Tawheed 13 - Tafseer Surat Al-Asr II

Tawheed (The Three Fundamental Principles) - Sh. Ahmad Musa JIbril

Outline - Class #13: *Satanic trap of making matters beneficial to ones hereafter boring. *Importance of Asr/time: -You are made up of time, when a day leaves you buried a portion of you. -One is like a building, everyday a brick is taken off and placed in the hereafter. -We enter Jannah by what we invest of our time -Time is our principle and capital *What is so important that Allah needed to give an oath? -Mankind is at a loss. *Relationship b/w giving an oath by Asr and the oath on man being at a loss. *Insan is every mankind -Muslim and Non-Muslim. -(La) in La fe is to add confirmation *Khusur (loss) comes in noun form instead of verb to give an everlasting powerful meaning. -Difference between Khusur(noun) and khasir(verb), and an example to make it clear. *Why is it Khusur/loss in a [nakirah] form not Al-khusur/the loss? 1. In Arabic khusur comes as nakirah to show something is mighty and devastating - great loss. -Allah also said fe (in) not ala (on) because fe gives the meaning that one is surrounded in deep loss. (Ala) on could of meant a slighter degree of loss and here it's a full major loss. -Three practical scenarios in how one uses time: a) Winner B) lost profit C) lost capital, profit and is in debt. -Using ones time in backbiting or transgressing upon others rights will yield one to the [Qantarah]. Amazing descriptive scenes from the hereafter. 2. Khusur also comes as nakirah because loss is levels in the Koran and coming as Nakirah - khusur means the worst type of loss. *Take note how Allah generalized that everyone is at a loss and then made the exception. Why it's like that not the opposite? *How is (belief) proof for the 1st fundamental principle when the author mentions it as (knowledge). Knowledge vs. Belief. *Why didn't the verse detail what to believe in? -Three points on that. *Koran combines eman with good deeds in 51 verses: -Eman without action is the way of Feroun, Shaytan and Kuffar Quriesh. -Action with no eman is the way of the hypocrites. The story of Abdallah Alqaseemy who went from a famous tawheed defender to an atheist. *Recommending Haqq -Three forces that attack one to destroy him and the solution. -Delicate difference between tawasou and Awsou *Recommending patience: -Patience is mentioned 3 indirect times and the fourth time specified. -Patience in being a student of knowledge. *Clearing a misconception for the special students of knowledge: The famous statement the author mentions and is attributed to Alshafey has no chain of authenticity to it in that specific wording: قالَ الشافعيُّ رحمَهُ اللهُ : لوْ مَا أَنْزَلَ اللهُ حُجَّةً عَلَى خَلْقِهِ إلاَّ هٰذه السُّورَةَ لَكَفَتْهُم If nothing else but this (Surah Al-'Asr) would have only been revealed and nothing else, then this was enough or sufficient. Even though it's in this booklet the correct wording with a chain is : لو فكر الناس في هذه السورة لكفتهم If people contemplated this surah it would sufficient and enough for them. -The 2nd wording is preferable to use because it's the only version with an authentic chain, the meaning is clearer, other Imams like Ibn Taymmieh, Ibn Qayyim, Ibn Katheer and Shanqeety quote Alshafey in the that wording. May ALLAH preserve our Shaykh and his family.