Exegesis of Verses (04 - 12) of Surat al-Qamar.

The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment.
As for what follows:
This is the eighty-second meeting after the hundredth of the meetings known as: The Open Door Meeting, which takes place every Thursday, and this Thursday is the twenty-fifth of the month of Muharram, year 1419 AH.
We begin this meeting with what we have been accustomed to, which is speaking about the noble verses, and in the previous meeting we ended with the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He: : Yes, :
Allah the Exalted affirmed in this sentence that they, namely the Quraysh, were brought news, meaning the reports containing their guidance, well-being, and success.
means: turning away from shirk (associating partners with Allah) and disobedience, but they did not benefit from it.
And this sentence, as you hear, contains the letter lam and qad, both of which are tools of emphasis, and it contains an implied oath indicated by the lam in His saying: . Therefore, this sentence is affirmed by three affirmations: the oath, the lam, and qad. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, is truthful without affirming His news, but this Qur'an is in a clear Arabic language, and the Arabic language, in its eloquence, affirms important things so that they become fixed and rooted in the mind.
Allah the Exalted said: meaning: that the news brought to them was wisdom. This is like His saying, the Exalted: . And wisdom is: the conformity of a thing to its place, and it is expressed by their saying: "placing the thing in its appropriate position". And there is no doubt that the Shari'ah of Allah is all wisdom, all in accordance with what is in the well-being of the servants in their worldly life and their hereafter.
And His saying: means: complete and reaching the intended purpose.
The word "ma" here can be a negation, meaning that the warnings do not benefit them in any way, and it can be an interrogative in the sense of rebuke, meaning: so what will benefit them? Both are correct. So the warnings did not benefit them in any way, and if these warnings containing the perfect wisdom did not benefit them, then what will benefit them?
The answer: Nothing, because they are defiant and arrogant.
Then He said, Mighty and Majestic: . And the speech ends here. "Tawalla" (He turned away): the address is to the Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, regarding these people, because they are defiant and arrogant. , What they were promised will come to them, and what you were promised will be realized for you. It is good to pause here and then resume and say: , because if you connect it, it would mislead the listener to think that the turning away will be on the Day the caller calls, and it is known that the turning away is in this world, not on the Day the caller calls.
And His saying: is a circumstantial phrase, and a circumstantial phrase must have a governing verb, just as a prepositional phrase must have a governing verb, and all objects must have a governing verb. So what is the governing verb in His saying: ?
The governing verb is "they come out," so it is connected to "they come out," meaning: the punishment will come to them at that time .
And His saying: is the caller of the Day of Resurrection. means: a great denial due to the severity of its terrors, for there is nothing more denied by the souls than that day, because they have not witnessed anything like it.
means: that their eyes are humble and submissive, as Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: . They are now arrogant, raising their heads, thinking that people are beneath them and they are above them, but the day will come when it will be the opposite.
The graves are: the tombs. So they will come out of the graves in this manner, whereas in this world they have a leader, they have an emir, they have a guide, and they know their path, even if it is a corrupt path.
: means that they are hastening, bending their necks, like a man when he hastens and runs, you find he puts his head forward, bending it. So they come out of the graves meaning: hastening, lowering their heads from fear, terror, and severity.
: And consider His saying: "The disbelievers say," and He did not say: "The people say," because this hard day is undoubtedly in itself a severe and great hardship, but it is hard for the disbelievers and easy for the believers, as Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said: And He said, the Exalted: , and as for the believers, it is easy, and praise be to Allah. May Allah make us and you among them.

The questioner : Amen.

The Shaykh : Then Allah, Mighty and Majestic, began with the stories of the prophets in a concise manner in this surah, but it is profoundly affecting. If you read it with deliberation and reflection, you will find it very affecting. Concise words, but they are completely deterrent:
And Noah is the first of the messengers, the first messenger Allah sent to the earth is Noah, peace be upon him, by the indication of the Qur'an and the Sunnah. Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said: , and He said, the Exalted: . And by this we know that what some historians mentioned, that Idris is the grandfather of Noah, is a lie without doubt. And there was no messenger before Noah, even in the hadith of intercession, it is explicitly stated that he is the first messenger Allah sent to the people of the earth. And therefore, it is part of our creed that the first of the messengers is Noah and the last of the prophets is Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him and his family and his Companions, and he is a prophet and a messenger.
And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, did not detail this denial, but He revealed a complete surah regarding it, and what is it?

The questioner : Surat Noah.

The Shaykh : Surat Noah, in which Allah detailed completely their denial and their taking.
And he is Noah, and Allah described him with servitude, because servitude is the noblest of the titles of humans. Servitude to Allah is the noblest of the titles of humans, and it is: humbling oneself to Him through obedience, turning back, reliance, and others. And it is of three types:
General servitude, which includes all creation, and it is: humbling oneself to the cosmic command, as He, Blessed and Exalted is He, said: . "Every" means: no one in the heavens and the earth except, and this is his state, that he is coming to the Most Merciful as a servant. And this is servitude to the cosmic command, because the cosmic command of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, no one can escape from it, no matter how strong he is.
The second type: the special servitude of the believers, like His saying, the Exalted: . This is general for every believer.
The third: the special servitude of the prophets, and this is like His saying, the Exalted: , , , and among that is this verse .
And Noah, peace be upon him, remained among them a thousand years except fifty years, calling them to Allah, but whenever he called them to Allah to forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears so as not to hear His saying, and they covered themselves with their clothes so as not to see him, and they were arrogant in arrogance. And there is nothing more eloquent than this arrogance than for a person to put his hand in his ears so as not to hear the caller's saying, and to cover himself with his garment so as not to see him.
: The madman is the one who has lost his mind and raves with what he does not know. They said that he is mad. This saying was said to all the messengers. Allah the Exalted said: , and "or" here is either for variation, meaning some say he is a sorcerer and some say he is mad, or it is for variation, meaning in the sense that some say he is a sorcerer and some say he is mad, or that they say this and that. In any case, the first thing said about Noah was that he was mad.
: "Izdaraja" means: he rebuked with severe rebuke, and rebuke is driving away with severity and violence, and the dal here is inverted from a taa, and the scholars said: that the increase in the structure indicates an increase in the meaning, and the meaning is that it is a severe rebuke.
And His saying: should not be connected with what comes before it, because if you connected it and said , the listener would think that they are saying: mad and he was rebuked, meaning: someone else rebuked him, but the meaning is the opposite. So they denied Our servant, and he was rebuked, this is the meaning. They denied and he was rebuked. So it is better to pause and then connect and say: so that here these deniers did not limit themselves to denial, but they denied, rebuked, threatened, and mocked.
When the time was long, he called his Lord: . "Allah Akbar" (Allah is the Greatest) are two words . And he called for a response, Exalted and Majestic is He. Allah responded, He said: :
And in another reading: , and both are correct. It is recommended for one who knows the readings to read with this one at times and with that one at times, on the condition that this is not done in the presence of the common people, because it is not recommended to recite to the common people using a reading that differs from the mushaf in their hands, lest it cause confusion for them, or perhaps the status of the Qur'an in their hearts would be lowered, or they would attribute error and distortion to you. But among students of knowledge, in teaching, or between you and yourself, it is recommended to read with the established readings, once with this and once with that. We say the same regarding the various forms of worship; you do this at times and that at times, such as the different opening supplications and the like.
Gates, every gate in the sky was opened.
No, it was more intense.
Meaning: springs of water. And consider His saying, Exalted is He: , and He did not say: the springs of the earth. It is as if the entire earth had become erupting springs, even the oven, which is the farthest thing from water due to its heat and dryness, began to boil, as Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: .
In this is an indication of the power of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, that is not hidden, and that these floods that occur now and before now only occur by the command of Allah, Mighty and Majestic. They are not as the naturalists say, that they are from nature. They say: nature stirred up, nature became angry, and the like of that. We ask Allah for safety. Rather, they are by the command of the One who says to a thing, "Be," and it is.
Here there are two waters: water descending from the sky, indicated by His saying: , and water from the earth that gushed forth, indicated by His saying: . So why did He not say, "So the two waters met"?
Because the intended meaning is the water of the sky and the water of the earth. The scholars said: He intended the genus, because the genus of water here is one, the water of the earth and the water of the sky. Or it can be said: Because the purpose of these two waters was one thing, which is their punishment, it was correct to use the singular.
Meaning: upon something that Allah, the Exalted, has decreed and predestined in eternity. For there is nothing that occurs except that it is written. Allah, the Exalted, said: , meaning from the deeds of the children of Adam and from what happens on earth. Everything is counted. For this reason He said: .
Then Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: . If Allah wills, we will discuss this in the next meeting so that we can devote time to the questions and start with the right side.