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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil ‘Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafi al-anbiya’ wal-mutasalleen. Muhammad wa as-salallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiram kathira. And then, the verses which were recited in the second rak’at from Surah Al-Alimran. Allahﷻ said, إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاقْتِرَابِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ لَآيَاتٍ لِأُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ
And then Allah said, الَّذِينَ يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ قِيَامًا وَقُعُودًا وَعَلَى جُنُوبِهِمْ وَيَتَفَكَّرُونَ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاءَاتِ رَبَّنَا مَا خَلَقْتَ هَذَا بَاطِلًا سُبْحَانَكَ فَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ Allahﷻ said, Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation, the change of the day and the night, there are signs for people of intelligence, for people who can think.
And then Allahﷻ described those people. Who are these people? الَّذِينَ يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ قِيَامًا وَقُعُودًا وَعَلَى جُنُوبِهِمْ Allah said, these are the people who remember Allahﷻ, make dhikr of Allahﷻ, standing, sitting and lying down.
So standing, sitting and lying down are the three positions of the human body. There is no fourth position. You are either standing or sitting or lying down. So this refers to their entire life, all their actions, whatever they are doing. They remember Allahﷻ in those actions. So whether you are working, whether you are speaking to somebody, whether you are doing a deal, whether you are worshipping Allahﷻ, whether you are with your family, whichever situation you are in, you are either sitting or lying down. So Allahﷻ says, يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ قِيَامًا وَقُعُودًا وَعَلَى جُنُوبِهِمْ Somebody who remembers Allahﷻ in every aspect of his or her life. So remembering Allahﷻ means what? It means being conscious of the will of Allah, the pleasure of Allah, and doing only that which pleases Allah. Right? Obviously, it makes no sense. If I am doing dhikr, if I am backbiting, if I am telling lies, and I am saying سُبْحَانَ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهُ I am telling lies. How is it possible? I can’t say I am doing dhikr of Allah. You are not doing dhikr of Allah. You are lying to yourself. Because you are saying سُبْحَانَ اللَّهُ at the same time you are lying, you are saying سُبْحَانَ اللَّهُ and the next minute you are cursing somebody, or using profanity, or using bad language. I mean, this is not, there is no dhikr of Allah. Dhikr means instantly you remember Allah. And the minute you remember Allah, the moment you remember Allah, then what happens? Then you say whatever I am saying or doing, is it something which pleases Allah or no? If it pleases Allah, then I will do it. If it does not please Allah, I will not do it. That is the meaning of dhikr. Dhikr is to be conscious of Allah in my life 24×7. So Allah is saying, سُبْحَانَ اللَّهُ The intelligent people are those who are like this, who are conscious of Allah in their lives 24×7.
And then Allah says, وَيَتَفَكَّرُونَ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاءَاتِ وَرَضْ I remind myself when you, Allah used the preposition وَوْ وَيَتَفَكَّرُونَ Allah did not say اوْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ Right? If you take this sentence in the Arabic language, if somebody says, يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ قِيَامًا وَقُعُودًا عَلَى جُنُوبِهِمْ اوْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاءَاتِ وَرَضْ which means people who remember Allah standing, sitting and lying down, or those who reflect on creation.
يَتَفَكَّرُونَ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاءَاتِ وَرَضْ who make fiqr, who think about, who reflect on, who research, who discover, who are scientists and technologists and discoverers and philosophers. People who think about the creation and work to find, to discover the creation.
Now Allah is not saying that. Allah is not saying this or that. Allah is saying this and that. وَيَتَفَكَّرُونَ Right? People who remember Allah وَيَتَفَكَّرُونَ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاءَاتِ وَرَضْ and those who reflect. Now, if you think about this, there are two very important points to think about. One is Allah used و instead of أَوْ As I mentioned, in the Arabic language, if you say it with the أَوْ as a sentence in the Arabic language, grammatically, it is correct. It is not a wrong sentence. But the meaning is completely different. And that is not the ayat of the Quran. Right? It’s not the ayat of the Quran. You’re saying this and that. Meaning both are required. And the second thing is, Allah the way He mentioned it, Allah is also showing us the sequence, the way it is to be done. The same ayat, for example, if Allah had said
وَيَتَفَكَّرُونَ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاءَاتِ وَرَضْ وَيَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ قِيَامًا وَقُعُودًا وَعَلَى جُنُوبِهِمْ Again, grammatically, the sentence would be correct. Allah is saying those who think about the creation, the scientists and so on, and those who remember Allah.
But their sequence is not the sequence of the Quran. We have changed it.
Allah did not say that. Allah said first recognize Allah.
First be aware of the glory and majesty of Allah.
First recognize your Rabb. Who is Allah?
What is my relationship with Allah? Allah is the creation of the heavens and the earth. So what?
So I am going to meet Allah on the day of judgement. Therefore my life must be in line with what Allah wants.
There is a connection, right? It’s not a thing by itself. Oh Allah is the creator. Oh, okay.
So what about you? Nothing about me. I live my life. No, it’s not Islam. Islam is Allah is the creator of the heavens and the earth. Therefore we worship Him. And worshipping means, we obey Him. Right? This is a connection. That is our relationship with Allah. The fact that Allah is the creator of the heavens and the earth is not a disembodied fact. It’s not an intellectual piece of knowledge that we know. Right? Suppose you say, well, you know, what about the moon? Yes, the moon is here. There was a four billion years ago or five billion years ago, there was a collision between two planets, the earth and another planet, called Tia, which was the same size of the earth. And when that Tia smashed into the earth, a piece of the earth broke off and went off into orbit around the earth. And that piece is called the moon. That is how the moon is supposed to be created. So if you say, well, what’s your connection with the moon? What’s my connection? You ask me some information, I give it to you. I have no connection with the moon.
But when we talk about Allah, we are not saying it like this. There is a connection. There is a deep connection. We worship Allah because Allah created us. And worshipping Allah means to obey Allah. And I must do it because one day I will meet my Rabb, I will be presented before Allah, and I will be questioned about how I live my life. So Allah is showing us the sequence. Therefore, what must you do? Remember Allah standing, sitting and lying down and reflect in the creation and therefore acquire scientific knowledge and therefore see how the earth was created. Go and do discoveries. Go and find out. And then what happens? See the beauty of the Quran. The whole thing is Allah completes the whole thought. And then what will happen?
Spontaneously the person will say Rabbana ma khalaqta hadha batilan subhanaka baqina azaban naal O Allah, you have not created all this in vain. All of this is not just created for the sake of Allah. You created this for a purpose.
Rabbana ma khalaqta hadha batilan subhanaka You are pure. Glory to you. Majesty to you. Baqina azaban naal And save me from the fire. Save us from the fire. So when we know Allah and then we research in science, automatically the people the glory and majesty of Allah becomes even more clear. And the person says all of this is not an accident. All of this did not just happen. All of this has a creator behind it. And this creator is Allah. And I’m going to meet Allah therefore Allah save me from your punishment. Save me from the fire. But this is the beauty of the Quran al-Kareem and the beauty of how Allah mentioned this ayat. I always say that this is Allah has taught us how to do education. How to educate. Our biggest problem today globally Muslim and non-Muslim is we split this.
We have one set of people who are only engaged in the
in studying the theory. Right? So, zikr of Allah. Broadly speaking. So they are memorizing the Quran. They are learning how to recite Quran. They are doing Islamic sciences and so on. And that’s one bit. Now that, those people if you go and tell them how what do you know about the creation of the earth? Allah created the earth. How did the moon happen?
Why is the moon important? Why is the creation of the moon itself important?
The earth before the collision with with this planet called Theia was spinning at a rate where a day from sunrise, sunset 24 we have 24 hours now. It was 5 hours. So, a day was 5 hours.
With the collision it split. The moon went off. And because the moon is big enough and close enough to the earth it exerts a gravitational force on the earth which slowed down the earth. And we got our 24 hour day.
Imagine every 5 hours if it’s night. What will happen? How will you do anything?
We got 24 hours. The second big thing which happened was with this collision, the earth which was on its axis got tilted to an exact degree of 23.5. And that gives us our seasons.
If we did not have this tilt on the axis, the time that the earth was facing the sun, the temperature of the earth would become hundreds of degrees, which means everything would burn completely. And then when it turned and it faced away from the sun, it would freeze. So effectively no life was possible on the earth, like it happens on Venus. No life is possible on Venus for this reason.
So Allahﷻ with this collision gave us this tilt, so He gave us the seasons. The moon also, because of its gravitational force, gives us the tides in the oceans. On a full moon night, there is a high tide, higher than the normal tide.
And then with this collision of Theia, the mantle of Theia accreted onto the mantle of the earth and a piece of Theia went deep inside the earth, and that contains iron. There was no iron on the earth before this collision. And Allahﷻ mentioned this specifically. Allah said: Anzalna al-Hadid (وَأَنزَلْنَا الْحَدِيدَ)—Allah said: We sent down iron. Allah did not say iron was here; Allah did not say iron was in the earth. No, Allah said: We sent down… Anzalna al-Hadid.
Around the same time, there was also a colossal storm.
Now imagine the volume of that storm, what kind of a storm it must have been, which was water. Water came down to the earth and it came to Mars and it came to Venus. On Venus, it evaporated instantly because of the facing of the sun, temperature was so high, it’s gone. On Mars, it froze. That’s why even today when they say in the Mars probes and so on, they find they’re probably, they’re finding ice deep in the, below the surface of Mars, so they say maybe there was water. This was water. On the earth, because of Allah the way, the tilt of the axis and so on, the temperatures were such that water remained on the earth. Imagine if the earth had no water. Water, this water which you drink is the oldest substance on the face of this planet. This water is older than the mountain, it’s older than the rocks, there’s nothing older than this water. It’s the oldest substance, it’s four billion years old. It is non-renewable, same water circulates, there’s no new water.
And this water is the only substance which exists in three states simultaneously. Liquid, gas and solid. Solid is ice, gas is water vapor and liquid is liquid. No other substance. If you take, if you take iron for example, if you heat it, it will melt. Then it is melted, it is not solid anymore.
And you know gaseous form of iron.
So also any other substance. But water simultaneously exists in three states.
The oldest substance. When you are drinking the water, think about this. When you waste water, think about that. The same water circulates, evaporates from the oceans. And the amazing, Allah’s goodness, in the ocean the water is salty, it’s not drinkable and so on. It evaporates from the oceans and when it evaporates, it releases, it removes and it purifies itself. So all the salts and so on and so forth are left. When the water now comes down as liquid, so the liquid water in the ocean becomes gas. And when the gas hits the stratosphere with the cold, it
gets back into its liquid form, it’s pure.
Rainwater is pure, distilled water.
Haji wallahi shahana.
And so many more, I don’t want to take more time but including the freezing. The freezing of the water, I think I mentioned it in the other lecture. Freezing of the, it’s called the anomalous expansion of water. When water freezes, the interesting thing is, any other substance is in its densest form when it is solid. So liquid iron will flow. If you freeze the iron back to a solid state, it becomes much heavier. And it is, you know, it’s the densest form. In water, when it freezes, when water turns solid, when it freezes, it becomes less dense. So ice floats on water.
Normally ice should sink. When it becomes solid, it doesn’t sink, it floats. And that is from, that’s a benefit because when ice floats on top of water, ice also insulates. So once there is a certain thickness of ice on the top, the water below that does not freeze. It remains at a temperature of around 3 degrees, 3 to 4 degrees. Doesn’t go to zero. Now that is beneficial because that is where the, in lakes and rivers and in the ocean, that is where the aquatic life still remains alive. It can still exist. Which if that had not happened, supposing ice was heavy, when it froze it would sink. And then it would freeze up and you would have a solid, you know, chunk of ice and everything inside would be dead. All the fish, all the microorganisms, everything would be dead because they would all freeze. But Allah created ice in this water in such a way that when it freezes, it becomes less dense. So it floats on top, it insulates and the water below remains liquid. That’s called the anomalous expansion of water. In physics there is a chapter on that. See the khudra of Allah. How Allah created this world. Now the problem is, when we go, I challenge you, go to any madrasa on the face of this planet and ask these questions. Not one single person will be able to answer that.
It’s not because I am smarter. It’s not because they are stupid. I have read this, they have not read that. That’s simple. As simple as that. It’s not a question of intelligence. It’s a question of what you read.
And my point is, this is what should be read when you are teaching Quran.
What else do you have to read? Allah is the word of nature. It’s a matter of Allah’s power and where will you teach this? So we have split education. In our madaris, we don’t teach all this. And if you go to our universities,
they will teach you all of this without mentioning Allah.
This happened, this happened, this happened, this happened. It happened how? Why?
What do I understand from this? When I am seeing this, who must I think of? Who must I praise? Who must I thank?
This is what the Quran is saying. The Quran is saying, combine the two because they are supposed to be combined. You have done the problem. You have split these two things.
And that is why you have on the one hand, you have people who are heretics and people who are atheists and people who deny Allah and people who say all of this is an accident. There is no God. And on the other side, you have people who know Allah who know the Quran and so on and so forth. But the minute you come to any scientific thing, they are gone. Qalas.
Both are not what is desired in the Quran al-Karim. Education is not supposed to be like this. Education must open your eyes to the Creator. That is why Allah said, Inna fee khalqi samawati wal ardi waqtilafi l-layli wal nahar la-ayatin li-uliladhar. Allah said there are signs and signals, ayat, for people of intelligence. So ayat is what? A sign is something which shows you a direction, which has a meaning.
So I remember I said, I want to finish with this. I remind myself when you, let us think about this and let us see how can you influence educators to educate in a way, at least Muslim educators,
educate in a way where you open the eyes of people to the glory and majesty of Allah through the pursuit of scientific education. That is the real purpose of scientific education, to open our eyes to the glory and majesty of Allah. Then the possible is that Rabbana ma khalaqtaha dhabatillah Subhanaka faqira azabatar wa sallallahu ala nabiyyil karim ala ahlihi wa sahbihi ajmain bi rahmatul qarim