WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:08.039 A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari. 00:00:08.580 --> 00:00:12.740 Abridged by Dr. 'Aqil ibn Salim al-Shammari. 00:00:14.029 --> 00:00:15.949 Surah Saba'. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:22.160 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:28.120 “Praise be to Allah, unto Whom belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. His is the praise in the Hereafter, and He is the Wise, the Aware.” (34:1) 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:30.679 “Praise be to Allah, unto Whom belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. His is the praise in the Hereafter, and He is the Wise, the Aware.” (34:1) 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:34.439 He is the All-Wise, the All-Aware. 00:00:35.670 --> 00:00:39.990 All perfect praise and complete gratitude belong to the Worshipped One, 00:00:39.990 --> 00:00:45.270 Who is the Owner of all that is in the seven heavens and all that is in the earths. 00:00:45.270 --> 00:00:48.149 To Him belongs perfect praise in the Hereafter, 00:00:48.149 --> 00:00:51.109 just as it belongs to Him in this fleeting worldly life. 00:00:51.109 --> 00:00:54.270 He is the All-Wise in His governance of His creation, 00:00:54.270 --> 00:00:57.310 and All-Aware of them and what is beneficial for them. 00:00:58.270 --> 00:01:08.670 He knows what penetrates into the earth and what emerges from it, and what descends from the heaven and what ascends therein. 00:01:08.670 --> 00:01:12.390 He is the Most Merciful, the All-Forgiving. 00:01:13.620 --> 00:01:17.859 He knows what enters the earth and what is hidden within it, 00:01:17.859 --> 00:01:20.019 and what emerges from the earth, 00:01:20.019 --> 00:01:23.939 and what descends from the heaven and what ascends therein. 00:01:23.939 --> 00:01:29.620 He is merciful to those of His servants who repent, by not punishing them after their repentance, 00:01:29.620 --> 00:01:33.459 and He is forgiving of their sins once they have repented from them. 00:01:54.540 --> 00:02:03.579 Those who deny Allah’s power to recreate His creation after their annihilation at the coming of the Hour seek to hasten it from you, O Muhammad, 00:02:03.579 --> 00:02:07.140 out of mockery and denial of your message. 00:02:07.140 --> 00:02:11.860 Say to them: "I swear by Him, the Hour will surely come to you." 00:02:11.860 --> 00:02:15.139 He is the Knower of that which is hidden from the sight of the creation. 00:02:15.139 --> 00:02:22.319 And despite that, say to them: "I swear by Him, the Hour will surely come to you." 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.599 He is the Knower of that which is hidden from the sight of the creation. 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:30.400 Not even the weight of an atom in the heavens or on the earth escapes His knowledge, 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.360 nor is there anything smaller than that or greater, 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:44.780 but it is recorded in a clear Book, demonstrating to the one who looks into it that Allah the Exalted has recorded, enumerated, and known it. 00:02:44.780 --> 00:02:50.860 This is so that He may reward those who believe and do righteous deeds. 00:02:50.860 --> 00:02:59.710 “That He may reward those who believe and do good works. For them is pardon and a rich provision.” (34:4) 00:02:59.710 --> 00:03:02.669 He has recorded that in the Clear Book, 00:03:02.669 --> 00:03:09.870 so that He may reward those who believe in Allah and His Messenger and act upon what Allah and His Messenger have commanded them. 00:03:09.870 --> 00:03:13.550 For those who believe and do righteous deeds, 00:03:13.550 --> 00:03:16.590 there is forgiveness from their Lord for their sins, 00:03:16.590 --> 00:03:21.409 and an honorable provision in Paradise on the Day of Resurrection. 00:03:21.490 --> 00:03:29.810 “But those who strive against Our revelations, challenging (Us), theirs will be a painful doom of wrath.” (34:5) 00:03:29.810 --> 00:03:38.430 “But those who strive against Our revelations, challenging (Us), theirs will be a painful doom of wrath.” (34:5) 00:03:38.430 --> 00:03:40.909 He has recorded that in the Book, 00:03:40.909 --> 00:03:46.990 so that He may punish those who strive to invalidate Our signs and proofs, thinking they can escape Us. 00:03:46.990 --> 00:03:52.430 They imagine they can outrun Us, and that We are unable to seize them. 00:03:52.430 --> 00:03:57.729 For these, there is a punishment of severe, painful torment. 00:03:57.729 --> 00:04:04.770 “Those who have been given knowledge see that what is revealed unto thee from thy Lord is the truth and leadeth unto the path of the Mighty, the Owner of Praise.” (34:6) 00:04:04.770 --> 00:04:13.180 “Those who have been given knowledge see that what is revealed unto thee from thy Lord is the truth and leadeth unto the path of the Mighty, the Owner of Praise.” (34:6) 00:04:13.180 --> 00:04:17.180 And let those who have been given knowledge of the Book of Allah see— 00:04:17.259 --> 00:04:19.180 which is the Torah— 00:04:19.180 --> 00:04:24.300 that the Book which has been revealed to you, O Muhammad, from your Lord is the truth, 00:04:24.300 --> 00:04:28.860 and it guides those who follow it and act upon its contents to the path of Allah, 00:04:28.860 --> 00:04:31.980 the Almighty in His retribution against His enemies, 00:04:31.980 --> 00:04:34.139 the Praiseworthy in the sight of His creation, 00:04:34.139 --> 00:04:38.769 for His favors and blessings are upon them. 00:04:38.769 --> 00:04:47.170 “Those who disbelieve say: Shall we show you a man who will tell you (that) when ye have become dispersed in dust with most complete dispersal still, even then, ye will be created anew?” (34:7) 00:04:47.170 --> 00:04:56.290 “Those who disbelieve say: Shall we show you a man who will tell you (that) when ye have become dispersed in dust with most complete dispersal still, even then, ye will be created anew?” (34:7) 00:04:56.290 --> 00:05:00.879 Those who disbelieve in Allah and His Messenger have said: 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:09.439 "Shall we point out to you, O people, a man who tells you that after you have disintegrated in the earth and become dust, 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:14.240 you will be brought back to life in a new creation, just as you were before death?" 00:05:15.230 --> 00:05:22.110 “Hath he invented a lie concerning Allah, or is there in him a madness? Nay, but those who disbelieve in the Hereafter are in torment and far error.” (34:8) 00:05:22.110 --> 00:05:30.589 “Hath he invented a lie concerning Allah, or is there in him a madness? Nay, but those who disbelieve in the Hereafter are in torment and far error.” (34:8) 00:05:30.589 --> 00:05:35.149 "Has he invented a lie about Allah, 00:05:35.149 --> 00:05:39.470 or is he possessed by madness, speaking words that have no meaning?" 00:05:39.629 --> 00:05:45.709 The matter is not as these polytheists claim regarding Muhammad, peace be upon him, 00:05:45.709 --> 00:05:51.709 nor is it as they suspect—that he has fabricated a lie against Allah or that he is afflicted with madness. 00:05:51.709 --> 00:05:57.069 Rather, those who do not believe in the Hereafter will face the punishment of Allah in the Hereafter, 00:05:57.069 --> 00:06:00.350 and they are in a state of deep error, far from the path of truth. 00:06:00.350 --> 00:06:05.420 It is because of this that they say what they say about him. 00:06:05.660 --> 00:06:14.220 “Have they not observed what is before them and what is behind them of the sky and the earth? If We will, We can make the earth swallow them, or cause obliteration from the sky to fall on them. Lo! herein surely is a portent for every slave who turneth (to Allah) repentant.” (34:9) 00:06:14.220 --> 00:06:23.259 “Have they not observed what is before them and what is behind them of the sky and the earth? If We will, We can make the earth swallow them, or cause obliteration from the sky to fall on them. Lo! herein surely is a portent for every slave who turneth (to Allah) repentant.” (34:9) 00:06:23.259 --> 00:06:30.540 “Have they not observed what is before them and what is behind them of the sky and the earth? If We will, We can make the earth swallow them, or cause obliteration from the sky to fall on them. Lo! herein surely is a portent for every slave who turneth (to Allah) repentant.” (34:9) 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:39.279 Have these deniers of the Resurrection not looked at what is before them and what is behind them of the heaven and the earth? 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:41.839 If they did, they would know that wherever they are, 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:47.680 My earth and heaven surround them from before them and from behind them. 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:51.120 Let them then desist from denying Our signs, 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:54.560 fearing that We might command the earth to swallow them up, 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.079 or that the heaven might fall upon them in fragments. 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:02.240 Indeed, in the encompassing of the heavens and the earth over the servants of Allah, 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:08.939 there is a sign for every servant who turns in repentance to his Lord.