hamduLillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu wa salam O Allah say the MBE will mursaleen while earlier hewas minister Nabil Suniti Hilario Medina Allah homage Allah mean home Amina Latina Amendola, middleSaudi heart, whatever, so we'll have whatever so the southern Armenia Robert Alameen from Burma badonce again everyone is salam o aleikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh. We are in the second passageof Surah Nava and the first thing I tried to describe to you is one of the themes that comes out ofthat passage is that Allah is describing his creative power, and by comparison, showing howincapable we are. So what that does for the argument is How dare you speak to someone whose
capability and power dwarfs yours, right? So it's a lesson in humility, you could argue one way oflooking at these lessons. But there are other ways to analyze these IR these very same ideas thatI've shared with you just now. One of them is that Allah azza wa jal created everything in pairs.Look at everything that said Allah mentioned he started with Elijah idol of the MaHA was dibalaAlta, he create he, he paired the flat earth with the mountain, which is not flat Earth, right. Thenhe said, he made you into pairs. He mentioned the day and he mentioned the night, he mentioned thestar of the sky, and he paired the sky with a brilliant lamp, he built the roof and a lamp inside
the roof, just like you have a ceiling and a lamp inside the chandelier inside it. So he mentionedthe skies, and he mentioned the lamp and cited the sun. So things that he mentioned are all inpairs. Okay, except for one. And I'll get to that, because that's strategic yet. So the point ofthat is, when everything is made in pairs, why do you think this life doesn't have a pair? Right,I'll eliminate everything in pairs. And so this, this existence of yours has also been paired, as amatter of fact, even beyond the pairs that we've been made, created. And I would argue even aswives, not just spouses and men and woman, but a kind of zone zone is your body. And the rule
coincided, we were paired together, there was a rule, it's a separate entity. And there was thisphysical body, and Allah paired them together. And that's how he made you He made you by two things,you are yourself for creation in pairs. And look at your body itself, how much of your body was madeyour hands, your eyes, your limbs, he made you in the style of parents, that's how he balanced you.And so Allah is showing us that in this creative style, you know, I like to talk about it when,because a lot of people now understand brands, right? If you if you're into cars, and you see acertain brand car, even from a distance, you can tell what brand name it is, like, if you're into
it, you can tell. Or if you're into watches, you can see it like 20 feet away, somebody's wearing awatch, that's a tag, or that's a Rolex, you could tell if you're into that stuff, you have an eyefor it. Same thing with design, or fashion design clothing, ladies can tell a Chanel bag from 20miles away, apparently. Right? So you know. And the similar thing happens if you're intoarchitecture, if you see a certain building in a city, you're like, I know the architect, but youhave to be in that field. And you'll just know, right? Allah himself is a maker, he manufacturesthings, he builds things, he creates things, and he has a certain signature. Like every designer has
a signature, Allah himself also has a signature. And one part of his signature is pairs. He likes tomake things in twos, he couples things together. And so he made you and he made up part of two andtwo parts. And the same way your life is also made of two parts. Your life exists here, and there'sanother life coming thereafter. So that's a that's a beautiful way of you know, making thatargument. What are you talking about? And it's interesting that the way Allah may Allah subhanho, wataala, our physical body, and he made this rule, right, and the rule has from the unseen. So part ofmy existence is actually my existence itself contains something of the unseen. For those of you that
are younger, this will be an easier example to appreciate. My teacher one time asked me we werestudying Quran, we got to this Illumina annual rule. For the row home in Amarillo, B, they asked youabout the rule, which is translated, they ask you about the soul. Not the best translation, but goodenough. They asked you about the soul. And my teacher asked me where are you in Oman? And I thoughthe's thinking I'm not paying attention. Because you know, my teacher says, Where are you? Like, Iwas, I was in Jersey right now. No, like, means I wasn't paying attention. But I literally saidhere. And he said, No, that's your chest. Where are you?
now I get it. This is just a machine. This is it's got motors. It's got function. It's got fuel,doesn't it? But there's an operator of this machine. That operator was put inside by Allah thatrule. This machine one day we'll explore
And he's going to be taken for questioning. And it's going to end it's going to be given a new body,we're going to be rejected, resurrected a new body, and then it's going to be put back inSubhanAllah. That is the nature of Allah's creation, he did create us in pairs. In any case, the nowwe get to the interesting parts, what I feel is a really powerful way of the Quran. Speaking to itsoriginal audience, you have to understand what early Quran was revealed. The original audience was abunch of errors, who traveled a lot.
And so look at these ayat from their point of view for a moment and try to appreciate something andunnatural. Omaha that didn't we make the earth flat vast, but see it laid out? You know? Now, whatis the traveler? Where does where's he traveling? He's traveling in the desert. What does he see infront of him? This vast bed of the earth laid out in front of him? And then Allah says, Well, gee,Bala, oh, tada. And the mountains is pegs. And when he puts his tent, imagine the camera, he seeshis tent and behind it, he sees mountains in the same shape. Right? And so when he thinks of histent, he thinks of a shape like those mountains. When does he pitch a tent he pitches a tent when
Nightfall is coming, because he's traveling night is coming. He's got to settle camp. So he putsdown his tent, and he puts down his tent and he and his spouse go into the tent and go to sleep,which I learned ala labasa and by the way, the night is a Libous. Right? The only other time Allahmentioned night and Libous together is when he talks about the spouses in Ramadan. Or hella comme dela cm or Rafa. Illa Anissa eco Munna, leave us alone, they will leave us for you. So the night beinga garment is also in the luxury reference to the spouse being a garment. Because the night is whenthe husband sleeps next to his wife, she becomes his garment He becomes our garment. So the
nightfalls the traveler is now pitched a tent is goes to sleep with his spouse would you knowMichael Sebata, your sleep cut you off. Of course after you place the tent you're gonna go to sleep.And now you're cut off. The next thing that happens is what you have Rama Asha, which Allah laid onthe bus and the night has become a covering over you. Sleep has cut you off. And then you know whatJanelia Liva Allah Maha Rama Asha, and then after that he made the morning and that time for you toearn your living again. And so the traveler gets up out of the tent, because it's morning time. Andhe's wrapping it up. And of course, he's in the desert. So what's going to happen? He's going to
look at an endless open sky. You know, the Chinese when they used to work on the railroad in the,you know, last century, early on, they used to say the sky is bigger in Texas. Right there was afamous saying the sky is bigger in Texas. I didn't appreciate that until I moved here from New York,the sky is bigger in Texas. And I bet the sky is even bigger in the desert. Well, but enough Ohkakum Southern shader that he put this huge, huge, huge roof on top of you now compare the insidethe tent, he's got a roof. And he's hanging a little lamp in there. Right for light. And now that'sall done and Allah has his roof. And his lamp is what lesson which I'm not sure Raja and Wahaca, I
wanted to give you the meaning of wadge is shahidul whole Vijan. And why it is actually intenselyhot. Of course, you're not going to experience the heat of the sun anywhere like you will in thedesert.
By making that picture by painting that that scene, Allah is basically describing all of your lifeis like one day and you're a traveler. And then this day is going to come where you're going to rollup your tent and you're gonna go and as a matter of fact, when that time comes, Allah will roll upthose mountains like tents to they'll roll them up and they're gonna go. And that's why later on inthe surah was a year at ng Balou LUFA canon saraha the mountains themselves will sail away, they'llbe made to sail away and you'll think that's a mirage. You won't even believe your eyes when thathappens. So by the imagery of the desert traveler, and that one night experience, Allah is actually
describing the experience of human life itself. That's just gonna pass you by and resurrection isinevitable. This is why if you appreciate other parts of Quran Allah will say Elizabeth May AllahAllah Allah Yeoman, I was only here for a day
I was just here for a day. And so all of this life in this in these ayat is actually like one singleday. All of this life is like one single days huddled up. But even that, there's a further argumentthat I want to share with you, that's, that really shook me. And this is part of the study of thecoherence of the Quran. So bear with me, this is going to take a little bit to explain, and it needsextra attention from you. And the four of you that are taking notes, try to write this down, thatwill help you visualize Okay,
so we start with the earth and unnaturally origami hada, the earth and then well Jabba Allah, Allah,tada, the mountains on top of it as pegs. The Earth Quran describes shifts, the earth shifts, andthe mountain puts it in place, holds it together.
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