In this episode of The Message of the Quran, Shaykh Dr. Yasir talks about Surahs Naba` to Ghāshiyya(30th Juz - Pt. 1)

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About This Series:

My plan is to summarize the entire message of the Quran, in 30 lessons.

As those of you who listen to my lectures are aware, my style is typically to go into quite a lot of detail. Most of my lectures would be classified as intermediate or advanced. However, this series will be very different.

I want to present the message of the Quran to those who have never really read the Quran before. The goal would be that after listening to this 45-minute lecture, they should then read the entire juz (para) themselves.

I want people to follow along with me, day by day, and recite that juz, and then read a translation of it, so that we complete the whole Quran this month. The goal of my lecture is to help them appreciate and contextualize what they are going to read. This is NOT a detailed, word by word, verse by verse, tafsīr. I've done that for quite a few Surahs, and if we ever did that for the entire Quran it would be over a thousand lectures at least!

Rather, this is an analytical summary - it is 'basic' in that I'm not going to go into academic details, but to prepare this 'basic' summary will require quite a lot of work (as those who know, know!).

Hafiz Sajjād joins me to recite a section of that juz (around ten minutes) so that we do get a taste of the beauty of the original as well.

I hope that this series will be of benefit, and that it will increase our love for this Divine Book! I ask Allah to bless me with sincerity and to guide me to what is best!

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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

This is a blessed Book which We have revealed to you, that they may reflect upon My Signs, and that those of understanding may be reminded.

What And they ask 1 another About the great news In which they differ No!

They will come to know Have We not made the earth a resting place And We created you in pairs And We made your sleep a rest And We made the night a cover And We made the day a means of livelihood.

And We have built above you 7 strong mountains.

And We have sent down from the rain clouds, pouring water, That We might bring forth thereby grain and vegetation, And gardens of full-blossom.

Verily, the Day of Judgment is a time of great need.

And on the Day of Decision there will be a meeting.

The Day the Horn will be blown, and you will come in groups.

And the heaven will be opened, and it will be like a gate.

And the mountains will be moved, and it will be like a mirage.

Indeed, Hell was a place of punishment For the transgressors as a place of return, They will stay therein for ages.

And the angels will say, ˹O Prophet,˺ ˹do not be like them˺!

They will be like the angels, and they will be like the angels.

But a scalding water and a covering A reward for hypocrisy Indeed they were not expecting any reckoning And they denied Our signs with falsehood And everything We have enumerated in a record.

And We will not increase you except in torment.

Indeed, for the righteous is a triumph Gardens and grapevines And full-breasted, close-to-each-other And a full cup And he took to his Lord a place of return.

Indeed, We have warned you of a near punishment.

On the Day when man will see what his hands have put forth, and the disbeliever will say, Yawma yanzuru almar'u maa qaddamat yadahu wa yaqulu alkaafiru ya laytani kuntu turaba Bismillahirrahmanirrahim Sabih isma rabbika al a'la In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful.

Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High.

And He who has measured, and guided And He who has produced the pasture And made it fertile and alive We will teach you, so do not forget Except what Allah wills He knows what is open and what is hidden And We will ease you to ease.

Then he will neither die therein nor live.

He who purifies himself will be successful.

And he will remember the Name of his Lord and prayed.

Nay, but you make the life of this world easy.

And the Hereafter is better and more lasting.

Verily, this is in the earlier Scriptures.

In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful.

Has there come to you a story of a woman who is in her infancy, Faces that day will be humbled, A working woman, Who will enter a burning fire, And be given to drink from a boiling spring.

In it is a flowing spring In it are raised couches And cups placed in their places And cushions arranged in rows And carpets spread out Do they not look at the camels, how they are created And to the mountains, how they are raised.

So remind, you are only a reminder You have no control over them Except those who turn away and disbelieve Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment

As-Salaamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu.

Thumma inna AAalaynaa hisabahum As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.

Praise be to Allah who sent down to us his book as our ultimate source of guidance.

For Allah taught the Qur'an before creating man, such was his Qadr, not by chance.

It is the divine light that illuminates knowledge and eradicates ignorance.

It is the firm handhold and the rope of Allah, by following it shall we advance.

He who abandons it shall be bereft of aid, and he who reads it shall gain divine assistance.

It is at once a history and admonition, theology and laws all in perfect balance.

The mere recitation is so powerful that it envelopes, as it were, both reciter and listener in a trance.

We thank Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala for gifting us this most auspicious Quran, his book of utmost significance.

Today, inshallah wa ta'ala, we'll be doing the first half of the last Juz, Juz Amma, because there are so many Surahs.

I'll be taking 2 episodes to do what we typically did in 1, because of obviously the quantity of Surahs.

And all of the Surahs today, all of them, they are Makki, and they are also similar themes, and that is primarily powerful language to remind people of the Day of Judgment, to remind mankind that there is an accountability, and to remind mankind that they should have piety in this world before the coming of the next world.

And each Surah takes a different style, a different way to do the same point.

And the first Surah we're gonna do is Surah Naba, Amma yatasa'aloon.

It is the Surah that begins with the question.

What are they questioning 1 another about?

About the great news, over that news that they disagree, but they will surely know.

Of a surety, they're going to know very soon.

And then the Surah goes on to examine the world around us.

Allah Azawajal is telling us to look at how this earth has been smoothed out, how the mountains are so majestic, how we have been created in pairs, how Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has made the sleep a resting place for us, and the night, a cover that we can find our relaxation in.

So surely the 1 who can do all of this can also resurrect us and raise us from the dead.

And the Surah also mentions specific punishments of Jahannam followed by specific blessings of Jannah, all done in a divine eloquence that no human can even come close to matching.

And then the Surah concludes by mentioning that frightful scene on the day of judgment.

Yawma yaqoomur ruhu The day that the spirit, the ruh here is the angel Jibreel walmalaikatu saffan And the angels will be standing in row.

La yatakallamuna illa man adhina lahurrahmanu waqala sawaba None can speak on that day except those who are permitted by Ar-Rahman and except those who speak the truth.

So this verse tells us that all shall be standing in rows in front of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

All shall be too frightened to speak up except if Allah gives them permission to speak.

And those whom Allah gives permission to speak, they will only speak the truth on that day.

Allah says, Thalika alyawmul haqq That is indeed the day of truth.

Faman sha'at takhad ila rabbihi ma'aba Therefore, whoever wills, let him make a way, let him make a passage to his Lord.

Indeed, Allah Azawajal reminds us, inna anzarnakum a'athaban qareeba we are warning you of a near punishment.

It's not that far away, it's not that long away, especially if you compare the temporality of this world with the eternality of the next, it is truly just the blink of an eyelid away.

Inna anzirnakum a'adhaban qareeba yawma yanzuru almaru maa qaddamati yadah On that day, a person will see, will examine all that he or she has sent forward.

You will see all of your deeds in front of you.

Wayaqulil kafiru ya laytani kuntu turaba And the 1 who had no faith, he will say, woe to me, how I wish I had never been created, how I wish I were mere dust right now.

SubhanAllah, all of this world, all of the pleasures that we're having, all of this timeframe, it's not worth anything if we don't prepare to meet Allah on that day.

Also our books of tradition mention that on the Day of Judgment, the animals will be turned into dust because there is no Jannah or Naar for the animals, meaning that the animals don't have the takleef.

The animals don't have the legal responsibility on them like humanity does.

And so Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will resurrect the animals for a mutual qisas between them.

And we're gonna talk about this in the lecture series I'm doing on the day of judgment, which inshallah will resume after Ramadan inshallah.

So the animal shall be resurrected and Allah Azawajal shall have qisas or retribution between the animals if there was an animal that did wrong to another animal.

And then they shall all be transformed into dust.

And when the person who doesn't have any preparation, the kafir, when he sees all of that, he will say, how I wish I too was an animal, how I wish that I too would disappear like those animals have disappeared.

So let us not have that regret on the day of judgment.

Surah An-Nazi'at, again, all of these are Makkan, most of these are early Makkan, and this is shown in the fiery eloquence, which is stereotypical of the Makkan revelations.

Surah An-Nazi'at, and again, the emphasis is judgment and qiyamah.

Almost all of these surahs, the primary theme is to underscore the importance of, and the reality of the day of judgment, that it is going to happen.

And This Surah begins by a reference to death and to the angel of death.

Wannazi'ati gharqa, wannashitati nashta A reference to the angels who take the souls of the impious and the souls of the pious.

Wannazi'ati gharqa, those who snatch violently.

And this is the souls that are gonna exit the bodies of those that are not pious.

And then, Wannashitatinashta, those who gently remove.

So these are the angels that Allah, Azawajal, is contrasting.

And our Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, said that when the soul of the pious person leaves, it is like water that is poured from a cup smoothly.

And when the soul of the impious leaves, we seek Allah's refuge, it is like an iron comb being dragged through wet cotton.

And then of course, we have the story of Musa and Fir'aun, very beautifully portrayed.

Ithhab ila Fir'auna, that Allah Azawajal says, that ithhab ila Fir'auna, sorry, not ithhab ila Fir'auna, but fahashara fanadha faqala ana rabbukum alAAala that Fir'aun gathered his troops together, and Fir'aun said that I am your great Lord.

Fir'aun called himself God, ana rabbukum al-a'la faakhadahu Allahunakala al-akhirati wal-oola So Allah, Azawajal, made an example of him for all people.

Inna fithalika la'ibratan liman yakhsha Surely, there is a sign, in it is a lesson for those who are fearful of Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

And then Allah says, a-antum ashaddu khalqan amissamau banaha Are you more difficult to create or the heavens and the skies?

And every time we discover a new star, we discover yet more after this.

There are too many stars to even count and the different varieties and all of the beauty of this world and the constellations above us.

Allah says, what are you compared to the rest of the creation?

The 1 who created all of that, surely he can recreate you.

And then the Surah mentions the inevitable coming of the day of judgment.

And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala calls it in this Surah, fa-itha ja'atittammatul-kubra That, on that day, the overwhelming calamity is going to come on that day.

And on that day, what is going to happen?

Yawma yatathakkaru l-insanu masAAa On that day, every single soul shall remember, what have I done?

And hell itself will be displayed for all to see.

As for the 1 who was evil, who was takabbur, who was arrogant, and he preferred the life of this world, fa-inna al-jaheemahiyal ma'wa the fire of hell shall be his shelter.

But ask for the 1 who feared the standing of his Lord and who restrained himself from desires, wanaha annafsaAAani alhawa fa-inna aljannatahiyal ma'wa Jannah will be his abode and his place.

The 1 who was defiant, the 1 who was arrogant, the 1 who preferred the life of this world, that person is heading 1 way.

And then the other 1 who is conscious of Allah, fearful of Allah and keeping his desires in check because he wants to have the ultimate desire of the hereafter, that person, Allah says, Jannah will be his shelter, his permanent abode.

And we are reminded that when people see it, it is as if, ka annahum yawmi yarawnaha lam yalbathu illa ashiyyatan awduhaaha That when they see heaven and hell, it is, and when they see the day of judgment, it is as if they only stayed in this whole world for barely a morning, or maybe even an afternoon, that's it.

Imagine when the day of judgment comes, people will think that they only spent an afternoon in this whole world because they will not see enough good deeds that will make them understand that we stayed here so long and they will deny how long they stayed.

And this is a constant theme of the Quran.

And Surah Abasa, of course, this is a very interesting Surah.

And you know, I've met some people that SubhanAllah, they find the background of the Surah awkward.

But honestly, this is such shallow thinking on their part.

Allah revealed the Surah for us to benefit from, and there is so much wisdom and so much benefit in the Surah.

And most of us are aware of the background story, and that is that Ibn Ummi Maktum.

Ibn Ummi Maktum was a Qurashi, he was from the Quraysh, but he was from 1 of the lower status tribes, and also he was blind.

And so he was very, very economically deprived, and he had a very difficult life.

And obviously he's coming from a socially disadvantaged background and also from a tribe that is not 1 of the main tribes of the Quraysh.

1 of the first 15 converts to Islam is Ibn Ummi Maktum.

Eventually he would be honored by being 1 of the 2 mu'adhins, the official mu'adhin was Bilal and Ibn Ummi Maktum.

The both of them were official mu'adhin of the Prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wasalam.

And in the early phase of Makkah, our Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, was speaking with Al-Walid Ibn Al-Mughira, the father of Khalid Ibn Al-Walid.

We talked about his story in Surah Muddathir as well.

The Quran has a number of references to Al-Walid ibn al-Mughira.

And Al-Walid was kind of on the fence about Islam.

He was not like Umayyah ibn Khalaf, nor did he convert like Abu Bakr and Uthman.

He was intrigued by some aspects, but turned off by other aspects.

And 1 of the main aspects that turned him off was Al-Walid was nobility, like he was a VIP, a senator.

He literally was like a congressman or senator.

He was 1 of the wealthiest and he was 1 of the most powerful, you know, noble blood and noble lineage and wealth and fame and you know, poetry, everything is running in his favor.

And he felt a big sense of ego of who he was.

And he liked certain things about Islam as well.

He was the 1 who demanded, by the way, that we'll think about Islam if you get rid of these low-class people.

I mentioned his story earlier on in Surah Al-Kahf and others and Al-Walid was speaking with the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, in deep conversation.

The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, was engaged with him one-on-one and the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, was speaking with him in the streets of Makkah.

And Ibn Ummi Maktum, he heard the voice of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he became excited, he became happy.

And by the way, that point, which is glossed over, it is 1 of my favorite parts of the whole story that just hearing the voice of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, made Ibn Ummi Maktum happy.

And he rushed forward thinking that, hey, I'll be able to speak with him, you know, 1 on 1, get some wisdom, get some advice, you know, be in the company of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.

So he's tapping, you know, his walking stick, and he's rushing forward, and he says something to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, we don't know the details of that conversation, and Al-Waleed snorted in contempt and basically made a hand gesture or a face gesture that these are the people that follow you and you want me to accept your faith when that low class person is going to embrace you.

And so he turned his back and walked away.

And our Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, at that time, and of course, remember this is early on in the da'wah as well, he felt Al-Walid was very close to Islam.

He felt just a little bit more push, and maybe I would have gotten him.

And now, Ibn Umm Maktum comes in and then Al-Walid leaves.

And so, our Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, in his dismay that Islam would not be serviced because he thought that Waleed's conversion would benefit Islam.

In his love for Islam, he expressed a private frustration that Ibn Ummi Maktum could not see.

And that is that his face turned into a bit of a frown, and he turned a little bit away from Ibn Ummi Maktum, but even Ummi Maktum cannot see this, right?

Because he is obviously blind, but Allah saw it.

And so Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala sent this Surah down in order to teach all of us a lesson.

Abasa watawalla anja'ahu al-a'ma He frowned and turned away.

This is our Nabi, salallahu alayhi wasalam, when the blind man approached him.

He might have been blind in the eyes, but his heart was wide awake.

His heart was seeing, his heart was eager.

And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Wama yudreeka laAAallahu yazzakka How do you know?

Maybe he is the 1 that is gonna be purified.

Aw yadhakkaru fatanfaAAahu thikra Or you will remind him and the message will be of benefit for him, that this is the 1 he wants to be purified.

Then, amma man istaghna Ask for the 1 who was indifferent and thought that He needs nothing.

He could see with his eyes, but his heart was arrogant.

Amma man istaghna fa-anta lahu tasadda You gave him your full attention.

Wama AAalayka alla yazzakka And what does it matter to you if he does not purify himself?

You are not responsible for his purification.

Then Allah Azawajal says that Wa amma man ja'aka yasAAaa wahuwa yakhshaa faantaAAanhu talaha Ask for the 1 who comes rushing towards you.

Ask for the 1 who is rushing towards you.

That is the person that you turn away from him.

Kalla innaha tathkira But indeed that this is the remembrance that Allah Azawajal is revealing.

And so Allah Azawajal chastised slightly, It's not a harsh chastisement, but it is a chastisement for all of us that do not be deceived by the outer realities of people.

Don't be fooled by their fame or their power.

Allah doesn't care, doesn't need the powerful person.

Allah wants the socially awkward and the outcast.

Allah wants the sincerity of the sincere.

And if it comes from somebody like Ibn Ummi Maktum, that is what Allah wants, way above and beyond the arrogant Waleed Ibn Al-Mughirah, who thought that just because Ibn Ummi Maktum is a Muslim, why should I embrace a religion that has those types of people?

And Waleed ended up never embracing Islam because of his arrogance.

And so let him go where he is going to go.

Wama AAalayka allayzaka It's not your job, Ya RasoolAllah, to make sure that they are guided.

Your job is to preach the truth and It is up to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

And this is a powerful reminder, dear Muslims, to myself and to all of us, that what Allah wants is the sincerity of the sincere.

Allah does not need the fame of the famous person or the power of the powerful.

Power comes from him to Izzu man tashaa'u, to dhillu man tashaa'u.

Allah doesn't need any of this, but Allah wants that piety from the pious.

And so when we find those that are pious, we should stick with them.

We should prioritize them and not worry about these outer shells of the likes of Al-Waleed Ibn Al-Mughira.

That the day of judgment will come, that the sawkha will come, and that is the loud noise will come.

Yawma yafirru almar'u min akhihi On that day, a person will run away from his own blood brother, from his own mother, from his own father, from his own wife, from his own children.

Every 1 of them will be preoccupied with something about themselves.

Li kullin mri' minhum yawmin in sha'nun yughni Why will family members be running away from each other?

Because on that day, everyone will want to sue everybody else for every good deed.

The wife will go to the husband and say, you mistreated me, give me your good deeds.

The son will say to the father, you did something wrong to me, give me my good deeds.

The mother will speak to the daughter, you were dissing that to me, I want my good deeds.

And so everyone will be running away from each other if they were not a pious family.

Obviously, we'll speak later on today as well, the Quran is very explicit that pious families are not of this nature.

But those that don't have any good deeds, those that are bankrupt, they're going to be willing to sue their own blood relatives, their own kith and kin, their own flesh and blood, because li kullin bil-immin hum yawma-idhin sha'nun yughnee Everyone is going to be worried about himself or herself.

Wujoohun yawma-idhin musfira On that day, some faces will be radiant, laughing, rejoicing, whereas others will be dark and gloomy, covered in misery.

The next Surah, Surat At-Takwir, the folding up of the sun.

Again, all of these are early Makkan Surahs.

Again, they all deal with the descriptions of the day of judgment.

And of course, Surah At-Takwir is everybody's favorite Surah, SubhanAllah.

How can you not be mesmerized when the famous Qari Abdul Basit does his famous Ithashamsu kuwirat, please listen to that.

You know, to this day, I sometimes just go onto YouTube and listen to Qa' even though I've listened to this more than I can count, it is my first memories of the Quran is Qari Abdul Basit with Ithashamsu kuwirat and he just goes wild.

You know, when I was a child, Qari Abdul Basit was still alive, you know.

So sometimes we'd listen to him live on TV, sometimes we'd get his cassettes.

And I remember, subhanAllah, when the news came that he died, I was, I think, 11, 12 years old, and I read it in the paper and it was, you know, something caused me great sadness at the time.

So Abdulbaset Surah Taqweer, you have to listen, that's the classic, the all time classic is his Ida-Shamsu Kubirat, which is SubhanAllah, in a category of its own, I don't even have words for it.

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The Message of The Quran - Part 29: Surahs Naba` to Ghāshiyya(30th Juz - Pt. 1) | Shaykh Yasir Qadhi