1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,200 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 2 00:00:05,190 --> 00:00:08,070 A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari. 3 00:00:08,580 --> 00:00:12,740 Abridged by Dr. 'Aqil ibn Salim al-Shammar. 4 00:00:14,009 --> 00:00:16,089 Surah al-Balad. 5 00:00:18,539 --> 00:00:23,179 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 6 00:00:23,179 --> 00:00:26,260 “Nay, I swear by this city -” (90:1) 7 00:00:26,260 --> 00:00:30,780 “And thou art an indweller of this city -” (90:2) 8 00:00:30,780 --> 00:00:34,579 "And by the begetter and what he begot." 9 00:00:34,619 --> 00:00:39,659 “We verily have created man in an atmosphere:” (90:4) 10 00:00:39,659 --> 00:00:44,780 “Thinketh he that none hath power over him?” (90:5) 11 00:00:44,780 --> 00:00:48,619 “And he saith: I have destroyed vast wealth:” (90:6) 12 00:00:48,619 --> 00:00:52,179 “Thinketh he that none beholdeth him?” (90:7) 13 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,560 He swears, O Muhammad, by this sacred city. 14 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:58,200 Which is Makkah. 15 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,719 And you, O Muhammad, are permitted within this city. 16 00:01:01,719 --> 00:01:05,079 You may do within it as you wish regarding those you intend to kill. 17 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,400 And take captive those you intend to take captive. 18 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,819 That is permitted for you. 19 00:01:09,819 --> 00:01:13,900 And He swears by the father and by the child he begot. 20 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:18,810 Man was created to struggle through affairs and endure them with hardship. 21 00:01:18,810 --> 00:01:22,329 Does this man, confident in his resilience and strength, think? 22 00:01:22,329 --> 00:01:25,650 That no one will ever overpower or defeat him? 23 00:01:25,650 --> 00:01:28,569 Yet Allah is his Overpowerer and Subduer. 24 00:01:28,569 --> 00:01:31,090 This arrogant, strong man says: 25 00:01:31,090 --> 00:01:34,489 "I have squandered vast wealth in opposing Muhammad." 26 00:01:34,530 --> 00:01:36,810 Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. 27 00:01:36,810 --> 00:01:38,890 And he spent that wealth against him. 28 00:01:38,890 --> 00:01:41,450 Yet he is lying in his claim. 29 00:01:41,450 --> 00:01:45,170 Does this speaker, who says "I have squandered vast wealth," think? 30 00:01:45,170 --> 00:01:51,980 That no one saw him in the state of spending what he claims to have spent? 31 00:01:51,980 --> 00:01:55,900 “Did We not assign unto him two eyes” (90:8) 32 00:01:55,900 --> 00:02:00,420 And a tongue and two lips. 33 00:02:00,420 --> 00:02:05,260 And We have shown him the two ways. 34 00:02:05,260 --> 00:02:07,739 So he has not attempted the steep path. 35 00:02:07,739 --> 00:02:10,900 “Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Ascent is! -” (90:12) 36 00:02:10,900 --> 00:02:12,740 It is the freeing of a slave. 37 00:02:12,740 --> 00:02:18,659 “And to feed in the day of hunger.” (90:14) 38 00:02:18,659 --> 00:02:22,099 An orphan of near kinship. 39 00:02:22,099 --> 00:02:27,139 “Or some poor wretch in misery,” (90:16) 40 00:02:27,139 --> 00:02:31,060 Have We not granted this speaker, who says "I have squandered vast wealth," 41 00:02:31,060 --> 00:02:34,460 Two eyes with which he sees the proofs of Allah against him? 42 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:38,139 And a tongue with which he expresses whatever he wishes? 43 00:02:38,139 --> 00:02:39,699 And two lips? 44 00:02:39,699 --> 00:02:42,620 A favor from Us to him in that. 45 00:02:42,620 --> 00:02:44,659 And We have guided him to the two paths. 46 00:02:44,659 --> 00:02:46,819 The path of good and the path of evil. 47 00:02:46,819 --> 00:02:48,500 Yet he has not traversed the steep path. 48 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:50,819 So as to cross it and pass through it. 49 00:02:50,819 --> 00:02:54,659 It is mentioned that the "steep path" is a mountain in Hell. 50 00:02:54,659 --> 00:02:58,379 And what could make you know, O Muhammad, what the steep path is? 51 00:02:58,379 --> 00:03:03,379 Then He, the Almighty, clarified for him what the steep path is and what the salvation from it is. 52 00:03:03,379 --> 00:03:05,699 And what the nature of traversing it is. 53 00:03:05,699 --> 00:03:09,460 He said that traversing and crossing it is: 54 00:03:09,460 --> 00:03:13,060 Freeing a neck from slavery and the bondage of servitude. 55 00:03:13,060 --> 00:03:18,900 Or feeding on a day of severe hunger an orphan who has no father, from among his relatives. 56 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:24,569 Or a destitute person who has been pressed into the dust by poverty and need. 57 00:03:24,569 --> 00:03:32,969 “And to be of those who believe and exhort one another to perseverance and exhort one another to pity.” (90:17) 58 00:03:32,969 --> 00:03:37,930 Those are the people of the right hand. 59 00:03:37,930 --> 00:03:43,969 “But those who disbelieve Our revelations, their place will be on the left hand.” (90:19) 60 00:03:43,969 --> 00:03:49,330 Upon them is a fire closed over. 61 00:03:49,330 --> 00:03:53,569 Then, this person who said "I have squandered vast wealth" was not: 62 00:03:53,569 --> 00:03:56,729 Among those who believed in Allah and His Messenger. 63 00:03:56,729 --> 00:03:59,370 So that they might believe along with them as they believed. 64 00:03:59,370 --> 00:04:04,810 And among those who enjoin one another to patience regarding what befalls them for the sake of Allah. 65 00:04:04,810 --> 00:04:08,050 And enjoin one another to mercy. 66 00:04:08,050 --> 00:04:12,490 Those who performed these deeds that I have mentioned: 67 00:04:12,490 --> 00:04:16,449 Such as freeing slaves, feeding the orphan, and other such acts. 68 00:04:16,449 --> 00:04:18,170 They are the people of the right hand. 69 00:04:18,170 --> 00:04:23,449 Those who will be led on the Day of Resurrection to the right, toward Paradise. 70 00:04:23,449 --> 00:04:26,370 As for those who disbelieved in Our signs and Our markers, 71 00:04:26,410 --> 00:04:30,009 And Our proofs from the scriptures, the messengers, and otherwise: 72 00:04:30,009 --> 00:04:32,889 They are the people of the left hand on the Day of Resurrection. 73 00:04:32,889 --> 00:04:35,930 Those who will be led to the left. 74 00:04:35,930 --> 00:04:41,720 Upon them is the fire of Hell on the Day of Resurrection, closed over. 75 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,839 A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari.