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. 00:00:08.589 --> 00:00:12.710 Abridged by Dr. 'Aqil ibn Salim al-Shammari. 00:00:13.990 --> 00:00:16.149 Surah al-Tur. 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:22.719 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:23.620 --> 00:00:31.620 "And there will circulate among them boys for them, as if they were pearls well-protected." 00:00:32.619 --> 00:00:45.340 Young servants will circulate among these people in Paradise, as if they were pearls in their whiteness and clarity, protected within their shells; they are the purest and clearest in their whiteness. 00:00:46.429 --> 00:00:53.070 "And they will approach one another, inquiring of each other." 00:00:53.390 --> 00:01:00.109 “Saying: Lo! of old, when we were with our families, we were ever anxious;” (52:26) 00:01:00.429 --> 00:01:06.670 "Saying, 'Indeed, we were before among our people fearful [of punishment]. So Allah conferred favor upon us and protected us from the punishment of the Scorching Fire.'" 00:01:07.069 --> 00:01:17.230 “Lo! we used to pray unto Him of old. Lo! He is the Benign, the Merciful.” (52:28) 00:01:18.750 --> 00:01:23.629 Some of these believers in Paradise will approach others, asking one another about their state. 00:01:24.189 --> 00:01:28.909 It has been said that this will occur upon their resurrection from their graves. 00:01:29.390 --> 00:01:39.390 They will say to one another, "O people, we were previously among our families in the worldly life, fearful of the punishment of Allah, dreading that He might punish us." 00:01:39.870 --> 00:01:44.349 "But Allah favored us with His grace and saved us from the punishment of the Fire." 00:01:44.829 --> 00:01:51.150 "Indeed, we used to worship Him in the world, sincere to Him in religion, associating nothing with Him." 00:01:51.629 --> 00:01:55.549 "Indeed, He is the Kind to His servants, the Merciful to His creation." 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:04.159 "So remind, for you are not, by the favor of your Lord, a soothsayer or a madman." 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:11.120 “Or say they: (he is) a poet, (one) for whom we may expect the accident of time?” (52:30) 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:18.159 "Or do they say, 'A poet for whom we await a misfortune of time'?" 00:02:19.699 --> 00:02:23.379 Remind, O Muhammad, those to whom you have been sent, and admonish them. 00:02:24.020 --> 00:02:29.139 You are not, by the favor of Allah upon you, a soothsayer who practices divination, nor are you a madman. 00:02:29.780 --> 00:02:33.379 Rather, you are the Messenger of Allah, and Allah will not forsake you. 00:02:34.180 --> 00:02:42.580 Instead, the polytheists say, "He is a poet; we await for him the accidents of time," hoping to be rid of him through death or some calamity. 00:02:43.300 --> 00:02:49.300 Say, O Muhammad, to these polytheists, "Wait and be patient, for I am with you among those who wait." 00:02:49.699 --> 00:02:54.819 I am with you among those who wait until the command of Allah comes to pass regarding you. 00:03:05.419 --> 00:03:12.939 Do the minds of these polytheists command them to say to Muhammad, peace be upon him, "He is a poet"? 00:03:13.580 --> 00:03:16.060 Their minds do not command them to do so. 00:03:16.620 --> 00:03:19.500 Rather, they are a people who have transgressed against their Lord. 00:03:19.979 --> 00:03:24.860 They have exceeded what was permitted to them and what they were commanded, moving from faith to disbelief. 00:03:40.139 --> 00:03:42.379 Or do these polytheists say, 00:03:43.099 --> 00:03:46.460 "Muhammad invented this Qur'an and fabricated it"? 00:03:47.180 --> 00:03:48.780 They have lied in what they said. 00:03:49.500 --> 00:03:54.460 Rather, they do not believe, so they refuse to accept the truth that has come to them from their Lord. 00:03:55.340 --> 00:04:03.419 Let them, then, bring forth a Qur'an like that which Muhammad, peace be upon him, has brought. 00:04:04.060 --> 00:04:10.539 If they are truthful in their claim that Muhammad, peace be upon him, invented and fabricated it. 00:04:12.110 --> 00:04:17.149 “Or were they created out of naught? Or are they the creators?” (52:35) 00:04:17.629 --> 00:04:23.790 "Or were they created by nothing, or are they the creators [of themselves]?" 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:29.759 Were these polytheists created without fathers or mothers? 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:32.879 They are like inanimate objects, not comprehending any argument. 00:04:33.629 --> 00:04:39.550 It has also been said: Were they created for no purpose, or are they the creators of this creation? 00:04:40.189 --> 00:04:42.189 “Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they are sure of nothing!” (52:36) 00:04:42.750 --> 00:04:47.790 It is for this reason that they do not obey the command of Allah, nor do they desist from what He has forbidden them. 00:04:48.269 --> 00:04:50.750 For the Creator is the one who possesses the authority to command and forbid. 00:04:51.490 --> 00:04:53.490 They did not create the heavens and the earth. 00:04:54.129 --> 00:04:56.930 Yet they do not believe in the warning of Allah. 00:04:57.410 --> 00:05:00.850 Nor in what has been prepared for the people of disbelief in terms of punishment in the Hereafter. 00:05:02.259 --> 00:05:08.500 "Or do they have the depositories of your Lord, or are they the controllers [of them]?" 00:05:09.060 --> 00:05:13.620 “Or have they any stairway (unto heaven) by means of which they overhear (decrees). Then let their listener produce some warrant manifest!” (52:38) 00:05:13.939 --> 00:05:19.939 “Or have they any stairway (unto heaven) by means of which they overhear (decrees). Then let their listener produce some warrant manifest!” (52:38) 00:05:21.259 --> 00:05:26.779 Do these deniers of the signs of Allah possess the depositories of your Lord, O Muhammad? 00:05:27.259 --> 00:05:30.139 They are turned away from the truth because they feel no need for it. 00:05:30.699 --> 00:05:34.939 Or are they the tyrants, the arrogant ones who exalt themselves against Allah? 00:05:35.819 --> 00:05:40.300 Or do they have a stairway upon which they climb to the heaven to listen to the revelation? 00:05:40.620 --> 00:05:45.019 So they claim that they heard from Allah that what they are upon is the truth? 00:05:45.740 --> 00:05:47.740 If they claim that, 00:05:48.139 --> 00:05:53.420 Then let the one who claims to have heard that bring a proof demonstrating that it is the truth. 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:59.040 “Or hath He daughters whereas ye have sons?” (52:39) 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:06.639 "Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened?" 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:11.839 "Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?" 00:06:13.180 --> 00:06:16.779 "Is the bounty of daughters for your Lord and for you the sons?" 00:06:17.420 --> 00:06:22.300 Or do you ask these polytheists to whom We have sent you, O Muhammad, 00:06:22.620 --> 00:06:27.899 For a reward or compensation from their wealth for the monotheism of Allah to which you invite them? 00:06:28.300 --> 00:06:33.259 They are so burdened by the weight of the debt you have placed upon them that they cannot respond to you. 00:06:33.980 --> 00:06:35.660 Or do they possess knowledge of the unseen? 00:06:36.060 --> 00:06:42.860 So they write it down for the people, informing them of whatever they wish and telling them whatever they desire. 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:51.360 “Or seek they to ensnare (the messenger)? But those who disbelieve, they are the ensnared!” (52:42) 00:06:51.759 --> 00:07:00.720 “Or have they any god beside Allah? Glorified be Allah from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him)!” (52:43) 00:07:02.029 --> 00:07:07.230 Rather, these polytheists, O Muhammad, desire to plot against you and the religion of Allah. 00:07:07.709 --> 00:07:10.350 They are the ones who are plotted against and deceived. 00:07:10.829 --> 00:07:13.790 So trust in Allah and proceed with what you have been commanded. 00:07:14.589 --> 00:07:18.189 Or do they have a deity worthy of worship other than Allah? 00:07:18.589 --> 00:07:23.230 Exalted is Allah, far above their polytheism and their worship of others. 00:07:24.899 --> 00:07:30.100 “And if they were to see a fragment of the heaven falling, they would say: A heap of clouds.” (52:44) 00:07:30.100 --> 00:07:34.019 "And if they were to see a fragment from the sky falling, they would say, '[It is but] clouds heaped up.'" 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:39.600 If these polytheists see a piece of the sky falling, 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:44.240 They say, "This is a cloud heaped up, one part upon another." 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:47.839 They do not turn away from the denial they are upon. 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:52.160 Because Allah has decreed that they will not believe. 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:59.600 “Then let them be (O Muhammad), till they meet their day, in which they will be thunder-stricken,” (52:45) 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:06.959 “A day in which their guile will naught avail them, nor will they be helped.” (52:46) 00:08:08.420 --> 00:08:11.220 So leave these polytheists, O Muhammad, 00:08:11.620 --> 00:08:15.060 Until they meet their day in which they will be destroyed. 00:08:15.540 --> 00:08:17.939 That is at the first blowing of the Trumpet. 00:08:18.500 --> 00:08:21.220 A day when their plotting will not avail them anything. 00:08:21.779 --> 00:08:24.980 Nor will it avert from them anything of the punishment of Allah. 00:08:25.620 --> 00:08:30.899 And no helper will aid them, nor will they be able to seek retribution from those who punish and chastise them. 00:08:46.750 --> 00:08:51.629 And indeed, for those who disbelieve in Allah, there is a punishment from Allah before the Day of Resurrection. 00:08:52.190 --> 00:08:53.389 Such as the punishment of the grave. 00:08:53.710 --> 00:08:59.309 And the hunger and calamities that afflict them in their persons, their wealth, and their children. 00:08:59.950 --> 00:09:04.590 But most of them do not know that they will taste that punishment. 00:09:06.059 --> 00:09:11.259 “So wait patiently (O Muhammad) for thy Lord's decree, for surely thou art in Our sight; and hymn the praise of thy Lord when thou uprisest,” (52:48) 00:09:11.740 --> 00:09:16.139 “So wait patiently (O Muhammad) for thy Lord's decree, for surely thou art in Our sight; and hymn the praise of thy Lord when thou uprisest,” (52:48) 00:09:16.620 --> 00:09:22.860 “And in the night-time also hymn His praise, and at the setting of the stars.” (52:49) 00:09:24.059 --> 00:09:27.980 And be patient for the decision of your Lord, O Muhammad, which He has decreed for you. 00:09:28.539 --> 00:09:29.980 And convey His messages. 00:09:30.700 --> 00:09:34.059 For you are under Our eyes; We see you and We see your work. 00:09:34.620 --> 00:09:36.620 And We surround and protect you. 00:09:37.179 --> 00:09:41.179 So no one who intends evil against you from among the polytheists shall reach you. 00:09:41.899 --> 00:09:45.259 And exalt [Allah] with praise of your Lord when you arise from your sleep. 00:09:45.820 --> 00:09:47.580 This refers to the midday nap. 00:09:48.220 --> 00:09:50.220 It specifically refers to the Dhuhr prayer. 00:09:50.860 --> 00:09:55.100 And from the night, exalt your Lord, O Muhammad, through prayer and worship. 00:09:55.659 --> 00:09:58.139 This refers to the Maghrib and Isha prayers. 00:09:58.860 --> 00:10:02.779 And at the time when the stars retreat for setting as the day approaches. 00:10:02.779 --> 00:10:05.740 By this, we mean the Fajr prayer.