Surah Al Fiil Part 1| Nouman Ali Khan Lectures | Ilustrated Tafseer Quran Juz Amma (Juz 30)
Assalamu'alaykum warohmatullahi wa barokatuhu
A'udzubillahi minas syaithonir rojiim
Bismillaahirrohmaanirrohiim
الم تر كيف فعل ربك باصحاب الفيل
Alam taro kaifa fa'ala robbuka biashhaabil fiil (QS.Al-Fiil :1)
Didn't you see how your lord dealt with the people of the elephant ?
الم يجعل كيدهم في تضليل
Alam yaj'al kaidahum fii tadhlil (QS.Al-Fiil :2)
Didn't He make their plot in waste ?
وارسل عليهم طيرا ابابيل
wa arsala 'alayhim thoiron abaabiil (QS.Al-Fiil :3)
And He sent against them birds herds upon herds
ترميهم بحجارة من سجيل
tarmiihim bihijaarotim min sijjiil (QS.Al-Fiil:4)
Striking them with stones of hard clay
فجعلهم كعصف ماكول
faja'alahum ka'ashfim ma'kuul (QS.Al-Fiil:5)
So (He) made them an empty field of stalks eaten up
So in the beginning insha Allahu ta'ala,
there's interesting comment made by Dr Fadil Sholih Hassan ar-Ra'i
“Hiya surotul fiiha ibrotun likulli
thohiyyatin mutakabbirin mutajabbir fii kulli ushur wal lazmal”
He says this surah has a warning and a lesson
for every rebellious arrogant tyrant that lives in any age and any time in any
civillization any nation
So He says, this is not just the surah
talking about the oppresion of Abrahah against the Ka'bah but this surah is
sending a message to anyone who hopes to,you know, doing oppresion upon
civilian population, or overpower one a nation or ruler trying to overpower
another nation by means their military power.
With the understanding what they are gonna do
to fight against us ? they have no military capability to stand up to us and
with that you know assumption with that arrogant assumption
They go in and they don't care about the
consequences, you know when a society is not in power, they talk about the Rule
of Law and they call people to obey by the Rule of Law. But when a society has
power they will say the Law is for everyone else, and we are above the Law,
we're beyond the Law and this people would apply some nice things stuff to buy some special occasions, and who's
gonna stop them?
Even when they trample all over the Law and
the regulations dare the most powerful, you know,civilization, who's gonna
question them? who's gonna question their oppresion? and this is something that
has happened throughout history
it's not difficult to see example of that
event of our time but this is something
that you know, the surah is trying to explain
to us.
Now He gives reason why He thinks this is the
key, listen to surah why we should limited to a discussion only of the
historical account which of course are critical
liza jaaf fi'il taro, this is why the verb
"taro" came,"alam taro" now there are different ways of
saying this
The first part of the ayah roughly translated
is "Didn't you see?", that's the first part "Didn't you
see?" common translation would be "Didn't you see how your lord dealt
with the people of the elephant?"
This is probably common translation you heard
before but I will commenting only on the first phrase "alam taro"
specifically the verb “to see”, that's been use in the present tense, “bisighati
mudhori' liddhalalati 'alal istimror wattajadur” and the specific use of that
known as English translation come out as past tense, right?
"alam taro" come out as
"Didn't you see?" and clearly if you understand English that past
tense but in Arabic there's rethorical function here,
And as suppose to
saying,"amaroaita" right? you could use the past tense function also
but that wasn't use, that use the past tense, it allude something continuous in
Arabic rethoric, in balaghoh in linguistic, refers to something that didn't
happen once that happens over and over again.
And this surah from a linguistic point of view, we'll learn
something amazing about this surah, how the changing of tenses carry amazing
lesson in them.
So that use just of the mudhorri', the
present future tense in the Arabic, with the word Lam, regardless the presence
of the word lam, indicate that this is not just something to observing think
about for that time but for all time
Now we look at some commentary by
ash-Shawkani rahimahullah
“wa huwa ta'jibullahu shalallahu 'alayhi wa
sallam bima fa'alallaahu lah”, and this is to give the messenger in a sense of
amazement and wonder in regards to what Allah himself did with the people of
the elephant
"Qod 'alimta yaa Muhammad"
You already know Muhammad shalallahu 'alayhi
wa sallam
“aw 'alimannaasa mawjudun fii 'ashrik”
or the people who are present in your time
they also know very very well
“wa mim ba'dihim”
and even the people that came after them,
“bima balagohu minal akbaril mutawwatiroh min
qishati ashhabi fiihim”,
because of what came to them from continuous
narative and narration and people telling the story over and over again of the
story of the elephant
“wa ma fa'alallaahu bihim fa ma lakum laa
tu'minuun”
this is the last part of ash-Shawkani's
commentary. He said just in the "Alam taro kaifa" Allah Azza Wa
Jalla, it is as tough he is saying "Didn't you realize what Allah does to
his enemy? so whats wrong with you? why don"t you believe in Him?"
you're using that to take pride of How Allah
protected His house so why don't you take next step toward iman?
Now finally " Alam yaj'al kaydahum fii
tadhliil" (continue to part 2)
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