Exegesis of Surat Shu3araa'-Part 8- The eternality of Mohammed's set of laws

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This is a series of lectures given by Hamam Nassereddine throughout the month of Ramadan; the lectures shed light on verses of Surat Shu3araa’, which is one of the first chapters that descended upon the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him and his family). The chapter speaks about several Prophets and what took place between them and their people; amongst those Prophets are the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him and his family), Prophets Noah, Abraham, Moses, Hud, Saleh and others (peace be upon them all).

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[0:14]foreign in our last lecture we shed light on the verse in

[0:52]which allah subhanahu wa speaks about pharaoh and his people and mentions

[0:58]that although they saw clear signs performed by musa alaihissalam and were

[1:07]certain that those were miracles from allah they still disbelieved in those

[1:18]signs and musa alaihissalam which brought us to quraish and what they

[1:26]did to rasulallah we said ultimately unfortunately quraysh did the same quraysh

[1:34]saw marvelous miracles performed by the holy prophet sallallahu alaihi then we

[1:55]mentioned several narrations and or stances regarding abu talib for we were

[2:03]commemorating the demise anniversary of that great giant abu talib we mentioned

[2:11]a few of the many proofs confirming his faith and we also

[2:17]mentioned some of his stances in defense share the same religion they

[2:37]all believe in what in the religion of god which is islam

[2:41]they all called their people to islam meaning to submit to the

[2:47]commands of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and we've understood that the difference which

[2:54]lies between certain sets of laws like the set of law of

[2:59]musa the set of laws of musa and the set of laws

[3:03]of muhammad doesn't mean or imply that the prophets were calling to

[3:11]different religions or were calling their people to different paths we said

[3:19]that the difference which existed between the sets of laws of god

[3:24]subhanahu wata'ala when allah changed his own laws from time to time

[3:33]this was because of what this was because of mankind in better

[3:42]terms allah modified his own laws because the needs of people would

[3:49]differ from time to time in fact in fact when we look

[3:56]at the set of laws of muhammad we find that there are

[4:04]two types of laws a temporary law which would be later on

[4:10]replaced by a permanent law and a permanent law which would replace

[4:14]the temporary law the temporary law is called what it's called whereas

[4:25]the permanent law is called hokumun nasik a law that is permanent

[4:35]and that replaces the temporary law here you might ask can you

[4:44]give us an example about and man we say yes alhamdulillah we

[4:55]have plenty of examples plenty of examples i would like to refer

[4:59]you to a tradition a lengthy tradition by imam assad mentioned had

[5:18]multiple sessions with his shias and in those sessions imam ali would

[5:25]speak about the different types of verses in the quran and would

[5:33]give examples pertaining to those types of verses so he mentioned for

[5:37]example and gave examples on verses he mentioned and gave examples on

[5:47]mutasa bihat verses so on so forth when speaking about anna one

[5:58]of which was the following one of which pertained to what to

[6:05]the month of ramadan since we're fasting the month of ramadan i

[6:08]found this specific example to be quite suitable to mention in these

[6:16]lectures the imam alayhi salaam says that when allah prescribed fasting upon

[6:25]the muslims when he obligated the muslims to fast he informed them

[6:33]that it is unlawful for a man forgiving for my words to

[6:38]have intercourse with his wife during the month of ramadan not only

[6:44]during the day but even during the night so at start the

[6:50]muslims were not allowed the muslim men weren't allowed to have intercourse

[6:54]with their wives during the days and nights of the month of

[7:00]ramadan the imam says the imam says that this was the fast

[7:06]prescribed upon banu israel allah had prescribed such a fast on the

[7:15]children of israel and it was mentioned that specific type of fast

[7:21]or fast thing was mentioned in the taurat on top of that

[7:26]imam ali says that it was forbidden for a muslim to eat

[7:34]at night after he sleeps even if he wakes up before the

[7:43]real dawn before fajib so he says if a muslim slept at

[7:46]the start of the night whether he ate or not would not

[7:50]make a difference if he woke up during the night before the

[7:55]real dawn he wouldn't be allowed to eat these two laws were

[8:05]what were temporary laws the imam says there was an old man

[8:12]called mataham ibn he was from the companions was helping the muslims

[8:20]dig the trench what trench if you remember yesterday we mentioned the

[8:25]battle of the trench also called the battle of el ahzab the

[8:31]clans long story short abu sufyan gathered different groups of people and

[8:39]formed a huge a humongous army so he may come forth with

[8:47]the army to medina invade madina and put an end to islam

[8:51]and muslims so the prophet consulted his companions not because rasulullah was

[9:08]in need of consulting them for he is the prophet of god

[9:12]and the seal of messengers he knows what to do rather because

[9:17]this was part of his good morals and rasulullah would consult the

[9:25]companions in order to show the muslims which companions possess strong intellects

[9:32]and present solid and strong opinions which companions possess strong intellect and

[9:42]present correct opinions then again he also wanted to show them which

[9:48]companions possess weak intellects and present the wrong opinions so when he

[9:57]consulted his companions who was from persia told the prophet you told

[10:06]him back in persia we have a tactic a defensive tactic that

[10:14]we use when an enemy tries to attack us and that is

[10:17]to dig a trench to dig a trench around our location so

[10:23]the prophet sallallahu alaihi liked the idea and commanded the muslims to

[10:29]to do what tadiga trench hence the muslims began digging a massive

[10:37]trench that was that resembled a semi-circle they dug it around half

[10:46]of the medina half of the city of medina so it resembled

[10:52]a semi-circle tradition say they spent six days in digging the trench

[11:00]came to help the muslims in what in digging the trench then

[11:06]on that day he went back to his house and prayed salat

[11:11]and which means it was time for iftar it was time to

[11:15]break his fast by the way they were digging the trench during

[11:18]the month of ramadan they were fasting so matam went back home

[11:22]prayed salat al-mahrib and it was time to do what it was

[11:27]time to break his fast so he waited for his wife to

[11:31]bring the food but his wife was taking a while the imam

[11:39]says hence matam fell asleep when he fell asleep and woke up

[11:43]he told his wife you eat the food you eat the food

[11:49]as for me i cannot eat anymore i've already slept so what

[11:57]did he do he remained without food on that night the next

[12:02]day was fasting and he went to help the muslims in digging

[12:07]the trench as he was working what happened he fainted which makes

[12:16]sense right ultimately the man has not eaten for two days right

[12:21]he has not eaten any food he did not eat any food

[12:27]during the past day secondly he is digging a trench which requires

[12:34]a lot of effort thirdly he's working under what under the burning

[12:41]sun of arabia you know in arabia it's it's very hot so

[12:46]you could imagine how hot it was during those days hence what

[12:52]happened to matam he fainted when he fainted rasulullah came to him

[13:00]and asked him about his issue told rasulallah the story the imam

[13:06]says imam ali he says meanwhile there were a few young men

[13:15]amongst the muslims who were disobeying allah subhanahu wa tahara they were

[13:20]having intercourse with their wives in secret obviously and they were disobeying

[13:26]allah because it was unlawful for them to do so during the

[13:30]whole month of ramadan so the prophet salallahu and asked him to

[13:38]do what asked him to change the the law to change the

[13:42]law to make it easier so allah azza brought down a verse

[13:47]in the quran found today in surat al-baqarah saying up until he

[14:01]says that from now on you are allowed to have intercourse with

[14:15]your wives during the nights of the month month of ramadan not

[14:20]during the day because that is one of the invalidators of fasting

[14:23]secondly he told them that they're allowed to eat and drink up

[14:27]until one up until the real dawn but when mentioning the real

[14:34]dawn allah said what does that mean here allah is mentioning the

[14:48]sign of the real dawn you see if you're standing and if

[14:56]you're observing the horizon if you're observing the horizon before the real

[15:02]dawn at night and there are no obstacles between you and the

[15:08]horizon for example there isn't a mountain there aren't trees etc if

[15:14]you can see the horizon clearly you can see the point where

[15:18]it seems that the sky is touching the earth and you look

[15:21]carefully when it's time when it's the time of el fijra sadiq

[15:29]the real dawn you will see a beautiful phenomenon what will you

[15:33]see you'll see a horizontal beam of light emerging on the horizon

[15:40]this is what allah is mentioning when he says some people unfortunately

[15:54]misunderstood this verse thinking that allah is speaking about threats he's not

[15:57]talking about threats he's talking about a natural phenomenon which takes place

[16:04]at the real dawn so based on this story and based on

[16:11]a tradition of imam ali and imam we understand that there were

[16:17]two laws pertaining to the month of ramadan there was a temporary

[16:22]law and that was the forbiddens of having intercourse with a person's

[16:29]spouse during the day and during the days and nights of the

[16:33]month of ramadan and number two the forbiddens of eating after waking

[16:37]up at night before the real dawn these two were changed by

[16:43]the permanent law so yes yes there were certain laws in the

[16:52]islamic sharia in the islamic set of laws that were what thou

[16:57]were changed why one will ask why would allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala change

[17:03]certain laws in the same shariah in the same set of laws

[17:07]we say for the same reason we mentioned yesterday the same exact

[17:14]reason the presence of a temporary law in a set of law

[17:21]in a divine set of laws means that the people were in

[17:28]need of that temporary law but when the need changed allah did

[17:33]what he changed the law so he replaced the temporary one and

[17:39]mansur with the permanent one and nasser here one might ask so

[17:51]does that does that mean does that mean the laws of islam

[17:58]might change from time to time does that mean as we progress

[18:03]in time the laws of rasulallah will be replaced with other laws

[18:11]we say no it doesn't mean that why because when allah completed

[18:20]his religion when allah completed the religion of islam and bestowed and

[18:28]perfected the blessing that he bestowed upon us telling us today i

[18:37]have completed your religion for you and i've perfected my bounty the

[18:49]bounty i've bestowed upon you and i'm pleased that you take islam

[18:56]as a religion when was this set to the muslims this is

[19:00]a verse in sunnah referring to what to what day to the

[19:09]day of the day rasulallah made the greatest announcement the biggest announcement

[19:15]pertaining to imam ali's guardianship and imamit and the guardianship and imamite

[19:30]when he made his holy announcement in hadir and appointed imam ali

[19:38]as his successor and the imam in caliph after him allah brought

[19:42]down these verses that are found in surat the completion of the

[19:50]religion the completion of their religion implies what it implies that the

[20:00]religion will stay as it is that it implies that the laws

[20:05]that the laws that existed at the day of hadir or during

[20:16]the day of will continue to exist until the day of judgment

[20:22]for allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has decreed that muhammad is the last

[20:27]prophet and messenger if muhammad is the last prophet and messenger and

[20:35]muhammad's religion has been perfected completed on the day of hadir this

[20:44]means the laws that existed during that day will continue to exist

[20:48]and people will be demanded to apply those laws from that time

[20:53]till the day of judgment this is crystal clear as in when

[21:02]we look at quranic verses and the narrations we find this reality

[21:11]to be crystal clear for example when you come to the book

[21:14]al-kafi for there is a beautiful tradition with a sahih chain of

[21:28]narrators so please keep that point in mind this tradition is correct

[21:32]the content is correct and the chain of narrators is also what

[21:39]does it say it says about the lawful and the unlawful meaning

[21:50]about islamic law so the imam told him will remain to be

[22:06]lawful until the day of judgment will remain to be unlawful until

[22:25]the day of judgment won't create a new set of laws to

[22:37]bring it down so it may replace muhammad's set of laws look

[22:40]at the precision in imam salvik's word he says allah won't even

[22:47]create a new set of laws to replace the set of laws

[22:53]of muhammad so if he won't even create a new set of

[22:54]laws to replace muhammad's set of laws that means there won't be

[23:01]a new set of laws coming down after muhammad's hence he said

[23:10]which means no new set of laws will be brought down by

[23:19]god after the set of laws of muhammad s people from his

[23:25]time the time of rasulullah up until the day of judgment or

[23:31]demanded to do what to implement rasulullah's laws to follow muhammad's laws

[23:43]here another question might come to mind and that is is it

[23:56]possible for one set of laws to be so rich it can

[24:02]cover the needs or say fulfill the needs of mankind from the

[24:08]prophet's time till the day of judgment i mean you know people

[24:13]uh as we progress in time people might go through different needs

[24:21]new needs might arise so could it be that one set of

[24:29]laws will be enough to cover all of their needs from the

[24:32]time of muhammad till the day of judgment we say yes why

[24:37]do you find that hard to believe allah subhanahu wa is the

[24:46]creator and he is the lawmaker the lawmaker is the creator and

[24:49]vice versa has infinite knowledge and infinite power he has so much

[25:01]power he is able to create he has he has unbelievable power

[25:08]to the point he's able to create a whole universe filled with

[25:16]wonders and secrets although that universe didn't exist please focus on the

[25:22]word didn't exist what does that mean it means at a certain

[25:29]phase the universe was absolutely nothing it wasn't something turned into something

[25:33]else no no it was not thing and allah brought it into

[25:38]existence the god who's able to do that is also able to

[25:45]bring down a set of laws so detailed and so rich filled

[25:53]with primary laws and secondary laws to the point it can fulfill

[25:57]the needs of humanity in fact it can fulfill the needs of

[26:02]humans engines from the time of rasulallah till the day of judgment

[26:07]for ultimately the lawmaker is the creator and vice versa here i

[26:20]recall an interesting story a frightening scary yet interesting story pertaining to

[26:30]omar ibn the story has been narrated by sunni scholars like ahmad

[26:38]ibn hanban you can also find it in the book so you

[26:44]can find it in muslim and also what does it say long

[26:50]story short it says that one day um came to rasulullah as

[26:59]he was holding a book what was inside the book omar had

[27:08]basically copied a part of the taurat which taurat the taurat which

[27:16]existed during the time of rasulallah not the essential taurat that was

[27:20]brought down upon musa so omar had copied a part of the

[27:30]taurat in arabic and he brought that book to and began reading

[27:37]that part of the torah in front of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

[27:43]the tradition says rasulallah's face began changing he was angry it began

[27:52]changing to the point in some traditions al-ansar the ansar realized rasulallah

[27:59]was angry and so some of them called others telling them to

[28:04]do what to bring their weapons so they bought their weapons and

[28:10]they surrounded the prophet sallallahu alaihi which tells you a lot about

[28:14]his anger at that point he was quite angry to the point

[28:17]that ansar thought that they should be ready for what for an

[28:20]attack and they should be ready to defend rasulallah sallallahu alaihi alaihi

[28:27]wasallam here a particular individual from the ansar spoke to and he

[28:39]told him he told him what are you doing oh omar can't

[28:43]you see rasulallah's face getting angry he's getting bothered by what you're

[28:50]doing so here the prophet made a comment what did he say

[28:55]he said do you want to confuse yourselves by reading such books

[29:10]then he i've brought you a religion that is pure from all

[29:29]falsehood free from falsehood a pure religion that contains only truth what's

[29:36]he saying let's take a few minutes to understand rasulullah's comments here

[29:45]we need to realize a few points firstly there is no doubt

[29:56]that the taurat that descended upon musa was a book of guidance

[30:01]was a book of god brought down upon musa which means it

[30:05]only contained truth there was absolutely no falsehood in it and there's

[30:13]no doubt that the injeel that was brought down upon isa alaihissalam

[30:18]was a divine book a book of god and it only contained

[30:24]truth there was absolutely no falsehood in the injeel so we have

[30:30]no problem whatsoever rasulullah has no problem alright have no problem the

[30:35]muslims have no problem whatsoever with what with the essential taurat and

[30:39]the essential injil this is the first point the second point is

[30:49]unfortunately after away after musa passed away there were certain people who

[30:55]altered the torah which is quite unfortunate and the same took place

[31:03]with the injil of isa alaihissalam was also altered after isa's ascension

[31:10]after he ascended to the sky peace be upon him this is

[31:16]something clear it's not something that you know something that for example

[31:24]cannot be proven no no no if we look carefully at the

[31:29]old and new testaments today and we look at the torah or

[31:34]the gospels we're going to find with all due respect to jews

[31:41]and christians we're going to find certain passages that cannot be accepted

[31:49]certain passages that that cannot be accepted by the intellect hence a

[31:54]person will come to the conclusion to the obvious conclusion that these

[31:59]passages didn't exist in the essential taurat or the essential injeel i'll

[32:05]give you an example you might be asking yourselves what are these

[32:10]passages i'll give you two examples of passages in the taurat for

[32:16]example in the story of lulu in the story of loot according

[32:25]to the modern tavrat luth drank wine and became intoxicated and slept

[32:35]with his own daughters god forbid god forbid i repeat according to

[32:43]the modern taurat luth drank wine became intoxicated and he slept with

[32:53]his own daughters is this a prophet of god is a noble

[32:58]and pure prophet he would never do such a thing allah would

[33:05]never allow luth to fall into intoxication and then to commit that

[33:12]hideous sin to commit incest let alone committing fornication or adultery this

[33:20]passage is definitely not found it's not part of the essential taurat

[33:25]someone added this passage the second example is that of david according

[33:33]to the modern taurat david alaihissalam who was a king and a

[33:37]prophet killed one of his generals he killed one of his generals

[33:45]meaning he killed an innocent soul and then committed fornication with that

[33:49]person's wife he committed zina with that person's wife is that a

[33:58]prophet that would never do such a thing that would not do

[34:05]injustice to an ant let alone doing injustice to a human let

[34:10]alone killing an innocent human being hence our imams completely refuted this

[34:18]bogus story they completely refuted this bogus story in fact imam ali

[34:26]would say if anyone comes forth and narrates the story of dawood

[34:31]pertaining to his general called uria and saying how he killed him

[34:37]and then fornicated with his wife if anyone near its story he

[34:42]will receive two punishments from me two punishments from ali ibn abi

[34:50]talib they completely refuted that story because it's bogus while this is

[34:55]found in the current torah unfortunately so we repeat unfortunately after musa

[35:02]and isa alayhim there were certain people who played with the words

[35:10]of god subhanallah as a result what happened as a result there

[35:15]were passages of truth in those books but there are also passages

[35:20]of falsehood as in there were some passages that were left as

[35:26]they were then again there were certain passages that were altered or

[35:30]added to the passages of the taurat and the injeel hence when

[35:38]someone like or an average muslim comes forth and starts reading these

[35:45]books what will happen he will confuse himself become confused he won't

[35:52]know how to differentiate between what's right and what's wrong between the

[35:58]passages of truth and the other passages this is why rasulallah tells

[36:04]you do you want to confuse yourself by reading these scripts or

[36:11]these books oh son of katab i swear by allah i've brought

[36:21]you a pure religion that contains nothing but truth it's as if

[36:26]he's telling him why are you going there instead of coming to

[36:32]this religion which preserves the true religion of isa and musa the

[36:38]religion of muhammad which can which contains nothing but truth rasulullah knew

[36:48]what he was saying rasulullah knew that if he didn't make a

[36:55]comment against what omar was doing and if he did not express

[37:01]his anger against what omar was doing the next day the next

[37:08]day you'd find the muslims you know reading the uh the altered

[37:15]taurad and the altered injil and that will do what that will

[37:22]only lead them to confusion that will only lead them to confusion

[37:25]bear in mind isn't telling us that as muslims were not allowed

[37:34]to read books written by other individuals written by non-muslims even if

[37:44]those books contain beliefs or thoughts that contradict our faith rasulullah isn't

[37:52]saying this on the contrary a muslim is allowed to read a

[37:58]book written by a non-muslim or even written by a so-called muslim

[38:03]if that book contains beliefs or thoughts that contradict our faith provided

[38:09]that one condition is fulfilled what condition is that provided that the

[38:17]human being will be certain he is safe from misguidance the person

[38:23]who is reading that book should be certain that if he reads

[38:28]the book he won't deviate as in he should be certain that

[38:37]he has a strong belief in islam and he has enough knowledge

[38:45]to resist deviation he has enough knowledge to refrain from deviation when

[38:50]he reads those non-islamic beliefs or non-islamic thoughts and in case a

[38:57]fallacy is produced in that person's mind he'll refer to the knowledge

[39:02]he has or to his scholars so he can remove that fallacy

[39:07]however if a person doesn't actually know if a person isn't certain

[39:14]that he won't deviate if he reads those books then yes at

[39:20]that point it is unlawful for him to read such books it

[39:24]will be unlawful for him because there is a danger of what

[39:28]a danger of deviation which is a serious matter if a person

[39:34]deviates and dies as he's deviated he will lose what he will

[39:42]lose his his hereafter he will dwell in eternal damnation god forbid

[39:48]so again i repeat in this tradition rasulullah isn't saying that muslims

[39:57]aren't allowed to read books written by non-muslims or books that contain

[40:06]non-islamic beliefs or thoughts that's not what he's saying look at our

[40:13]imams look at imam you'll see that our imams knew they knew

[40:25]what other people had written in their books they had full knowledge

[40:29]of all the books in existence they had full knowledge of the

[40:37]essential taurat and injeel and they also had full knowledge of what

[40:44]of the altered taurat and indian hence when imam rival debated certain

[40:52]scholars in the uh gathering of when he debated the christians and

[40:59]the jews and people of different faiths what did he do did

[41:04]he use the quran to disprove the christian for example or the

[41:09]jew or that person or this person no he used the book

[41:17]or books that this specific person accepted so when he spoke with

[41:23]the christians he would use what the bible he would use verses

[41:29]from the bible which was present during his time in order to

[41:34]disprove the christian same goes for the jew he would use verses

[41:39]from the taurat so on so forth the tradition continues the tradition

[41:49]of rasulullah continues until he tells omar the following please focus on

[41:58]this vital word he says he said if musa was alive amongst

[42:11]amongst you he would be obligated to follow me subhanallah he's mentioning

[42:19]musa who is the main prophet in judaism and telling omar listen

[42:25]if allah right now resurrected musa musa would have to follow my

[42:34]laws which makes sense why because muhammad is the master of the

[42:38]prophets and his set of laws isn't only an eternal set of

[42:43]laws it's all it's also a set of laws that does that

[42:50]replaces all the previous sets of laws descended by god subhanahu wa

[42:56]so if musa was alive during rasulullah's time you would see musa

[43:01]praying like the prophet fasting like the prophet emulating the prophet sallallahu

[43:11]alaihi why go so far insha allah insha allah we will witness

[43:16]or the future generations will witness this great phenomenon what phenomenon we

[43:22]or the future generations will witness and it will be time to

[43:40]pray at that moment what will happen who will pray behind who

[43:46]isa will pray behind the mahdi or the mahdi will pray behind

[43:51]isa the traditions say isa will pray behind sahib is which is

[44:02]not astonishing because we've been saying for a few lectures for a

[44:08]few lectures we've been saying that the prophets do not differ in

[44:11]religion islam surely the religion with allah is islam meaning submission submitting

[44:21]to the almighty subhanallah may allah azzawajal make us all from these

[44:29]sincere supporters of sahaba allah foreign foreign

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