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0:00And in the sense of the gins, because
0:02you like the gins are made of fire. Why
0:03do they need water? Wouldn't that kill
0:04them? We don't know their relationship
0:07with water to be honest with you. It
0:08seems like they do have some
0:09relationship with water because of this
0:11ayah. The exact nature of that
0:12relationship, we don't know. But in a
0:14figurative sense, this actually means we
0:16would have made life really good for
0:19them. That's how I would help you
0:21understand the figurative meaning of
0:22this phrase.
0:25We would have made life very, very good
0:26for them.
0:28That's what it means to have plenty of
0:29water. Because in the ancient world, if
0:31you had plenty of rain and plenty of
0:32water, what did you have that came with
0:34it? Gardens, farm, crop, wealth,
0:37everything else that came came because
0:39of that. Why did the Egyptians become a
0:41superpower after the drought in the time
0:43of Ysef Alisam? Because water was
0:45preserved.
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0:49from our new deeper look of surahul jin
0:52which is now being released exclusively
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1:01man's explanations of the Quran at
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1:10Now it seems that Allah is departing
1:12from the speech of the jin and there's
1:15calam about is the last statement also
1:17speech of jin or not but regardless this
1:19much this much is clear in ayah number
1:2116 there's a transition happening
1:23calledat where now Allah is interjecting
1:26interjecting his own comment Allah is
1:28making his own comment and his comment
1:30it seems applies to both human beings
1:32and to jin
1:34in their own ways the toughest part of
1:37this ayah is going to the last part. So,
1:39I'm going to first translate it and talk
1:41about that last part so we can make
1:42sense of what's going on in the rest.
1:46Had they only committed themselves to
1:49the right the road had they only
1:51committed themselves to the road and
1:54stayed firm on the road,
1:58we would have replenished them or given
2:00them plenty to drink with water that is
2:03abundant, water that irrigates, water
2:06that is full of life. The hard word
2:09here, the new word here is
2:14the broad widespread rain or water.
2:21When a p when a place becomes fully
2:23fully rejuvenated by water, it's called
2:26the the the that region became
2:29the experience
2:34where land that became soft and you know
2:37the soil became soft because of the rain
2:40etc. Um similarly they use
2:46a year that was good in the rain. It's
2:48called a year of
2:51a lot of greenery came out
2:55and life or circumstances that are are
3:00you know where lots of crop grew. So
3:03there's a reference to water like if
3:06they only committed themselves to the
3:07right way we would have given them
3:08plenty of water to be replenished with.
3:12Water in Arabic and in in classical
3:14literature is also a reference to all
3:16things that come from water.
3:20All major cities in the world are near
3:22some source of water. Original
3:24civilizations in history had to be near
3:26some kind of water reservoir because the
3:29population is going to need a regular
3:31and steady supply of water.
3:34Imagine for a moment that for 48 hours
3:36there's no water available in Melbourne.
3:38Just for 48 hours. Imagine the state of
3:42emergency that creates for virtually
3:45every part of life. Not just dehydration
3:50but sanitation and med medicine and like
3:55infra basic infrastructure. Everything
3:57falls apart with this one resource for
4:00human beings. This is not only the
4:01source of life for human or for all
4:04species but on top of all of that it is
4:07also the source of human civilization.
4:10That's why major cities and major you
4:12know uh nations
4:14you know situated themselves great
4:16powers always headed towards where
4:18they're they have closest access to
4:20water and waterways and water works or
4:21underwater reservoirs etc etc right and
4:24the nations that don't have that spend a
4:27huge amount of their resources to import
4:29water so they can have enough because
4:32it's you can't survive without it
4:34there's no way around it but if Allah
4:36says we we would have given him them
4:38plenty of water my reading meaning of
4:40this is of course Makkah already had a
4:42water reservoir. It had zum it already
4:44had it. So it could be that the Quraysh
4:47could look at this ay and say and if
4:48they had only committed to the path we
4:50would have given them plenty of water
4:52because we already got plenty of water.
4:53We got zum right? But one possible
4:57response to that is they're not a green
5:00place. There's not so much water that
5:02the entire place has turned into a
5:04garden. That's certainly not the case.
5:07Another is that may this may not be
5:09referring to water in the literal sense
5:12like Allah would have blessed this
5:13nation with a lot but even then the
5:15Quraysh might turn around and say we
5:17already got a lot we already had
5:21we can travel and do our caravans we're
5:24doing pretty good right it's now as if
5:27Allah is saying if the society as a
5:29whole had been committed to the path all
5:31of them would have been doing well
5:33because the wealthy want to keep who
5:35living well themselves. But there's the
5:39ms, there's the, you know, the the
5:42recipient of the the one who got short
5:45changed. You've got the
5:50you've got, you know, people that are
5:53there's lots of poverty in the region,
5:55too. There's a lot of people that are
5:57not doing well. There's a lot of people
5:59that are being oppressed, economically
6:00oppressed. Allah says had they committed
6:02to the path, all of them would have been
6:04replenished. they everybody would have
6:06lived well meaning this pathway that
6:08Allah is offering is one that benefits
6:10all of society not just the select few
6:12in society there are reports in the s
6:16literature about a drought that did hit
6:19Makkah and then this being a reference
6:22to that also so that may be the case but
6:25this is more than that also and in the
6:28sense of the gins because you like the
6:29gins are made of fire why do they need
6:31water wouldn't that kill them we don't
6:33know their relationship with water. To
6:35be honest with you, it seems like they
6:36do have some relationship with water
6:37because of this ayah. The exact nature
6:39of that relationship, we don't know. But
6:41in a figurative sense, this actually
6:43means we would have made life really
6:45good for them. That's how I would help
6:48you understand the figurative meaning of
6:49this phrase.
6:52We would have made life very very good
6:54for them. That's what it means to have
6:56plenty of water. Because in the ancient
6:58world, if you had plenty of rain and
6:59plenty of water, what did you have that
7:01came with it? gardens, farm, crop,
7:04wealth, everything else that came came
7:06because of that. Why did the Egyptians
7:08become a superpower after the drought in
7:10the time of Ysefam? Because water was
7:12preserved,
7:13right? And then eventually they became
7:15what they became. And he even Pharaoh
7:17talking about the might of his power
7:19said
7:21these rivers flow bene beneath my feet.
7:24Right? So water was a big deal and
7:26incapacitating them turning the water
7:28into blood was a big deal. So, um, this
7:34statement is telling us something of a
7:36departure from what we've been learning.
7:38You'll notice a lot of the ayat until we
7:40got towards the end, but a lot of the
7:42ayat were individual in nature,
7:46right?
7:51There was an individual tone to a lot of
7:54what was said before, right?
7:56uh uh but now Allah is making a comment
8:00about the collective not about the
8:03individual but about the collective and
8:06there are few places in the Quran where
8:07Allah gives us very clear-cut
8:09descriptions of what happens when a
8:11society follows Allah's guidance and the
8:15formula seems to be like for the Jews
8:17and Christians Allah said
8:24had they lived by and implemented the
8:27Torah and the Injil, they would have had
8:29things to eat from above them and from
8:31below them. What does that mean? Above
8:32them and below them, plenty of rain
8:34which would produce plenty of crop. So
8:38that's again a ref similar reference to
8:39what's happening here, right? Meaning if
8:42people live by revelation, then the
8:44economics of that society become very
8:46good. The society starts prospering
8:48because they're living by revelation. It
8:50is not the reason to follow revelation,
8:54but it is one of the side benefits of a
8:58society living by revelation. It seems
9:00if there's a critical mass of people
9:02that live by what Allah says, then that
9:05entire society becomes a beneficiary.
9:11There's no way everybody will be like
9:14righteous. But it seems there's a
9:15threshold or something, some kind of
9:18divine calculation.
9:20that if enough people do that then
9:22they'll all be okay. This is similar to
9:23Allah does not destroy a nation while
9:25there are at least some people doing aar
9:29there's a sometimes Allah mentions a
9:31minimal threshold right and short of
9:33that that nation no longer survives so
9:36in this case
9:40you would think this is a what the what
9:43the Christians call nowadays the
9:44prosperity gospel right live by the word
9:47of God and life's going to be good
9:51it's going to be a good year The sales
9:52are going to go up,
9:54taxes are going to go down,
9:58right? That's what this sounds like,
10:01prosperity. Except what Allah does here
10:04is something pretty shocking. He says,
10:08"We were not expecting that." So we
10:11could test them with it.
10:13Allah just said if you lived by if you
10:17committed to the path you would have
10:19been replenished and you would have
10:21lived well everything would have been
10:23great for everybody but even if we did
10:25all of that we will only do that to put
10:27them in a test they'd end up being
10:29tested again two things here that we're
10:32going to try to figure out first of all
10:34I I went by it quickly and was wondering
10:36if anybody had crossed their minds Allah
10:38said had they only stayed on the path
10:41which means
10:43They were on the path and then they went
10:47off the path. So what in the world does
10:49it mean? They were already on the path
10:51cuz we thought they're all off the path.
10:55And what's so beautiful about this the
10:57word notice in other places in the Quran
10:59you find the word
11:04for example also the speech of the jin
11:07right? But here you don't find you find
11:11which is the singular form of which was
11:14mentioned earlier and the plural of is
11:18so is and becomes. So the there's a
11:22consistency and by this there's a
11:24hyperlink created between this word and
11:27we were all going in all different ways
11:29and now Allah uses the f the original
11:31road had they had they stayed on the
11:34original road that a prophet was walking
11:36or that the guidance of Allah was
11:37walking them on and they didn't break
11:38off into offshoots then things would
11:41have worked out great. You were all
11:43originally on the same road
11:48right? So this [laughter] is as if Allah
11:51is now describing that you know and this
11:53has geographical relevance too because
11:55this drought report is from Makkah and
11:58the mushri or mushikun of Makkah and
12:01Makkah is the house of built by
12:03Ibraimisam. So when this when he took
12:06the road to get here and built this
12:09house and left a legacy
12:12that was supposed to be followed by his
12:15offspring who eventually went off on
12:17different roads and flooded this with
12:19idols. So when he's saying they only
12:21stuck to the road that was there to
12:22begin with meaning the road of
12:23Ibraimisam
12:26that because that was the original road
12:28this house was built for that reason.
12:33Then we then you think you have enough
12:35water with zam zam. This place would
12:36have been a heaven on earth. This place
12:40would have been nicer than Hawaii and it
12:41would have been nicer than like you know
12:44what's that Bali for you people like.
12:47Right.
12:49Right.
12:53This is the Now that sounds again I'm
12:55I'm emphasizing that it sounds like the
12:57prosperity gospel except
13:01so we would end up testing them with it.
13:03This is now where the Quran teaches us
13:05something one of its most profound bits
13:07of sociological wisdom
13:10a spiritual look at sociology.
13:13Allah will give
13:15faith communities that that are that are
13:18that do right by the faith. they do
13:19right by Allah's teaching and they come
13:21back to the original teachings Allah
13:23will give them prosperity but once he
13:26give them prosperity
13:28and prosperity itself
13:30becomes a distraction
13:33and when that becomes a distraction they
13:35start going away from the very thing
13:37that caused the prosperity to begin with
13:40right they start forgetting about Allah
13:42they start getting distracted by
13:44luxuries they start get distracted by
13:47entertainment they they become more
13:49materialistic. They start becoming petty
13:51and comparing with each other.
13:56Who has more? Who had a bigger wedding?
13:58Who had a more expensive outfit? Oh,
13:59that one's from last year. This one's
14:01from this year. Did you see their belt?
14:02Did you see their shoes? Did you see
14:03their car? Did you see their house? Did
14:05you see their
14:08did you see their wedding video?
14:11Right? People will just get distracted.
14:13When life gets good, they get
14:14distracted.
14:16So it's not like the end goal of
14:18following revelation is we'll get a
14:21prosperous society because a prosperous
14:23society will come with its own set of
14:25problems.
14:27Its own set of problems. There are two
14:28kinds of blessings. There's material
14:31blessings and there's spiritual
14:32blessings. Yeah. Material blessings.
14:36Water,
14:38prosperity. That's material blessing.
14:40And Allah says that will come to you if
14:42you follow revelation. This was told to
14:44the people before us and it's been told
14:46to us. But then he's also saying that
14:49even that material blessing will become
14:51a curse if you separated from the
14:56spiritual blessing because it's the it's
14:58the spiritual commitment that led to the
15:00material blessing. Right? Once you get
15:03there, then it starts kind of withering
15:06away. One of the things I'm I'm going to
15:08be ominous with you because I've seen
15:10the American story and I hope it doesn't
15:12happen here because you guys are in in
15:15community development. You maybe are a
15:17couple of decades behind but rapidly
15:20catching up. You're in the same
15:21trajectory. So the American Muslim
15:24community makes a lot of money. We got
15:26money. We got serious money. And we
15:29build mega mosques.
15:32They Texas got mega churches. We got
15:33mega mosques. And they don't just build
15:35a masid. They'll build they'll they'll
15:37buy like a 100 acres, 200 acres, 300
15:39acres of land and they'll build masid in
15:42the middle and they'll start selling
15:44plots of land and people will buy those
15:46lands and build their luxury homes. So
15:48you got like the villas of Andaloo and
15:51you've got like the Alamra neighborhood,
15:54etc. This is for real, right? And you
15:58could and then we'll make a private
15:59walkway into the masid. And so life is
16:01good. Mashallah, it's good. all Muslims
16:04are moving and it's like you'll see like
16:0695 homes all Muslim owned in some
16:09neighborhoods and of course when enough
16:10of that happens we don't want no Sharia
16:12law here like that that that happens
16:15right
16:17um so they'll do that and it took a lot
16:20of work to do that it's not small right
16:22this is in the last 20 years it's it's
16:25an explosion in the last 20 years I
16:26moved to Texas in 2007 and it was there
16:30was one community like that now there's
16:31like a dozen communities like that and
16:33they're all massive like Jym is like
16:35three 4 thousand people in each of them
16:37and they have multiple Jas like a prayer
16:40in one of the massages is like 5 600
16:42people on average like this it's like
16:44it's a when you come here like Islam is
16:49right everything's bigger in Texas even
16:52Islam right
16:56but you know what a lot of those kids
16:59living in a lot of those very Muslim
17:02neighborhoods
17:03drug issues,
17:06suicidal ideiation, psychological
17:08issues,
17:10alcohol abuse,
17:13other problems,
17:15dying on a highway from speeding, racing
17:18your friend in a high-end BMW, an M5,
17:22just crashing into a pole, young
17:25teenagers, you know, just playing with
17:27guns.
17:29Different kind of problems. Where do
17:31those problems come from? Those problems
17:32were not there 20 years ago like that.
17:35You know where those problems came from?
17:37Prosperity.
17:39Prosperity brings its own problems.
17:42And the parents that built that
17:44six-bedroom house, one one and a half
17:47room per child,
17:50right? Where the children are arguing
17:53about I don't want to share a bathroom,
17:56right? And the the father when he was in
17:58university was sharing a a a room with
18:02six other guys and they would take turns
18:04going to sleep.
18:07Like he he was sharing a closet with a
18:10community
18:12and his kids are arguing about, hey, I
18:14don't want to keep making my bathtub
18:17wet. That's what a bathtub's supposed to
18:18be, [laughter]
18:20right? Oh, the level of like entitlement
18:24and ingratitude and
18:27just
18:28and then the those same people why did
18:31they invest so many millions and build
18:33this thing? They said we want our kids
18:34to come here,
18:36right? And those you'll see a lot of
18:38little kids in the masid and then you
18:40start seeing less and less teenagers.
18:42Then you start seeing less and less
18:44college students.
18:45There's a there's a leaky bucket and the
18:49little kids are coming with dad. little
18:51kids are coming with mom and as they get
18:53older and older,
18:55I just want to I just want to move to
18:56New York. I just want to move to
18:58California. I don't I don't want to be
18:59here. I hate Texas.
19:01Everyone's so spread out. I My parents
19:04are too too conservative for me. It's
19:06suffocating,
19:08etc., etc.
19:10Scary stuff.
19:13They follow the right thing, but then it
19:15will come with with its own.
19:18But the next generation might take all
19:19those same things for granted,
19:22right? All of those same things. You
19:24know what's crazy? Even this happened in
19:25Islamic history. I know it's disturbing,
19:27but I got to tell you this cuz you know
19:32the Sahaba used to be in the time of
19:34Jahyah and they used to make poetry in
19:37before Islam some of them and then they
19:40became Muslim and they made poetry after
19:42Islam. Right? Okay. They were called
19:45they they did poetry pre-Islam and
19:47poetry post Islam. And you can compare
19:50just how drastically their worlds
19:52changed pre and post Islam. Right?
19:56One of the things they used to pride
19:57themselves of before Islam is how we do
20:02when somebody when somebody attacks us,
20:04we attack them 100 times worse and we do
20:07more injustice than they could ever
20:09imagine. We are more jahil than anybody
20:12could ever be Jahil. And they were proud
20:13of it.
20:21No better nobody better act with us.
20:28then we're going to be a jah above any
20:30jah that's ever been jah
20:33and every they would drop this line
20:34every like OH THIS IS THE BEST JAH EVER
20:37like
20:38you know those same people that used to
20:41and they would make poetry about like
20:43they would make poetry where they're
20:44describing that as I kill the tribe
20:46leader now I I as I as I say this poem
20:49my foot is on his dead corpse head
20:52as I make this poem like the pride was
20:54the central figure feature personified
20:57in their poetry and These same sahaba
20:59are now making poetry about their
21:01humility to Allah and his messenger
21:02sallall alaihi wasallam and about
21:04justice and about taking care of the
21:05orphan and the needy like it's
21:07personality completes shift right
21:11and then Allah gave these people victory
21:14the formula is here if you follow
21:16Allah's way Allah will give you plenty
21:17of waterlam
21:19became victorious and Islam then started
21:21spreading around the world hey guys you
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