Lessons on the holy Koran- Exegesis of Suratul Ikhlas- Part 6- 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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[0:01]foreign in our last lesson we shed light on the word in

[0:58]the first verse when Allah says he is Allah he is one

[1:09]we mentioned that uh the word I had here refers to the

[1:20]two types of meaning that Allah has absolutely no matches and no

[1:30]likes in existence and at the same time Allah is not composed

[1:34]of any parts he is not composed of any uh components and

[1:41]is indivisible foreign we also promised that in the future inshallah in

[1:48]the near future inshallah we're going to shed more light on this

[1:51]issue of him being indivisible we also presented a few logical proofs

[1:59]confirming both types of tawheed confirming and finally we presented a few

[2:16]more words that were mentioned by some of assyrin specifically the last

[2:30]point we stopped at was the word of say that about when

[2:35]he was explaining the meaning of Ahad so we'll continue from there

[2:43]insha Allah we mentioned that he said Ahad is one who has

[2:54]no matches and no likes in the outer world and cannot have

[2:57]any likes even in the world of imagination or the world of

[3:02]the intellect what does that mean it means that if someone has

[3:08]a basic understanding of the necessary being a basic understanding of God

[3:14]then he will know by using his intellect that there cannot be

[3:23]multiple gods there could only be one God he cannot imagine multiple

[3:32]gods he can only uh you know understand that there is one

[3:39]God in existence ask for believing in multiple gods although some people

[3:47]are polytheists and do hold that belief this belief is actually uh

[3:55]a result of a misconception or a misunderstanding and has no proof

[4:03]to support it there's absolutely no proof no proof confirming the presence

[4:10]of two or more gods there's only proof confirming the existence of

[4:15]one God in fact there are proofs negating the presence of more

[4:25]than one God we mentioned the word of said last week and

[4:32]today we're going to mention a word that mentioned in measurement regarding

[4:40]regarding the word Ahad when Allah says and then finally will go

[4:48]into the narration that I promised you the narration of Imam Muhammad

[4:53]on this regard several uh opinions regarding the meaning of Ahad and

[5:08]that is one of his Styles when you read you realize that

[5:17]well present different opinions regarding the verses of Al-Quran as in he'll

[5:27]present what several interpreters said in regards to one specific verse on

[5:36]top of that he will mention what said in many cases he'll

[5:43]tell you so and so he'll mention the words of Albert and

[5:52]sometimes he himself will give you his interpretation of the verse when

[6:02]he gives his interpretation you realize that the man is very precise

[6:06]very precise and his interpretations are very nice at the same time

[6:12]he is very precise in the Arabic terms usually before he goes

[6:22]into the meaning of the verses he presents uh literal meanings for

[6:27]the worst the the words that are used in those verses and

[6:34]then he explains you know what is the meaning of for example

[6:38]let's say the word shajara what is the meaning of in Arabic

[6:44]and if there are multiple meanings for the word he also presents

[6:48]that so he's very experienced in Arabic thus um if you read

[6:57]the these parts of his tafsir where he explains the Arabic terms

[7:02]you will gain a lot of knowledge in regards to Arabic vocabulary

[7:09]when he explains the word Ahad he says the following let me

[7:16]send you the passage and we'll explain it inshallah yeah foreign which

[7:50]is translated to one in English he says someone some interpreter said

[7:59]that Ahad here refers to several types of unity the first is

[8:08]unity in actions that all of Allah's actions are one how are

[8:13]they one meaning they're similar because the actions of Allah which are

[8:21]in reality creations of his the actions of Allah are forms of

[8:27]isan favors and forms or say manifestations of goodness that Allah presents

[8:35]and bestows upon his creations he does not do what he does

[8:42]for the sake of receiving benefit or for the sake of repelling

[8:50]harm away from himself which is true Allah is so powerful and

[8:58]independent that nothing absolutely nothing benefits him he does not need benefit

[9:07]from anyone at the same time no one can harm him so

[9:11]even if we disbelieve in Allah day and night and say the

[9:17]worst words about God Allah will not be harmed yes he won't

[9:21]be harmed even if everyone disbelieves he or he won't be harmed

[9:26]yes he does not need anyone's worship so why does he command

[9:29]us to worship Him and why does he threaten us telling us

[9:34]that if we don't worship him we will enter Hellfire for us

[9:39]for our own benefit because Allah azzawajal is a caring Lord and

[9:45]a kind Lord he pushes you without actually forcing you he pushes

[9:53]you towards his obedience and away from his Disobedience so you and

[10:02]I can benefit as for he he does not benefit he does

[10:08]not need anyone or anything he is the one who is an

[10:14]needy and completely independent so his wife all of his actions are

[10:22]one in the sense that they're similar none of his actions are

[10:26]done for the sake of attaining benefit or pushing away harm from

[10:31]himself and he says this interpreter is saying that this is a

[10:52]unique trait in Allah a trait that you don't find in anyone

[10:56]other than Allah because the rest of the beings meaning Allah's Creations

[11:07]they do what they do for the sake of attaining benefit or

[11:12]pushing away harm from themselves this is what The Interpreter is saying

[11:18]right this is what The Interpreter is saying now I'd like to

[11:26]comment on this point specifically had he said that Allah is the

[11:36]only being who is completely independent and does not need anyone it

[11:42]would have been better his words would have been more precise why

[11:48]because you might find a creation of God a being who does

[12:01]what he does not for the sake of attaining benefit not for

[12:07]the sake of receiving benefit or repelling harm away from himself let

[12:14]me give you an example when they worship Allah they worship God

[12:22]out of fear of entering Hellfire no for the sake of entering

[12:31]Heaven no do they love Heaven of course do they want Heaven

[12:37]yes do they want to be saved from Hellfire obviously that's a

[12:41]given the Quran about in suratul insane so they they do fear

[13:02]Allah's punishments and they do desire his rewards who wouldn't but they

[13:05]don't worship him for that reason they worship him for him subhanahu

[13:13]wa ta'ala because they love him so their worship was the worship

[13:17]of who the worship of the free men as they said Ali

[13:19]him those who worship Allah out of fear their worship is the

[13:26]worship of the businessman sorry um the slaves and those who worship

[13:37]Allah out of greed their worship is the worship of the businessman

[13:42]and those who worship Allah out of love in and in a

[13:50]second narration out of shukur out of thankfulness their worship is the

[13:54]worship of the free this is why I'm saying it's possible at

[14:01]least theoretically right to find a creation who does a specific deed

[14:10]um not for the sake of attaining benefit nor for the sake

[14:17]of repelling harm away from himself although those two issues attaining benefit

[14:25]and pushing away the harm are a natural natural result of what

[14:33]of worshiping Allah subhanahu so had this sir said that Allah is

[14:41]the only being who's completely independent his um his words would have

[14:48]been more precise nonetheless I think it's quite obvious that it's safe

[14:58]to say most Creations do what they do for the sake of

[15:04]attaining benefit and or pushing away harm from themselves is completely independent

[15:15]as great as they are although they are independent of God's creations

[15:24]from certain perspectives certain perspectives they're still dependent on what on Allah

[15:31]they need Allah to exist and to have everything they have everything

[15:37]they have all their Excellence knowledge virtues all of that is from

[15:43]Allah if Allah takes it away from them they will not have

[15:51]it Allah will never do that but they need Allah ask for

[15:57]Allah he does not need anyone even then Allah made dependent on

[16:05]what certain Creations when when they were in this world to show

[16:10]us that they're creations of God so for example example the infallible

[16:14]Imam or asaida Zara they would need food right they need food

[16:23]they need food they would eat they would need to be nourished

[16:29]they would need drinks sometimes they would ask help from people Imam

[16:34]Hassan on the day of Ashura would call out for help for

[16:40]example is there anyone who will defend us Allah would put a

[16:48]handlebay through these you know States so that he reminds us that

[16:56]they're creations of God because as we said once and we'll say

[16:58]it again did not eat nor drink nor sleep they did not

[17:10]you know um get sick for example people would have said these

[17:15]are God these people are God but they're not God they are

[17:19]habirullah the slaves of Allah and his closest servants so this is

[17:27]the first word that is regarding the um the passage we just

[17:37]read then he says again he's narrating the word of an interpreter

[17:45]he says is also one from a worship perspective and then no

[18:03]one deserves to be worshiped other than Allah this is completely correct

[18:09]no one deserves worship other than Allah says he says that Allah

[18:37]is the only one who deserves to be worshiped because he's the

[18:41]only one who has the ability to provide his creations they are

[18:52]the bases of His blessings meaning very important and crucial blessings that

[19:01]a person needs in order to um benefit in order to benefit

[19:12]from other blessings or in order to enjoy other blessings an example

[19:17]of these bases of blessings are hayat life having power having the

[19:25]ability to do or not do is having desire Etc so he's

[19:31]the only one who has the ability to give you these these

[19:38]blessings which are the bases of other blessings he says no one

[19:49]else has the power to give you these blessings which is true

[19:54]as in no one has the independent power to give you these

[20:01]blessings other than Allah but if Allah wants if Allah wants he

[20:11]can give some of his Creations what he can give some of

[20:14]his Creations the power to Grant other creations these blessings here that

[20:23]creation of God is giving that blessing with Allah's permission so without

[20:31]Allah's permission he can't do anything hence we can say only Allah

[20:37]has the power to give you those blessings meaning only Allah has

[20:41]the independent power to do so a clear example on this regard

[20:49]Islam revive the dead right with Allah's permission he also would use

[21:02]clay and would make the shape of a flying animal one narration

[21:07]says it was the shape of a bat and he would blow

[21:13]in it and then the that clay would actually turn into a

[21:17]living bat so he would give life to Clay but with whose

[21:23]permission with Allah's permission without Allah wouldn't have been able to do

[21:31]so then he says uh is one in regards to what to

[21:42]his actions his actions are one he's one in regards to worship

[21:45]as in he is the only one who deserves to be worshiped

[21:50]and he's one in regards to giving us meaning he's the only

[21:59]one who's able to give those bases of blessings give the basis

[22:03]of blessings which are blessings themselves you have a question no should

[22:24]I say no all right now we come to the narration of

[22:35]Imam let me copy it and send it to you this narration

[22:51]is found in the book at tahid for saluk so it's a

[23:07]narration that goes back to Imam sadak says that his father Muhammad

[23:15]al-balkar said what you're about to hear as he explained the verse

[23:32]foreign color cool Allah said say now he explains what does say

[23:47]mean I often a lake or Muhammad reveal what we revealed to

[23:54]you like so it doesn't reveal what we've revealed to you and

[24:08]what we've informed you by connecting the letters that we've descended upon

[24:15]you meaning have brought down the verse and I've worded the verse

[24:27]in a specific way and I want you to convey it in

[24:32]the same manner so attach each of the letters that I've descended

[24:36]upon you the same way I've attached them to each other so

[24:42]in other terms convey what has been brought down upon you without

[24:50]any change without any alteration and the prophet will do so Allah

[24:54]he would deliver Allah's word as it is without any changes foreign

[25:09]and connecting the letters that we've read to you that we've descended

[25:16]upon you Leah why should he read what Allah brought down upon

[25:27]him he tells him he says so that those who listen to

[25:37]you with attentiveness those who listen to you with Focus maybe guided

[25:42]so that those who listen to you as their they focus on

[25:48]what you say maybe guided ultimately one of rasulullah's rules Humanity then

[25:57]the Imam goes to the second word Hua so he says foreign

[26:12]foreign of course I'm gonna exert all effort to translate this narration

[26:33]in the best of manners um usually when we Translate narrations it's

[26:40]normal to lose some meanings but most importantly I will not insha

[26:47]Allah convey any incorrect meanings and I'll try my best to convey

[26:53]all the meanings that the Imam presents in this Hadith nonetheless here

[27:01]the Imam says that the word Hua points to a being that

[27:08]is meaning a being that is hidden hidden or you can say

[27:18]absent is absent Allah is Not absent Allah is with us wherever

[27:21]you are Allah is with you yes wherever you are he's with

[27:28]you because he knows everything about you and about the things that

[27:33]are around you wherever you are he sees you and hears you

[27:36]wherever you are he has power over you you are lying within

[27:43]his Dominion subhanahu wa ta'ala and you can never Escape his Dominion

[27:46]thus wherever you are Allah is with you although he's not physically

[27:49]with you because he's not physical foreign so yes he's with you

[27:58]in the sense that we just explained but at the same time

[28:06]he's absent in what sense he's physically absent right is Allah physically

[28:11]here no he's not physically here because he's not physical he is

[28:16]not made made up of matters so the Imam says that the

[28:22]word Hua points points to a being Allah who is hidden whose

[28:28]absent how is he absent he cannot be felt by your senses

[28:38]you cannot smell Allah or see Allah physically or taste him or

[28:45]touch him or hear Allah's essence you can see and or taste

[28:53]or here or feel touch or smell his Creations which are signs

[29:06]of his you can feel with one of the five senses the

[29:11]creations of God but she cannot feel with any of your senses

[29:15]the five senses and so from that perspective he's absent or say

[29:27]he's hidden Imam says habit here Imam al-bakar divides the word Hua

[29:35]into two and he tells you the ha points to a reality

[29:40]and the Wow points to a different reality tell me who can

[29:46]do that sir can actually come and present such a meaning to

[29:55]you and at the same time be right in what he says

[29:58]other than who has the audacity to say to say this right

[30:07]without being called a liar other than because they are the inheritors

[30:17]of the book they know the book inside out and so he

[30:22]says it confirms Allah's existence so by simply saying who we're confirming

[30:37]that Allah exists and the Wow points to the fact that Allah

[30:48]is absent meaning he cannot be felt with any of the five

[30:51]senses here one might say but didn't Musa alaihissalam here Allah didn't

[31:04]Musa hear Allah's voice yes he heard Allah he spoke to Allah

[31:11]and heard in fact based on our narrations even Banu Israel at

[31:18]least in some instances or at least one instance they also heard

[31:25]Allah's voice but what was that Allah does not literally have a

[31:34]voice as in he does not have a throat like me and

[31:35]you from which a voice stems no Allah created a voice for

[31:42]Musa so it was a creation of God but because Allah chose

[31:50]that this creation which was a sound or had a sound this

[31:58]creation I will use in order to address considered it the words

[32:08]of Allah doesn't have a physical voice he does not have a

[32:19]physical voice if we say if if you hear someone saying that

[32:21]Musa heard Allah's words right what is meant is that he worked

[32:36]he heard the created words of Allah earlier I think I said

[32:41]that he heard Allah's voice what I meant is that he heard

[32:47]the the words created by God subhanallah yeah so he says [Music]

[33:13]in another version of the same narration instead of using the word

[33:20]Shahid the narration says let me explain what the Imam saying he's

[33:26]saying you have two words in Arabic and Hatha Heather is what

[33:32]Hada is a ishara meaning it's a it's a word used to

[33:40]point to something close remember when we were learning about Adam Ali

[33:47]salaam and the story of the garden Allah told Adam what at

[33:52]the start of the story do not approach this tree by using

[33:59]hadihi we understand that the tree was close to Adam or Adam

[34:05]was close to the tree pointed to a specific tree telling him

[34:09]don't approach this tree yeah Adam so here the Imam says the

[34:20]word Hatha is used to point to something that you can feel

[34:28]with one of your five senses foreign s furthermore and he says

[34:51]that the disbelievers they pointed to their gods using what using the

[35:00]ism ishara they pointed to their gods and so they were confirming

[35:04]that their gods can be felt their gods for example can be

[35:12]seen with the physical eyes their gods can be felt with your

[35:16]hands and so he said he said these are our Gods they're

[35:24]over here they're close to us look you can see them you

[35:29]can feel them their fault and they're also seen by our physical

[35:38]eyes by our let's say physical sight we can see them we

[35:51]want you to point to your God you're saying you have a

[35:57]god these are our Gods we want you to point to your

[35:59]God where is he we want to see him we want to

[36:04]feel him point to him point to your God the god to

[36:17]which you call so we may see him meaning we may physically

[36:22]see him and so we may reach him with our physical sights

[36:30]and so we may not remain in a state of confusion as

[36:35]we search for that God and so the response was what is

[36:48]and so Allah brought down foreign let me send you the next

[37:01]part of the tradition a and Jeff I have a question okay

[37:17]sorry so he says confirms Allah's existence and he says by using

[37:28]the word Imam is saying that Allah exists whether we know he

[37:36]exists or not whether we believe in him or not that will

[37:40]not affect his existence he is present subhanallah his existence is a

[37:45]must right but Allah confirms it once again by simply using that

[37:53]ha who is as for the wow the wow is used to

[38:02]point to the god whose absent in what sense foreign he's absent

[38:25]in the sense that the physical eyes cannot see him and he

[38:32]cannot be felt by the five senses then the Imam says he

[38:46]says that Allah is too exalted it's too high not in a

[38:59]physical sense it's too high to be seen by the physical eyes

[39:01]or to be felt by one of the five senses and he

[39:09]reminds us of this reality with the wow rather he is the

[39:18]one who sees the sights meaning he has full knowledge absolutely full

[39:27]knowledge of the eyes of his creations and their sights and he's

[39:34]the one who created the senses when there were no senses realize

[39:41]the word doesn't only notify us notifies that Allah created these senses

[39:53]that exist it also notifies us that he created them when there

[39:58]were absolutely no senses what does that imply it implies that Allah

[40:04]did not copy another creation did not copy for example did not

[40:16]make a second copy of a different creation he had created so

[40:24]what I'm trying to say is yes Allah does create different creations

[40:34]of the same kind for example you have millions and millions of

[40:42]humans that were created but at a certain point there was what

[40:46]the first human the first human created by Allah when Allah created

[40:52]him he did not learn how to create him from someone else

[40:58]yes sister did you have a question uh yes I do oh

[41:05]I I understand from today's lesson back in the days Prophet time

[41:14]they used to tell him this is our God we see him

[41:15]they point so they told the prophet and no where's your God

[41:21]are you to let them know and Allah exists not physically but

[41:31]he's around us at all times [Music] explains it in this tradition

[41:40]in this tradition he's saying in the the kuffar had asked rasulullah

[41:48]to show them his God and so this was the response okay

[41:52]so this is one of the reasons okay all right so now

[41:58]if we connect the Traditions together we'll understand that there were several

[42:03]reasons for The Descent of or at least for the Descent of

[42:09]some some of its verses one is the the word of the

[42:17]Jews when they said in siblana and one is the um the

[42:20]word of the kufar that I mentioned here in this tradition uh

[42:25]can you explain again when uh what the Jewish thank you no

[42:40]problem means what it means that Allah creates but he creates an

[42:49]let's call it an innovation in what sense creates something new that

[42:58]did not exist before it was created so sometimes Allah will create

[43:10]a creation that we've seen previously for example you have many trees

[43:19]many trees in existence right we've seen trees if Allah ta'ala creates

[43:24]a new tree all right uh this is a copy of a

[43:30]previous tree Allah had created as in it resembles a previous tree

[43:36]but then you have Creations that were created for the first time

[43:42]previously before their creation there were no copies of that creation there

[43:49]were no previous let's say plans or previous models of that creation

[43:55]and Allah still created those creations so how did he know how

[44:04]to create them how did he have the power to create them

[44:06]he's Allah he has and always had and always will have infinite

[44:13]power and infinite knowledge he is his power and he is his

[44:19]knowledge his knowledge is his power his power is his life Etc

[44:22]so the word badia and the word mobda here in this tradition

[44:28]Imam says is pointing to that reality which is Allah doesn't only

[44:40]create but he also creates things that did not exist previously although

[44:48]they did not exist previously he still knew uh he still knew

[44:58]um what traits he should give those creations and also knew how

[45:09]to create those Creations as in if he wanted to create the

[45:15]creation in a way it goes through different steps in order to

[45:20]become complete he knew without being taught what are the steps that

[45:25]should be taken to complete that being take the example of Adam's

[45:33]Body Adam's Body is which is the human body Allah always knew

[45:38]what are the steps needed to make that body essentially it came

[45:46]from clay so now if I take a bunch of a lump

[45:50]of clay will I have a body no Allah made modifications to

[45:58]that clay he mixed it with water for example and there was

[46:01]a whole process through which the body of Adam was made that

[46:08]Allah knew how to make the body obviously he did he always

[46:13]knew do you always know yes he did he had infinite he

[46:18]always had infinite knowledge subhanahu and thus he always knew how to

[46:25]create his creations make sense yes thank you all right I have

[46:39]a question yeah the word it comes from like it's attached to

[46:49]the war there could be a relationship maybe I'm not sure at

[46:54]the moment but um it's uh strongly connected to the word foreign

[47:03]okay it makes sense yeah you know when someone for example presents

[47:11]uh a new invention something that people had not invented before they

[47:17]say this isn't this is in ebitda or someone presents a lecture

[47:21]that people had not uh heard before with plenty of new information

[47:29]they say you know this is the speaker is right it's all

[47:37]alluding to that my son to him but we'll stop here for

[47:42]uh today uh we'll take a short break and then we'll go

[47:46]to the card class alhamdulillah

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