When Heaven Is Split Asunder…Surah Infitar [Quran 82] Quranic Guidance | Mufti Abu Layth

let's take a look at the first eight verses from suratul in fitar and in fetar in fotara means to to kind of split or to just maybe like shatter is okay so Bismillah

foreign that when this Heaven is cleft asunder what is and when the constellations they disappear they spread out of sight

what is and there's different ways of seeing this but when the oceans they come gushing forth [Music] and when the Dead are overturned or the graves are overturned

now at that stage a soul will know what it has done it will know the goodness that it's sent forward that it invested in it will know where it fell short in all the opportunities it missed in all the the mistakes that

it perpetrated but you know another way of look and this is the you know the the beautiful thing about looking at the Quran is every time you look at it afresh it gives you certain nuances so one way and that's the verses these verses are reading that is

when all this happens and then the insan when on the day of judgment knows this is what they have done that's clear of course without a doubt but one nuance is also to say that when the heavens Are CL you know cleft asunder and the constellations shoot out of sight and all they disappear and when the oceans gush forward and and the land and the corpses are turned upside down

is that what it would take to know what way you have gone right and where you have gone wrong that is that what it would take that would you not know already because you would neverson

you see one a Nuance of looking at it is does it actually take all of that does it take the Heavens to be cleft asunder and constellations and stars to be to explode and disappears this because that too the universe at some point will come to an end does it take that do you not already know

the goodness and the harm that you've caused do you not know truly and I think in in that nuance because we do know I mean we were there'll be little things obviously and other things that but certain things that weigh down on us we do know it doesn't take the heavens and everything to be destroyed in fact in many ways you see

all of those things put together the heaven and here heaven doesn't mean jannat is the Sama this is the English word about meaning the cosmos and and the constellations and the stars and the planets and the oceans and the land and in many ways all of those things that whole world to be destroyed

is somewhat dwarfed when considering the human soul being destroyed because it is by that consciousness It Is by insan that these things are witnessed or appreciated

that all of that world this being led to destruction and on the other hand the soul being destroyed or not or the opposite that's one way of looking at this whole Nuance of Ides

is an interesting verb and zamakshari said that it's actually from Bath just to to to resurrect with an added ra but why is it but look at all of this now you put it aside now check this out you're gonna love this

Allah after all of that you see like you you're looking at this whole destruction you're coming to is this what it takes for insan to realize where they've gone wrong or where they've come right is that what it takes and then in that moment of of profound self introspection of evaluating yourself Allah says

here you will insan um you know this verse take this this verse you could take this and put this as a as a principle or a mantra for our lives for every look put every you know a moment ago we were speaking about this kind of religiosity put that all on one side yeah

what has deceived you that your Lord that Kareem what deceived you about your God who has been so generous to you created you for some work gave you formation formed you father like

and there's many ways Adela can be to to straighten out to structure you but it can also be from for is from the term of fairness you see because personally say well I I haven't got you know this person's got more than me that person's got more than me with the fairness but then what about all the hundreds of thousands that you have been favored above and everybody is on that kind of Continuum everybody has something to be so

grateful about foreign and in what form in what shape this kind of almost like a body that he has set you up in but the other way of looking at it is Surah that in amazement that what a Surah

Luke and and this is by Surah here it doesn't mean like Surah in Arabic nowadays means like a photograph but this is that's modern Arabic but Surah here meaning your form not just you me but in CERN as a whole how we can do things how we how our limbs our kind of movement our agility our intellect the greatest thing that we have our compassion our empathy our all of this is part of our what we have as a Surah to insan Masha

and this whole thing being tied in yeah you know how did you what deceived your fooled you and led you away from your God that was so generous that what is it you know this is like it's one of those questions

never think of God as you know sometimes people have this this image of God as this dictator God is this somebody this accountant God has this uh almost like a um this kind of uh he he's like he's a king who can if he's angry with you then he will rip you to pieces but if he's happy with you then okay you'll get blessed people have this image

this right here this verse is how you understand Allah what is fooling you and deceiving you Rob the one who nurtured see rub is to do with nurture it could have been illah which is God but is the one who nurtures you Curry that is the nisper of insan to God on these verses just these eight verses

are so powerful that they begin by starting out there in the cosmos starting off with the whole Cosmos what if it was to collapse what if these lights that we see always so with so much stability see the constellations that we are looking at people humans have been looking at them forever same constant the stability what if they were to disappear

what if these oceans and one way of looking at this verse fujilat is to be consumed to kind of just be gone what if the dead that are so far and under meaning the out of sight all of a sudden became inside it's look look where the verses are bringing us from above all and then it's bringing us to a sense of responsibility

but the moment insan might almost stop in in thinking might start feeling a bit you know a bit of Gloom the first steps in yeah [Laughter] well what is beguiling foreign

and then has he not created you has he not given you form has he not given you strength has he not given you cognition has he not created you in in an unfathomable manner where you are capable of ideas and computation and planning and Concepts and if he's done all of this then how can you give up on him Allah how can you give up on God

think about that these eight verses I thought yeah I was um I think it was a few weeks ago I I was reading it and I thought you know what inshallah when I remember I'll go through them with you guys but yeah somebody said God is begging inside to wake up I mean that's I would say it's not you see it's not about to me I don't see it as

a a warning and a caution that I'm sure that's one way people could read it I see it more as you it isn't a realization but almost of you know where a person they can all they can almost be disappointed with themselves for not having realized earlier I see it more like that and it's all of us look we're all on this journey this is not you know this is not

somebody's you know probably this is all of us we're all doing it all the time but it this is the point that Allah is constantly saying it's okay Allah is still always there for us I wanted to share that with us may Allah bless us all amen