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 00:00:14.189 --> 00:00:16.550 Surah Al-A'raf 00:00:17.899 --> 00:00:22.699 In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful 00:00:23.289 --> 00:00:32.810 The arrogant leaders of his people said, “We will expel you, O Shuaib.” 00:00:33.130 --> 00:00:41.170 We will expel you, Shuaib, and those who believed with you from our village 00:00:41.170 --> 00:00:48.369 Or to return to our religion 00:00:48.729 --> 00:00:53.210 Olu said we were haters 00:00:54.609 --> 00:00:59.329 He said the group of men were arrogant in their belief in God 00:00:59.810 --> 00:01:03.929 We will expel you, Shuaib, and whoever believes you, from our village 00:01:04.290 --> 00:01:07.170 Or you and they will return to our religion 00:01:07.769 --> 00:01:09.730 Shuaib said in response to them 00:01:10.250 --> 00:01:14.689 Will you expel us from your village and avert us from the path of God? 00:01:15.090 --> 00:01:17.569 Even if we hate it 00:01:18.930 --> 00:01:24.730 We have fabricated a lie against God if we return to your religion 00:01:25.129 --> 00:01:32.049 If we return to your religion after God has saved us from it 00:01:32.569 --> 00:01:42.209 It is not for us to return to it unless God, our Lord, wills 00:01:42.689 --> 00:01:46.730 Our Lord encompasses all things in knowledge 00:01:47.209 --> 00:01:50.090 In God we trust 00:01:50.530 --> 00:01:59.409 O Lord, we will grant victory between us and our people with truth, and You are the best of conquerors 00:02:01.060 --> 00:02:05.299 We have fabricated a lie against God if we return to your religion 00:02:05.819 --> 00:02:09.379 So we returned to it after God saved us from it 00:02:09.900 --> 00:02:13.860 That we saw its error and the correctness of the guidance that we are upon 00:02:14.500 --> 00:02:17.020 And it is not for us to return to it 00:02:17.379 --> 00:02:20.620 So we condemn it and abandon the truth that we have 00:02:21.219 --> 00:02:25.900 Unless God already knows that we will return to it 00:02:26.419 --> 00:02:29.340 Then God's judgment will pass upon us 00:02:30.020 --> 00:02:33.900 If our Lord’s knowledge expands and encompasses everything 00:02:34.340 --> 00:02:36.939 Nothing is hidden from him 00:02:37.539 --> 00:02:39.939 We depend on God for our affairs 00:02:40.580 --> 00:02:45.539 O Lord, we judge between us and them with Your true judgment in which there is no injustice 00:02:46.060 --> 00:02:48.139 You are the best of rulers 00:02:49.819 --> 00:02:54.340 And the leaders of his people who disbelieved said 00:02:54.340 --> 00:03:00.780 If you follow Shuaib, then you will lose 00:03:02.259 --> 00:03:06.099 The group said that the men of Shuaib's people were infidels 00:03:06.659 --> 00:03:11.259 Because you followed Shuaib on what he says about the Oneness of God 00:03:11.780 --> 00:03:14.219 And fulfilling His commands and prohibitions 00:03:14.699 --> 00:03:19.819 Therefore, you are wronged in your actions and are doomed by it 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:34.560 So the disbelievers among Shuaib’s people were seized by the earthquake that would trigger the punishment of God 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:40.479 So they were in their home, kneeling on their knees in death 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:54.560 So those who lied to Shuaib were enriched therein. They were the losers 00:03:55.990 --> 00:03:59.590 So those who denied Shuaib were destroyed and did not believe in him 00:04:00.189 --> 00:04:05.949 So he exterminated them as if they had never descended and had not lived there when they perished 00:04:06.750 --> 00:04:10.710 Those who lied were the losers 00:04:12.460 --> 00:04:21.180 So he turned away from them and said, “O my people, I have conveyed to you the messages of my Lord and given you sincere advice.” 00:04:21.740 --> 00:04:28.180 How can I feel sorry for an unbelieving people? 00:04:29.689 --> 00:04:34.689 So Shuaib turned away from them from behind them when the punishment of God came upon them 00:04:35.370 --> 00:04:36.970 He said he was sad for them 00:04:37.689 --> 00:04:42.569 O my people, I have delivered to you what my Lord sent me to you with 00:04:43.170 --> 00:04:48.930 I advised you by ordering you to obey God and forbidding you to disobey Him 00:04:49.649 --> 00:04:57.209 How can I grieve for a people who denied the oneness of God and denied His Messenger, and feel pain for their destruction? 00:04:58.819 --> 00:05:06.980 We never sent a prophet into a town but We took its people 00:05:07.420 --> 00:05:18.110 Unless We afflict its people with misfortune and hardship, perhaps they will supplicate 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:28.839 We did not send any prophet before you to any town except that We seized its people with misery, hardship, and distress 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:33.120 And We took them to a bad state in their worldly affairs 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:38.360 We did this so that they would supplicate to their Lord and seek refuge in Him 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:43.759 By abandoning their disbelief and repenting from denying their prophets 00:06:00.339 --> 00:06:10.339 So We seized them suddenly while they were not aware 00:06:12.110 --> 00:06:17.110 Then we replaced the people of the village whose people we had captured through misery and hardship 00:06:18.110 --> 00:06:22.110 A place of misery with prosperity, grace and abundance of living 00:06:23.110 --> 00:06:25.110 Until they multiplied and their money increased 00:06:26.110 --> 00:06:33.110 They said: These are conditions that have befallen those before us, our fathers, and have befallen our ancestors 00:06:34.110 --> 00:06:42.110 We do not consider ourselves to be like them. We suffer from the hardship and prosperity that befell them in their lives 00:06:43.110 --> 00:06:46.110 So We took them by surprise by destroying them with His coming 00:06:47.110 --> 00:06:51.110 And they do not know or know that it is coming to them 00:06:51.110 --> 00:07:20.300 And if the people of the towns had believed and feared, We would have granted them blessings from heaven and earth, but they lied, so We seized them for what they were earning. 00:07:22.100 --> 00:07:27.100 Even if the people of the villages to whom we sent our messengers had believed God and His Messenger 00:07:28.100 --> 00:07:32.100 They feared the punishment of God by avoiding the deeds that He hates 00:07:33.100 --> 00:07:36.100 We would have sent blessings of rain upon them 00:07:37.100 --> 00:07:39.100 And We caused them to grow plants from the earth 00:07:40.100 --> 00:07:42.100 But they denied God and His Messenger 00:07:43.100 --> 00:07:47.100 So We hastened the punishments for them for their evil gain 00:07:48.100 --> 00:07:50.100 This is their disbelief in God and His signs 00:07:51.100 --> 00:08:01.639 Are the people of the villages safe from our punishment coming to them overnight while they are sleeping? 00:08:03.310 --> 00:08:07.310 Do you believe, O Muhammad, the people of the villages that deny God and His Messenger? 00:08:08.310 --> 00:08:11.310 Our punishment comes to them at night while they are asleep 00:08:12.310 --> 00:08:15.310 They will follow the path of their ancestors among the lying nations 00:08:16.310 --> 00:08:24.980 Are the people of the villages safe that our sacrifice will come to them while they are playing? 00:08:25.980 --> 00:08:33.590 Are the people of the villages safe from our punishment coming to them during the day at noon, while they are heedless and negligent? 00:08:34.590 --> 00:08:45.009 Do they believe in God’s deception? No one will be safe from God’s deception except the people who are losers 00:08:46.009 --> 00:08:51.710 O Muhammad, are those who deny God and His Messenger safe? 00:08:52.710 --> 00:08:57.710 God lured them with the health and prosperity He bestowed upon them 00:08:58.710 --> 00:09:05.710 It is not safe for this to be a lure along with their position on their disbelief, except for the people who are perishing 00:09:06.710 --> 00:09:19.830 Has He not given guidance to those who inherit the earth from some of its people that if We had willed, We could have afflicted them with their sins? 00:09:20.830 --> 00:09:25.830 We seal their hearts so they do not listen 00:09:26.830 --> 00:09:33.570 Did it not come to those who were succeeded in the land after the destruction of others before them? 00:09:33.570 --> 00:09:42.570 So they did their deeds. If we wished, we could have done to them as we did to those before them and destroyed them for their sins 00:09:43.570 --> 00:09:50.570 We seal their hearts, for they do not listen to an admonition or a reminder that is beneficial to them 00:09:51.570 --> 00:09:58.399 These villages will give you some of their cities 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:13.399 Their messengers had come to them with clear proofs, but they would not believe in what they had denied before 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:19.399 Thus God seals the hearts of the unbelievers 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:26.039 These are the villages whose affairs and the affairs of their people I mentioned to you, O Muhammad 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:32.039 To learn that we support Our Messengers and those who believe in this worldly life 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:37.039 And let those who deny you know the outcome of someone who lies to God’s messengers 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:41.039 The people of the villages sent their messengers with clear arguments 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:45.039 They would not have believed when the messengers came 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:49.039 Because of what God knows above, they are lying 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:53.039 The day He brought them out from the loins of Adam, peace be upon him 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:58.039 God also set a seal on the hearts of those who disbelieved in their Lord 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.039 Thus God seals the hearts of the unbelievers 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:07.039 Those who were decreed that they would never believe 00:11:08.870 --> 00:11:12.870 We found no covenant for most of them 00:11:13.870 --> 00:11:18.870 And if we find most of them to be sinners 00:11:18.870 --> 00:11:24.379 We did not find most of the people of these villages that we destroyed, O Muhammad 00:11:25.379 --> 00:11:27.379 In fulfillment of what we have commanded them 00:11:28.379 --> 00:11:30.379 From the monotheism of God and following His messengers 00:11:31.379 --> 00:11:35.379 We found most of them to be disobedient and disobedient to their Lord 00:11:36.379 --> 00:11:38.379 Leaving his covenant and his will 00:11:39.379 --> 00:11:49.120 Then We sent Moses from among them with Our signs to Pharaoh and his chiefs 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:54.120 To Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they were wronged by it 00:11:55.120 --> 00:12:00.120 So look at what was the outcome of the corruptors 00:12:01.629 --> 00:12:06.629 Then We sent some of them: Noah, Hud, Salih, Lot, and Shuaib 00:12:07.629 --> 00:12:10.629 Musa bin Imran with our arguments and evidence 00:12:11.629 --> 00:12:14.629 To Pharaoh and Pharaoh's group of men 00:12:15.629 --> 00:12:16.629 So they disbelieved in it 00:12:16.629 --> 00:12:20.629 Because disbelief places God’s verses in a wrong place 00:12:21.629 --> 00:12:23.629 So look, O Muhammad, with the eyes of your heart 00:12:24.629 --> 00:12:27.629 What was the outcome of those who made corruption on earth? 00:12:28.629 --> 00:12:30.629 It means Pharaoh and his entourage 00:12:31.629 --> 00:12:34.629 Their consequence was that they were all drowned 00:12:36.299 --> 00:12:44.299 Moses said, “O Pharaoh, I am a messenger from the Lord of the worlds.” 00:12:44.299 --> 00:12:46.779 And Moses said to Pharaoh 00:12:47.779 --> 00:12:50.779 O Pharaoh, I am a messenger from the Lord of the worlds 00:12:51.779 --> 00:12:57.620 It is true that I say nothing about God except the truth 00:12:58.620 --> 00:13:02.620 I have come to you with clear proof from your Lord 00:13:03.620 --> 00:13:07.620 So send the children of Israel with me 00:13:08.620 --> 00:13:20.620 He said: If you have come with a sign, then bring it if you are truthful 00:13:21.620 --> 00:13:25.350 I am careful not to say anything but the truth 00:13:26.350 --> 00:13:28.350 I have come to you with proof from your Lord 00:13:29.350 --> 00:13:32.350 O people, bear witness to the truth of what I say 00:13:33.350 --> 00:13:36.350 So, O Pharaoh, send the children of Israel with me 00:13:36.350 --> 00:13:38.350 Pharaoh said to him 00:13:39.350 --> 00:13:43.350 If you come with an argument and a sign that bears witness to the truth of what you say 00:13:44.350 --> 00:13:47.350 Bring it if you are truthful 00:13:49.059 --> 00:13:55.059 So he threw his stick and it was the snake of the two prophets 00:13:56.059 --> 00:14:02.059 He removed his hand and it was white to the onlookers 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:10.759 So Moses threw his staff, and it was alive. It would become clear to anyone who saw it that it was alive 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:17.759 He took his hand out of his pocket and found it white, without leprosy, waving to the onlookers 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:26.529 The leaders of Pharaoh’s people said, “This is a knowledgeable magician.” 00:14:26.529 --> 00:14:35.980 The group of men from Pharaoh’s people said that Moses, may God’s prayers be upon him, was a magician who knew magic 00:14:36.980 --> 00:14:44.980 He takes people's eyes by deceiving them until they think he is pure and white 00:14:45.980 --> 00:14:55.029 We want him to expel you from your land, so what do you command? 00:14:55.029 --> 00:15:01.580 He wants to expel you from your land, and Pharaoh said to the crowds 00:15:02.580 --> 00:15:05.580 So what do you command us to do about it? 00:15:07.220 --> 00:15:13.220 They said, “Send him and his brother back and send them to Al-Mada’in.” 00:15:14.220 --> 00:15:17.220 They will bring you every knowledgeable magician 00:15:17.220 --> 00:15:29.700 The chiefs of Pharaoh's people said to Pharaoh, "Delay it, and send in the cities someone who will gather the magicians and gather them to you. They will gather every knowledgeable magician." 00:15:31.110 --> 00:15:46.110 And the magicians came to Pharaoh and said, “Indeed, we will have a reward if we are the victors.” 00:15:46.110 --> 00:15:58.590 And the magicians came to Pharaoh and said, “Indeed, we will have a reward for defeating Moses with you, if we, O Pharaoh, were the victors.” 00:15:59.980 --> 00:16:03.980 He said: Yes, and you are among those close to me 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:19.360 Pharaoh said to the magicians when they said to him, “Indeed, we will have a reward from you if we defeat Moses.” He said, “Yes, that is for you, and you are among those closest to him and closest to me.” 00:16:21.190 --> 00:16:29.190 They said, “O Moses, either you will throw or we will be the ones who will throw.” 00:16:30.190 --> 00:16:37.700 They said, “O Moses, choose to throw your stick or we will throw our stick.” 00:16:39.250 --> 00:16:54.250 He said: They cast, and when they cast, they bewitched the people's eyes and terrified them, and they used great magic 00:16:54.250 --> 00:17:07.789 Moses said, “Throw what you throw.” So the magicians threw what they had. When they threw that, it seemed to the people’s eyes that they were striving. 00:17:08.789 --> 00:17:21.789 They terrified people with what they bewitched in their eyes to the point that they were afraid of sticks and ropes, thinking they were snakes, and they came up with a great and great imagination. 00:17:21.789 --> 00:17:27.690 Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation