1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,160 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 00:00:12,919 --> 00:00:16,109 Surah Qaf. 5 00:00:16,429 --> 00:00:22,859 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 6 00:00:22,859 --> 00:00:29,289 Qaf. By the glorious Qur'an. 7 00:00:29,289 --> 00:00:33,770 “Nay, but they marvel that a warner of their own hath come unto them; and the disbelievers say: This is a strange thing:” (50:2) 8 00:00:33,770 --> 00:00:39,049 “Nay, but they marvel that a warner of their own hath come unto them; and the disbelievers say: This is a strange thing:” (50:2) 9 00:00:39,049 --> 00:00:44,969 “Nay, but they marvel that a warner of their own hath come unto them; and the disbelievers say: This is a strange thing:” (50:2) 10 00:00:44,969 --> 00:00:49,890 "When we have died and become dust?" 11 00:00:49,890 --> 00:00:54,369 "That is a far return." 12 00:00:54,369 --> 00:00:58,640 Qaf. By the noble Qur'an. 13 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,119 The polytheists of your people do not deny you, O Muhammad. 14 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,719 They do not deny that you are truthful. 15 00:01:05,719 --> 00:01:09,920 Rather, they deny you out of astonishment that a warner has come to them. 16 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,120 Warning them of the punishment of Allah. 17 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,239 So those who deny Allah and His Messenger said: 18 00:01:15,239 --> 00:01:17,920 "The arrival of a man from among us, from the children of Adam," 19 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,840 "With a message from Allah to us, is a strange thing." 20 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,959 "When we have died and become dust, shall we know that?" 21 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:30,040 "And shall we see that what you promise us regarding your denial is not happening?" 22 00:01:30,079 --> 00:01:34,969 "And we shall not return to life after we have died." 23 00:01:34,969 --> 00:01:39,930 “We know that which the earth taketh of them, and with Us is a recording Book.” (50:4) 24 00:01:39,930 --> 00:01:45,769 "And with Us is a record that preserves." 25 00:01:45,769 --> 00:01:50,409 We have known what the earth consumes of their bodies after their death. 26 00:01:50,409 --> 00:01:53,890 And with Us is a book that preserves all of that. 27 00:01:53,890 --> 00:01:56,090 It does not wear out what is written in it. 28 00:01:56,090 --> 00:01:59,620 Nor does it change or alter. 29 00:01:59,659 --> 00:02:04,700 “Nay, but they have denied the truth when it came unto them, therefor they are now in troubled case.” (50:5) 30 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:09,789 “Nay, but they have denied the truth when it came unto them, therefor they are now in troubled case.” (50:5) 31 00:02:09,789 --> 00:02:13,669 Rather, they denied the Qur'an when it came to them from Allah. 32 00:02:13,669 --> 00:02:17,270 So they are in a confused and muddled state. 33 00:02:17,270 --> 00:02:21,189 They do not distinguish its truth from its falsehood. 34 00:02:21,189 --> 00:02:25,990 “Have they not then observed the sky above them, how We have constructed it and beautified it, and how there are no rifts therein?” (50:6) 35 00:02:25,990 --> 00:02:30,389 How We built it and adorned it. 36 00:02:30,389 --> 00:02:36,669 “Have they not then observed the sky above them, how We have constructed it and beautified it, and how there are no rifts therein?” (50:6) 37 00:02:37,990 --> 00:02:41,550 Have these deniers of the Resurrection not looked? 38 00:02:41,550 --> 00:02:44,909 “Have they not then observed the sky above them, how We have constructed it and beautified it, and how there are no rifts therein?” (50:6) 39 00:02:44,909 --> 00:02:47,750 We made it a protected ceiling. 40 00:02:47,750 --> 00:02:50,110 And We adorned it with stars. 41 00:02:50,110 --> 00:02:54,139 And it has no cracks or fissures. 42 00:02:54,139 --> 00:02:56,180 And the earth, We spread it out. 43 00:02:56,180 --> 00:02:58,780 And We cast upon it firm mountains. 44 00:02:58,780 --> 00:03:01,659 And We caused to grow therein. 45 00:03:01,659 --> 00:03:08,500 “And the earth have We spread out, and have flung firm hills therein, and have caused of every lovely kind to grow thereon,” (50:7) 46 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:16,699 “A vision and a reminder for every penitent slave.” (50:8) 47 00:03:16,699 --> 00:03:18,219 And the earth, We expanded it. 48 00:03:18,219 --> 00:03:21,300 And We placed upon it firm mountains. 49 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:26,020 And We caused to grow in the earth every kind of beautiful plant. 50 00:03:26,060 --> 00:03:29,740 We did that as an insight for you, O people. 51 00:03:29,740 --> 00:03:33,780 We show you through it the power of your Lord over whatever He wills. 52 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:37,780 And as a reminder from Allah of His greatness and His oneness. 53 00:03:37,780 --> 00:03:40,819 For every servant who returns to faith in Allah. 54 00:03:40,819 --> 00:03:43,939 And acts in obedience to Him. 55 00:03:43,939 --> 00:03:51,020 “And We send down from the sky blessed water whereby We give growth unto gardens and the grain of crops,” (50:9) 56 00:03:51,020 --> 00:04:00,580 “And We send down from the sky blessed water whereby We give growth unto gardens and the grain of crops,” (50:9) 57 00:04:00,580 --> 00:04:08,300 And tall palm trees with layered fruit. 58 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:11,740 As provision for the servants. 59 00:04:11,740 --> 00:04:16,699 “Provision (made) for men; and therewith We quicken a dead land. Even so will be the resurrection of the dead.” (50:11) 60 00:04:16,699 --> 00:04:20,899 Such is the resurrection. 61 00:04:20,939 --> 00:04:24,459 And We sent down from the sky blessed rain. 62 00:04:24,459 --> 00:04:27,740 So We caused to grow with it gardens and trees. 63 00:04:27,740 --> 00:04:31,259 And the harvested grain of wheat and barley. 64 00:04:31,259 --> 00:04:33,939 And all other types of grains. 65 00:04:33,939 --> 00:04:37,019 And We caused to grow with the water tall palm trees. 66 00:04:37,019 --> 00:04:39,740 Having fruit, which is the spathe. 67 00:04:39,740 --> 00:04:43,540 Layered, one upon another, stacked. 68 00:04:43,540 --> 00:04:45,540 As sustenance for the servants. 69 00:04:45,540 --> 00:04:48,699 And We gave life with this water to a dead land. 70 00:04:48,740 --> 00:04:51,139 Which had become barren and drought-stricken. 71 00:04:51,139 --> 00:04:54,980 Just as We caused this dead land to grow with this water. 72 00:04:54,980 --> 00:04:56,899 And We brought it to life thereby. 73 00:04:56,899 --> 00:05:03,300 Such is your emergence on the Day of Resurrection, alive from your graves. 74 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:11,339 “The folk of Noah denied (the truth) before them, and (so did) the dwellers at Ar-Rass and (the tribe of) Thamud,” (50:12) 75 00:05:11,339 --> 00:05:16,939 “And (the tribe of) A'ad, and Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot,” (50:13) 76 00:05:16,939 --> 00:05:20,779 “And the dwellers in the wood, and the folk of Tubb'a: every one denied their messengers, therefor My threat took effect.” (50:14) 77 00:05:20,779 --> 00:05:27,220 “And the dwellers in the wood, and the folk of Tubb'a: every one denied their messengers, therefor My threat took effect.” (50:14) 78 00:05:27,220 --> 00:05:30,939 Before these polytheists, the people of Nuh denied. 79 00:05:30,939 --> 00:05:32,620 And the people of the Rass. 80 00:05:32,620 --> 00:05:35,939 They are the people who threw their prophet into a well. 81 00:05:35,939 --> 00:05:38,339 And Thamud and the people of Shu'ayb. 82 00:05:38,339 --> 00:05:40,100 And the people of Tubba'. 83 00:05:40,100 --> 00:05:43,139 And his people were idolaters. 84 00:05:43,139 --> 00:05:45,740 All of these whom We have mentioned. 85 00:05:45,779 --> 00:05:48,939 Denied the messengers of Allah whom He sent. 86 00:05:48,939 --> 00:05:53,420 So the threat We promised them became due. 87 00:05:53,420 --> 00:05:57,220 Were We exhausted by the first creation? 88 00:05:57,220 --> 00:06:04,279 “Were We then worn out by the first creation? Yet they are in doubt about a new creation.” (50:15) 89 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:10,160 Were We exhausted by initiating the first creation, which We created when it was nothing? 90 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:15,600 So that We would be exhausted by recreating them anew after they have decayed into dust? 91 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,040 That does not exhaust Us. 92 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:23,279 These polytheists do not doubt that We were not exhausted by the first creation. 93 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:32,100 But they are in doubt of Our power to create them anew after their annihilation. 94 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:38,980 “We verily created man and We know what his soul whispereth to him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.” (50:16) 95 00:06:38,980 --> 00:06:44,889 “We verily created man and We know what his soul whispereth to him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.” (50:16) 96 00:06:44,930 --> 00:06:49,930 “We verily created man and We know what his soul whispereth to him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.” (50:16) 97 00:06:49,930 --> 00:06:54,290 So His secrets and the intentions of His heart are not hidden from Us. 98 00:06:54,290 --> 00:06:58,050 And We are closer to man than his jugular vein. 99 00:06:58,050 --> 00:07:03,740 The jugular vein is a vein between the throat and the neck muscles. 100 00:07:03,740 --> 00:07:12,170 “When the two Receivers receive (him), seated on the right hand and on the left,” (50:17) 101 00:07:12,170 --> 00:07:15,610 And We are closer to man than his own jugular vein. 102 00:07:15,610 --> 00:07:20,810 “When the two Receivers receive (him), seated on the right hand and on the left,” (50:17) 103 00:07:20,810 --> 00:07:22,529 And he is the observer. 104 00:07:22,529 --> 00:07:29,250 Some Kufan grammarians said: sitting on the right and on the left. 105 00:07:29,250 --> 00:07:38,420 “He uttereth no word but there is with him an observer ready.” (50:18) 106 00:07:38,420 --> 00:07:42,420 Man does not utter a word, speaking it. 107 00:07:42,420 --> 00:07:46,579 But there is, for what he utters of speech, an observer. 108 00:07:46,579 --> 00:07:49,990 Preserving it and ready. 109 00:07:49,990 --> 00:07:55,670 “And the agony of death cometh in truth. (And it is said unto him): This is that which thou wast wont to shun.” (50:19) 110 00:07:55,670 --> 00:08:02,000 "That is what you were trying to avoid." 111 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,160 And the agony of death will come. 112 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:08,160 Which is its intensity and its overpowering of man's understanding. 113 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,160 Like the stupor of sleep or intoxication. 114 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:16,319 And it is said: the agony of death has come with the truth of death. 115 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:21,089 And this is the thing you were fleeing from. 116 00:08:21,089 --> 00:08:23,649 And the Horn will be blown. 117 00:08:23,649 --> 00:08:28,230 That is the Day of the Threat. 118 00:08:28,230 --> 00:08:31,350 This day on which the Horn is blown. 119 00:08:31,350 --> 00:08:37,779 Is the Day of the Threat which Allah promised the disbelievers He would punish them on. 120 00:08:37,779 --> 00:08:46,940 “And every soul cometh, along with it a driver and a witness.” (50:21) 121 00:08:46,980 --> 00:08:51,220 “(And unto the evil-doer it is said): Thou wast in heedlessness of this. Now We have removed from thee thy covering, and piercing is thy sight this day.” (50:22) 122 00:08:51,220 --> 00:09:00,259 "So We have removed your veil." 123 00:09:00,259 --> 00:09:03,700 "So your sight today is sharp." 124 00:09:04,879 --> 00:09:07,279 And every soul will come to its Lord. 125 00:09:07,279 --> 00:09:10,519 With it will be a driver, driving it to Allah. 126 00:09:10,519 --> 00:09:16,259 And a witness, testifying against it for what it did in the world of good or evil. 127 00:09:16,299 --> 00:09:20,100 "You were in heedlessness of this which you witness today." 128 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:23,659 O man, of the terrors and hardships. 129 00:09:23,659 --> 00:09:27,419 So We have unveiled that for you and shown it to your eyes. 130 00:09:27,419 --> 00:09:30,179 Until you saw it and witnessed it. 131 00:09:30,179 --> 00:09:32,379 So the heedlessness has departed from you. 132 00:09:32,379 --> 00:09:34,860 So you are today sharp-sighted. 133 00:09:34,860 --> 00:09:40,220 Knowing what you were heedless of in the world. 134 00:09:40,220 --> 00:09:45,620 “And (unto the evil-doer) his comrade saith: This is that which I have ready (as testimony).” (50:23) 135 00:09:45,620 --> 00:09:51,820 “(And it is said): Do ye twain hurl to hell each rebel ingrate,” (50:24) 136 00:09:51,820 --> 00:09:58,379 “Hinderer of good, transgressor, doubter,” (50:25) 137 00:09:58,379 --> 00:10:02,340 Who set up another god with Allah. 138 00:10:02,340 --> 00:10:07,919 “Who setteth up another god along with Allah. Do ye twain hurl him to the dreadful doom.” (50:26) 139 00:10:07,919 --> 00:10:10,279 And the companion of man will say. 140 00:10:10,279 --> 00:10:13,879 "This is what is with me, prepared and preserved." 141 00:10:13,919 --> 00:10:18,120 "Throw into Hell every stubborn denier of the oneness of Allah." 142 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,360 Obstinate against the truth and the path of guidance. 143 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:26,279 Withholding all good, whether of Allah or for mankind, from his wealth. 144 00:10:26,279 --> 00:10:31,279 Transgressing against people with his tongue, with obscenity and foul speech. 145 00:10:31,279 --> 00:10:34,639 And with his hand, with tyranny and oppression. 146 00:10:34,639 --> 00:10:39,840 Doubting the oneness of Allah and His power over whatever He wills. 147 00:10:39,879 --> 00:10:45,039 Who associated partners with Allah, so he worshipped another deity from His creation alongside Him. 148 00:10:45,039 --> 00:10:50,950 "So throw him into the severe punishment of Hell."