Interpretation of The Holy Quran _ Surat Al- Baqarah (2) _ Lesson 11 _ Verses [22]. Subject: The sky Building. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of Creations, and Peace and blessings be upon our prophet Muhammad, the faithful and the honest. Oh, Allah, w e know nothing but w hat You teach us. You are the All- Know er, the Wise. Oh Allah, teach us w hat is good for us, and benefit us from w hat You taught us, and increase our know ledge. Show us the righteous things as righteous and help us to do them, and show us the bad things as bad and help us to keep aw ay from them. O Allah our Lord, lead us out from the depths of darkness and illusion, unto the lights of erudition and know ledge, and from the muddy shallow s of lusts unto the heavens of Your Vicinity. Dear brothers, w e continue w ith lesson "11" of the interpretation of "Surat Al-Baqarah". The sky is a building: We continue w ith the verse number tw enty-tw o w hich is the Words of Allah, The Greatest: rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped (22) First, dear brothers, the sky is a building because there is a system of gravity betw een the planets, and w ithout the movement of planets in a closed paths, the universe w ould become a single block, because the biggest mass gravitates the small one, and a centrifugal pow er w hich originates from the movement of the planets equals the gravitational pow er; so, the heaven is a building; but w ithout these closed paths, the movement of planets w ould be disordered, and the sky as Allah, Almighty, said: By the sky (having rain clouds) w hich gives rain, again and again (11) [Al-Tariq] It means that each planet revolves in a closed path, this cycle agrees by its breadth and speed w ith the gravitation pow er of the other star for it; so, it arises w hat is called in the field of mechanics: The kinetic balance, everything is moving and everything is balanced, this is a massive building; so, it is imperative to clarify this fact. If w e fetch a perfectly flat surface and tw o magnetic blocs w hich have the same size, and put a ball betw een them; you need a very big effort to make this ball stabilized in the middle betw een the tw o blocs, since the gravitation of the tw o blocs for this ball is equivalent, it stands in the middle, but if it has been dislodged tenth of millimeter, it w ould gravitate to the first bloc, and if the ball has been dislodged tenth of ml tow ards the second bloc, the ball w ould gravitate to it; therefore, it needs to a very big effort to settle in the middle; and if the tw o blocs w ere not equal, then you need too many mathematical calculations; and if the volume of the first bloc is the double of the volume of the second bloc, you must put the ball in a distance that suits the gravitation of the large bloc, and a distance w hich suits the gravitation of the small one. It's calculations. This universe is built in a fantastic way: But if these blocks w ere three or four, and each block has a different size, and has a different gravitation force!! Then don't forget that our talk w as just about a flat surface, but if these blocks are moving in a vacuum,
and have different sizes, different distances betw een each other, and move w ith different speeds; so, the miraculous is to balance these blocks w hich vary in size, speed and distance; at the time that they are moving in a vacuum; and the result is a balance. That is the miraculous kinetic balance. the heavens w ill be rolled up in His Right Hand. (67) He, Almighty, ow ns the heavens and the earth, and that is the meaning of the Words of Allah, Almighty: [Al-Zumar] rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped (22) The sky is a building, and Allah, Glory be to Him, is He Who has built this system and Who has built these galaxies. One of you may ask: "How many galaxies in the universe?" The universe is still unknow n, but the little information w hich w ere reached to by scientists say that there are a million multiplied by one million of galaxies, and there are a million multiplied by one million of planets and stars in the most of these galaxies; all these galaxies are interrelated w ith each other by the forces of gravitation, and they are moving in closed paths, as this universe is built in a fantastic w ay, and its basis is the kinetic balance. And We have made the heaven a roof, safe and w ell guarded. Yet they turn aw ay from its signs (i.e. sun, moon, w inds, clouds, etc.)(32) [Al-Anbiyaa] The word "declination" has two meanings at the same time: Dear Brothers, one of the verses that refers to this meaning is the Words of Allah, Almighty: Allah is He Who sustains and supports the heavens (their contents) and keeps them from going out of order losing balance or scattering and vanishing Should they be throw n about in disorder (41) Be patient for a little, these verses indicate the greatness of Allah, Almighty. Verily! Allah grasps the heavens and the earth lest they move aw ay from their places, and if they w ere to move aw ay from their places, there is not one that could grasp them after Him. Truly, He is Ever Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving. (41) The declination is the deviation, it means that any planet has a path, so w hat happens if the planet has come out of its path? What happens if it has deviated from its track? The closest example is the Earth, w hat happens if the Earth has come out of its path through its cycle around the sun? When Earth moves aw ay from its path, it moves aw ay from the source of energy and heat, Earth w ould be a frozen icy planet w here there is no life because the temperature of the face w hich is not opposite to the sun descends till tw o hundred and seventy below zero, if Earth w as fixed w ithout revolving, and life w ould be non-existent. On the other hand, if the Earth has stopped, part of the face w hich is opposite to the sun w ould become three hundred and thirty degrees, w hereas on the other side, the temperature w ould become tw o hundred and [Fater] [Fater]
seventy degrees below zero, and life w ould be over. If the Earth has diverged from its path and started aw ay in the outer space, as it has been deprived of the sunlight, energy, and w arm, it w ould become a frozen planet too; the movement of atoms vanishes w ith the absolute zero, and w ith the vanishment of atom's movement the Earth ends. The most w onderful thing in this verse is that the w ord "declination" has given tw o meanings at the same time, if that the Earth has deviated from its route, it w ould be ceased to exist and vanish. Earth s movement around the sun indicates the greatness of Allah: Allah, The Greatest, says: Verily! Allah grasps the heavens and the earth lest they move aw ay from their places, and if they w ere to move aw ay from their places, there is not one that could grasp them after Him. Truly, He is Ever Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving. (41) To make the idea more understandable: If the Earth has come out of its path, and w e w ant to bring it back, of course all these are supposal talk, but the purpose is to know w hat is the meaning of the linkage of Earth w ith sun. We need to a million multiplied by one million steel ropes. The stronger element in the universe is the braided steel, so all people w ho make the elevators and the telpherages use the braided steel ropes because this element is the stronger. If w e have w anted to bring the Earth back to its path around the sun, w e w ould need one million multiplied by one million steel rope, and the diameter of every steel rope is five meters, w hat is meant by a steel rope w hich its diameter is five meters? It means that this rope resists tw o million tons of tension forces. In short, the Earth is linked w ith sun by a gravitation force w hich equals one million multiplied by one million multiplied by tw o million tons; and that is the meaning of the Words of Allah, The Greatest: Verily! Allah grasps the heavens and the earth lest they move aw ay from their places, and if they w ere to move aw ay from their places, there is not one that could grasp them after Him. Truly, He is Ever Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving. (41) if that the Earth has deviated from its route, it w ould be ceased to exist and vanish. The Earth is linked by a gravitation force w hich equals tw o millions multiplied by one million multiplied by one million tons; all of these forces in order to remove the Earth from a straight path about three mm per second; a closed path consists around the sun from three mm per second throughout the year; this is the movement of the Earth around the sun. Verily! Allah grasps the heavens and the earth lest they move aw ay from their places, and if they w ere to move aw ay from their places, there is not one that could grasp them after Him. Truly, He is Ever Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving. (41) Yes, Allah is Merciful w ith the ignorance and the perversion of His w orshipers. [Fater] [Fater] [Fater] The path of Earth is elliptic:
There is another thing, O brothers that I have told you earlier, but I have to mention it right now. The path of Earth in its cycle around the sun is elliptic; oval, and oval shape his tw o diameters: Minimum and maximum; so if the earth w as in the minimum diameter, it increases its speed to emerge from this excessive speed an extra centrifugal force that equals the small distance w here the gravitation force of the sun increases; it's a precise balance, as in the place of the low er diameter, the speed increases. But in the area of the maximum diameter, the speed decelerates; if the speed has increased, the Earth w ould left the gravitation of the sun, so the more the speed has slow ed dow n, the gravitation increased; and the more the speed has increased, the gravitation decreased; so in the smaller diameter, the speed increases, and in the greater diameter, the speed decreases, and from this increase and decrease a disparity in the speed of the earth arises. But if this disparity w as violent, or if the acceleration w as high, everything on the Earth w ould fall dow n. The meaning that the acceleration is high as if w e say: This car starts from zero to a hundred in three seconds, the acceleration is very high; if it has started from zero to one hundred in tw enty seconds, the acceleration is less. If the acceleration w as too high, everything on Earth w ould be demolished. Allah is gracious w ith His w orshipers, as the speed increases gradually and falls gradually; from this slow rise and slow decline, everything on the Earth escape danger. That is the meaning of the Words of Allah, The Greatest: rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped).(22) The sky is built. Allah holds the sky not to fall on the Earth: Allah, Glory be to Him, says in another verse: See you not that Allah has subjected to you (mankind) all that is on the earth, and the ships that sail through the sea by His Command? He w ithholds the heaven from falling on the earth except by His Leave. Verily, Allah is, for mankind, full of Kindness, Most Merciful. (65) If a planet has been gravitated to another planet then they collided, the life on both of them w ould be over; Allah, Glory be to Him, holds the sky in order not to fall on the Earth. Before years and years, scientists have monitored a comet w hich w as coming tow ards the Earth, they have thought that it w ould collide w ith it, and they have thought that this is the Day of Resurrection; but the comet has changed its direction before a long distance. If Allah, Almighty, has allow ed in any moment for a planet to collide w ith another, the life w ould be over, so Allah, Glory be to Him, says: He w ithholds the heaven from falling on the earth except by His Leave. Verily, Allah is, for m ankind, full of Kindness, Most Merciful. (65) And in a third verse: And We have made the heaven a roof, safe and w ell guarded. Yet they turn aw ay from its signs (i.e. sun, moon, w inds, clouds, etc.). (32) [Al-Hajj] [Al-Hajj] [Al-Anbiyaa]
Let's have a look at the phenomenon w hich is taking place in the w orld today, for example, the flooding that has displaced tw o hundred and fifty million human beings in China and made them homeless, w hich has finished the oil w ells as a w hole, w hich has damaged the crops as a w hole, and w hich has made China to live in a horrible disaster; the reason behind all w hat have been mentioned is the height of temperatures on the Earth, and this increase is the result of the rarefaction of the ozone layer, w hich is the saved ceiling for the Earth, and the reason that w hen human learnt, he didn't make his religion and his know ledge equivalent so he changed the creation of Allah, Almighty. Allah, The Greatest, says: and indeed I w ill order them to change the nature created by Allah." (119) [Al-Nisaa] The end of knowledge is the return to the divine plan: There are gases, w hich result from some industries, have affected the ozone layer w hich is surrounding the Earth, w hose serious task is to preserve the Earth from the arrival of the harmful part of the sun rays to it, and that is the meaning of the Words of Allah, The Greatest: And We have made the heaven a roof, safe and w ell guarded. Yet they turn aw ay from its signs (i.e. sun, moon, w inds, clouds, etc.). (32) [Al-Anbiyaa] It's preserved from all things that harm the human, so w hen this layer has loosened, the temperature increased, and the snow at the poles has melted, and this incident has reflected on Earth's climate; so the climate in w hich the Earth is passing through is unnatural; w e didn't try a high temperature that may reach to seventy-one degrees under the sun in Damascus, and w e didn't try that the temperature reaches to fifty-one degrees in the shade. We didn't expect that the temperature in the Arabian Gulf may reach to eighty-four degrees under the sun, and fifty-one degrees in the shade; it's an unnatural situation, and this situation is resulting from the change of the creation of Allah, Almighty. The environmental problem occupies the first place in the w hole w orld, as the human has invented and fabricated, but the invention w as a curse for him, and now the human is on the w ay back to the origin of the divine plan. I have heard that the developed countries, according to the modern concept, buy fruit that does not be manured w ith chemical fertilizers, and fruit w hich does not be sprayed w ith chemical pesticides; for ten times the price of fruit w hich has been manured and its epidemics have been controlled w ith chemical medicines, in order not to change the structure of this fruit, the thing w hich is reflected in our bodies as a malignant tumors. So the case must go back to the origin of the divine plan, the basic principle is that Allah has made the fertilizer is natural and the controlling is vital, and this is the aspiration of the w orld in the future, the end of progress, the end of know ledge is to return to the divine plan in the germination and fertilizing of plants, and the controlling of vegetarian insects and diseases. The rationing of Allah is a chastisement rationing: Dear brothers, the holy verse says:
rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped).(22) There is a close relationship betw een the Words of Allah, The Greatest, in the previous verse, and the continuation of it: rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped).(22) For a divine w isdom, Allah has made the human's livelihood is by the rain; as the rain itself is a sign of Allah w hich proves His greatness. From w here did the seas come? I have heard about a giant observatory in Europe, w hich uses ultraviolet light to detect the stars; this observatory discovered a cosmic cloud, this cloud, w hich is one of thousands of clouds, can fill all the seas sixty times in one day w ith fresh w ater; so you can answ er everyone w ho says that the livelihood is restricted and there is a crisis of w ater and livelihood in the w orld that: Verily, Allah is the All-Provider, Ow ner of Pow er, the Most Strong.(58) When our Lord rations, He rations a chastisement rationing not a disability rationing: [Al-Zariyat] And if Allah w ere to enlarge the provision for His slaves, they w ould surely rebel in the earth, but He sends dow n by measure as He w ills. Verily! He is in respect of His slaves, the Well-Aw are, the All-Seer (of things that benefit them). (27) [Al-Shura] The universe is one of the signs of Allah s Greatness: The talk about the sky and how it is a building is very precise building. The sky is a building completely. Once, I have mentioned that if a man has w anted to reach to the nearest flamed star from the Earth, there are extinguished planets around us as the Moon and Mars, but scientists said that the distance betw een us and the nearest flamed star is four light-years. By a very simple calculations, the light travels three hundred thousand kilometers in a second multiplied by sixty in a minute, multiplied by sixty in an hour, multiplied by tw enty-four in a day, multiplied by three hundred and sixty-five in a year, and finally multiplied by four years; this number is easy for you to calculate, and you can try to calculate it this evening. Initially leave zeros, then count three hundreds multiplied by sixty, multiplied by six, multiplied by six, multiplied by tw enty-four, and multiplied by three hundreds and sixty-five then add the deleted zeros; the resulting number is the distance betw een us and that flamed star measured by kilometers. In order to simplify the fact, w e assume that I have ridden in my car and headed to that star at speeds of one hundred kilometers per hour, then w e divide this figure, w hich is the dimension of the star from Earth over one hundred, the resulting figure is the number of hours; then w e divide the resulting figure over tw enty-four, and the resulting figure is the number of days; and w e divide it over three hundreds and sixty-five, and the last resulting figure is the number of years. You need to fifty million years to reach to the nearest flamed star, and the more accurate number is almost forty-eight years, and it is very easy to calculate, four light-years is the resulting number of three hundred thousand multiplied by sixty, multiplied by sixty, multiplied by tw enty-four, and multiplied by three hundred and sixty-five, this figure is dividend over one hundred and the result is the number of hours, w hich is dividend over tw enty-four to give the number of days, and it's dividend over three hundred and sixty-five to give the number
of years. The resulting number is almost fifty million years. Now, be precise, Pole star is about four thousand light-years aw ay from Earth, and the small galaxy "Andromeda" is about a million light-years aw ay from Earth. Before five or six years scientists have revealed that farthest galaxy is about tw enty-four thousand million light-years aw ay from Earth. It has been mentioned in a Global New s Station a year and half ago that they have sent an observatory on a spacecraft to Jupiter, w hich has monitored the farthest galaxy till now, and the distance is very simple figure: Three hundred thousand billion light-years!! You must memorize this number precisely because it is striking. We need fifty million years to reach to star that is four light-years aw ay from us, so w hat can you say if the star w as three hundred thousand billion light-years aw ay?!! Fear of Allah is confined to those who have knowledge: Allah, The Greatest, says: So I sw ear by Maw aqi (setting or the mansions, etc.) of the stars (they traverse). (75) And verily, that is indeed a great oath, if you but know. (76) If you have know n: [Al-Waqiah] It is only those w ho have know ledge among His slaves that fear Allah. Verily, Allah is All-Mighty, Oft-Forgiving. (28) The w ord only means that: those w ho have know ledge alone and no one but them fear Allah, only the fear of Allah is confined to those w ho have know ledge, as a w hole. One of the greatest physicists says: "Everyone does not see over the universe a force that is the strongest, w ell-know ing that is the most know ledgeable, Merciful that is the most of mercy, and Wise that is the w isest; is alive human in his body and form, but he is dead in his mind, in his self, and in his nature w hich he has denied it". [Fater] Knowing Allah raises us; else we will be as the animal: Dear brothers, I sw ear by Allah, w ho is no god but Him that the person w ho does not know Allah is completely like animal. The likeness of those w ho w ere entrusted w ith the (obligation of the) Taurat (Torah) (i.e. to obey its commandments and to practise its legal law s), but w ho subsequently failed in those (obligations), is as the likeness of a donkey w ho carries huge burdens of books (but understands nothing from them). How bad is the example (or the likeness) of people w ho deny the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah. And Allah guides not the people w ho are Zalim un (polytheists, w rong-doers, disbelievers, etc.). (5)
[Al-Jumu'ah] It's the truth: Or do you think that most of them hear or understand? They are only like cattle; nay, they are even farther astray from the Path. (i.e. even w orst than cattle). (44) Also Allah, Almighty says: (They are) dead, lifeless, and they know not w hen they w ill be raised up. (21) We must know Allah, because the know ledge of Allah is reason of our existing, the know ledge of transcends us, the know ledge of Allah makes us happy, the know ledge of Allah achieves the goal of our existence, and the know ledge of Allah leads us to paradise, and that is the origin. [Al-Furqan] [Al-Nahl] When you read the Quran, you find faith in your heart: All of you see the sun, and its size, precisely, is bigger than the Earth's size a million and three hundred thousand times, that if w e put inside the sun one million and three hundred thousand Earth as ours, the sun w ould contain all of them. The distance betw een the Earth and the sun is one hundred and fifty-six million kilometers, and light overrides this distance in eight minutes. There is a little red star its name is "Antares" you find it in "Scorpio". Our Lord says: By the heaven, holding the big stars (1) The Earth finalizes its cycle around the sun in tw elve months, and in each month the Earth goes through a constellation; and these constellations have names, for example, Libra, Scorpio, in w hich you find a red star that its name is "Antares", this star accommodates the Earth and the Sun together in addition to the distance betw een them, how much its size? Only Allah know s. It's Allah, The Lord of the Worlds: [Al-Buruj] It is only those w ho have know ledge among His slaves that fear Allah. Verily, Allah is All-Mighty, Oft-Forgiving. (28) And then, can you disobey this god?! Can you keep aw ay from Him?! Can you disparage His promise and ignore His threat?! Don't you hope His mercy?! Don't you fear His punishment?! Allah w ho earns the realm of everything is He w ho has revealed the Quran to the Prophet, peace be upon Him. The Quran is the Words of Allah, and w hen you read these Words w hich are the speech of the Creator of the universes, the Words of Who has the dominion over all things, the Words of to w hom all the affairs return, the Words of Who earns the control of the Heavens and the Earth, the Words of Who earns the creation and the pow er, the Words of Who does not be asked w hat to do but all creatures are asked, and the Words of to w hom the fate is; you find the tranquility of certainty and the validity of religion in your heart, and also you find the integrity of faith, therefore: [Fater]
rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped).(22) The rain is a sign which indicates Allah s Greatness: Allah made four-fifths of the land as sailors and one fifth as a land; He made green coastal areas of the land, and yellow inland areas. O Lord, w hy did you create these desert lands? Where there is no w ater, no plant, and intense heat? It's a laboratory. This desert is a laboratory, the air is very hot in the desert w hile it is very cold in the cold places; and the cold air is heavy, thick, and its pressure is high, w hile the hot air is rarefied, and its pressure is low ; w hen there are tw o regions, one is a low -pressure, and the second is a high pressure, the air moves betw een them, w hen it moves it drives the w ater vapor that is in the air from the seas to the interior; w hen the w ater vapor is driven to the interior, it faces cold fronts so the rain comes into being. By the presence of rain the good things w ere found, these trees, these plants, these springs, and these copious rivers as, for example, Amazon river w hich its abundance is three hundred thousand cubic meters per second, w here are the springs of this river? Where are its w arehouses? All the residents in Damascus drink from a spring w hich its abundance during the overflow is thirty-six cubic meters per second, and in the days of springs depletion its abundance is only one cubic meter per second, and all the residences in Damascus drink from this spring. That is Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. The rain alone is one of the signs w hich indicates the greatness of Allah, Almighty. Someone has said: "The air carries w ater vapor in every degree; it means that the air in each degree absorbs a particular quantity of w ater vapor, except for this property, w e didn't have rain, as the hot air carries a big amount of steam, and w hen the hot air faces a cold front it shrinks and be pressed. Allah, The Greatest, says: And have sent dow n from the rainy clouds abundant w ater (14) [Al-Nabaa] It rains heavily, and if Allah, Almighty, has given, He w ould make you amaze. Once, I read a piece of new s that it had rained in "Ras Al Khaimah" in one night nearly tw o hundred and fifty mm, w hich is equal in Damascus to the rain amount of all the w inter season. Everything for Allah, Almighty, may be a mercy or may be a torment; for example, the w ind is grace, but there is a gale w ind w hich takes everything and never keeps anything, as the hurricanes. Another example, the w ater, you may sink in the w ater as w hat happened in China, or you may revive w ith w ater, and so everything. Allah has created everything specifically for humans: Allah says: rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped).(22) It's a season of fruits, and every day you eat a type or more of it, so, did you think w ho has made this w atermelon? Who has designed it in this size? The basis of w atermelon is one seed, from w here did this sw eet taste come? From w here did this red color come? These diuretic and useful materials? Who did make its crust very thick and oval-shaped? You see a car carrying ten tons of w atermelon and it is put at the bottom as it is at the top, because the oval shape is one of the most forms that resists pressure,
because in the oval form the pressure distributes over all the surface of this shape, just like eggs, that if you put a hundred eggs in a basket, the egg w hich in the bottom does not affected ever. You eat apples, peaches, and pears, each type from these fruit has a taste, has a shape, has a particular crust, has a color, has components, has a consistency, w ho did make its consistency, its components, its taste, its shape, and its color in order that human desires it? rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped).(22) for you means specifically for you, you may be invited to a feast w here you are the guest of honor and all this food w ere made for you, someone may knock on the door, a visitor, and he may share food w ith you, but this food did not prepared for the guest, but it is made for the guest of honor, you should have a certain know ledge that everything is created by Allah, Almighty, for you. This is the advantage of the meaning for you And the cattle He created for you (5) [Al-Nahl] Everything in the universe is exploited for humans: Allah, The Greatest, says: And We have subdued them unto them so that some of them they have for riding and some they eat (72) Let's have some examples about pets, a camel w eighs three-ton is led by a child and he doesn't afraid of it; w hile the father of this child trembles if he has seen a small scorpion, because the scorpion is not a pet, glory be to Allah. you see a nice bird and w ish if you can hug, on the other hand, rat has the same form and flow of the bird, but to look at it is an unbearable thing; so w ho has designed the bird as a favorite animal and the rat as an unpleasant one? Who has made the first is pet and the second is not? It is said: "A person is like the sheep" if he is a kind and quiet person; but if Allah has put the nature of the hyena in the sheep, w ho w ould dare to buy a sheep in order to slaughter it on "The Greater Bairam"? Because the hyena is a w icked animal, contrary to the sheep: And We made them the cattle subservient to them in one w ay or other And We have subdued them unto them so that some of them they have for riding and some they eat (72) And Allah says: And the cattle He created for you (5) [Yaseen] [Yaseen] [Al-Nahl]
Follow the w ord for you in the Quran and you w ill find that everything w hich Allah created is exploited for you in order to know Him, to w orship Him, and to be happy near Him. The believer is not subject to any human: Allah, The Greatest, says: rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped).(22) Fruits are honoring for human being; cherry, apricot, apple, peach, pear, and melon, w atermelon are types, grape are types, and no one know s the number of these types but Allah; all these fruits are designed in order to eat, and know Allah through it: rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped)(22) [Al-Baqarah] Of course, no one says that there is another god created, but w hen you are subject to a person, you have made him a rival to Allah. Notice these w ords: Once I have mentioned that the person w ho has obeyed a creature and disobeyed his Creator, he did not say: "Allah is the Greatest" even if his tongue has echoed a thousand times, because, basically, he obeyed the strongest from his point of view, and made it a rival to Allah. There are people w ho make the punishment of people like the torment of Allah; for example, if he has been threatened by a strong person, he w ould disobey Allah, he drinks w ine in order to avoid his bad, so he makes the punishment of the strong man like the torment of Allah and he obeyed the most effective according to his point of view. The person w ho did not implement Islam in his house in order to please his family and children did not say: "Allah is the Greatest", even if his tongue has echoed a thousand times, because he felt that to satisfy his w ife and children is more important than the satisfaction of Allah, Almighty. The person w ho deceived the Muslims did not say: "Allah is the Greatest", even if his tongue has echoed a thousand times, because he thought that this ill-gotten money w hich he gained from deceiving Muslims is more important than the satisfaction of Allah. Sometimes, the human says a single w ord reveals that he is ignorant. For example, if someone has claimed that he studied medicine then he told you: "The more you put salt in the food, your blood pressure w ill improve and decrease!"; according to his talk you find that he is not a medical student, nor he has any medical culture, even he never achieved the baccalaureate, and he is naked from any culture, because salt raises the blood pressure, and he said to you: "The more you increase salt the pressure decreases!"; it is a full ignorance, so he spoke a w ord but that w ord can tell that he is ignorant. No one can claim the creating of universe but Allah:
If someone has draw n a map of Syria, and he pointed Damascus on the coast, can you call this person a scientist? This is the ultimate mistake, and a big fault. So, w hen the human obeys a creature and disobeys the Creator, it is a very big mistake, hence, the w ord that I alw ays say: When a person earns an ill-gotten w ealth, he does not know Allah, if he has know n that Allah must hold him the responsibility, and he w ill pay a high price, he w ould never disobey Allah, Almighty, and the one w ho violates the property of others, w ho violates their honors, w ho makes the discord betw een them, the tattler, and the backbiter, all of them did not know Allah, if they had know n Him, they w ould not run over their borders: rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped)(22) No one says that there is a party created the universe, and no one can claim that he created the universe but Allah. Allah says: Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth (4) What is the meaning of "rival to Allah"? The peer in this verse means that you obey him, you love him, you w orship him, you hope him, and you are subjected to him as if he w as a god: [Al-Sajdah] rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped)(22) Some people in the Islamic World worship each other: Dear Brothers, on the occasion of the Words of Allah, The greatest: rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped)(22) Those w ho you make rivals to Allah did not create you, they did not bestow upon you, and they do not have a benefit or harm for you; how ever, you make them equals?! This is a big problem in the Islamic World, people w orship each other. Allah, Almighty, says: And of mankind are some w ho take (for w orship) others besides Allah as rivals (to Allah). They love them as they love Allah. But those w ho believe, love Allah more (than anything else). If only, those w ho do w rong could see, w hen they w ill see the torment, that all pow er belongs to Allah and that Allah is Severe in punishment (165) [Al-Baqarah] That to have a rival to Allah is to love him as you love Allah, to fear him as you fear Allah, and to hope him as you hope Allah. They love them as they love Allah. But those w ho believe, love Allah more (than anything else). If only, those w ho do w rong could see, w hen they w ill see the torment, that all pow er belongs to
Allah and that Allah is Severe in punishment (165) [Al-Baqarah] It means that they tyrannized themselves, w hen they loved their rivals as the love of Allah. Allah is the the origin of perfection: Who should be loved is Allah alone because He is the origin of perfection; He is the origin of grace and tender, and the origin of beauty. Who should be loving is Allah alone. If only, those w ho do w rong could see, w hen they w ill see the torment, that all pow er belongs to Allah and that Allah is Severe in punishment (165) And Allah says: And w hen some hurt touches man, he cries to his Lord (Allah Alone), turning to Him in repentance, but w hen He bestow s a favour upon him from Himself, he forgets that for w hich he cried for before, and he sets up rivals to Allah, in order to mislead others from His Path. Say: "Take pleasure in your disbelief for a w hile: surely, you are (one) of the dw ellers of the Fire!" (8) A person' son has seriously become ill, so his father took him to a doctor, the doctor is inspired, w ith a grace of Allah, to diagnose and determine the disease, and he is inspired the prescribing of the appropriate remedy, so the child healed, but the father forgot Allah and attributed the healing of his son to the doctor. You retain a law yer then Allah has lionized you that He, Almighty, has inspired the law yer the accurate note, and He inspired the judge to be justice w ith you, so he w as; and then you attribute the success of the case to the law yer and that judge?!! Therefore, Allah, The Greatest, says: But w hen He bestow s a favour upon him from Himself, he forgets that for w hich he cried for before, and he sets up rivals to Allah, in order to mislead others from His Path. Say: "Take pleasure in your disbelief for a w hile: surely, you are (one) of the dw ellers of the Fire!"(8) [Al-Zumar] [Al-Zumar] The hidden polytheism is to make someone as an equal to Allah: Allah says: And w hen harm touches man, he invokes Us, lying dow n on his side, or sitting or standing. But w hen We have removed his harm from him, he passes on his w ay as if he had never invoked Us for a harm that touched him! Thus it seems fair to the Musrifun that w hich they used to do. (12) Make this verse as a beacon to guide you, so not to slip into the abyss of polytheism, and your w orship frustrates, May Allah forbids: [Yunus]
rivals unto Allah (in w orship) w hile you know (that He Alone has the right to be w orshipped)(22) If a person attributed the situations to his pow er, or his w isdom, or his know ledge, or to the pow er of others, and the know ledge of others; hence, he has become a polytheist; so bew are that you should not make anyone as a rival w ith Allah. This verse, o brothers, is from the precise verses w hich show s that the hidden polytheism is to make anyone as an equal to Allah, and to assume equals w ho love them as you should love Allah, Almighty. Translation : Iman Nashar Auditing : Zena El-Abaza