WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:08.080 Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation 00:00:08.580 --> 00:00:12.740 It was summarized by Dr. Aqeel bin Salem Al-Shammari 00:00:14.060 --> 00:00:16.820 Surat Al-Saffat 00:00:18.329 --> 00:00:22.929 In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful 00:00:23.210 --> 00:00:30.660 Gather together those who did wrong, and their spouses, and those who worshiped them 00:00:30.859 --> 00:00:37.100 Instead of God, guide them to the path of hell 00:00:38.450 --> 00:00:41.450 Gather together those who disbelieved in God in this world 00:00:41.850 --> 00:00:45.570 And their followers continued to disbelieve in God 00:00:46.049 --> 00:00:49.450 And they worshiped no gods other than God 00:00:49.890 --> 00:00:52.729 So they directed them to the path of hell 00:00:54.070 --> 00:01:00.429 Stop them, they are responsible 00:01:00.750 --> 00:01:03.950 What is the matter with you that you do not support? 00:01:04.349 --> 00:01:07.989 Rather, today they are surrendering 00:01:09.379 --> 00:01:13.939 O angels, imprison these polytheists and their wives 00:01:14.420 --> 00:01:18.700 They are responsible for what they worshiped instead of God 00:01:19.459 --> 00:01:23.980 What is the matter with you, O polytheists of God, that you do not support one another? 00:01:24.620 --> 00:01:28.859 Rather, today they are surrendering to God’s command and decree regarding them 00:01:29.219 --> 00:01:30.939 We are certain of his torment 00:01:32.269 --> 00:01:39.469 They approached each other asking questions 00:01:39.870 --> 00:01:46.030 They said that you were coming to us from the right 00:01:46.430 --> 00:01:50.469 They said, “Rather, you are not believers.” 00:01:50.909 --> 00:01:56.909 We had no authority over you 00:01:57.230 --> 00:02:02.790 Rather, you were a tyrannical people 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:07.319 The humans approached the jinn asking questions 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:09.599 The humans said to the jinn 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:14.960 You, jinn, used to come to us before religion and truth 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:17.759 You deceive us in the strongest ways 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:19.520 The jinn said 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:23.439 Rather, you were not affirming the monotheism of God 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:29.080 We have no argument against you to prevent you from believing 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:33.639 Rather, you polytheists were a people who oppressed God 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:39.120 Transgressing into what you have no right to transgress, such as disobeying God 00:02:40.620 --> 00:02:44.099 So what our Lord said is true for us 00:02:44.500 --> 00:02:49.219 We are delicious 00:02:49.539 --> 00:02:55.759 We misled you. Indeed, we were deceitful 00:02:57.030 --> 00:02:59.430 So the punishment of our Lord became necessary for us 00:02:59.830 --> 00:03:07.030 We, you and I, will taste torment for our sins and disobedience that we have committed in this world 00:03:07.550 --> 00:03:10.990 So we misled you from the path of God and belief in Him 00:03:11.389 --> 00:03:13.750 We were lost 00:03:15.259 --> 00:03:20.780 On that day, they will share in torment 00:03:20.860 --> 00:03:26.300 We do the same to criminals 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:54.280 Then We will make them taste the painful torment 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:58.199 And We will bring them together with their companions in Hell 00:03:59.879 --> 00:04:08.159 When they were told, “There is no god but God,” they would become arrogant 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:16.560 And they say, “We have left our gods to a crazy poet.” 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:22.839 Rather, he came with the truth and believed the messengers 00:04:24.230 --> 00:04:26.870 These are polytheists in God 00:04:27.389 --> 00:04:32.310 They were in this world when they were told, “Say, ‘There is no god but God.’” 00:04:32.870 --> 00:04:36.389 They are proud of what is said and arrogant 00:04:36.910 --> 00:04:43.029 They say we should abandon the worship of our gods to follow a crazy poet 00:04:43.589 --> 00:04:47.310 Rather, they denied that Muhammad was as they described him 00:04:47.870 --> 00:04:51.790 Rather, he is a prophet of God who brought the Qur’an from Him 00:04:52.389 --> 00:04:56.029 He believed the messengers who were before him 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:04.019 You will taste the painful torment 00:05:04.339 --> 00:05:09.899 And you will not be rewarded except for what you used to do 00:05:11.220 --> 00:05:15.980 You, O polytheists, will taste painful torment in the afterlife 00:05:16.620 --> 00:05:23.300 And you will not be rewarded in the Hereafter except the reward for what you did in this world of disobedience to God 00:05:25.339 --> 00:05:29.180 Except sincere servants of God 00:05:29.660 --> 00:05:35.259 Those have a known livelihood 00:05:35.779 --> 00:05:39.660 Fruits and they are honored 00:05:40.139 --> 00:05:44.339 In the gardens of bliss 00:05:44.740 --> 00:05:48.740 On a secret opposite each other 00:05:49.180 --> 00:05:55.350 They are brought around with a cup of wine 00:05:55.790 --> 00:06:01.509 Delightful white for drinkers 00:06:01.910 --> 00:06:08.430 There are no ghouls in it, nor do they bleed from it 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:14.839 Except for the servants of God whom He saved on the day He created them for His mercy 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.000 They will not taste torment 00:06:18.670 --> 00:06:21.949 These sincere people have a known livelihood 00:06:22.350 --> 00:06:26.189 It is the fruits that God created for them in Paradise 00:06:26.670 --> 00:06:32.949 They are honored with God’s dignity with which God has honored them in the gardens of bliss 00:06:33.470 --> 00:06:36.509 On a secret they meet each other 00:06:37.149 --> 00:06:41.110 Servants parade around them with a cup of flowing wine 00:06:41.509 --> 00:06:44.389 Visible to their unobtrusive eyes 00:06:44.870 --> 00:06:48.509 A cup of wine is a pleasure that drinkers enjoy 00:06:49.149 --> 00:06:55.189 There is no harm in this wine and there is no harm to the drinker in body or mind 00:06:55.509 --> 00:06:56.829 And nothing else 00:06:57.470 --> 00:07:00.550 Nor do they worry about drinking it. Their minds bleed 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:07.879 They have minor limbs 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:14.279 As if they were hidden white 00:07:15.670 --> 00:07:18.550 And those who are sincere will be in heaven 00:07:18.910 --> 00:07:23.310 Women who restricted their limbs to their husbands 00:07:23.790 --> 00:07:26.790 They do not extend their gaze to others 00:07:27.149 --> 00:07:29.509 The son of the eyes is her bones 00:07:30.149 --> 00:07:32.350 As if they were hidden eggs 00:07:32.790 --> 00:07:39.389 They looked like they were white and that no human being or jinn had touched them before their husbands 00:07:39.750 --> 00:07:42.790 With the egg white that is inside the shell 00:07:43.269 --> 00:07:45.550 It is skin covered with yolk 00:07:46.029 --> 00:07:49.230 Before any other hand or thing touches it 00:07:49.829 --> 00:07:51.470 As for the upper crust 00:07:51.949 --> 00:07:55.709 The bird touches it and the hands touch it 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:03.959 They turned to each other asking questions 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:11.439 One of them said that I had a companion 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:16.959 He says, "Are you among those who believe?" 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:25.399 When we die and become dust and bones, will we be indebted? 00:08:26.769 --> 00:08:30.850 Some of the people of Paradise approached each other asking questions 00:08:31.529 --> 00:08:33.649 Someone from the people of Paradise said 00:08:34.330 --> 00:08:36.090 I had a companion 00:08:36.769 --> 00:08:39.289 That consort was a demon 00:08:40.090 --> 00:08:42.370 That companion was telling him 00:08:43.129 --> 00:08:46.730 Are you among those who believe in resurrection after death? 00:08:47.490 --> 00:08:50.649 If we die and become dust and bones? 00:08:51.049 --> 00:08:53.809 We are the ones who will be held accountable and rewarded 00:08:55.950 --> 00:09:00.899 He said: Are you the one who comes out? 00:09:01.340 --> 00:09:07.019 So he went out and saw him in the middle of hell 00:09:07.340 --> 00:09:12.580 Tallah said that the blocks would satisfy you 00:09:12.940 --> 00:09:19.100 Were it not for the grace of my Lord, I would have been among those in attendance 00:09:20.629 --> 00:09:24.350 This is the believer who admitted his companions to Paradise 00:09:25.029 --> 00:09:27.350 Are you going up into the fire? 00:09:27.750 --> 00:09:29.590 Maybe I can see my horn 00:09:30.269 --> 00:09:31.509 And they said yes 00:09:32.190 --> 00:09:35.750 So he went up into the fire and saw him in the middle of hell 00:09:36.309 --> 00:09:37.230 And he said to him 00:09:37.870 --> 00:09:43.669 By God, if you exist in this world, you will destroy me by preventing me from believing in the resurrection 00:09:44.269 --> 00:09:49.870 Had God not blessed me with His guidance and success in believing in the resurrection 00:09:50.509 --> 00:09:53.870 I would have been among those present with you in God's punishment 00:09:55.460 --> 00:09:58.940 Are we not dead? 00:09:59.299 --> 00:10:05.259 Except our first death, and we will not be tormented 00:10:05.580 --> 00:10:10.580 This is a great victory for him 00:10:10.980 --> 00:10:15.139 Let the workers work for this 00:10:16.690 --> 00:10:20.889 Are we not dead other than our first death in this world? 00:10:21.450 --> 00:10:24.889 And we will not be tormented after we enter Paradise 00:10:25.529 --> 00:10:29.690 This is the dignity that God has given us in Paradise 00:10:30.169 --> 00:10:32.450 That we will not be tortured or die 00:10:32.970 --> 00:10:38.090 It is a great salvation from what we used to be in this world, wary of God’s punishment 00:10:39.139 --> 00:10:41.019 God Almighty said, mention him 00:10:41.700 --> 00:10:46.860 For such is the dignity given to these believers in the afterlife 00:10:47.419 --> 00:10:50.580 Let those who work in this world work for themselves 00:10:51.059 --> 00:10:54.860 To realize what these people realized by obeying their Lord 00:10:56.269 --> 00:11:01.990 Is that the best place to stay or the Zakum tree? 00:11:02.429 --> 00:11:09.049 We have made it a trial for the wrongdoers 00:11:10.460 --> 00:11:15.620 Is this good that I gave these believers from My dignity in Paradise? 00:11:16.100 --> 00:11:19.299 Or what I have prepared for the people of Hell of Zakum 00:11:20.139 --> 00:11:23.779 We have made it a temptation for these polytheists 00:11:24.299 --> 00:11:28.019 Those who said: How do trees grow in the fire? 00:11:28.500 --> 00:11:30.340 And the fire burns the trees 00:11:32.429 --> 00:11:38.269 It is a tree that emerges at the root of hell 00:11:38.629 --> 00:11:43.230 It looked like the heads of demons 00:11:43.590 --> 00:11:50.429 They will eat from it and fill their stomachs with it 00:11:52.259 --> 00:11:55.500 It is a tree that emerges at the root of hell 00:11:55.980 --> 00:11:58.700 I was fed by fire and from it I was created 00:11:59.379 --> 00:12:05.139 In its ugliness and vulgarity, it was as if the trees of the Zakum tree were the heads of demons 00:12:05.820 --> 00:12:11.259 For these polytheists, for whom God made this tree, will be a trial 00:12:11.820 --> 00:12:16.620 You will eat from this tree, which is the tree of Zakum 00:12:17.259 --> 00:12:20.179 Millions of people will fill their stomachs with its sickness 00:12:30.870 --> 00:12:34.919 Their reference is to hell 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:43.620 If they met their fathers asking 00:12:44.019 --> 00:12:47.940 They are running on their tracks 00:12:49.409 --> 00:12:54.210 These polytheists are responsible for what they eat from the Zakum tree 00:12:54.730 --> 00:12:56.769 A mixture of hot water 00:12:57.370 --> 00:12:59.610 The one who got hottest ended his heat 00:13:00.169 --> 00:13:02.769 Then their fate is to hell 00:13:03.570 --> 00:13:09.090 These polytheists found their fathers intentionally straying from the path 00:13:09.690 --> 00:13:12.570 These people speed them on their way 00:13:13.009 --> 00:13:15.809 To follow their footsteps and traditions 00:13:17.500 --> 00:13:22.100 Most of the ancients had gone astray before them 00:13:22.500 --> 00:13:27.179 And We have sent among them warners 00:13:27.620 --> 00:13:32.740 So look at what was the outcome of those who were warned 00:13:33.179 --> 00:13:37.179 Except sincere servants of God 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:45.120 O Muhammad, most of the nations before them have strayed from the right path before the polytheists of your people 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:51.399 And We sent warners to the nations that passed before you, warning them of Our punishment 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:55.320 So contemplate and see how We destroyed the warners 00:13:55.919 --> 00:14:00.960 Except the servants of God whom We have sincerely believed in God and His messengers 00:14:02.659 --> 00:14:09.460 Noah called out to us and those who responded responded 00:14:09.820 --> 00:14:15.220 We saved him and his family from great distress 00:14:15.659 --> 00:14:20.580 And We made his descendants the ones who remain 00:14:22.220 --> 00:14:23.860 God Almighty says mention him 00:14:24.419 --> 00:14:29.220 Noah called us by asking us about the destruction of his people 00:14:29.899 --> 00:14:33.419 Let us be the best responders. We were His when He called us 00:14:33.940 --> 00:14:36.940 So we answered his prayer and destroyed his people 00:14:37.580 --> 00:14:41.299 We saved him and his family who boarded the ship with him 00:14:41.700 --> 00:14:45.700 From the harm and hatred that he experienced from the unbelievers 00:14:46.100 --> 00:14:48.500 From the anguish of flood and drowning 00:14:49.220 --> 00:14:54.700 And We made the descendants of Noah those who remained on earth after the destruction of his people 00:14:55.299 --> 00:14:58.460 The non-Arabs and the Arabs are the descendants of Shem, son of Noah 00:14:59.220 --> 00:15:03.580 The Turks, Saqlabiyya, and Khazars are the sons of Japheth ibn Noah 00:15:04.379 --> 00:15:07.019 Sudan is the children of Ham, son of Noah 00:15:07.700 --> 00:15:11.340 Thus, the effects came and the scholars said 00:15:12.740 --> 00:15:16.299 We left it to others 00:15:16.740 --> 00:15:21.500 Peace be upon Noah in the worlds 00:15:22.019 --> 00:15:27.299 This is how We reward the doers of good 00:15:27.779 --> 00:15:32.220 He is one of our faithful servants 00:15:32.779 --> 00:15:38.090 Then we drowned the others 00:15:40.070 --> 00:15:44.149 And We preserved Noah with beautiful remembrance and good praise 00:15:44.350 --> 00:15:47.950 Of the people who stayed behind after him, they would remind him of him 00:15:48.590 --> 00:15:53.590 A guarantee from God for Noah in the worlds that no one would remember him badly 00:15:54.230 --> 00:15:58.830 We are as we did to Noah as a reward for our obedience 00:15:59.309 --> 00:16:03.110 Thus We reward those who do good and obey Us 00:16:03.870 --> 00:16:07.230 Noah was one of our servants who believed in us 00:16:07.629 --> 00:16:10.389 So unite us and devote our worship to us 00:16:10.950 --> 00:16:17.149 Then We drowned when We saved Noah and his family from the great distress of what remained of his people 00:16:17.149 --> 00:16:23.090 Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation