WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:05.169 --> 00:00:08.070 A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari. 00:00:08.580 --> 00:00:12.740 Abridged by Dr. 'Aqil ibn Salim al-Shammari. 00:00:14.070 --> 00:00:16.309 Surah al-Ghashiyah. 00:00:19.219 --> 00:00:23.579 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:23.579 --> 00:00:26.820 “Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming?” (88:1) 00:00:26.820 --> 00:00:30.660 Some faces on that Day will be humbled. 00:00:30.660 --> 00:00:34.020 Laboring and weary. 00:00:34.179 --> 00:00:36.859 They will enter a scorching fire. 00:00:36.859 --> 00:00:39.979 “Drinking from a boiling spring,” (88:5) 00:00:39.979 --> 00:00:45.700 They will have no food except from a thorny plant. 00:00:45.700 --> 00:00:51.619 “Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.” (88:7) 00:00:51.619 --> 00:00:55.789 Has the hadith of the Overwhelming Event reached you, O Muhammad? 00:00:55.789 --> 00:00:58.429 Meaning its story and its news. 00:00:58.429 --> 00:01:00.869 The "Overwhelming Event" (al-Ghashiyah) is the Day of Resurrection. 00:01:00.869 --> 00:01:03.109 It overwhelms the people with its terrors. 00:01:03.509 --> 00:01:05.189 Others have said: 00:01:05.189 --> 00:01:08.549 It is the Fire that overwhelms the faces of the disbelievers. 00:01:08.549 --> 00:01:11.870 The faces of the people of disbelief on that Day will be humiliated. 00:01:11.870 --> 00:01:15.310 Laboring in the Fire, weary therein. 00:01:15.310 --> 00:01:18.349 These faces will be brought to a scorching fire. 00:01:18.349 --> 00:01:20.950 Which has been heated and whose heat has intensified. 00:01:20.950 --> 00:01:23.469 And the inhabitants of these faces will be given to drink. 00:01:23.469 --> 00:01:26.750 From a boiling spring whose heat has reached its peak. 00:01:26.750 --> 00:01:29.909 It has reached its limit in intensity of heat. 00:01:29.989 --> 00:01:32.989 These people, who are the owners of the faces. 00:01:32.989 --> 00:01:37.109 That are humbled, laboring, and weary on the Day of Resurrection. 00:01:37.109 --> 00:01:40.189 Will have no food except what they are fed from a plant. 00:01:40.189 --> 00:01:43.709 Called al-Shariq, which is a poisonous plant. 00:01:43.709 --> 00:01:46.469 This thorny plant does not nourish on the Day of Resurrection. 00:01:46.469 --> 00:01:48.629 Those among the people of the Fire who eat it. 00:01:48.629 --> 00:01:53.060 Nor does it satisfy their hunger. 00:01:53.060 --> 00:01:58.420 Some faces on that Day will be blissful. 00:01:58.420 --> 00:02:01.060 Pleased with their effort. 00:02:01.060 --> 00:02:04.819 In a lofty garden. 00:02:04.819 --> 00:02:08.300 “Where they hear no idle speech,” (88:11) 00:02:08.300 --> 00:02:11.939 In it is a flowing spring. 00:02:11.939 --> 00:02:15.900 In it are thrones raised high. 00:02:15.900 --> 00:02:19.580 And cups placed ready. 00:02:19.580 --> 00:02:22.340 And cushions lined up. 00:02:22.340 --> 00:02:26.469 And carpets spread out. 00:02:26.509 --> 00:02:29.430 Some faces on the Day of Resurrection will be blissful. 00:02:29.430 --> 00:02:32.710 Because Allah has bestowed bliss upon their owners in His gardens. 00:02:32.710 --> 00:02:35.069 They are the people of faith in Allah. 00:02:35.069 --> 00:02:37.270 Because of the work they performed in the world. 00:02:37.270 --> 00:02:40.189 Pleased with the obedience of their Lord. 00:02:40.189 --> 00:02:42.430 In a high garden. 00:02:42.430 --> 00:02:45.870 These faces will not hear in the lofty garden. 00:02:45.870 --> 00:02:48.509 Any vain or false speech. 00:02:48.509 --> 00:02:53.229 And in the lofty garden is a flowing spring, not in a channel. 00:02:53.229 --> 00:02:55.150 And thrones raised high. 00:02:55.150 --> 00:02:57.509 So that the believer, when he sits upon them, may see. 00:02:57.509 --> 00:03:02.229 Everything his Lord has granted him of bliss and dominion therein. 00:03:02.229 --> 00:03:05.030 And his sight encompasses all of that. 00:03:05.030 --> 00:03:07.830 And cups, which is the plural of "cup." 00:03:07.830 --> 00:03:11.349 These are the pitchers that have no handles. 00:03:11.349 --> 00:03:15.030 Placed on the edge of the flowing spring. 00:03:15.030 --> 00:03:16.990 Whenever he desires to drink. 00:03:16.990 --> 00:03:19.669 He finds them filled with drink. 00:03:19.669 --> 00:03:22.590 And cushions and pillows lined up. 00:03:22.590 --> 00:03:25.189 Because some are beside others. 00:03:25.189 --> 00:03:30.509 And many carpets spread out and laid down. 00:03:30.509 --> 00:03:35.750 “Will they not regard the camels, how they are created?” (88:17) 00:03:35.750 --> 00:03:40.629 “And the heaven, how it is raised?” (88:18) 00:03:40.629 --> 00:03:43.830 “And the hills, how they are set up?” (88:19) 00:03:43.830 --> 00:03:48.270 “And the earth, how it is spread?” (88:20) 00:03:48.270 --> 00:03:51.469 The Almighty says, addressing those who deny His power. 00:03:51.469 --> 00:03:54.069 Over what He has described in this Surah. 00:03:54.110 --> 00:03:58.550 Of the punishment and retribution He has prepared for the people of His enmity. 00:03:58.550 --> 00:04:03.030 And the bliss and honor He has prepared for the people of His friendship. 00:04:03.030 --> 00:04:05.430 Do these deniers not look? 00:04:05.430 --> 00:04:08.229 At the power of Allah over these matters. 00:04:08.229 --> 00:04:13.030 At the camels, how He created them, subjected them to them, and made them submissive. 00:04:13.030 --> 00:04:15.949 And made them carry their loads while kneeling. 00:04:15.949 --> 00:04:17.949 Then they rise with it. 00:04:17.949 --> 00:04:20.949 And He who created that is not incapable. 00:04:20.949 --> 00:04:25.779 Of creating what He has described of these matters in Paradise and the Fire. 00:04:25.779 --> 00:04:26.939 And His saying: 00:04:26.939 --> 00:04:29.620 “And the heaven, how it is raised?” (88:18) 00:04:29.620 --> 00:04:33.339 Do they not also look at the sky above them? 00:04:33.339 --> 00:04:35.540 How He raised it, He who informed you. 00:04:35.540 --> 00:04:38.740 That He has prepared for His allies what He described. 00:04:38.740 --> 00:04:41.180 And for His enemies what He mentioned. 00:04:41.180 --> 00:04:43.540 So that they may know that His power is the power. 00:04:43.540 --> 00:04:47.670 That is not hindered by anything He wills to do. 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. 00:04:53.670 --> 00:04:58.029 But He made them, by His power, standing firm and solid. 00:04:58.029 --> 00:04:59.870 They do not leave their place. 00:04:59.870 --> 00:05:02.509 Nor do they move from their position. 00:05:02.509 --> 00:05:06.339 And at the earth, how it was spread out. 00:05:06.339 --> 00:05:12.180 “Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,” (88:21) 00:05:12.180 --> 00:05:15.860 You are not a controller over them. 00:05:15.899 --> 00:05:19.779 “But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,” (88:23) 00:05:19.779 --> 00:05:24.019 “Allah will punish him with direst punishment.” (88:24) 00:05:24.019 --> 00:05:28.259 Indeed, to Us is their return. 00:05:28.259 --> 00:05:34.720 “And Ours their reckoning.” (88:26) 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:38.240 So remind, O Muhammad, My servants with My signs. 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:39.959 Admonish them with My proofs. 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:42.399 And convey My message to them. 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:45.360 You were only sent to them as a reminder. 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:48.040 To remind them of My favor upon them. 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:51.600 To make them aware of what is required of them and to admonish them. 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:53.720 You are not a tyrant over them. 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:57.920 Nor are you a compeller to force them to what you want. 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:01.870 All of them are to Me, and I will judge them. 00:06:01.870 --> 00:06:04.949 And His saying: "Except for one who turns away and disbelieves." 00:06:04.949 --> 00:06:07.069 This can be interpreted in two ways. 00:06:07.069 --> 00:06:08.509 One of them: 00:06:08.509 --> 00:06:10.949 So remind your people, O Muhammad. 00:06:10.949 --> 00:06:13.430 Except for those among them who turn away from you. 00:06:13.470 --> 00:06:16.740 And turn away from the signs of Allah and disbelieve. 00:06:16.740 --> 00:06:18.420 And the second way: 00:06:18.420 --> 00:06:20.540 You are not a controller over them. 00:06:20.540 --> 00:06:22.420 “But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,” (88:23) 00:06:22.420 --> 00:06:24.389 Allah will punish him. 00:06:24.389 --> 00:06:25.589 And His saying: 00:06:25.589 --> 00:06:28.670 “Allah will punish him with direst punishment.” (88:24) 00:06:28.670 --> 00:06:31.389 Meaning, Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 00:06:31.389 --> 00:06:33.910 For his disbelief in Him in the world. 00:06:33.910 --> 00:06:36.790 And the punishment of Hell in the Hereafter. 00:06:36.790 --> 00:06:40.509 Indeed, to Us is the return of those who disbelieve and their final destination. 00:06:40.509 --> 00:06:43.069 Then, indeed, upon Allah is their reckoning. 00:06:43.069 --> 00:06:46.990 And He will recompense him for what preceded from him of disobedience to his Lord.