Lessons on the holy Koran- Exegesis of Suratul Ikhlas- Part 26- Hamam Nassereddine

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This is part of a series of lectures given by Hamam Nassereddine that shed light on the holy Koran and explain its verses. These lectures were given at Mahad Imam Ridha in Imam Hussain Foundation.

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[0:05]ald [Music] in our last lesson before we took the the break

[0:50]for faia we were looking at narrations from that speak about uh

[0:59]Allah subhana wa tala and the mention uh the results that would

[1:08]have taken place had Allah subhana wa TAA been like us when

[1:11]we say been like us we mean had he been like us

[1:15]we mean um if Allah subhana wa tala had an origin as

[1:17]in he came from something else or something came from him what

[1:24]would have happened the Traditions mentioned uh multiple points that we shed

[1:29]light on on this was all before what led us here is

[1:37]the verse in which says explains indicates that Allah subhana tala did

[1:48]not come from anything and nothing comes out of Allah subhanahu wa

[1:53]taala yes he creates his Creations but the creations of God are

[1:57]not part of him they don't come out of him subhah wa

[2:04]ta'ala rather he wishes to bring them into existence and that's it

[2:09]they're created by the almighty subhanahu wa ta'ala I believe there was

[2:17]one last narration that we did not read perhaps we read it

[2:20]but again there's no harm in uh repetition after we read it

[2:26]inah and explain it we'll shed light on the last verse and

[2:31]in by the end of the session today we'll have completed the

[2:37]the explanation of our next Surah will be because as we will

[2:43]realize these two suras are related and we realize from the narrations

[2:49]of that uh there are there's a significant amount of salawat significant

[2:57]amount of prayers um when you do these prayers tell you to

[3:02]recite and in in the prayer which seem which means that there

[3:07]is some sort of connection between and and so the narration we're

[3:14]going to read right now is also found in going to send

[3:23]it to you right now it's not allowing to select okay I'm

[3:39]going to send you a bunch of a Hadith the last one

[3:42]will be the Hadith that I that we want to shed light

[3:46]on okay the IM says again perhaps we read it before the

[4:03]F but there's no harm in reading it again and explaining it

[4:07]he says Allah subhana meaning nothing came out of Allah he has

[4:11]no children and nothing comes out of God nothing physically comes out

[4:18]of God for example because he's not physical um and again as

[4:24]we said when he creates his creation is not literally coming out

[4:31]of God subhah Waal so he says one proof that confirms that

[4:42]Allah subhana that Allah has no children and nothing came out of

[4:46]him is that the child resembles his father right the child resembles

[4:54]his father as in when you have a parent and the parent

[4:57]has a child there will be uh a degree of resemblance between

[5:04]the two but Allah subhana wa tal has no likes says Allah

[5:10]has absolutely no likes which means that he has no children well

[5:21]he says Allah subh which means Allah did not come out of

[5:26]something else did not originate from something else which means he has

[5:32]no parents had he come out of something else if Allah had

[5:42]a parent then also he would resemble his parents he would resemble

[5:47]those from whom he originated but again as we said Allah has

[5:52]no likes he has no matches so by simply understanding as if

[6:00]im is telling us by simply understanding uh that Allah subhanahu wa

[6:05]ta'ala has no likes you can understand that he has no parents

[6:11]and has no children and Allah subhana wa ta'ala has no matches

[6:28]amongst his Creations so none of his Creations are like him none

[6:36]of his Creations are a match for God here the Imam says

[6:46]that Allah's Allah subh or say Allah's reality is far different than

[6:52]the reality or the realities of his uh Creations his traits are

[6:59]much different than our traits why am I saying much different because

[7:05]the IM said so his traits are different than ours in fact

[7:12]there's a huge difference between the traits of God and our traits

[7:38]next Allah says in the translation for this verse is nor has

[7:48]he any equal in Shak translation he says and none is like

[7:53]him none is like Allah subhanahu wa taala so what do the

[8:01]MU what do the interpreters of the Quran say on this regard

[8:04]they say the verse is confirming that Allah subh has no matches

[8:13]that nothing is similar to Godel so Allah has no matches or

[8:23]likes in his Essence no matches or likes in his attributes and

[8:26]no matches or likes in his actions that's an important point to

[8:37]keep in mind so the essence of God meaning God himself is

[8:41]completely unique absolutely unique all right what about his traits well his

[8:46]traits are his Essence right who I knew that we say in

[8:52]the science of beliefs which means that his own existence is his

[8:59]own knowledge his knowledge know is his power his power is his

[9:03]life for example and his life is his own existence there there

[9:09]is no difference between between these attributes of God we say Allah

[9:15]tal is knowledgeable right when we say he's knowledgeable Allah is not

[9:20]one thing and his knowledge is something else no no he is

[9:23]his own knowledge for me and you you're one thing and your

[9:29]knowledge is something else I'm one thing and my knowledge is something

[9:34]else for example a baby is born the baby's name is jaar

[9:38]all right when Jafar is born he has what no knowledge zero

[9:44]knowledge yes he knows a few things that are part of his

[9:46]what part of his human nature or human instinct but he doesn't

[9:52]know for example the alphabet he doesn't know Arabic grammar he doesn't

[9:58]know uh let's say the history of Canada these Sciences are later

[10:05]on absorbed by him because he's taught these Sciences right so the

[10:11]when when when jaar grows up and he learns and then becomes

[10:19]a scholar or becomes a scientist is he the same jaf right

[10:24]he is the he is he's not why not but is his

[10:37]is his reality the same I think is he the same person

[10:41]he is right he's the same person he his traits changed but

[10:49]his own Essence is still the same because the know uh you're

[11:00]going to laugh at my statement if we say that then we're

[11:04]going to say the essence of his Essence is still the same

[11:07]right so there's something in right there's a core part in the

[11:13]human being that doesn't change even though his traits might change right

[11:18]one day Jafar is ignorant as we said and then you know

[11:24]he learns and he becomes a a a great scholar he's still

[11:28]the same jaf in what sense in the sense that he'll he'll

[11:31]he'll tell you about himself I'm the person who was born in

[11:37]let's say 1950 I'm the person who went to this school that

[11:40]school I learned these Sciences these were my teachers and I went

[11:44]through all of this process until I became knowledgeable so his knowledge

[11:51]is what one thing his Essence is something else J the same

[11:56]applies to any other trait that we hold methan one day uh

[12:05]someone is stingy methan you have someone called Z right Z he's

[12:11]stingy he doesn't like to give and he maintains that habit for

[12:18]10 20 years then something happens in his life which changes him

[12:22]and that that same Z becomes generous he starts giving he starts

[12:26]giving you know food money helping people sacrificing his time is that

[12:32]the same Z yes it's the same Z one day he was

[12:35]singi one day he what he became generous all right Shan one

[12:44]day was amongst the angels and he was worshiping Allah subhana wa

[12:48]tala he was he was good he was righteous he wasn't a

[12:53]bad person or a bad uh Jin he's a Jin then he

[12:57]changed and he disobeyed all and he became the devil is it

[13:02]the same individual who became the devil it is right so the

[13:12]the the evil is the that was one day good we're giving

[13:18]these examples to understand that for us human beings or for us

[13:27]creations of God we we our our Essences are different than than

[13:30]our traits your trait is one thing but your essence is something

[13:37]else with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala it's it's uh it's different Allah's

[13:42]traits Allah's attributes are his assets we say God is knowledgeable you

[13:46]might think okay so we have something called Allah and then knowledge

[13:50]is what attached to God no no no no he is his

[13:56]own knowledge all right Allah is powerful you might think you have

[14:02]something called Allah and then you have power no he is his

[14:09]own power all right Allah is says he is what you're all

[14:16]living so you might think Allah is one thing and his life

[14:21]is something else no his life is his own Essence his Essence

[14:24]is his power his power is his uh uh knowledge yes there

[14:29]there's one point that we have to understand which is a bit

[14:32]tricky we have created knowledge created Power created life and then you

[14:40]have the light and the knowledge and the power of the Creator

[14:43]himself those are different J right now I have power so one

[14:50]might tell me all right so you have power we have power

[14:52]and you're saying Allah tal is his own power so we're Allah

[14:57]no no no no wrong this power that we have have is

[14:59]created by God and it's given to us by God so it's

[15:05]it's what it's a created type of power or a created form

[15:10]of power when we say Allah is his own power that power

[15:13]is beyond my and your understanding because it's his Essence from the

[15:20]power of the Creator the created Power is brought into existence make

[15:26]sense also when we talk about knowledge we have to understand there's

[15:32]knowledge which is created and then you have the knowledge of Allah

[15:34]subhanahu wa tala I said this before but I'll say it again

[15:36]because it's necessary to repeat these these Concepts uh when we read

[15:44]mean any books that contain knowledge we read Quran we read Hadith

[15:48]we read history books math books science books Etc you're reading what

[15:53]knowledge this knowledge was which is going through your brain which is

[15:58]entering your brain is not Allah one might say you know what

[16:03]I I learned uh I learned math you know I read math

[16:07]now I became God no no you're not God okay whatever you

[16:10]learn that knowledge that went through your mind or your brain is

[16:13]created knowledge the knowledge of Allah subhana wa tala is his own

[16:21]Essence and from it comes all from it come all forms of

[16:26]created knowledge the same applies to life you're alive are you sure

[16:33]yes I'm sure I'm alive all right we're alive our life is

[16:37]what created life his life is what he's alive as well but

[16:44]his life is the life of the creator has no beginning it's

[16:50]uh magnificent amazing mindblowing uh mindblowing uh life because it has no

[17:02]beginning and has no end and death cannot mix with that kind

[17:05]of Life subhah waala all right so our created life comes from

[17:16]where from Allah's life not in the sense that we literally come

[17:20]out of him no no in the sense that he created that

[17:24]that that life he made it so when the verse says the

[17:33]verse is telling you Allah has no matches in essence he has

[17:40]no matches in traits as we said earlier even the traits that

[17:45]the Creations can hold uh even the traits that Allah has which

[17:52]we can hold to our own degree there's a big difference between

[17:55]these traits that we hold and the traits that Allah holds so

[18:02]for example with Mercy Allah T is what merciful and I can

[18:06]be merciful Allah T is generous and I can be generous Allah

[18:09]tal is kind and I can be kind even though I can

[18:13]be or I am merciful and kind and generous Allah's Mercy is

[18:21]much greater than mine Allah's kindness Allah's generosity is much greater than

[18:27]mine such that you can't even compare the two to one another

[18:36]last but not least Allah's actions are also unique he has no

[18:45]matches in actions what do you think that means no matches in

[18:54]actions but can we elaborate what can we understand from that no

[19:04]one can do what Allah does capacity is I unless he gives

[19:24]you permission unless he gives that power right what is it in

[19:32]that scenario still indirect s exactly exactly so we're saying he has

[19:39]no likes in action in the sense that Allah has absolute freedom

[19:48]complete freedom to do whatever he wants the only being who has

[19:54]absolute freedom is Allah any other being in existence even let's go

[20:01]to the top even they don't have absolute freedom but how can

[20:08]you say that you say it because are creations of God they

[20:13]are God's slaves they can only do what Allah permits them to

[20:22]do now if someone believes that were given were given and we

[20:32]do believe in that right we believe that Allah gave them the

[20:38]power to manipulate the segments of this universe with his with with

[20:42]his permission subhana wa tala they can only do that if Allah

[20:45]allows them to do it it's like the angel of death he

[20:54]has the power to take a person's soul so he has the

[20:56]power to make us die even if even if I'm not sick

[21:02]yes even if you're not sick even if I don't go through

[21:04]an accident even if someone does not kill me Mal mod can

[21:08]simply pull my soul out of my body yes he has that

[21:10]power but that power has been given to him by God number

[21:16]one and M cannot remove one person's soul from his body unless

[21:22]Allah gives him permission so unless it's the time for that person

[21:25]to die unless the time for that person's death arrives Mal cannot

[21:32]remove your soul from your body because he has no permission makes

[21:36]sense so here what do we find we find that is able

[21:42]to do something that Allah is able to do because Allah says

[21:46]in the Quran Allah collects or completely collects The Souls of the

[21:54]people at the time of death when the time of death of

[21:56]those Souls arrives but then he also says say that the angel

[22:12]of death he takes your souls tell them that the angel of

[22:15]death takes your souls so Quran Quran is telling you Allah subhana

[22:18]tala can do and can also do right hence one might say

[22:26]look see the the Quran is telling you that the angel of

[22:30]that is at Allah's level wrong it's a big difference cannot work

[22:36]without Allah's power Allah has to give him the power to pull

[22:39]out the souls and he cannot do anything without Allah's permission but

[22:46]Allah doesn't need anyone's permission to do anything that's why we said

[22:51]he has absolute freedom he doesn't need anyone's assistance and doesn't need

[22:59]anyone's permission he's all powerful and as the Quran says he does

[23:07]what he Wills yes like a totality all of his attributes right

[23:30]right where say like uh the traits of man you can only

[23:33]be so many things at once and also do the traits of

[23:36]man have to be like Quantified in a way like say if

[23:40]I say oh I'm I'm merciful well your last like well like

[23:43]give an example you know I mean I'm I'm I'm a like

[23:48]a charitable person it's something you have to quantify can't just like

[23:53]say it right where the laws traits are Eternal they exist like

[23:57]yeah they exist within a to and his actions too whereas like

[24:03]um like you can only do so many things at once as

[24:05]well whereas the law can act within the entire totality okay so

[24:18]that's a comment not a question right just making making a comment

[24:24]yeah uhhuh so you're saying that basically whatever traits we we hold

[24:34]are limited they're not uh uh traits Without Limits and these these

[24:40]traits all come from God as in had it not been for

[24:46]God we wouldn't possess the traits that we possess that's what that's

[24:50]what you're saying correct we're talking of course here about the good

[25:01]traits that human beings hold as for bad traits those we can

[25:05]talk about in a different discussion they're also created but the human

[25:11]being chooses the human being chooses to uh to be evil the

[25:20]human being chooses to hold or maintain bad traits nonetheless they have

[25:26]their own discussion which I don't want to get into to right

[25:30]now because it's going to take us um lead us to a

[25:35]deep topic which we'll need uh a what amount of time to

[25:37]um cover J so we were saying that Allah Allah subhana wa

[25:45]taala Allah's actions are what are also unique he has no matches

[25:52]when it comes to actions because as we said the only being

[25:54]that has absolute freedom is God any other being any other being

[26:02]that can perform an action number one needs power from Allah subhana

[26:09]wa tala to perform that action number two he needs permission from

[26:14]God by permission we mean allowance Allah has to allow him to

[26:18]actually do that action if he doesn't allow him it's not it's

[26:23]not going to happen make sense so for example when I want

[26:29]to perform Salah when I want to perform Salah I need power

[26:32]from Allah to perform the Salah secondly I need allowance he has

[26:37]to allow me if Allah decrees he's not going to do this

[26:43]but suppose he decrees that he will not allow people to pray

[26:48]we won't be able to pray every time we try to pray

[26:51]something will happen and we won we won't be able to do

[26:56]it make sense one very clear example on this regard is m

[26:58]Alam Pharaoh had a plan Allah had a plan Pharaoh's plan was

[27:04]to get rid of M Alam hence based on our Traditions he

[27:10]killed thousands of babies from B is Thousands to get rid of

[27:14]the real mban who would grow up and terminate Pharaoh that was

[27:18]Pharaoh's plan Allah subhana T had a plan which was that MSA

[27:24]is going to come into this world he's going to grow up

[27:26]and then when he grows up he will terminate Pharaoh Allah wanted

[27:31]to show Pharaoh his power and wanted to show us his power

[27:39]so he sent M to Pharaoh himself and Ms ended up living

[27:41]in the Mansion or the Palace of pharaoh then he grew up

[27:47]and Subhan Allah MSA terminated Pharaoh so when Allah subhana wa tala

[27:53]does not allow for something to happen it's not going to happen

[28:02]period Allah did not allow pharaoh to kill M hence Pharaoh was

[28:04]able to kill thousands of babies but he was not able to

[28:08]kill the real M makes sense and the opposite is true when

[28:17]Allah wants something to happen he decrees it he wants it to

[28:23]happen it's going to happen Allah T wants people to go through

[28:25]death that's a decree that we cannot Escape one day we're going

[28:30]to have to die either we get killed by someone or we

[28:33]die due to old age due to sickness due to a car

[28:38]accident there are two Avenues and we're going to have to take

[28:40]one of them before we leave this world that that's a given

[28:47]you cannot Escape that fate make sense here of course an idea

[28:51]comes to mind which is all right so in this case those

[28:56]who are sinning those who are disobeying Allah those who are oppressing

[29:01]other people um they are technically oppressing other people with Allah's permission

[29:05]so now Allah be becomes what he becomes the criminal or he

[29:11]becomes a criminal and the answer is no Allah is not a

[29:14]criminal Allah gives the human being the power that he needs to

[29:23]obey Allah all right he gives him power to perform actions so

[29:26]he may use that power in a good way way not in

[29:31]a bad way so when the human being uses his power given

[29:33]to him by Allah in a bad way he's at fault not

[29:37]God yes so we have the power right I can I can

[29:44]this power this given me I can use it to obey him

[29:51]or disobey let's say I'm using this power to oppress you right

[29:55]I I have intended upon it I upon the a MH but

[30:00]then why do I have to carry it through or why does

[30:05]Allah have to permit me to carry it through uhhuh so for

[30:08]example I have a gun yeah I'm pointing it to you my

[30:13]fingers on the trigger y why do I have to actually pull

[30:16]the Trigg I've intended it is it not enough is my crime

[30:18]not complete no not yet why do you have to actually become

[30:22]the M for me to be a well the human being here

[30:29]he he choose is to become the by by shooting the person

[30:31]who does not deserve to be shot right so now Allah subhana

[30:37]tala when when Allah does not intervene in such cases and doesn't

[30:41]stop the shooting from happening Allah is permitting the shooting by permitting

[30:46]it I mean he's allowing it to happen now that allowance doesn't

[30:49]mean Allah is pleased with whatever is happening you know we've said

[30:54]this multiple times Allah's allowance is one thing and his pleasure is

[31:01]something else when he allows people to commit crimes he's not pleased

[31:08]with their crimes hence he holds them accountable for what they did

[31:12]on a day of judgment or in the Hereafter so his pleasure

[31:17]is one thing and what he allows is is or could be

[31:20]something else correct he allows me to pray and I pray so

[31:27]there's permission from Allah for me to pray and I know that

[31:30]prayer pleases him so here you find that his permission and his

[31:33]pleasure coincide but then again Allah T permitted to kill IM Hussein

[31:40]ABD to kill IM Ali mu to kill IM but Allah was

[31:47]not pleased with the killing of Ali or Hussein so here his

[31:52]permission was on one side and his pleasure was on the other

[31:55]side make sense that's not my question uhhuh so I'm doing the

[32:00]crime right okay I get punished for it and Allah records it

[32:03]that I did the crime correct why do you have to become

[32:09]the witness is the question so the example is like for uh

[32:13]is right yes he didn't have to actually be sacrificed okay ibraim

[32:18]sacrifice was accepted even though he didn't actually kill that is what

[32:24]I'm getting at here we're I I cannot give you a definite

[32:28]answer I can give you a general one which is these occurrences

[32:34]which take place on Earth they all go back to Allah's decree

[32:39]and Allah's decree is mysterious I'm not going to you know pretend

[32:43]that I know all the secrets in his decree you know I

[32:44]know a minimal amount of of secrets in his decree his decree

[32:48]what what the narrations call is quite mysterious and uh what we

[32:56]can do is come out with certain possibilities uh to understand what

[33:03]could be the wisdom behind such An Occurrence why would fulan say

[33:12]his name is jabber why would jabber be killed by mean as

[33:15]an example someone called ha and why would Allah allow this right

[33:22]what's what's the wisdom behind it as we said ha is the

[33:24]criminal not Allah subhana T but Allah T allowed to be killed

[33:32]by ha why it's it's an interesting question and we might not

[33:37]know the answer but we can come out with possibilities one possibility

[33:41]is uh ja is a good person Allah knows he's he's he's

[33:48]good he's sweet but you know Jaber slipped a few times here

[33:51]and there and disobeyed Allah subhana wa ta'ala Allah doesn't want to

[33:55]punish him in the Hereafter but jabber needs cleansing ha intends on

[34:04]killing jabber Allah subhana T allows ha to kill jab and holds

[34:09]ha accountable for what he did but he cleanses ja through the

[34:14]oppression that Bealls him so now ja goes to the Hereafter in

[34:21]a in a clean State he has no sins whatsoever make sense

[34:28]that's that's one one one possibility yeah another possibility is Allah subhana

[34:33]wa tala wants to lift he wants to elevate the status of

[34:40]of jabber right jabber is good and Allah knows it but you

[34:43]know jab is that kind of a person who doesn't doesn't you

[34:50]know exert much effort in you know worshiping Allah he's good he

[34:54]worships God but he's not you know your your uh he's not

[35:00]the you know the person who performs excessive Allah wants him to

[35:07]reach a high level in heaven based on his current actions he'll

[35:11]be let's say in level one Allah wants him to be in

[35:16]level seven how is he how is he is he gonna get

[35:17]there he allows him to go through such tragedies and then you

[35:24]have jab Rising you know in in heaven and reaching high or

[35:29]Supreme levels in heaven yeah that could be another another wisdom yeah

[35:40]so this is the the meaning or let me say the general

[35:46]meaning of Allah subh has no matches he has no matches he

[35:54]has no likes in essence or attributes or action uh there is

[36:03]one thing that mentioned regarding uh but we're out of time for

[36:08]today inshah next week we'll um continue with these classes and we'll

[36:16]start with

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