WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:05.150 --> 00:00:08.050 A Summary of Tafsir al-Tabari. 00:00:08.580 --> 00:00:12.740 Abridged by Dr. Aqeel bin Salem Al-Shammari. 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:16.339 Surah Al-Anbiya. 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:22.339 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:22.940 --> 00:00:29.760 And whoever among them says, "I am a god besides Allah." 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:39.759 “And one of them who should say: Lo! I am a god beside Him, that one We should repay with hell. Thus We Repay wrong-doers.” (21:29) 00:00:40.990 --> 00:00:42.990 And whoever among the angels says, 00:00:43.490 --> 00:00:45.490 "Indeed, I am a god besides Allah." 00:00:46.109 --> 00:00:48.109 Then that one We will recompense with Hell. 00:00:48.810 --> 00:00:51.530 And as We recompense whoever says, among the angels, 00:00:51.530 --> 00:00:54.409 "Indeed, I am a god besides Allah," with Hell, 00:00:55.049 --> 00:00:58.250 thus We recompense the unjust. 00:00:58.689 --> 00:01:01.170 For he disbelieved in Allah and worshipped others besides Him. 00:01:03.020 --> 00:01:15.780 “Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them, and we made every living thing of water? Will they not then believe?” (21:30) 00:01:16.140 --> 00:01:24.939 “Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them, and we made every living thing of water? Will they not then believe?” (21:30) 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:31.760 Have those who disbelieved not considered with the eyes of their hearts that the heavens and the earth were one mass, 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:36.239 and We separated them? 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:38.799 Rather, they were joined together. 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:41.640 Then We split them apart and separated them. 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:46.120 So the heavens were a firmament from which no rain fell, 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:50.359 and the earth was a firmament from which no vegetation grew. 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:52.359 Then Allah split them apart. 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:57.120 And We made from water every living thing. 00:01:57.879 --> 00:01:59.719 Then will they not believe? 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:05.280 And acknowledge the divinity of the One who did that, and single Him out for worship? 00:02:06.939 --> 00:02:21.379 “And We have placed in the earth firm hills lest it quake with them, and We have placed therein ravines as roads that haply they may find their way.” (21:31) 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.120 Have these disbelievers not seen 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:30.879 that We made the earth a stable ground so that it would not sway with people? 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:33.879 And they could establish themselves firmly upon its surface. 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:38.719 And We made pathways in the earth so that they might be guided. 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:46.039 “And we have made the sky a roof withheld (from them). Yet they turn away from its portents.” (21:32) 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:50.000 “And we have made the sky a roof withheld (from them). Yet they turn away from its portents.” (21:32) 00:02:51.330 --> 00:02:54.650 And We made the sky a protected ceiling, yet they turn away from its signs. 00:02:55.129 --> 00:02:58.330 “And We have guarded it from every outcast devil,” (15:17) 00:02:59.009 --> 00:03:02.090 And these polytheists turn away from the signs of the sky, 00:03:02.449 --> 00:03:04.930 its sun, its moon, and its stars. 00:03:05.409 --> 00:03:07.610 They turn away from contemplating them 00:03:08.009 --> 00:03:11.250 and their indication of the singularity of their Creator. 00:03:12.770 --> 00:03:18.090 “And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They float, each in an orbit.” (21:33) 00:03:18.530 --> 00:03:24.210 Each is swimming in its own orbit. 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:29.159 It is Allah who created for you, O mankind, the night and the day, 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:31.319 as a favor from Him to you, 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:34.039 and as a sign of His immense dominion, 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:37.599 and that divinity belongs to Him alone, to the exclusion of all else. 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:40.439 And He created the sun and the moon as well, 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:43.879 all of them moving in their orbits. 00:03:45.770 --> 00:03:51.689 “We appointed immortality for no mortal before thee. What! if thou diest, can they be immortal!” (21:34) 00:03:52.169 --> 00:03:56.729 Are they then immortal? 00:03:57.210 --> 00:04:03.409 Every soul will taste death. 00:04:03.930 --> 00:04:08.729 “Every soul must taste of death, and We try you with evil and with good, for ordeal. And unto Us ye will be returned.” (21:35) 00:04:09.250 --> 00:04:15.080 And to Us you will be returned. 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:21.879 We did not grant immortality to anyone from the children of Adam before you, O Muhammad, in this world, so We would grant it to you. 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:26.800 And it is inevitable that you will die, just as Our messengers before you died. 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:32.279 So are these polytheists, who disbelieve in their Lord, the ones who will be immortal in this world after you? 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:36.959 Rather, they are mortal in all circumstances, whether you live or die. 00:04:37.660 --> 00:04:40.019 Every soul that is breathed into existence by His creation 00:04:40.500 --> 00:04:44.420 will experience the pangs of death and drink its cup. 00:04:44.860 --> 00:04:49.180 And We test you, O mankind, with hardship and with ease and abundance. 00:04:49.620 --> 00:04:51.139 And to Us they will be returned. 00:04:51.459 --> 00:04:55.220 Then they will be recompensed for their deeds, the good and the bad. 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:03.079 “And when those who disbelieve behold thee, they but choose thee out for mockery, (saying): Is this he who maketh mention of your gods? And they would deny all mention of the Beneficent.” (21:36) 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:06.560 “And when those who disbelieve behold thee, they but choose thee out for mockery, (saying): Is this he who maketh mention of your gods? And they would deny all mention of the Beneficent.” (21:36) 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:10.199 “And when those who disbelieve behold thee, they but choose thee out for mockery, (saying): Is this he who maketh mention of your gods? And they would deny all mention of the Beneficent.” (21:36) 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:15.079 “And when those who disbelieve behold thee, they but choose thee out for mockery, (saying): Is this he who maketh mention of your gods? And they would deny all mention of the Beneficent.” (21:36) 00:05:16.709 --> 00:05:22.750 And when those who disbelieve in Allah see you, O Muhammad, they take you only in mockery. 00:05:23.350 --> 00:05:25.149 Some of them say to others: 00:05:25.589 --> 00:05:29.550 "Is this the one who speaks ill of your gods and finds fault with them?" 00:05:30.029 --> 00:05:36.110 And they marvel at your mention, O Muhammad, of their gods which neither harm nor benefit, with disdain. 00:05:36.509 --> 00:05:41.350 Yet they are disbelievers in the Most Gracious, who created them and bestowed His favors upon them. 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.560 “Man is made of haste. I shall show you My portents, but ask Me not to hasten.” (21:37) 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:52.199 “Man is made of haste. I shall show you My portents, but ask Me not to hasten.” (21:37) 00:05:53.649 --> 00:05:57.050 He created Adam in haste and with speed in that. 00:05:57.490 --> 00:06:00.569 Because He hastened his creation at sunset, 00:06:01.009 --> 00:06:04.129 in the last hour of the day of Friday. 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:11.839 I will show you, O you who are hasty, My signs, just as I showed them to those before you among the nations whom I destroyed. 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:14.360 So do not hasten your Lord. 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:17.959 For We will bring them to you and show them to you. 00:06:19.430 --> 00:06:26.310 And they say, "When will this promise be fulfilled, if you are truthful?" 00:06:26.829 --> 00:06:34.670 “If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not be able to drive off the fire from their faces and from their backs, and they will not be helped!” (21:39) 00:06:35.189 --> 00:06:42.790 “If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not be able to drive off the fire from their faces and from their backs, and they will not be helped!” (21:39) 00:06:43.310 --> 00:06:49.069 “If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not be able to drive off the fire from their faces and from their backs, and they will not be helped!” (21:39) 00:06:50.730 --> 00:06:55.009 And these hasty ones ask their Lord for signs and punishment. 00:06:55.610 --> 00:06:59.170 "When will this that you promise us of punishment come to us?" 00:06:59.730 --> 00:07:03.810 "If you are truthful in what you promise us of that." 00:07:04.529 --> 00:07:10.410 If only these disbelievers who hasten [the punishment] knew what awaits them of tribulation 00:07:10.930 --> 00:07:12.970 when the Fire will sear their faces. 00:07:13.490 --> 00:07:18.410 They will not be able to ward off the Fire from their faces, nor from their backs, to push it away. 00:07:19.009 --> 00:07:21.129 Nor will they have any helper to help them, 00:07:21.610 --> 00:07:24.490 to rescue them at that time from Allah's punishment, 00:07:24.970 --> 00:07:28.610 because they persisted in their disbelief in Allah. 00:07:30.300 --> 00:07:38.100 “Nay, but it will come upon them unawares so that it will stupefy them, and they will be unable to repel it, neither will they be reprieved.” (21:40) 00:07:38.540 --> 00:07:44.899 “Nay, but it will come upon them unawares so that it will stupefy them, and they will be unable to repel it, neither will they be reprieved.” (21:40) 00:07:46.490 --> 00:07:53.689 This Fire that will sear the faces of the disbelievers will not come to them when it comes with their prior knowledge of its timing. 00:07:54.290 --> 00:07:58.889 Rather, it will come upon them suddenly, and they will not perceive its arrival. 00:07:59.329 --> 00:08:00.930 Then it will engulf them suddenly. 00:08:01.529 --> 00:08:05.689 And they will not be able to ward it off from themselves when it surprises them. 00:08:06.170 --> 00:08:10.370 Nor will they be granted respite for repentance. 00:08:10.930 --> 00:08:13.129 For it is not a time for repentance. 00:08:13.529 --> 00:08:16.370 Rather, it is a time for recompense and reward. 00:08:18.139 --> 00:08:33.100 And indeed, messengers before you were mocked, but those who mocked them were overtaken by what they used to mock. 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:39.320 Allah, the Most High, says to His Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him: 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.399 "Indeed, messengers whom We sent before you were mocked." 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:50.720 "So what they used to mock befell those who mocked them, of tribulation and punishment." 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:57.159 These mockers will not escape being like their predecessors among the disbelieving nations, 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:04.000 and the punishment and wrath of Allah will descend upon them for their mockery of you, similar to what descended upon them. 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:18.120 Say, O Muhammad, to these who hasten [the punishment]: 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:22.639 "Who will protect you and guard you at night when you sleep?" 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:28.200 "And during the day when you move about, from the command of the Most Gracious, if it descends upon you?" 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.600 "And why do they not realize that there is no protector for them from Allah's command?" 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:38.039 Rather, they are heedless of the remembrance of their Lord and His proofs. 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:42.000 They turn away from the remembrance of their Lord and His proofs. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:45.200 They do not ponder it, so they do not take heed. 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:52.179 “Or have they gods who can shield them from Us? They cannot help themselves nor can they be defended from Us.” (21:43) 00:09:52.659 --> 00:10:01.220 “Or have they gods who can shield them from Us? They cannot help themselves nor can they be defended from Us.” (21:43) 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:07.039 Do these who hasten their Lord with punishment have deities besides Us 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:11.039 that can protect them from Us if We decide to inflict Our punishment upon them? 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:16.639 And how can their deities, whom they invoke besides Us, protect them from Us? 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:19.240 For they cannot even protect themselves. 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:23.360 Nor can they be granted protection from Us. 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:25.960 And if they are not granted protection, 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:30.960 and there is no one to prevent Allah's punishment from them, along with Allah's displeasure upon them, 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:34.240 then they have gained no good and have not been aided. 00:10:42.500 --> 00:10:47.580 “Nay, but We gave these and their fathers ease until life grew long for them. See they not how we aim to the land, reducing it of its outlying parts? Can they then be the victors?” (21:44) 00:10:48.179 --> 00:10:55.340 Have they not seen that We come to the earth and diminish it from its borders? 00:10:55.820 --> 00:10:59.340 Then are they the victors? 00:11:00.809 --> 00:11:05.210 What gods do these polytheists have that protect them from Us? 00:11:05.809 --> 00:11:11.090 But We gave them enjoyment in this worldly life, and their fathers before them, 00:11:11.450 --> 00:11:15.769 until their lives were prolonged, and they remained upon their disbelief. 00:11:16.330 --> 00:11:20.090 So they forgot Our covenant and were ignorant of the extent of Our favor upon them. 00:11:20.769 --> 00:11:23.490 Have these polytheists not seen 00:11:23.970 --> 00:11:27.210 that We come to the earth and devastate it from its regions? 00:11:27.730 --> 00:11:33.370 By Our overpowering its inhabitants, defeating them, expelling them from it, and killing them with swords. 00:11:33.970 --> 00:11:36.610 So they may take heed from that and be warned. 00:11:37.330 --> 00:11:41.370 Are these polytheists the victors, when they have seen Our overpowering? 00:11:41.970 --> 00:11:43.610 That is not the case. 00:11:44.090 --> 00:11:45.690 Rather, We are the victors. 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:05.200 Say, O Muhammad: 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:11.360 "I only warn you, O people, by the revelation of Allah, which He sends down to me from Him." 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:13.879 "And I warn you by His might." 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:17.399 But the disbeliever in Allah does not lend his inner ear 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:21.519 to the remembrance of what is in Allah's revelation of admonitions and reminders. 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:25.919 Rather, he turns away from taking heed and pondering it. 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:30.600 He is like the deaf person who does not hear what is said to him and therefore does not act upon it. 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:40.279 “And if a breath of thy Lord's punishment were to touch them, they assuredly would say: Alas for us! Lo! we were wrong-doers.” (21:46) 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:48.399 “And if a breath of thy Lord's punishment were to touch them, they assuredly would say: Alas for us! Lo! we were wrong-doers.” (21:46) 00:12:49.789 --> 00:12:53.789 And if these who hasten [the punishment] afflict you, O Muhammad, 00:12:54.350 --> 00:12:59.149 with a portion of your Lord's punishment due to their disbelief in you and their rejection of faith, 00:12:59.629 --> 00:13:06.070 they will say, "Oh, woe to us! Indeed, we were wrongdoers in our worship of idols and rivals." 00:13:06.629 --> 00:13:10.750 "And we abandoned the worship of Allah, who created us and bestowed His favors upon us." 00:13:12.490 --> 00:13:20.889 “And We set a just balance for the Day of Resurrection so that no soul is wronged in aught. Though it be of the weight of a grain of mustard seed, We bring it. And We suffice for reckoners.” (21:47) 00:13:21.409 --> 00:13:28.409 “And We set a just balance for the Day of Resurrection so that no soul is wronged in aught. Though it be of the weight of a grain of mustard seed, We bring it. And We suffice for reckoners.” (21:47) 00:13:28.889 --> 00:13:33.090 And Allah is sufficient as an Accountant. 00:13:34.690 --> 00:13:41.049 And We will set up scales of justice for the people of the Day of Resurrection, so no soul will be wronged in anything. 00:13:41.529 --> 00:13:46.690 By punishing him for a sin he did not commit, or by withholding the reward for a deed he did. 00:13:47.330 --> 00:13:51.769 And if what he has of good deeds or bad deeds, 00:13:52.090 --> 00:13:56.610 weighs as much as a mustard seed, We will bring it forth and present it to him. 00:13:57.169 --> 00:14:00.850 And Allah is sufficient as an Accountant for that reckoning. 00:14:01.330 --> 00:14:03.970 For no one knows their deeds better than He. 00:14:04.370 --> 00:14:08.450 And what has passed in this world, whether good or bad, from Us. 00:14:10.269 --> 00:14:20.750 “And We verily gave Moses and Aaron the Criterion (of right and wrong) and a light and a Reminder for those who keep from evil,” (21:48) 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:26.960 And indeed, Allah distinguished between Moses and Aaron and Pharaoh with truth. 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:33.399 And as a reminder to those who fear Allah by obeying Him, fulfilling His commands, and avoiding His prohibitions. 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:43.440 “Those who fear their Lord in secret and who dread the Hour (of doom).” (21:49) 00:14:44.970 --> 00:14:48.250 We gave Moses and Aaron the reminder for the righteous, 00:14:48.769 --> 00:14:53.210 those who fear their Lord unseen, lest He punish them in the Hereafter. 00:14:53.850 --> 00:14:57.210 And they are from the Hour when the Day of Resurrection will come, 00:14:57.649 --> 00:15:04.090 apprehensive that it will come upon them, and they will be returned to their Lord having fallen short of their obligations to Allah. 00:15:04.610 --> 00:15:08.409 So He will punish them with a punishment they cannot bear. 00:15:10.100 --> 00:15:21.940 “This is a blessed Reminder that we have revealed: Will ye then reject it?” (21:50) 00:15:23.580 --> 00:15:28.539 And this Qur'an, which We have revealed to Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:15:29.019 --> 00:15:33.139 is a reminder for whoever remembers and an admonition for whoever takes heed. 00:15:33.779 --> 00:15:39.779 Then are you, O people, deniers of this Book which We have revealed to Muhammad? 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:46.600 A Summary of Tafsir al-Tabari.