1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,200 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 2 00:00:05,169 --> 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-Shammari. 4 00:00:14,070 --> 00:00:16,309 Surah al-Ghashiyah. 5 00:00:19,219 --> 00:00:23,579 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 6 00:00:23,579 --> 00:00:26,820 “Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming?” (88:1) 7 00:00:26,820 --> 00:00:30,660 Some faces on that Day will be humbled. 8 00:00:30,660 --> 00:00:34,020 Laboring and weary. 9 00:00:34,179 --> 00:00:36,859 They will enter a scorching fire. 10 00:00:36,859 --> 00:00:39,979 “Drinking from a boiling spring,” (88:5) 11 00:00:39,979 --> 00:00:45,700 They will have no food except from a thorny plant. 12 00:00:45,700 --> 00:00:51,619 “Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.” (88:7) 13 00:00:51,619 --> 00:00:55,789 Has the hadith of the Overwhelming Event reached you, O Muhammad? 14 00:00:55,789 --> 00:00:58,429 Meaning its story and its news. 15 00:00:58,429 --> 00:01:00,869 The "Overwhelming Event" (al-Ghashiyah) is the Day of Resurrection. 16 00:01:00,869 --> 00:01:03,109 It overwhelms the people with its terrors. 17 00:01:03,509 --> 00:01:05,189 Others have said: 18 00:01:05,189 --> 00:01:08,549 It is the Fire that overwhelms the faces of the disbelievers. 19 00:01:08,549 --> 00:01:11,870 The faces of the people of disbelief on that Day will be humiliated. 20 00:01:11,870 --> 00:01:15,310 Laboring in the Fire, weary therein. 21 00:01:15,310 --> 00:01:18,349 These faces will be brought to a scorching fire. 22 00:01:18,349 --> 00:01:20,950 Which has been heated and whose heat has intensified. 23 00:01:20,950 --> 00:01:23,469 And the inhabitants of these faces will be given to drink. 24 00:01:23,469 --> 00:01:26,750 From a boiling spring whose heat has reached its peak. 25 00:01:26,750 --> 00:01:29,909 It has reached its limit in intensity of heat. 26 00:01:29,989 --> 00:01:32,989 These people, who are the owners of the faces. 27 00:01:32,989 --> 00:01:37,109 That are humbled, laboring, and weary on the Day of Resurrection. 28 00:01:37,109 --> 00:01:40,189 Will have no food except what they are fed from a plant. 29 00:01:40,189 --> 00:01:43,709 Called al-Shariq, which is a poisonous plant. 30 00:01:43,709 --> 00:01:46,469 This thorny plant does not nourish on the Day of Resurrection. 31 00:01:46,469 --> 00:01:48,629 Those among the people of the Fire who eat it. 32 00:01:48,629 --> 00:01:53,060 Nor does it satisfy their hunger. 33 00:01:53,060 --> 00:01:58,420 Some faces on that Day will be blissful. 34 00:01:58,420 --> 00:02:01,060 Pleased with their effort. 35 00:02:01,060 --> 00:02:04,819 In a lofty garden. 36 00:02:04,819 --> 00:02:08,300 “Where they hear no idle speech,” (88:11) 37 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:11,939 In it is a flowing spring. 38 00:02:11,939 --> 00:02:15,900 In it are thrones raised high. 39 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:19,580 And cups placed ready. 40 00:02:19,580 --> 00:02:22,340 And cushions lined up. 41 00:02:22,340 --> 00:02:26,469 And carpets spread out. 42 00:02:26,509 --> 00:02:29,430 Some faces on the Day of Resurrection will be blissful. 43 00:02:29,430 --> 00:02:32,710 Because Allah has bestowed bliss upon their owners in His gardens. 44 00:02:32,710 --> 00:02:35,069 They are the people of faith in Allah. 45 00:02:35,069 --> 00:02:37,270 Because of the work they performed in the world. 46 00:02:37,270 --> 00:02:40,189 Pleased with the obedience of their Lord. 47 00:02:40,189 --> 00:02:42,430 In a high garden. 48 00:02:42,430 --> 00:02:45,870 These faces will not hear in the lofty garden. 49 00:02:45,870 --> 00:02:48,509 Any vain or false speech. 50 00:02:48,509 --> 00:02:53,229 And in the lofty garden is a flowing spring, not in a channel. 51 00:02:53,229 --> 00:02:55,150 And thrones raised high. 52 00:02:55,150 --> 00:02:57,509 So that the believer, when he sits upon them, may see. 53 00:02:57,509 --> 00:03:02,229 Everything his Lord has granted him of bliss and dominion therein. 54 00:03:02,229 --> 00:03:05,030 And his sight encompasses all of that. 55 00:03:05,030 --> 00:03:07,830 And cups, which is the plural of "cup." 56 00:03:07,830 --> 00:03:11,349 These are the pitchers that have no handles. 57 00:03:11,349 --> 00:03:15,030 Placed on the edge of the flowing spring. 58 00:03:15,030 --> 00:03:16,990 Whenever he desires to drink. 59 00:03:16,990 --> 00:03:19,669 He finds them filled with drink. 60 00:03:19,669 --> 00:03:22,590 And cushions and pillows lined up. 61 00:03:22,590 --> 00:03:25,189 Because some are beside others. 62 00:03:25,189 --> 00:03:30,509 And many carpets spread out and laid down. 63 00:03:30,509 --> 00:03:35,750 “Will they not regard the camels, how they are created?” (88:17) 64 00:03:35,750 --> 00:03:40,629 “And the heaven, how it is raised?” (88:18) 65 00:03:40,629 --> 00:03:43,830 “And the hills, how they are set up?” (88:19) 66 00:03:43,830 --> 00:03:48,270 “And the earth, how it is spread?” (88:20) 67 00:03:48,270 --> 00:03:51,469 The Almighty says, addressing those who deny His power. 68 00:03:51,469 --> 00:03:54,069 Over what He has described in this Surah. 69 00:03:54,110 --> 00:03:58,550 Of the punishment and retribution He has prepared for the people of His enmity. 70 00:03:58,550 --> 00:04:03,030 And the bliss and honor He has prepared for the people of His friendship. 71 00:04:03,030 --> 00:04:05,430 Do these deniers not look? 72 00:04:05,430 --> 00:04:08,229 At the power of Allah over these matters. 73 00:04:08,229 --> 00:04:13,030 At the camels, how He created them, subjected them to them, and made them submissive. 74 00:04:13,030 --> 00:04:15,949 And made them carry their loads while kneeling. 75 00:04:15,949 --> 00:04:17,949 Then they rise with it. 76 00:04:17,949 --> 00:04:20,949 And He who created that is not incapable. 77 00:04:20,949 --> 00:04:25,779 Of creating what He has described of these matters in Paradise and the Fire. 78 00:04:25,779 --> 00:04:26,939 And His saying: 79 00:04:26,939 --> 00:04:29,620 “And the heaven, how it is raised?” (88:18) 80 00:04:29,620 --> 00:04:33,339 Do they not also look at the sky above them? 81 00:04:33,339 --> 00:04:35,540 How He raised it, He who informed you. 82 00:04:35,540 --> 00:04:38,740 That He has prepared for His allies what He described. 83 00:04:38,740 --> 00:04:41,180 And for His enemies what He mentioned. 84 00:04:41,180 --> 00:04:43,540 So that they may know that His power is the power. 85 00:04:43,540 --> 00:04:47,670 That is not hindered by anything He wills to do. 86 00:04:47,709 --> 00:04:53,670 And at the mountains, how they were set up, standing firm so they do not fall and spread out on the earth. 87 00:04:53,670 --> 00:04:58,029 But He made them, by His power, standing firm and solid. 88 00:04:58,029 --> 00:04:59,870 They do not leave their place. 89 00:04:59,870 --> 00:05:02,509 Nor do they move from their position. 90 00:05:02,509 --> 00:05:06,339 And at the earth, how it was spread out. 91 00:05:06,339 --> 00:05:12,180 “Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,” (88:21) 92 00:05:12,180 --> 00:05:15,860 You are not a controller over them. 93 00:05:15,899 --> 00:05:19,779 “But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,” (88:23) 94 00:05:19,779 --> 00:05:24,019 “Allah will punish him with direst punishment.” (88:24) 95 00:05:24,019 --> 00:05:28,259 Indeed, to Us is their return. 96 00:05:28,259 --> 00:05:34,720 “And Ours their reckoning.” (88:26) 97 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,240 So remind, O Muhammad, My servants with My signs. 98 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:39,959 Admonish them with My proofs. 99 00:05:39,959 --> 00:05:42,399 And convey My message to them. 100 00:05:42,399 --> 00:05:45,360 You were only sent to them as a reminder. 101 00:05:45,399 --> 00:05:48,040 To remind them of My favor upon them. 102 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,600 To make them aware of what is required of them and to admonish them. 103 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:53,720 You are not a tyrant over them. 104 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:57,920 Nor are you a compeller to force them to what you want. 105 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,870 All of them are to Me, and I will judge them. 106 00:06:01,870 --> 00:06:04,949 And His saying: "Except for one who turns away and disbelieves." 107 00:06:04,949 --> 00:06:07,069 This can be interpreted in two ways. 108 00:06:07,069 --> 00:06:08,509 One of them: 109 00:06:08,509 --> 00:06:10,949 So remind your people, O Muhammad. 110 00:06:10,949 --> 00:06:13,430 Except for those among them who turn away from you. 111 00:06:13,470 --> 00:06:16,740 And turn away from the signs of Allah and disbelieve. 112 00:06:16,740 --> 00:06:18,420 And the second way: 113 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:20,540 You are not a controller over them. 114 00:06:20,540 --> 00:06:22,420 “But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,” (88:23) 115 00:06:22,420 --> 00:06:24,389 Allah will punish him. 116 00:06:24,389 --> 00:06:25,589 And His saying: 117 00:06:25,589 --> 00:06:28,670 “Allah will punish him with direst punishment.” (88:24) 118 00:06:28,670 --> 00:06:31,389 Meaning, Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 119 00:06:31,389 --> 00:06:33,910 For his disbelief in Him in the world. 120 00:06:33,910 --> 00:06:36,790 And the punishment of Hell in the Hereafter. 121 00:06:36,790 --> 00:06:40,509 Indeed, to Us is the return of those who disbelieve and their final destination. 122 00:06:40,509 --> 00:06:43,069 Then, indeed, upon Allah is their reckoning. 123 00:06:43,069 --> 00:06:46,990 And He will recompense him for what preceded from him of disobedience to his Lord.