Tafsir Surat al-Buruj (ch.85) - Sayed Saleh Qazwini

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[0:14]m [Music] [Music] muhammad the early days of islam the muslims were

[1:36]persecuted living up to the islamic values and practicing the religion of

[1:43]islam was not easy in fact the majority of the life of

[1:52]rasulallah was all difficulties it was until the last two three years

[1:55]that allah describes before it was all difficult in mecca the muslims

[2:08]they were persecuted they were sanctioned they were no one was allowed

[2:14]to buy from them trade with them no one was allowed to

[2:16]marry from them there was an embargo on them and they were

[2:23]being tortured they were being tortured the first shahada in islam are

[2:28]the parents of amar ammar yasser and somaya they were killed because

[2:35]of their faith they were killed because they believe in allah subhanahu

[2:40]wa ta'ala so the muslims the initial muslims who are living in

[2:47]mecca they were living under very difficult times very very difficult times

[2:53]they say that from the hunger they used to rasulullah used to

[2:58]tie a rock to his stomach now i don't know how that

[3:03]functions it keeps someone from falling or it kind of helps someone

[3:09]you know removes the pain of the hunger we have not even

[3:15]experienced that but this is how difficult things were for rasulallah for

[3:20]the muslims where when they were in they used to share a

[3:26]piece of date how big is a piece of dates they used

[3:30]to have to share that piece of date several people would eat

[3:32]from one piece of dates and my dear brothers and sisters when

[3:37]we hear of poverty in that way we have to thank allah

[3:39]every moment and every second for what allah has given us many

[3:43]of us have not experienced this we know people who live in

[3:49]probably other countries they have experienced droughts and they have experienced hunger

[3:54]and famine alhamdulillah we are living in a place where we have

[3:59]not experienced that allah and we have to thank allah so that

[4:04]this name the blessings of allah increase upon us now these muslims

[4:08]they were suffering they were persecuted so verses of the quran would

[4:14]come down to strengthen the resolve of the muslims to strengthen their

[4:20]iman because sometimes you need motivation and what better motivation is when

[4:27]it comes from allah 85 in the quran is a surah that

[4:34]talks about the believers who were persecuted and what happens to those

[4:41]who are patient and what happens to the oppressors so this came

[4:44]in the perfect time the muslims are in mecca it was revealed

[4:50]in mecca it comes down in a time where you have the

[4:53]muslims are persecuted and now you have the quran telling them a

[4:57]story of what happened to a group of people who came before

[5:00]them who were menen who were believers and the fact that the

[5:06]quran one of the beautiful things about the quran is that it

[5:09]was revealed in increments it was not revealed all at once for

[5:15]example they say the taurat and the injeel they were revealed all

[5:18]at once upon the prophets the quran it was revealed within a

[5:23]span of 23 years and the mushrikeen didn't like that because every

[5:27]time they see a new miracle every day they see a new

[5:30]miracle and it would strengthen the iman of the believers because verses

[5:34]would be revealed talking about the circumstances the muslims are facing the

[5:39]situations the challenges addressing the needs of the community this is why

[5:49]they said let the quran just come all at once every day

[5:53]we have new verses coming down new surahs coming down allah says

[6:00]this quran coming down in increments within a span of 23 years

[6:06]this is to strengthen rasulullah strengthen the hearts of the believers and

[6:12]also as a sign that this is a miracle for the non-believers

[6:18]so now surat al-buruj was revealed when the muslims were going through

[6:23]a very difficult time what does buruj mean buruj when we look

[6:26]at a building what do we call it abraj right you call

[6:32]skyscrapers abraj abroad or a big building that is very clear that

[6:37]is very visible you call that a burj now burj it means

[6:45]something that is apparent something that is visible it's not only a

[6:50]building this is why the quran refers to a lady that does

[6:55]not wear hijab means she's revealing herself so anything that is revealed

[7:04]that is revealing this is called a burj or so allah subhanahu

[7:11]wa ta'ala describes and the name of the surah surat why and

[7:25]by the sky full of constellations full of visible things now what

[7:31]are the buruj what's something that's very visible in the sky in

[7:34]the sama you have the stars you have the constellations you have

[7:40]the abraj the constellations they're families of stars right now you look

[7:45]up in the sky they say that there are over 88 constellations

[7:50]seven are very visible you look at them this one looks like

[7:55]the shape of a i don't know a horse this looks like

[7:58]the shape of you know these type of things these are called

[8:01]abraj so another meaning is it could be referring to the stars

[8:05]it could be referring to the sun these are buildings things that

[8:08]are systems things that are very visible that are in the sky

[8:12]wasab this is one qasem by the sama the sky that is

[8:21]filled with buruj then after that was [Music] there's the witness the

[8:58]shahid and the mashud that which is being witnessed here the mufasa

[9:02]in the quran they've given over 30 explanations as to what is

[9:05]the shahid and what is the mashud what is the witness and

[9:09]what is that which is being witnessed one opinion says the shahid

[9:14]the shahid the witness is because the he's a witness this is

[9:38]one and the mashhud is the day of judgment sisters please what

[9:46]is the mashud is the day of judgment allah meaning everyone witnesses

[10:01]it everyone will witness the day of judgment will there be one

[10:05]single person from us that does not witness the day of judgment

[10:07]no because everyone will be gathered at the day of judgment the

[10:12]day of bath the day of qiyama no single person could say

[10:14]i'm skipping the courts maybe in this life your the judge writes

[10:20]you tells you you have to come to court someone says i

[10:21]don't want to go like trump he he was asked to go

[10:25]to the court and he said he doesn't show up to the

[10:28]court on the day of judgment can anyone say i don't want

[10:30]to show up to the courts no so the day of judgment

[10:38]another interpretations of what shahid is they say it is your hands

[10:41]and your legs and your body because your hands and your body

[10:46]will witness on the day of judgment allah says in the quran

[10:57]so allah your hands and your body is the shahid it will

[11:09]witness for you on the day of judgment and the mashud is

[11:14]the people they're the ones who there's going to be a witness

[11:18]that will witness upon them another opinion says the shahid is the

[11:23]day of jomo and this this this goes back to hadith from

[11:28]imam al-baqarah rasool allah they say that the shahid is because the

[11:34]day of the day of friday witnesses that the people gather if

[11:38]you come and you gather in the masjid on friday that friday

[11:42]will be a witness for you on the day of judgement it

[11:44]will witness and not only friday right now you come and you

[11:48]pray in a masjid you're standing here you're praying this location will

[11:53]witness for you on the day of judgment you're in the desert

[11:55]you stand somewhere and you pray in the middle of the street

[11:59]that location will witness for you your hands you're walking your your

[12:03]hands you're using them your legs you're walking with them to do

[12:06]something good that will witness for you so yo according to the

[12:16]hadith is the day of arafah because all of the all of

[12:19]the hajjaj who are in arafah they have to be in arafat

[12:24]so they have to see arafah they have to witness arafah one

[12:27]opinion says the shahid is rasool allah and the mashuda is the

[12:32]other prophets one other opinion says the shahadas imam ali one one

[12:38]opinion says the shahada is the hajjar al-aswad the black stone and

[12:41]the mashood or the hajjaj so there are many opinions but we

[12:45]understand that the whole purpose of it was meaning there are witnesses

[12:50]don't think you could live your life in a way where there

[12:54]are no witnesses no one sees you some of us we live

[12:58]our lives as if no one will hold me accountable no there

[13:01]is accountability the place you walk the the things you say everything

[13:05]will witness for you or against you on the day of judgements

[13:17]is now here is where the story comes in because the people

[13:29]of mecca they're being persecuted so they need something to strengthen them

[13:34]allah gives them the story of the people of dude the people

[13:41]of um they're bad people means they're cursed they're destroyed because of

[13:48]their actions it's not that they were good and they were persecuted

[13:56]as a the cheek but it's referred to a cut in the

[14:03]ground this is why when someone's crying you have you have a

[14:05]stream it makes a a a trench basically so they call a

[14:13]handuk a trench when someone makes a ditch in the ground a

[14:17]trench they call that so because these were a group of people

[14:28]who tortured and burned the menin they tortured so they dug a

[14:32]trench they dug a long trench and they killed the menin they

[14:40]filled it with fire and they threw them in the they were

[14:50]watching they were watching these people be killed and they are witnessing

[14:58]these believers just because they believe in god they were persecuted the

[15:07]only reason why they persecuted them was because they believed in allah

[15:15]now who are these people who are as the story there are

[15:22]several stories but the most popular one that the mufasa of the

[15:25]quran they narrate they say that in yemen there was a king

[15:31]by the name of dunawas this king he was the last king

[15:38]of hemiar one of the tribes of hamir this was before islam

[15:42]a couple probably not too long before rasulallah this group of people

[15:49]they this king dunawas he goes and he converts to judaism he

[15:56]becomes a jewish person and he changes his name to yusuf so

[16:02]now he forces everyone to join his religion the majority of the

[16:09]people they joined his religion but there was a group of people

[16:12]in najaran in najiran in north of yemen this group of people

[16:18]they remained on their religion of christianity they were christian they remained

[16:25]christian so he came to them with his army and he forced

[16:31]them to convert you convert you'll be saved you don't convert you

[16:35]will be killed so here they did not convert because they're they're

[16:43]on a religion they believe and of course that time before rasulullah

[16:47]the closest religion to the haqq was the religion of christianity because

[16:54]it was the closest to a prophet isa was the closest and

[16:59]christianity hadn't changed as much as it changed right now so there

[17:02]were still menin there were still believers at that time so what

[17:06]did he order them to do he ordered them to dig a

[17:11]trench they dug a handuk and they tell them you convert you're

[17:14]safe you don't convert they throw them in the fire and they

[17:18]dug a long fire burning them now the mafester of the quran

[17:22]sheikh nasir makaram shirazi in his book he says how ironic that

[17:28]this was the first holocaust this was the first holocaust and who

[17:33]was the one burning and who was the one being burned he

[17:36]was he was jewish and he was burning these people because they

[17:41]were believing he says this is this was the first holocaust that

[17:45]is recorded and documented in the quran now the story doesn't end

[17:49]he killed most of them in he escaped one person escapes he

[18:07]goes to the roman king this is in the arabian peninsula he

[18:10]goes to the roman kingdom he goes to him he tells him

[18:13]this king is persecuting the christians so the roman king he sends

[18:21]the king of habasha the king of abyssinia he writes a letter

[18:24]to the king of abyssinia habasha who is christian he tells them

[18:27]go and defend those people over there so the king of habasha

[18:33]he sends an army the army they go they destroy abu nawaz

[18:36]and they establish a christian kingdom now from that from that army

[18:44]that came to establish a christian kingdom there was a general by

[18:48]the name of abraham abraha he was a general he said now

[18:54]that we've established a christian kingdom here i'm going to build a

[18:59]huge temple so that people could be on the christian faith here

[19:02]he built a temple but now he said i don't want people

[19:05]going to the kaaba why are people going to the kaaba why

[19:10]is the kaaba a place that is respected and revered and people

[19:12]do hajj there so he planned on destroying the ka'ba and this

[19:15]goes to the story of surat al-fil suratul field so they're connected

[19:23]so the time is very close you have the story of us

[19:26]and then you have the story of suratul field so this is

[19:31]one opinion of who are these people another opinion in a hadith

[19:37]from imam ali alayhim he says there was a zoroastrian king a

[19:40]majusi king one day he got drunk and he he got into

[19:48]an ancestral relationship he had a relationship with his sister so when

[19:51]he woke up he realized that what he did was wrong but

[19:55]in order to normalize the wrong he forced everyone to do that

[20:01]he forced everyone to do that and this is see the the

[20:06]psychology of a deviant person when someone goes wrong sometimes they say

[20:11]for allah i repent and there's another group of people they say

[20:13]no i'm not going to repent i want to normalize this i

[20:17]want everyone to do this and this is what we see today

[20:21]going on you see this these thoughts people that have these desires

[20:26]that are not natural they try to force it and impose it

[20:28]on everyone else so this this king he tried to impose that

[20:34]upon everyone else and he tried to he started killing them if

[20:37]they do not so one tafsir says it's the people of abu

[20:41]nuas in yemen another one says in persia and there's another opinion

[20:46]it says that there was a a prophet a prophet in habasha

[20:51]he believed and his people some of them they did not believe

[20:56]they killed him and they killed those who were believing so there

[21:00]are many examples of believers being persecuted and the muslims they had

[21:05]that you had yasir who was who was persecuted his parents they

[21:11]were the first martyrs in islam and you have until today you

[21:14]have people being persecuted because of their belief so this story is

[21:18]a reminder they're witnessing what happens to the believers just like everyone

[21:31]witnesses right now you see all the oppression and palestine you see

[21:34]oppression going on in in yemen and pakistan and afghanistan and iraq

[21:38]and syria all over the world there's oppression we're witnessing we're going

[21:43]to be held accountable what did you do what did i do

[21:47]towards the oppressed in the world woman [Music] god is also the

[22:03]witness not only you god is also the witness so now the

[22:09]story continues what does this mean it means the quran comes down

[22:28]to saying the story but he's saying i want you to listen

[22:31]right now meaning you think you're powerful you think you're strong persecuting

[22:36]these poor people persecuting bilal and these poor people this will happen

[22:43]to you this could happen to you it means those who tested

[22:50]meaning those who hurt those who oppressed the believers they have the

[22:55]adab of jahannam and ada meaning jahannam is one thing and is

[23:01]something else the fire is something else and then allah on the

[23:16]other hand those who believe and do good will have gardens which

[23:20]rivers will flow under them that is the greatest foes the greatest

[23:26]victory in this is something every needs to understand that the vengeance

[23:34]of allah is severe don't think that allah will leave the today

[23:39]sometimes we lose hope we say why are for example palestinians suffering

[23:45]all this time why is it happening like this in iraq why

[23:48]is it happening like this in afghanistan and all over the world

[23:51]allah subhana wa we said this yesterday allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will

[24:02]allow things to go because for allah time where we for us

[24:05]we are limited by time god is not limited by time but

[24:09]allah does not forget and the oppressor will meet their end in

[24:14]this dunya and in the achilles [Music] he is the originator meaning

[24:24]the first creator is allah why you are eid and he is

[24:27]able to bring everyone back on the day of judgement everyone will

[24:34]come back this is an exaggeration is one thing the four is

[24:43]the one who is always forgiving wadud loving the majeed he is

[24:48]the one who has the greatest throne today some people they do

[24:51]things for the sake of power for the sake of a president

[24:55]for the sake of a king for the sake of someone who

[25:00]has authority allah allah does whatever he wills now once again a

[25:10]reminder have you heard ya rasool allah the story of the soldiers

[25:18]the forces these people they had armies these people had soldiers no

[25:23]one imagined that this army will be destroyed no one imagined that

[25:28]this army would be destructed just like right now they talk about

[25:31]super powers right they were talking about russia being the superpower turned

[25:36]out it was just a joke they're not now america probably thinks

[25:43]it's a superpower it might not be allah is the only superpower

[25:48]allah subhanahu ta'ala is the only superpower allah is saying have you

[25:52]heard the story of the soldiers which they were all wiped out

[26:03]tamood the people of prophet saleh which were close to the era

[26:09]close to mecca they would pass by the places where they were

[26:12]punished yet the disbelievers still persist and still lie and reject the

[26:22]truth you saw the people of punish you saw the people of

[26:24]the mood punished you saw the people of dude punished why do

[26:29]you still stay in your disbelief but above them allah subhanahu ta'ala

[26:40]encompasses everything allah is the one who's watching and seeing everything and

[26:46]this is all in the quran it is a glorious quran recorded

[26:53]in a preserved tablet meaning this this book is preserved this is

[27:00]these are the words of rasulullah these are the words of god

[27:05]that came down upon we ask allah to preserve us all and

[27:12]protect us all and strengthen our iman especially on these last couple

[27:16]of hours and days of the holy month of ramadan the month

[27:22]of ramadan is coming to end we have to ask allah for

[27:24]the forgiveness for the makhara for the rahmah for us and for

[27:29]all of the believers foreign

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