Al-Wajiz In Tafsir Of The Quran - Arabic · TorontoDawah

005 - Al-Wajiz in Tafsir of the Qur'aan - Arabic - Abu Fajr AbdulFattaah Bin Uthman

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A thunderbolt from the sky consumed the Israelites as they watched, after they demanded to see God directly.

This episode continues the study of the book "Al-Wajiz" by Al-Wahidi, a classical concise Quranic exegesis, with the teacher Abu Fajr AbdulFattaah. The lesson focuses on interpreting verses from Surah Al-Baqarah, primarily recounting narratives and commandments given to the Children of Israel. The teacher meticulously explains the linguistic and jurisprudential nuances within the verses, connecting them to theological principles. A central story involves the Israelites worshipping a calf after Moses departed for communion with God. God commands them to kill themselves as an act of repentance, which they eventually do, and He then accepts their repentance. Another narrative describes a thunderbolt striking and killing a group of Israelites who demanded to see God directly after witnessing Moses's miracles. The teacher emphasizes that belief in a prophet becomes obligatory after the clear manifestation of his miracles. The episode details the story of the cow, where God commands the Israelites to slaughter a specific cow to solve a murder mystery. The teacher recounts their excessive questioning about the cow's age, color, and work status, which made the command more difficult. They eventually find and slaughter the extremely expensive cow, then strike the murdered man with part of it, bringing him back to life to identify his killer. The teacher states that despite witnessing such clear signs, the hearts of the Israelites became hardened like stone, or even harder. He contrasts their hearts with actual stones, noting that some stones split to gush water or tumble down in fear of God. The teacher explains that a faction of the Jews around the Prophet Muhammad would hear God's word from the Torah and then deliberately distort it after understanding it. He cites their alteration of the ruling of stoning and the description of the Prophet Muhammad as examples of this distortion. The episode describes how some Jews would claim to believe when meeting the Muslims but would later chastise each other for revealing the prophecies about Muhammad found in their books. The teacher mentions the Jewish claim that the Fire of Hell would only touch them for a few days, a claim which the Quran refutes. God's covenant with the Children of Israel is outlined, prohibiting the worship of others, commanding kindness to parents and relatives, and speaking good to people. The teacher notes that they turned away from this covenant except for a few. The covenant also forbade them from shedding each other's blood or expelling one another from their homes, which they subsequently violated. The tone is purely educational and exegetical, delivered in a formal, lecture-style format typical of traditional Islamic scholarship. This episode is ideal for students of Quranic exegesis seeking a detailed, classical explanation of these specific narratives and legal discussions within Surah Al-Baqarah. Listeners seeking a philosophical, modern, or comparative religious discussion might find this episode too focused on traditional textual analysis.

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