1 / 11

ALI 138: Tafseer of Sura Saba Session Five __________________________________________

ALI 138: Tafseer of Sura Saba Session Five __________________________________________. 1) Compare the story of the people of Saba to the stories of Prophets Dawood (a) and Sulayman (a) . What are some similarities/differences?

blenda
Download Presentation

ALI 138: Tafseer of Sura Saba Session Five __________________________________________

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. ALI 138: Tafseer of Sura SabaSession Five __________________________________________ 1) Compare the story of the people of Saba to the stories of Prophets Dawood (a) and Sulayman (a) . What are some similarities/differences? 2) How do these stories apply to our lives? What lessons do we get from them? 3) Read verse 19. What do you understand from this request of the people? 4) What is the assumption of Shaytan regarding the human being? Questions for Tadabbur : Verses 15 - 21

  2. Points to ponder over • A combination of worldly and spiritual favors • Bitterness – a consequence of wrongdoing. This is true in this world and in the next • Benefits of traveling ; beauty, peace, security, social relations, learning from history • Ingratitude can turn into weariness and boredom with favors • Patience and Gratitude

  3. The People of Saba • A people who were greatly blessed. They lived about 600 BC, in Southern Arabia. They built a dam (the Ma’rib dam) and used water behind the dam, channeling it into fields. They grew crops and had abundant harvests. • The people were ungrateful and transgressed. The dam was destroyed and water flooded the fields. This was the flood of Arim. The fields were destroyed, and as a result, the civilization of the people of Saba perished. • The people of Saba migrated to different parts of Saudi Arabia

  4. People of Saba The Ma’rib Dam map of the country where the people of Saba lived

  5. The Punishment of a People • Why does God punish a people? - disbelief - ingratitude - excessive sinning • Types of punishment - natural disasters - removal of favors - emotional pain - spiritual discontentment

  6. Result of Ingratitude • lack of appreciation of benefits. Results in discontent and unhappiness. • weariness and boredom with the favors given to them. example of the Bani Israel. and when you said: O Musa, we will not put up with one type of food. So invoke your Lord for us that He may bring forth for us of that which the earth grows – its greens and its cucumbers, its garlics, its lentils, and its onions. He said: “Do you seek to replace that which is superior with that which is inferior?” (2: 61) • removal of favors by Allah and when your Lord proclaimed: If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in blessings] but if you are ungrateful, My punishment is indeed severe (14: 7) • bitterness and regret

  7. Traveling in Islam ■Traveling is recommended for: - good health - increase in rizq - becoming self-sufficient ■Etiquette of traveling - choose your companions with care and be pleasant with them. - say a two raka’at prayer on arrival and departure. Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a) says: Luqman the wise advised his son: . . And say 2 rakaat salaat when you arrive on a land, and 2 raka’at when you leave, then say farewell to the earth on that part of the earth, and send greetings to it and its people, for every piece of land has a group of angels on it.

  8. The Aim of Shaytan • Surely, by Your might, I will make them all go astray, except Your servants form among them, the sincere ones (38:82-83) • I will surely lie in wait for them on Your straight path. Then I will come at them from their front and from their rear, from their right and their left, and You will not find most of them to be grateful. (7:16-17) • He said: My Lord, as You have made life evil for me, I will surely glamorize [evil] for them on earth, and I will surely cause them all to deviate. Except Your servants from among them, the sincere ones. (15:39-40)

  9. The Assumption of Shaytan • According to Hadith of Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a), when verse 20 of Sura Saba was reveled, Shaytan let out a scream. He raised his head towards the sky and said: By Your majesty and Glory, I will join the part to the whole. Allah replied him by saying: As for My servants, you have no authority over them (15: 42) • He misleads them through: - ingratitude - vanity - false hopes

  10. Imam Ali (a) on Shaytan Therefore, you should fear lest Satan infects you with his disease, or leads you astray through his call, or marches on you with his horsemen and footmen, because, by my life, he has put the arrow in the bow for you, has stretched the bow strongly, and has aimed at you from a nearby position, and: He (Satan) said: "My Lord! because Thou hast left me to stray, certainly will I adorn unto them the path of error, and certainly will I cause them all to go astray." (Qur'an, 15:39) Although he (Satan) had said so only by guessing about the unknown future and by wrong conjecturing, yet the sons of vanity, the brothers of haughtiness and the horsemen of pride and intolerance proved him to be true, so much so that when disobedient persons from among you bowed before him, and his greed about you gained strength; and what was a hidden secret turned into a clear fact, he spread his full control over you and marched with his forces towards you. Nahjul Balagha, Khutba 191

  11. Resources on the People of Saba • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXQe7iTCb4 • http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/historical_09.html • http://www.arabia-felix.com/arabia-felix-20.html

More Related