Reflections On Surah At-Tin (The Fig) Quran 95:1-8 | Mufti Abu Layth

you know what let's take a a look at a few verses and then i'll share out the i'll share out the link and maybe we can go live and let me see uh yep so now i'm in the shade right i thought

you know what about something that teaches you us it inspires you to aspire allah i thought surat in right about the fig now because it's a short surah eight verses something we've all come across

and in it are so many symbols so many messages of hope of realization and and also it kind of reminds you it can take you to such highs and then bring you down to such laws so what do i mean so bismillah now the surah begins as certain surahs begin with somewhat enigmatically majestically though

that what teeny was they told allah by the fig and by the olive as in allah swears by the fake by the olive interesting mount sinai swearing by mount sinai

and this secure sanctuary which will be the haram okay so makkah now we'll just go through the verses and i'm just going to come back we have created insane in the best of formations

begins with fig olive swearing by these now there's many things to think here why i mean truly allah knows and there's many reasons that we can conjure up and it can mean them and many more that's the amazing nature of the quran

who is the quran most likely addressing at this point you see people would bring learned folk they would bring priests rabbis from the northern arabian kingdoms they would bring them down to debate the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in makkah who would bring them the people of quraish because they used to go there for trade from places like hera and these other places up north in the middle east they would bring them back because the prophet was telling

them that he was part of a continuity so okay so they would bring these people back so these people knew these things they knew stories about the the bible they knew about the old testament they knew about the new testament they knew these things and the quran was not here trying to spell everything out for them what

see the fake it's amazing the fig in many ways symbols of it are already there in the biblical past jesus often gave he gave parables about the fig the fig tree in fact a point where jesus people had questioned jesus because in the gospels jesus curses the fig tree he turns up and and then he he according to one of the gospels he will

he he looks that the leaves are there but there's no fruit and according to some of them he curses it and according to some no this may be part of a parable he's trying to say to the people that you've got the letter of the law but where's the spirit where's the fruits behind these arabian settlements to the north is this huge kingdom byzantine

and yet the theme in many ways this fig that you're seeing is resemble it's symbolic of people questioning christ or maybe of christ questioning the people was zeitung you see they weren't olives olives weren't there in the arabian peninsula

but they were in the northern kingdoms allah jesus right before once again addressing these people jesus on mount olive isn't this the whole where jesus is also supposed to come back

right from the beginning right from the beginning these people believe that the first sign of hope was with noah no according to their teachings what does the dove come back with it comes back with a branch of olive olive branch to signify hope

yet there is civilization to come you think this flood has ruined everything life is yet to come there is yet great a magnificent destiny it goes on to symbolize peace that extending an olive branch what tini was say to

that what is it that was so spectacular on mount sinai that you're saying it was graced by revelation by transcendental intervention by by god

i mean that this what is the difference here in a time with in a time where the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is being he's being troubled by all these people around him this is makkah in a time where the prophet is people are trying to bully the prophet they try to hurt him they they act in the most lowly of ways this is what they're doing in the name

of what in the name of religion in the name of what was in the name of these things this is how they are acting to the prophet is something we have created in the most amazing spectacular of formations just think about it what we have as a capacity

you think of our physical and then you think of the intellect and what it can grasp it can grasp far more than what the body can grasp immediately following it by summary is then dropped to potentially the lowest of the law meaning that there is a potential potentiality in between you can rise you can sink [Laughter]

and it can be done in the name of religion these people troubling the prophet are doing it in the name of religion there's the mushrikeen yes but there's also these people coming in the name of abraham coming in the name of moses coming in the name of jesus there's this great civilization this this empire of byzantine and there is this tiny somewhat chaotic arab settlement in the middle of this between the southern kingdoms and the northern kingdoms of the hijas somewhat hardly any structure to it

is there any is there any hope for this allah says you see here is the important thing they may be doing it in the name of in in that context in the name of their gods in the name of their faith in the name allah exemplifies it see what is it faith

good actions see this is salvific this is what saves people for my see what is it that makes you deny not just life after death but the potential the power that god can bring to make it happen what is it that makes you deny it

has not god given you going back to them did they not begin with looking at jesus struggling few disciples was he not people ridiculing him people doing these things have they not resulted in a great empire look at the at at the trajectory of where might can take someone potentiality but at the same time allah is reminding

people that just as you rise see as easily as that you can fall does judgment not ultimately go back to god i i find this you know as such a small brief surah one that is full of so many symbols

of insane potentiality of parables of civilization of heights of fools of ultimate objective judgment from god but if anything it is one that shows that at a time like that when the prophet was struggling when people were attacking him when they were bullying him when they were ridiculing him when they kept bringing people to debate him when they kept the and the prophet was steadfast that in this implicitly was

a reflection and echo that you know these great things that are like so out of you know so out of reach so out of sight these civilizations in time to come they will all be graced by this thing of islam that wa allah