WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.160 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. 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:16.109 Surah Qaf. 00:00:16.429 --> 00:00:22.859 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:22.859 --> 00:00:29.289 Qaf. By the glorious Qur'an. 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) 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) 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) 00:00:44.969 --> 00:00:49.890 "When we have died and become dust?" 00:00:49.890 --> 00:00:54.369 "That is a far return." 00:00:54.369 --> 00:00:58.640 Qaf. By the noble Qur'an. 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:02.119 The polytheists of your people do not deny you, O Muhammad. 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:05.719 They do not deny that you are truthful. 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:09.920 Rather, they deny you out of astonishment that a warner has come to them. 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:12.120 Warning them of the punishment of Allah. 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:15.239 So those who deny Allah and His Messenger said: 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:17.920 "The arrival of a man from among us, from the children of Adam," 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:21.840 "With a message from Allah to us, is a strange thing." 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:25.959 "When we have died and become dust, shall we know that?" 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:30.040 "And shall we see that what you promise us regarding your denial is not happening?" 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.969 "And we shall not return to life after we have died." 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) 00:01:39.930 --> 00:01:45.769 "And with Us is a record that preserves." 00:01:45.769 --> 00:01:50.409 We have known what the earth consumes of their bodies after their death. 00:01:50.409 --> 00:01:53.890 And with Us is a book that preserves all of that. 00:01:53.890 --> 00:01:56.090 It does not wear out what is written in it. 00:01:56.090 --> 00:01:59.620 Nor does it change or alter. 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) 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) 00:02:09.789 --> 00:02:13.669 Rather, they denied the Qur'an when it came to them from Allah. 00:02:13.669 --> 00:02:17.270 So they are in a confused and muddled state. 00:02:17.270 --> 00:02:21.189 They do not distinguish its truth from its falsehood. 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) 00:02:25.990 --> 00:02:30.389 How We built it and adorned it. 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) 00:02:37.990 --> 00:02:41.550 Have these deniers of the Resurrection not looked? 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) 00:02:44.909 --> 00:02:47.750 We made it a protected ceiling. 00:02:47.750 --> 00:02:50.110 And We adorned it with stars. 00:02:50.110 --> 00:02:54.139 And it has no cracks or fissures. 00:02:54.139 --> 00:02:56.180 And the earth, We spread it out. 00:02:56.180 --> 00:02:58.780 And We cast upon it firm mountains. 00:02:58.780 --> 00:03:01.659 And We caused to grow therein. 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) 00:03:08.500 --> 00:03:16.699 “A vision and a reminder for every penitent slave.” (50:8) 00:03:16.699 --> 00:03:18.219 And the earth, We expanded it. 00:03:18.219 --> 00:03:21.300 And We placed upon it firm mountains. 00:03:21.300 --> 00:03:26.020 And We caused to grow in the earth every kind of beautiful plant. 00:03:26.060 --> 00:03:29.740 We did that as an insight for you, O people. 00:03:29.740 --> 00:03:33.780 We show you through it the power of your Lord over whatever He wills. 00:03:33.780 --> 00:03:37.780 And as a reminder from Allah of His greatness and His oneness. 00:03:37.780 --> 00:03:40.819 For every servant who returns to faith in Allah. 00:03:40.819 --> 00:03:43.939 And acts in obedience to Him. 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) 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) 00:04:00.580 --> 00:04:08.300 And tall palm trees with layered fruit. 00:04:08.300 --> 00:04:11.740 As provision for the servants. 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) 00:04:16.699 --> 00:04:20.899 Such is the resurrection. 00:04:20.939 --> 00:04:24.459 And We sent down from the sky blessed rain. 00:04:24.459 --> 00:04:27.740 So We caused to grow with it gardens and trees. 00:04:27.740 --> 00:04:31.259 And the harvested grain of wheat and barley. 00:04:31.259 --> 00:04:33.939 And all other types of grains. 00:04:33.939 --> 00:04:37.019 And We caused to grow with the water tall palm trees. 00:04:37.019 --> 00:04:39.740 Having fruit, which is the spathe. 00:04:39.740 --> 00:04:43.540 Layered, one upon another, stacked. 00:04:43.540 --> 00:04:45.540 As sustenance for the servants. 00:04:45.540 --> 00:04:48.699 And We gave life with this water to a dead land. 00:04:48.740 --> 00:04:51.139 Which had become barren and drought-stricken. 00:04:51.139 --> 00:04:54.980 Just as We caused this dead land to grow with this water. 00:04:54.980 --> 00:04:56.899 And We brought it to life thereby. 00:04:56.899 --> 00:05:03.300 Such is your emergence on the Day of Resurrection, alive from your graves. 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) 00:05:11.339 --> 00:05:16.939 “And (the tribe of) A'ad, and Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot,” (50:13) 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) 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) 00:05:27.220 --> 00:05:30.939 Before these polytheists, the people of Nuh denied. 00:05:30.939 --> 00:05:32.620 And the people of the Rass. 00:05:32.620 --> 00:05:35.939 They are the people who threw their prophet into a well. 00:05:35.939 --> 00:05:38.339 And Thamud and the people of Shu'ayb. 00:05:38.339 --> 00:05:40.100 And the people of Tubba'. 00:05:40.100 --> 00:05:43.139 And his people were idolaters. 00:05:43.139 --> 00:05:45.740 All of these whom We have mentioned. 00:05:45.779 --> 00:05:48.939 Denied the messengers of Allah whom He sent. 00:05:48.939 --> 00:05:53.420 So the threat We promised them became due. 00:05:53.420 --> 00:05:57.220 Were We exhausted by the first creation? 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) 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:10.160 Were We exhausted by initiating the first creation, which We created when it was nothing? 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:15.600 So that We would be exhausted by recreating them anew after they have decayed into dust? 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:18.040 That does not exhaust Us. 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:23.279 These polytheists do not doubt that We were not exhausted by the first creation. 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:32.100 But they are in doubt of Our power to create them anew after their annihilation. 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) 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) 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) 00:06:49.930 --> 00:06:54.290 So His secrets and the intentions of His heart are not hidden from Us. 00:06:54.290 --> 00:06:58.050 And We are closer to man than his jugular vein. 00:06:58.050 --> 00:07:03.740 The jugular vein is a vein between the throat and the neck muscles. 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) 00:07:12.170 --> 00:07:15.610 And We are closer to man than his own jugular vein. 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) 00:07:20.810 --> 00:07:22.529 And he is the observer. 00:07:22.529 --> 00:07:29.250 Some Kufan grammarians said: sitting on the right and on the left. 00:07:29.250 --> 00:07:38.420 “He uttereth no word but there is with him an observer ready.” (50:18) 00:07:38.420 --> 00:07:42.420 Man does not utter a word, speaking it. 00:07:42.420 --> 00:07:46.579 But there is, for what he utters of speech, an observer. 00:07:46.579 --> 00:07:49.990 Preserving it and ready. 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) 00:07:55.670 --> 00:08:02.000 "That is what you were trying to avoid." 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.160 And the agony of death will come. 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:08.160 Which is its intensity and its overpowering of man's understanding. 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:11.160 Like the stupor of sleep or intoxication. 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:16.319 And it is said: the agony of death has come with the truth of death. 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:21.089 And this is the thing you were fleeing from. 00:08:21.089 --> 00:08:23.649 And the Horn will be blown. 00:08:23.649 --> 00:08:28.230 That is the Day of the Threat. 00:08:28.230 --> 00:08:31.350 This day on which the Horn is blown. 00:08:31.350 --> 00:08:37.779 Is the Day of the Threat which Allah promised the disbelievers He would punish them on. 00:08:37.779 --> 00:08:46.940 “And every soul cometh, along with it a driver and a witness.” (50:21) 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) 00:08:51.220 --> 00:09:00.259 "So We have removed your veil." 00:09:00.259 --> 00:09:03.700 "So your sight today is sharp." 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:07.279 And every soul will come to its Lord. 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:10.519 With it will be a driver, driving it to Allah. 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. 00:09:16.299 --> 00:09:20.100 "You were in heedlessness of this which you witness today." 00:09:20.100 --> 00:09:23.659 O man, of the terrors and hardships. 00:09:23.659 --> 00:09:27.419 So We have unveiled that for you and shown it to your eyes. 00:09:27.419 --> 00:09:30.179 Until you saw it and witnessed it. 00:09:30.179 --> 00:09:32.379 So the heedlessness has departed from you. 00:09:32.379 --> 00:09:34.860 So you are today sharp-sighted. 00:09:34.860 --> 00:09:40.220 Knowing what you were heedless of in the world. 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) 00:09:45.620 --> 00:09:51.820 “(And it is said): Do ye twain hurl to hell each rebel ingrate,” (50:24) 00:09:51.820 --> 00:09:58.379 “Hinderer of good, transgressor, doubter,” (50:25) 00:09:58.379 --> 00:10:02.340 Who set up another god with Allah. 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) 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:10.279 And the companion of man will say. 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:13.879 "This is what is with me, prepared and preserved." 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:18.120 "Throw into Hell every stubborn denier of the oneness of Allah." 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:21.360 Obstinate against the truth and the path of guidance. 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:26.279 Withholding all good, whether of Allah or for mankind, from his wealth. 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:31.279 Transgressing against people with his tongue, with obscenity and foul speech. 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:34.639 And with his hand, with tyranny and oppression. 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:39.840 Doubting the oneness of Allah and His power over whatever He wills. 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:45.039 Who associated partners with Allah, so he worshipped another deity from His creation alongside Him. 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:50.950 "So throw him into the severe punishment of Hell."