision. 00:07:32.220 --> 00:07:39.720 “They cried: Alas for us! we were wrong-doers.” (21:14) 00:07:40.220 --> 00:07:47.720 “And this their crying ceased not till We made them as reaped corn, extinct.” (21:15) 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:52.480 He said: "These are the people upon whom Allah has brought down His punishment." 00:07:52.980 --> 00:07:57.480 Woe to us, for we were indeed wrongdoers by disbelieving in our Lord. 00:07:57.980 --> 00:08:01.480 Their cry did not cease until Allah’s punishment came upon them. 00:08:01.980 --> 00:08:06.980 Woe to us, for we were indeed wrongdoers, until Allah caused them to be slain. 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:10.480 He mowed them down with the sword just as one harvests crops. 00:08:10.980 --> 00:08:13.480 They are doomed, their spark having been extinguished. 00:08:13.980 --> 00:08:17.980 They became like cooling embers, just as a fire dies down and is extinguished. 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:27.279 “We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them in play.” (21:16) 00:08:28.230 --> 00:08:31.230 And We did not create the heaven and the earth and whatever is between them in vain. 00:08:31.730 --> 00:08:34.230 ...except as a proof against you, O people. 00:08:34.730 --> 00:08:39.230 So, know that the One who ordained and created it is not resembled by anything. 00:08:39.730 --> 00:08:43.230 And that worship is not valid for anyone or anything other than Him. 00:08:43.730 --> 00:08:46.230 And He did not create that in vain or for sport. 00:08:46.730 --> 00:09:03.850 “If We had wished to find a pastime, We could have found it in Our presence - if We ever did.” (21:17) 00:09:04.350 --> 00:09:11.429 Had We intended to take a consort or a child, We would have taken it from Our own presence. 00:09:11.929 --> 00:09:14.429 However, we do not do that. 00:09:14.929 --> 00:09:17.929 It is neither appropriate for us to do so, nor is it fitting. 00:09:18.429 --> 00:09:22.929 For it is not befitting that Allah should have a child or a consort. 00:09:36.289 --> 00:09:39.399 However, We send down the truth from Ourselves. 00:09:39.899 --> 00:09:42.399 It is the Book of Allah and His revelation. 00:09:42.899 --> 00:09:45.899 upon disbelief in Him and its people, and thus He destroys him. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:51.899 It is like a man striking another man on the head with a blow that reaches the brain. 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:54.899 And he had no life after that. 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:57.899 And so he is ruined and brought to nothing. 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.899 Woe unto you for describing your Lord with attributes other than those that befit Him. 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:05.899 And it is said to you that He has taken a wife and a child. 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:07.899 And your fabrication against Him. 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:13.360 To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and on the earth. 00:10:13.860 --> 00:10:18.360 “Unto Him belongeth whosoever is in the heavens and the earth. And those who dwell in His presence are not too proud to worship Him, nor do they weary;” (21:19) 00:10:18.860 --> 00:10:21.360 And they do not grow weary. 00:10:21.860 --> 00:10:27.360 “They glorify (Him) night and day; they flag not.” (21:20) 00:10:29.340 --> 00:10:31.840 And how could it be permissible for Allah to take for Himself a diversion? 00:10:32.340 --> 00:10:35.840 To Him belongs the dominion of all who are in the heavens and on the earth. 00:10:36.340 --> 00:10:37.840 And those who are with Him from among His creation. 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:40.340 They do not disdain to worship Him. 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:43.340 And they do not grow weary from their long service to him. 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:49.340 Those angels who are with Him glorify their Lord night and day. 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:52.340 They never cease in their glorification of Him. 00:10:52.840 --> 00:11:01.330 “Or have they chosen gods from the earth who raise the dead?” (21:21) 00:11:01.830 --> 00:11:07.330 “If there were therein gods beside Allah, then verily both (the heavens and the earth) had been disordered. Glorified be Allah, the Lord of the Throne, from all that they ascribe (unto Him).” (21:22) 00:11:07.330 --> 00:11:14.830 “If there were therein gods beside Allah, then verily both (the heavens and the earth) had been disordered. Glorified be Allah, the Lord of the Throne, from all that they ascribe (unto Him).” (21:22) 00:11:15.330 --> 00:11:19.860 These polytheists have taken gods from the earth. 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:22.860 They revive the dead and resurrect the creation. 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:26.860 For it is Allah alone who gives life and causes death. 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:32.860 Had there been any deities in the heavens and the earth worthy of worship other than Allah 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:35.860 The inhabitants of the heavens and the earth would have surely been corrupted. 00:11:36.860 --> 00:11:39.360 Thus, it is an act of declaring Allah transcendent and absolving Him of any imperfection. 00:11:39.860 --> 00:11:44.360 Among the lies that these polytheists fabricate against Him. 00:11:44.860 --> 00:11:52.320 He is not questioned about what He does, but they will be questioned. 00:11:52.820 --> 00:11:58.049 No one may question the Lord of the Throne regarding what He does with His creation. 00:11:58.549 --> 00:12:02.049 Through His disposal of whatever He wills regarding life and death. 00:12:02.549 --> 00:12:04.049 And the granting of honor and the bringing of humiliation. 00:12:04.049 --> 00:12:07.549 And all those in the heavens and the earth are His servants. 00:12:08.049 --> 00:12:09.549 They are held accountable for their actions. 00:12:10.049 --> 00:12:12.549 And they shall be held accountable for their deeds. 00:12:13.049 --> 00:12:18.740 “Or have they chosen other gods beside Him? say: Bring your proof (of their godhead). This is the Reminder of those with me and those before me, but most of them know not the Truth and so they are averse.” (21:24) 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:21.740 Say, "Produce your proof." 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:28.740 “Or have they chosen other gods beside Him? say: Bring your proof (of their godhead). This is the Reminder of those with me and those before me, but most of them know not the Truth and so they are averse.” (21:24) 00:12:28.740 --> 00:12:36.240 “Or have they chosen other gods beside Him? say: Bring your proof (of their godhead). This is the Reminder of those with me and those before me, but most of them know not the Truth and so they are averse.” (21:24) 00:12:37.470 --> 00:12:42.970 These polytheists have taken, besides Allah, deities that can neither bring benefit nor cause harm. 00:12:43.470 --> 00:12:44.970 Say, O Muhammad, to them: 00:12:45.470 --> 00:12:46.970 Produce your proof. 00:12:47.470 --> 00:12:50.970 If you claim that you are justified in what you are saying. 00:12:51.470 --> 00:12:53.970 This Qur'an is a report of those who were with me. 00:12:54.470 --> 00:12:57.970 Regarding the reward they receive from Allah for their faith in Him. 00:12:57.970 --> 00:13:02.470 And what punishment awaits them from Allah for their disobedience toward Him. 00:13:02.970 --> 00:13:05.470 And the accounts of the nations that preceded me among the early generations. 00:13:05.970 --> 00:13:12.470 In fact, most of these polytheists turn away from the truth simply because they are ignorant of it. 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:20.299 “And We sent no messenger before thee but We inspired him, (saying): There is no Allah save Me (Allah), so worship Me.” (21:25) 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:28.299 “And We sent no messenger before thee but We inspired him, (saying): There is no Allah save Me (Allah), so worship Me.” (21:25) 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:34.940 And We have not sent, O Muhammad, any messenger before you to any of the nations. 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:41.940 We have not sent any messenger before you, but We revealed to him that there is no deity in the heavens or on the earth worthy of worship except Me. 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:48.129 Therefore, dedicate your worship sincerely to Me alone, and single Me out in My divinity. 00:13:48.629 --> 00:13:54.129 “And they say: The Beneficent hath taken unto Himself a son. Be He Glorified! Nay, but (those whom they call sons) are honoured slaves;” (21:26) 00:13:54.629 --> 00:13:58.129 Rather, they are honored servants. 00:13:58.129 --> 00:14:05.629 “They speak not until He hath spoken, and they act by His command.” (21:27) 00:14:06.990 --> 00:14:09.490 And those who disbelieve in their Lord said 00:14:09.990 --> 00:14:13.490 Allah the Most Merciful has taken, from among His angels, offspring. 00:14:13.990 --> 00:14:18.490 The angels are not as these disbelievers describe them. 00:14:18.990 --> 00:14:22.490 But they are honored servants. Allah has honored them. 00:14:22.990 --> 00:14:26.490 They do not speak except with what their Lord commands them. 00:14:26.490 --> 00:14:29.990 They do not perform any action except by it. 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:34.980 He knows what is before them and what is behind them. 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:38.980 “He knoweth what is before them and what is behind them, and they cannot intercede except for him whom He accepteth, and they quake for awe of Him.” (21:28) 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:44.980 “He knoweth what is before them and what is behind them, and they cannot intercede except for him whom He accepteth, and they quake for awe of Him.” (21:28) 00:14:46.250 --> 00:14:53.750 He knows what is before His angels, what they have not yet reached, and what they are about to say and do. 00:14:53.750 --> 00:14:58.250 And what has passed from the times they left behind them. 00:14:58.750 --> 00:15:01.250 All of that is accumulated for them and against them. 00:15:01.750 --> 00:15:05.250 And the angels do not intercede except for those whom Allah has approved. 00:15:05.750 --> 00:15:11.250 They are cautious, out of fear of Allah and apprehension of His punishment befalling them. 00:15:11.750 --> 00:15:17.169 The summary from the Tafsir of Al-Tabari.