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0:00Knowledge is just not enough. Of course,
0:01the ultimate example of that is Iblis
0:03himself, right? Who has more knowledge
0:05than Iblis?
0:06He's pretty knowledgeable. We're we're
0:07learning the story of Adam alayhis
0:09salaam. He's in the story. He's like,
0:10"Bro, I was there."
0:12It's wild that he could be there and
0:14still
0:15still disbelieve, right? So,
0:18intellectually seeing, intellectually
0:19hearing, intellectually understanding,
0:22it's not enough. There's a spiritual
0:24problem. And Allah is saying the same
0:26spiritual problem can inflict infect
0:27human beings.
0:29>> This video features just a short snippet
0:32from our new deeper look of Surat
0:34al-Jinn, which is now being released
0:36exclusively on Bayyinah TV.
0:39Watch the full-length episode along with
0:41thousands of more hours of Ustad
0:43Nouman's explanations of the Quran at
0:46bayyinah.tv.com.
0:49>> So, the the first thing that I think
0:51it's important to mention is that human
0:52beings throughout history
0:55uh turned them into gods.
0:57Demons, demigods,
1:00you know, uh
1:01some kind of they they came up with
1:03different names for them. Avatars, you
1:06you want to call them whatever you want
1:07to call them, mystical creatures, right?
1:09They people came up with different uh
1:11different names for them in different
1:12mythologies, different religions, but
1:13they did deify them, turn them into gods
1:16in one way or the other, right? Um
1:19And wa ja'alu lillahi shuraka'al jinn.
1:22They made for Allah partners being jinn.
1:27Actually, you'll we'll learn a little
1:28bit later in some detail some Arabs even
1:30believe that the jinns are the wives.
1:35Some jinns are the wives of God, and the
1:36angels are the children of God.
1:38Are the daughters of God.
1:40This is how crazy
1:42it got. So, um what does it mean to
1:46worship jinn? Basically, even if you're
1:48not praying to them,
1:50something that belongs to Allah,
1:53you start thinking that it belongs to
1:56the jinn.
1:57Something you should turn to Allah for,
1:59you start turning to someone other than
2:01Allah for. That would become shirk.
2:03I need a better job.
2:05I need to or you can apply for a better
2:06job, but I there's a there's a there's a
2:09job jinn I heard about got my cousin
2:12like three promotions.
2:14You know, you want to you want to try
2:16it? Okay, yeah, I haven't found a job in
2:186 months. I'll try it. Okay. Let's get a
2:20Ouija board.
2:22Let's uh
2:23wait for a full moon.
2:25Right?
2:26This kind of idea. I'm going to go to
2:28them for something in particular.
2:30I want to go to them cuz I want to I I
2:32want to marry this woman, but she put a
2:33restraining order on me or
2:36by us.
2:39Right?
2:40W- Whatever it is, I'll people turn to
2:42them for something they want. They
2:44should be asking Allah, but they want to
2:45ask the jinn if they can help. And
2:47that's how they become objects of
2:48worship in one way or the other, right?
2:51Allah Another thing you should know in
2:52the Quran about the bad ones among them
2:55is that Allah says that Allah installed
2:57them. One of the one of the ways Allah
2:59made the test of this world Wakadhalika
3:00ja'alna likulli nabiyyin aduwan shayatin
3:02al-insi wal-jinn. That for every prophet
3:05Allah made enemies, Allah created a a
3:07score of enemies. These were devils that
3:10belong to any devils in human form and
3:13devils in jinn form.
3:15As if some humans become so evil
3:18that they're no longer even considered
3:19human by Allah, they're considered
3:21shaytan. Human shaytan.
3:24They have no good left in them. And
3:25there are people like that among the
3:26jinn, and they work with with each
3:28other. Yuhi ba'duhum ila ba'din. They
3:30inspire one another. They give hints to
3:32one another. They instruct one another.
3:35Zukhrufal qawli ghurura. They beautify
3:37things for each other. They make their
3:40evil deeds look good to each other, and
3:41they keep deceiving each other, too.
3:43Walau sha'a rabbuka ma fa'alu. Had Had
3:46your master wanted, they would have
3:47never been able to do so. Fadharhum.
3:49Leave them alone. Wa ma yaftarun. And
3:51whatever they keep making up. In other
3:52words, don't get obsessed with them. You
3:54know there's a devil worshipping cult
3:56and they have an underground lair.
3:58It's right under the mall.
4:00And if you go in the parking, there's a
4:02sign.
4:04I'm going to I'm going to make a YouTube
4:05video series about this uh occult group
4:08and
4:09What What is Allah saying? Dharhum wa
4:11ma'a yaftaroona, leave them.
4:13Leave them and whatever they make up.
4:14Why? Because this can become a
4:16fascination and then it takes over you.
4:19It becomes an obsession.
4:20So even though Allah also says to me
4:22it's told just
4:23leave that be.
4:24Leave that be.
4:26You need to know they're there, they
4:28work with each other, they do a lot with
4:29each other, a lot's going on there, and
4:31if Allah wanted they would never been
4:32able to do so, which means Allah has let
4:34them do it.
4:36And leave it alone.
4:38Allah is enough for you.
4:39Getting inside information on their cult
4:41is not going to solve your problem.
4:44Right?
4:45That's not That's not going to help.
4:47But it's juicy. It's juicy information.
4:50It's fascinating. What? And then you put
4:52some scary background music in your
4:54video and
4:55you know.
4:57>> [laughter]
4:59>> Ala udkhulu fi umamin qad khalat min
5:01qablikum min al-jinni wal-ins. When
5:03people are being thrown into hellfire,
5:05Allah is the announcement is being made.
5:07Enter into the groups that came before
5:10you of the jinn and the human beings
5:11into the fire. In other words, there
5:13were entire nations of jinn that were
5:15thrown into the fire. Entire nations of
5:17humans that were thrown into the fire.
5:18Or a nation that was made up of jinns
5:20and humans cooperating with each other
5:22towards the hellfire.
5:23So they had cooperation with each other,
5:25right?
5:26Uh and then every time a new group comes
5:28that the the previous one uh curses it.
5:31So they are allies in evil and there's
5:33other ayat about allies in evil. One One
5:35interesting one that I will bring up
5:36again when we get to the first ayah is
5:38Allah said even if the jinns and human
5:40beings got together to produce the likes
5:42of this Quran, they wouldn't be able to
5:44do so in Surat al-Isra.
5:46Wa law kana ba'duhum liba'din zahira.
5:49Which is interesting because the Surat
5:51Al-Isra was commenting on
5:53it included in its audience
5:56the Jews.
5:57And it begins with Jerusalem, right? The
5:59sura begins with Jerusalem. And the
6:02Jewish tradition, Jewish history had a
6:04a big part of the Jewish subculture was
6:07the Kabbalah, which was calling on the
6:08jinn.
6:10Right?
6:11And they were also supplying Rasul
6:13Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam different
6:14criticisms. They were supplying the
6:16Quraysh different criticisms against the
6:18Quran.
6:20So they were saying, "Go ask your
6:20prophet this. Go ask him this. Go ask
6:22him this."
6:23And they themselves within the
6:24subculture had a had a history of
6:26engaging with the jinn. And Allah said,
6:28"If human beings and jinn got together
6:29to produce something like the Quran,
6:30they can't
6:31they can't do it. Well, okay, now about
6:33them about the Torah even if they backed
6:34each other up. Even if they did a
6:36collaborated project,
6:38you know, on Microsoft Teams and they
6:40were just all uploading on the same
6:41document, it would they wouldn't be
6:43they wouldn't be able to do it, right?
6:47Okay.
6:48Uh this is also very interesting. Um but
6:51I could not get in the Quran and the
6:53jinn. We created the jinn and the
6:55humans. We created for Jahannam we
6:58created many jinn and human beings.
7:00Allah says many human beings just ended
7:02up being food for health.
7:04Right?
7:05And
7:06then he says something that for all
7:08these years I didn't really pay
7:09attention to actually until I started
7:11studying Surat Al-Jinn. Allah says Allah
7:13could not have gone out of here. They
7:14have hearts, but they don't understand
7:17with them. They have hearts, but they
7:19don't understand with them. Now, every
7:21time I thought about this, I I thought
7:22about human beings.
7:24But I never thought about the jinn. But
7:26the ayah didn't just refer to human
7:28beings. The ayah also referred to
7:30the jinn. So this problem that's being
7:32described is not just a problem of
7:34humans, it's also a problem of
7:36jinns. They don't know what they have
7:37gone out of here.
7:38They don't know what they have gone out
7:39of here.
7:40They don't know what they have gone out
7:41of here.
7:42They have three problems. They have
7:43hearts that they don't understand with.
7:45They have, you know, eyes that they
7:47don't they refuse to see with. And they
7:49have ears they refuse to hear with. And
7:51I'm using the word refuse to as opposed
7:52to they don't. Refuse cuz that's the
7:54implication here.
7:56To understand this ayah simply,
7:59simply,
8:00think of it as Allah made us capable of
8:03two kinds of thinking.
8:06Logical, rational, neurological, brain
8:08computational thinking,
8:11brain thinking, and spiritual thinking,
8:13heart thinking.
8:15There's two two processes happening.
8:16There's a there's a there's an
8:18intellectual process happening, and
8:20there's a spiritual process happening.
8:21These are two different faculties.
8:23They're supposed to work hand in hand.
8:25They're supposed to work together. But
8:27they sometimes don't.
8:29There are some people that want to be
8:30very spiritual. They don't want to do
8:32too much thinking.
8:34Right? So, they they can just say just
8:35let me do this feels good for me. That's
8:37what I want to do. It makes me feel
8:39connected. And for example, somebody
8:41might say, "Man, I'm trying Buddhism. It
8:43feels so good, man." Yeah, but it's
8:44shirk again. Yeah. Yeah, but it feels
8:47like I feel something in my heart even
8:49though it doesn't make sense.
8:51But you don't know how it feels.
8:53Right? Try it. Just try it. Just sniff
8:55it a little bit.
8:57Like
8:58feeling takes over
9:00rational thinking, reason.
9:03Right? There are even cults within
9:04Muslims that say, "The way I feel when
9:07I'm in this cult, oh, yeah, but they do
9:09shirk again." Yeah, I know, but you
9:10don't understand the feeling though.
9:13But that's clearly against the Quran and
9:14the Sunnah of the Prophet Yeah, I know,
9:16but the thing is you're saying that cuz
9:18you haven't felt what I felt.
9:22Okay?
9:23So, they get all up in their feelings,
9:25and then reason goes out the window.
9:28Then there's the other side. There are
9:29people that are very intellectual.
9:32You could study tafsir, Arabic. You can
9:35learn the seven qira'at. You can get an
9:36ijazah in Hadith, you can do a PhD in
9:38Islamic studies, and the knowledge is
9:40like, "Woof!"
9:42You're like
9:43like the rabbis of old times.
9:45Super knowledgeable, right?
9:48But no motivation to get up and pray
9:49Maghrib.
9:52Right? And next to you is a is a taxi
9:54driver. You're the Alim.
9:56You got like all the Ijazat.
9:59And next to you is a taxi driver who
10:01doesn't who barely knows how to recite
10:02the Fatiha properly. And he's standing
10:05in salah and crying.
10:07Right?
10:09Because just because you have the
10:10intellectual
10:11like it's filled to the top, the
10:13intellectual battery is fully charged,
10:16doesn't mean the spiritual battery is
10:17charged. Those are two separate
10:18batteries and they have to go hand in
10:20hand. What the Quran does is it charges
10:22both together.
10:24So, you don't focus on one or the other.
10:26What happens in religious traditions
10:27when they get away from the word of
10:29Allah
10:30any religious tradition, is some decide
10:32to focus on the spiritual, others decide
10:34to focus on the
10:35intellectual. If you're studying only
10:38Fiqh for 10 years
10:40you're on the brain side of things.
10:42And it will damage you spiritually.
10:45If you're entirely in the world of Dhikr
10:48you end up on the spiritual side of
10:50things and it'll damage you
10:52intellectually. These two things need to
10:53go
10:54hand in there's a harmony between them.
11:01They remember Allah and they think
11:03deeply. Like there's the the spiritual
11:04and the intellectual, they go hand in
11:06hand. Now, this ayah is saying
11:09these people have hearts, but they don't
11:11understand what the which part of their
11:13faculty
11:15is dead.
11:16The spiritual batteries are dead.
11:19So, they can they can hear the
11:20revelation. Now, let's think about Jin,
11:21because we're talking about Jin today.
11:23Yeah?
11:24The Jin see more than we do.
11:26They can see angels. It's very clear.
11:28It's clear in the Quran they can see
11:30angels.
11:31The Jin can see the prophet
11:33while the prophet can't even see them.
11:35Alaihis salatu was salam.
11:37In another place, not this place, in
11:39Surat al-Ahqaf, we'll learn the jinn can
11:41be very old.
11:42Some jinn might even be old enough to be
11:44alive at the time of Musa alaihis salam
11:45and they're still alive at the time of
11:46Rasul Allah alaihis salam.
11:48It's possible.
11:50The jinn are multilingual. They heard
11:52the Torah in the original Hebrew and
11:53other listen to the Quran in Arabic.
11:56And they can compare the two to each
11:57other. They have amazing memory.
12:00That's actually pretty incredible
12:01memory.
12:03We believe in some of the aspects of the
12:05unseen, but they're not unseen to the
12:08jinn. They're actually seen to the jinn.
12:11They They see things we don't see. I
12:12mean, imagine if we could see angels,
12:14what would happen to our iman?
12:15But they see angels all the time.
12:16They're like, "Oh, there's one coming.
12:18Oh."
12:19You know.
12:21Or when when a shaitan even hears audhu
12:24billahi min ash-shaitani rajim, what
12:25happens to the shaitan?
12:27He has to He has to go away.
12:29He has to He has to leave.
12:31The fact that he has to leave just by
12:32these words and he knows these words
12:34have divine power, doesn't he?
12:37So, they've experienced things that we
12:38haven't experienced. And yet Allah says,
12:40"Even though they've seen so much, even
12:42then, their spiritual faculties can be
12:45dead."
12:46Which means knowledge isn't enough to
12:48make me a believer.
12:51Knowledge is just not enough. Of course,
12:53the ultimate example of that is Iblis
12:54himself, right? Who has more knowledge
12:56than Iblis?
12:58He's pretty knowledgeable. We're We're
12:59learning the story of Adam alaihis
13:00salam. He's in the story. He's like,
13:01"Bro, I was there."
13:05You know.
13:08And we're learning about the angels
13:09doing such that and he's like, "Yeah, I
13:10saw that. That was That was That was a
13:11lot of angels, yeah."
13:13Yeah, [laughter] like
13:15Yeah, you know.
13:18It's wild that he could be there and
13:19still
13:21still disbelieve, right? So, seeing,
13:24intellectually seeing, intellectually
13:26hearing, intellectually understanding
13:29it's not enough. There's a spiritual
13:30problem. And Allah is saying the same
13:32spiritual problem can inflict infect
13:34human beings. Now, you know, this is the
13:36interesting dichotomy between the Arab
13:38and the non-Arab Muslims.
13:40The the sometimes the non-Arab Muslims
13:42say, "If I only knew Arabic,
13:43subhanallah, I would be so Yeah.
13:46If you're if you're
13:49if your spiritual battery is bad,
13:52then you can be a PhD in Arabic,
13:56and that might still not help your
13:57spiritual battery.
14:00You understand?
14:01Cuz we often you hear, "We have to just
14:03understand the Quran. We have to
14:04understand the Quran." When you keep
14:06talking about understanding the Quran,
14:07which side are you emphasizing?
14:10The intellectual. Understand it. Just
14:13understand it. But understanding it is
14:14one half of the equation.
14:16We have to internalize the Quran. We
14:18have to experience the Quran with our
14:20hearts
14:21as we understand it.
14:23We have to engage the Quran.
14:25Right? The which is a different problem,
14:28and that's why
14:30this is remarkable because the jinn who
14:32have so much more access to the
14:34still even seeing the doesn't help their
14:37iman in some cases.
14:39Even that doesn't help their iman, which
14:41is very telling for us, right?
14:44The
14:44normally try to go into the sky, but the
14:47sky was locked down.
14:49And they didn't understand why. So, they
14:51were discussing among each other cuz
14:52they were getting shot down.
14:55The jinn had a meeting among themselves.
14:56So, the devils had a meeting among each
14:58other. They came back and talked to
15:00their people and said,
15:01"What
15:05What is it
15:06that is happening?" They said, "Uh
15:08we can't access the sky. We're getting
15:10shot down. Something's going on with the
15:12sky." So, they're telling each other
15:13what's going on.
15:15So, their leader said to them basically,
15:18"Uh go to the east
15:20Actually, no. They said, "What is it
15:22that is happening?"
15:23They said, "A new prophet has come."
15:25No, this could not have happened. That
15:27the blockade would not have happened
15:28unless something big is happening
15:30here.
15:31So, go "Fadriboo mashariq al-ard wa
15:34magharibaha." Go to the east and west of
15:36the earth. Go every nook and cranny.
15:38"Wanzuroo ma hadha alladhi hala baynakum
15:40wa bayna khabar al-sama'." Tell Find out
15:42what is the real reason.
15:44Start investigating. So, now they're
15:45going around investigating.
15:47"Fantalaqoo yadhriboona mashariq al-ard
15:49wa wa magharibaha." So, they're going
15:51everywhere they can.
15:53"Yabtaghoona ma hadha alladhi hala
15:54baynahum." So, that that's what they're
15:55doing. "Fansarafa ola'ika nafar
15:57alladheena tawajjahoo nahwa Tihama ila
15:59Rasool Allah sallallahu alayhi
16:01wasallam." So, a group among them came
16:03upon Tihama to the messenger of Allah
16:05sallallahu alayhi wasallam and he was by
16:07a palm tree uh, heading towards Souk
16:09Ukaz. "Wa huwa yusalli bi as-habihi
16:10salat al-fajr." And Rasool sallallahu
16:12alayhi wasallam was reciting Fajr
16:14prayer. "Falamma sami'oo al-Qur'an
16:16istama'oo lahu." So, when they heard the
16:18Qur'an, they started listening to it
16:19carefully. "Faqaloo, hadha wallahi hala
16:22baynakum wa bayna khabar al-sama'."
16:24So, this is what was actually happening.
16:27This is the reason the sky was locked
16:28down. This These words that he's
16:29reciting.
16:31"Raja'oo ila qawmihim." That then and
16:32there they went back to their people.
16:34They said, "Ya qawmana inna sami'na
16:36Qur'an an 'ajab." They said, "Our
16:38people, we have heard a unique Qur'an.
16:39It's guiding you and we will not do any
16:41shirk." Meaning the beginning of the
16:43surah.
16:44They basically said this beginning of
16:45the surah. Okay. So, before I give you
16:47your break, we'll read some more things,
16:49but before I get You can stop showing
16:51the screen now.
16:52We'll we'll make a couple of
16:54observations about what we've read so
16:56far. So, there are other reports, too,
16:58that Rasool sallallahu alayhi wasallam
16:59met with the jinn and that he even
17:02offered the Sahaba, "Would you like to
17:03come meet with them?" And they all said,
17:06"No."
17:08One of them said, "Yes." Ibn Mas'ud
17:09said, "Yes." Radhi Allahu anhu wa allahu
17:11anha.
17:11So, he went along. In another report,
17:14nobody went. In one report, uh, Ibn
17:16Mas'ud went. And in in different reports
17:18even in one case he drew a line with his
17:20foot and he said, "Don't cross this line
17:22or you're going to die."
17:23And then he sees a cloud of smoke form
17:25and like them hovering around like
17:27clouds until the Prophet was reciting
17:30Quran he couldn't even hear him anymore.
17:32And then when they were done he said, "I
17:34was reciting Quran to them." And then he
17:36told them about what they like to eat.
17:38And you know, the
17:39what I mentioned bones and so don't do a
17:41stench out with them and things like
17:42that. So they he had some in these
17:44reports he had some interaction with the
17:46jinn.
17:47The Quran is also telling us Sulaiman
17:49had interaction with the jinn. Right?
17:52But for the most part what Allah is
17:54telling us in what what we're going to
17:56learn in this surah the most important
17:57part that as we're approaching it
17:59is that these jinns
18:01they heard the Quran very briefly.
18:05They just they didn't get preached to
18:07for years and years. They just they were
18:09passing by and they just heard the Quran
18:10very briefly. And this brief interaction
18:13was enough
18:15to completely change the way they think
18:16about themselves
18:18think about reality, think about what
18:20they understood of the skies, think
18:22about what they understood of the earth,
18:23think about the past, think about the
18:25future. Like their entire world changed
18:28from just
18:30a few minutes of listening to this
18:32Quran.
18:33Right?
18:34And they had what what they don't Allah
18:37doesn't even tell us and there are
18:39conflicting reports cuz there's no
18:40clarity what did they hear? Did they
18:42hear Surah Al-Asr? Was it just a Fatiha?
18:46Did they read Surah Al-Fajr? What what
18:47what did they hear? We don't know.
18:49We actually don't know.
18:52But what's interesting is
18:53Allah did not tell us what they heard.
18:57Allah told us what their reaction was.
19:01So the the opening of this surah
19:0315 ayats are dedicated not to what they
19:06heard but their
19:08their reaction. What did they learn?
19:10What did they learn?
19:12Sometimes you you go listen to a khutbah
19:14and you're driving back with your family
19:16and you say, "So So, what did you learn
19:17today?"
19:18And you have some impressions of what
19:20you learned and you can out quote the
19:22khatib.
19:24Because the what did you learn is not
19:26you're going to repeat word for word
19:27what the khatib said, but how did that
19:29impact you and what about you? What what
19:31opinion of yours changed or what
19:33misconception did you have that get got
19:35cleared, right? So, you could all be
19:37listening to the same thing,
19:39but people have different
19:41misconceptions, different backgrounds,
19:42and they all have a different reaction
19:44to what they heard.
19:46These jinn, they have a unique
19:48background. Their background is not the
19:49same as the background of the Arabs or
19:51the background of the Jewish communities
19:53or the Christians. They have their own
19:54background and they hear the Quran and
19:56they have a reaction.
19:58And they're discussing this reaction
20:00with each other.
20:01With each other. And Allah loves their
20:04reaction so much,
20:06he considers it so important that he
20:08made their reaction a part of the Quran.
20:13Now, just just think about
20:15the implications of what we're hearing.
20:18They reacted to the Quran. They didn't
20:19quote the Quran.
20:21They didn't quote a hadith.
20:23They weren't saying something sacred.
20:25They were just saying what they realized
20:28from learning about the Quran. Their own
20:30realizations.
20:32Their realizations are not revealed.
20:35Their realizations are their own.
20:37Their own engagement with the word of
20:39Allah. And they're having a conversation
20:41with each other. Man, we were so messed
20:42up.
20:43Oh my god, we've been wrong all this
20:44time.
20:46Oh my god, that's why this guy was
20:47locked up. This This is This is the
20:48conversation they're having.
20:50And this conversation got recorded by
20:52Allah as part of the Quran that we
20:54recite.
20:56Before we come back, I just want you to
20:58reflect for yourselves how valuable is
21:01it for us to not just
21:03read the Quran and read somebody else's
21:05quotes and memorize the Quran and repeat
21:07the Quran.
21:09But what does Allah actually love? So
21:11and honor. He just love it. He honors
21:13it. He honors that we engage with the
21:15word of Allah.
21:17He honors, he appreciates that we think
21:20about how that word of Allah impacts us
21:23and what opinions and thoughts and
21:25impressions of ours have changed.
21:27Our
21:28you know, genuine engagement with the
21:30word of Allah became something sacred.
21:34Became something sacred because of these
21:36profound ayat. Hey guys, you just
21:38watched a small clip of me explaining
21:40the Quran in depth as part of the deeper
21:42look series. Studying the Quran in depth
21:44can seem like a really intimidating
21:46thing that's only meant for scholars.
21:47Our job at Bayyinah is to make deeper
21:50study of the Quran accessible and easy
21:52for all of you. So take us up on that
21:53challenge. Join us for this study, the
21:56deeper look of the Quran for this surah
21:58and many other surahs on bayyinah.tv.com
22:00under the deeper look section.

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