Amenerrasulü Tefsiri [Nouman Ali Khan] [Türkçe Altyazılı]

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I'd like to start by saying it's really

good to be back in Bahin. Alhamdulillah.

And as you can probably hear, I will be

using my singing voice today. So, uh,

make dua that I'm able to, you know,

keep the voice that allahel preserves

the voice as much as possible so I can

communicate to you what I hope to

communicate to you inshallah this

evening. Um, I have been thinking about

giving a lecture on the concluding ayat

of Bakar for about two years and I've

held back and I said I don't know if

what's the right occasion to do that and

inshallah I hope to at least give it a

first attempt here tonight and I pray

that I'm able to do justice uh to this

subject. It is one of the most beautiful

places in the entire Quran. It is

special for many many many reasons. I'll

mention only one of them right now and

we'll come back to that reason at the

end of our talk again. We all know that

the Quran was given to the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wasallam in the land

of hij and it was revealed over the

course of 23 years and the way that

Allah delivered the Quran to the

prophetatam is through the angel Gabriel

through jiham.

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The only exception, the only part of the

Quran that was not given to the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wasallam through

jiham but rather through authentic

narrations we learn the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wasallam traveled up

to this up the seven heavens and right

under you

know as is described in when he traveled

all the way up there it is there that he

received the last two ayat of bakar in

other words all of the Quran was sent

down to the earth. The two ayat that we

are going to talk about tonight, the

messenger went to the sky to get them.

They were not given on the earth. They

were they were they had to be received

by the messenger himself under the

throne of allahel. So they have a

special special place in the Quran. Not

only do they have a special place in the

Quran, these ayat actually have a

special place

in Bakar. And so in the beginning of my

talk I will share with you some parts of

uh the theory and the principles of

Quran study beyond this you know the

universal Quran uh the sciences of the

study of Quran that many people are

familiar with especially those of you

that study taps I'm not going to make

this an academic topic by the way I will

try my best not to complicate the

subject inshallah even those of you that

don't know any Arabic and I'm sure there

are lots of you who don't know any

Arabic it's okay don't be intimidated

I'm going to try to make it as easy to

understand as possible. I I try to do

that much as much of my talks to keep

things simple because I have a history

in my childhood and early years of

getting a a lot of really good sleep

during

the and so uh that's because as soon as

the the or the or the starts getting

super high academic then you it's like

he's releasing sleeping gas from his

mouth and you

just

Right. Then so first thing you hear is

alhamdulillah and the next thing you

hear is that's the only thing you hear.

So so we'll try not to do that

inshallah. But anyway, one of the cool

things I want to share with you is that

um one of the most fascinating studies

in the Quran uh is actually how the the

suras of the Quran are

organized. And this is actually a number

of different subjects together. The

first subject is how are the suras

themselves organized? Fat is first,

Bakar is second, Alan is third, etc.,

etc. Why are they in this order? Uh

because from a from a western academic

standpoint, um and by the way, when I

the first time I studied Quran

seriously, it was not from Muslims. It

was from

non-Muslims. And when they study the

Quran, they don't say

alhamdulillah. They begin like they

study any literature. They start with

criticism. We we start when we study the

book of Allah, we begin with we begin

with praise. We begin with im that this

is the best you

know. Okay, this is what we say. That's

not what they say. They begin with

criticism, skepticism. And so the first

exposure, one of the first serious

exposures I had to the Quran was

actually criticism. And the first

criticism was the Quran is

unorganized. The suras are in this

random order and the subject keeps going

from one to the other. And even they

call them chapters of the the Quran,

right? That's what they call it. But

they don't call it surah, they call it a

chapter. Even though a chapter and a

surah are not the same thing at all.

They're not the same. I personally don't

agree with the translation of surah as

chapter. I don't because there's a

certain standard in literature for a

chapter. A chapter has logical points

that are made in chronology. And if a

chapter like chapter 5 is going to

repeat something from chapter 3, they

won't do it the same way. They'll just

say refer back to chapter 3. That's what

chapters do. They're built

chronologically. The other thing about

chapters is you cannot begin a book with

chapter 12. You can't do it. You have to

begin with chapter what? One. And one is

the first thing the author writes. Then

the author writes two. Then the author

writes three, then the author writes

four. And even the student has to study

chapter one first and then two and then

three and then four. But when the Quran

was revealed, the the first surah

revealed, where is that in the Quran? Is

that in the beginning? That's all the

way at the end. So if you're studying

Quran right now from the beginning,

you're going to read the first

revelation at the end of your journey.

It's very different. So then the the

order is not even the order in which it

was revealed. It's not chronological.

The other problem is the order you know

understandably the order is not it

doesn't seem to be organized by subject.

What that means is that you know the

subject matter in the Quran um like in

Bakar today we're talking about surah

Bakar the biggest surah of the Quran 286

ayat revealed over several years. One

part of it is actually Maki. The last

two ayat are maki. These were revealed

at the maj. So the most of the surah is

revealed after the prophet

migrated. But two ayat are from before

he migrated. So this surah took almost a

decade. And some say the last ayat to be

revealed in the Quran belonged to bakar

which means it began when the prophet

was still in Makkah and it went on for

another decade. So this surah took a

long time to come down. It didn't come

down in one shot. Now having said

that if you study it in the beginning

it's believers and disbelievers you

know believers and disbelievers it talks

about hypocrites which is the third

subject right you

know the hypocrites then it talks about

the story of Adam then there's this huge

section on the history of of the

Israelites

a long section. And by the way, even

inside that section, there is no

chronology. Meaning some of the events

that happened in Jewish history later

are mentioned before and things that

happened before are mentioned later. So

it's not even chronological inside. Then

it jumps over to

Ibraimisam. And after Ibraimisam, it

jumps over to the change of the Kaa. And

after the change because we used to pray

towards Jerusalem. You know that, right?

We used to pray towards Jerusalem. And