WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:08.039 Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation 00:00:08.580 --> 00:00:12.740 It was summarized by Dr. Aqeel bin Salem Al-Shammari 00:00:13.939 --> 00:00:16.059 Surah Al-Baqarah 00:00:17.820 --> 00:00:22.859 In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful 00:00:22.859 --> 00:00:33.820 Do you command people to be righteous and forget yourselves while you recite the Book? 00:00:33.979 --> 00:00:37.020 Do you not understand? 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:46.159 Do you command people to obey God and allow yourselves to disobey Him while you study and read the Torah? 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:50.399 Do you not understand and understand the ugliness of what you are coming? 00:00:51.070 --> 00:01:01.710 And seek help from patience and prayer, for it is difficult except for the humble 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:08.560 And seek help in fulfilling the covenant you made with me of obeying me and following my command 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:13.519 By confining yourselves to obeying God and refraining from disobeying God 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:18.079 And by performing prayers that prevent indecency and evil 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:24.000 Prayer is intense and burdensome except for those who submit to His obedience 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:29.599 Those who fear His power and believe in His promise and threat 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:40.319 Those who think that they will meet their Lord and that to Him we will return 00:01:41.099 --> 00:01:46.299 Those who are certain of meeting Me and returning to Me after their death 00:01:46.780 --> 00:02:02.219 O Children of Israel, remember My blessing which I bestowed upon you, and that I have favored you over the worlds 00:02:03.069 --> 00:02:08.110 O Children of Israel, remember My blessing which I bestowed upon you 00:02:08.590 --> 00:02:13.389 It is that he chose the messengers from among them and sent down the books to them 00:02:13.870 --> 00:02:15.870 And save them from Pharaoh 00:02:16.509 --> 00:02:20.750 And I preferred your ancestors to the world of that time 00:02:21.659 --> 00:02:42.219 And fear a Day when no soul will avail another at all, nor will intercession be accepted from it, nor will justice be taken from it, nor will they be helped. 00:02:43.199 --> 00:03:00.800 And fear a day in which no soul will be sufficient, and no soul will pay anything for another, and God will not accept the intercession of an intercessor on her behalf, and will leave to her what is due to her, and no ransom will be taken from her, and no helper will help them. 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:28.319 And when We delivered you from the people of Pharaoh, who were inflicting on you a terrible torment, slaughtering your sons and sparing your women, and in that was a great trial from your Lord. 00:03:31.650 --> 00:03:46.289 And when We delivered you from the people of Pharaoh, and before that they had brought you back and made you taste the torment that had afflicted you. They slaughtered your sons and spared young girls, so they would not be killed. 00:03:46.849 --> 00:03:55.250 And in what we did to you, We brought to you a great blessing from the torment of Pharaoh’s family 00:03:55.870 --> 00:04:07.229 And when We divided the sea for you, then We saved you, and We drowned Pharaoh's people while you looked on 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:17.600 And remember when We divided the sea into paths for you while you looked at God parting the sea for you and destroying it, the people of Pharaoh 00:04:18.110 --> 00:04:36.750 And when We made an appointment with Moses for forty nights, then you took to the calf after him, and you were wrongdoers 00:04:37.699 --> 00:04:45.699 What this means is that God Almighty promised Moses to meet the stage in order to converse with him for a full forty nights 00:04:46.420 --> 00:04:55.939 Then you took the calf to her during the days of Moses’ appointment, as an injustice on your part and as a way of putting worship in a wrong place 00:04:56.939 --> 00:05:05.899 Then We pardoned you after that, so that you might be grateful 00:05:06.740 --> 00:05:15.939 Then we left off discussing the punishment with you after you took the calf to it so that you might thank Me for pardoning you 00:05:16.339 --> 00:05:20.899 Since pardon requires gratitude from people of heart and reason 00:05:21.550 --> 00:05:28.910 And when We gave Moses the Scripture and the Criterion, that you might be guided 00:05:29.649 --> 00:05:39.569 Remember also when We gave Moses the Torah, which We wrote for him in the tablets and separated therewith between truth and falsehood 00:05:40.209 --> 00:05:46.209 That you may be guided by it and follow the truth that is in it, because I have made it a guidance 00:05:47.139 --> 00:05:58.579 And when Moses said to his people, “O my people, you have wronged yourselves by adopting the calf, so repent.” 00:05:58.899 --> 00:06:15.220 So repent to your Creator and kill yourselves. That is better for you with your Creator, so He turned to you. Indeed, He is the One who repents, the Most Merciful. 00:06:16.139 --> 00:06:20.779 And remember also when Moses said to his people from the Children of Israel 00:06:21.500 --> 00:06:27.660 O my people, you have done to yourselves what has required you to be punished by God Almighty 00:06:28.139 --> 00:06:38.699 From your apostasy by taking the calf as a usurer, then repent to your Creator. From your apostasy and your repentance by killing yourselves. 00:06:39.180 --> 00:06:49.259 Your obedience to your Lord is better for you in the sight of your Creator, because by doing so you will escape from God’s punishment and become worthy of reward from Him. 00:06:49.740 --> 00:06:57.899 It is He who returns to whomever He pardons, who returns to Him with His mercy, saving Him from His punishment 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:16.000 And remember when you said, “O Moses, we will not believe in you until we see God plainly,” so the thunderbolt took you while you were looking on 00:07:16.579 --> 00:07:28.660 And remember when you said, “O Moses, we will not believe you and we will not acknowledge what you have brought us until we see God clearly with our eyes by lifting the veil between us and Him.” 00:07:29.060 --> 00:07:40.980 And we look at it with our eyes, and you were struck by the thunderbolt, which is every tremendous matter, whether it be a sound, fire, earthquake, or tremor. 00:07:41.459 --> 00:07:46.180 I caught your eyes openly as you looked at it 00:07:56.300 --> 00:08:05.899 Then We revived you after your death with the thunderbolt that destroyed you, so that you might thank Me for the blessings I bestowed upon you. 00:08:11.579 --> 00:08:27.740 And give us manna and quails for us. Eat of the good things We have provided for you, and they have not wronged Us, but they have wronged themselves 00:08:27.740 --> 00:08:38.000 Then We resurrected you after your death and shaded you with the gloom of the sky, covering it with clouds and darkness 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:45.000 And We sent down to you honey and the quail, which is a bird resembling a quail 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:51.000 And We said to you, “Eat from the desires of Our provision which We have provided for you.” 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:58.000 So they disobeyed what we commanded them and disobeyed their Lord and then Our Messenger to them 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:04.000 They did not place their actions and disobedience as harmful to us or detracting from us 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:10.000 But they put themselves in a position that is harmful and detracts from it 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:18.350 And when We said, “Enter this town, eat from it wherever you wish.” 00:09:18.350 --> 00:09:27.350 So eat from it wherever you wish, and enter the door prostrating and saying humility 00:09:27.350 --> 00:09:37.350 And say: We will forgive you your sins, and We will increase the doers of good 00:09:37.350 --> 00:09:46.990 And when We said, “Enter Bayt al-Maqdis, eat from it wherever you wish, and live comfortably and comfortably, without questioning.” 00:09:46.990 --> 00:09:56.990 They entered the Gate of the Holy House of Jerusalem, kneeling and saying, “We entered that in prostration, in repentance for our sins.” 00:09:56.990 --> 00:10:04.990 We cover your sins with mercy and cover them for you, so we do not expose you by punishing them 00:10:04.990 --> 00:10:09.120 And We will increase the goodness of those who do good among you 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:31.409 Then the wrongdoers substituted a word other than what was said to them, so We sent down on the wrongdoers a punishment from heaven because they were defiantly disobedient. 00:10:31.409 --> 00:10:44.409 So those who did wrong changed a word other than what they were commanded to say, so they said “Caliphate,” but they did not say “hitah.” Rather, they changed it and said “hitah.” 00:10:44.409 --> 00:10:56.620 So We sent down upon those who wronged a punishment from heaven because they abandoned obedience to God and disobeyed Him and disobeyed His command. 00:10:56.620 --> 00:11:00.620 Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation