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the first ayah is just a mub'tada (subject of a sentence) with no khabr, you are expecting a khabr but there is no khabr, it is not a complete sentence/thought, this is a rhetorical device to get the attention of the audience bec they are anticipating how are you going to finish that sentence?, the listener is anticipating/waiting on the next part, ex. if I came and said "My trip this week" and then silence, you are like what happened?, or if I say "Your exam scores" and then silence, "The competition winners" and then silence, the audience really wants to know now,
to further incite curiosity you start over and say مَا الْحَاقَّةُ bec there are 2 very scary realities that all prophets AS warned about and they both have to be understood and they are actually at the center of understanding the larger philosophy of our religion, those 2 threats are the nation will be destroyed here in this world if they reject the prophet and then the judgment day for all of humanity, these are the 2 threats that every messenger comes with, you are going to face consequences here/the nation will be annihilated here, and then the ultimate punishment is judgment day/the ultimate warning is about judgment day, there are 2 kinds/sets of warnings, Makkans will pay in the akhirah and they will also pay in this dunya that is a fulfillment of A's promise (a consistent promise of A to all prophets and messengers), when the messenger is denied then the nation pays in this world, the nation rejecting him in the flesh/the nation that saw him with their own eyes pays in this world, surah Tawbah is like the flood of Nuh AS, it is the surah of kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, that was A's final punishment the warning fulfilled for PMP for the nation that disbelieved in PMP just like the promise of Nuh AS of the warning of the nation being destroyed then and there, it is part of divine punishment, it is not the foreign policy of Islam, there are 2 kinds of punishments, the Quraysh are being warned about 2 kinds of punishments, understanding these 2 sets of punishments when A gives warning about what is coming, it is a reality, it is bound to happen, it is not just akhirah, you better watch it bec there are going to be consequences for your deeds 1. excessive rebellion, excess in rebellion 2. one of the names of the punishment by which they were destroyed, the device by which they were destroyed is a punishment that rebelled, winds earth water are things that A subdued, the entire earth is like a animal that has been subdued, it is a domesticated animal, the nice breeze we feel is bec the winds have been subdued, they are held back, the oceans are subdued when they have calm waves, if these 3 creatures were to go wild, domesticated animals sometimes they go crazy, if the winds were to go wild you would see tornadoes, like this animal is let loose, if the oceans were let go and its calmness was removed then it would turn into tsunamis and floods, if the earth was let go it would create earthquakes and entire nations would sink into the ground, 7 nights and 8 days continuously
tornadoes pass through a town in 2 or 3 minutes and what destruction do they leave behind? 200 homes are completely destroyed, you wouldnt even think that there was a home here, just a pile of planks of wood, it is shocking to look at,
this wind came for 7 nights and 8 days, if wind/a tornado can do that in a couple of minutes what would 7 nights and 8 days of nonstop?
when we hear about thunderstorms/rain/winds coming we think O it is going to pass by, it is going to be a few hours, so evacuate/be in a shelter for a few hours, but a storm of this magnitude for how long? a week, that is beyond our fathom, the sky is our ceiling, in construction ceilings are held up by joints and beams, imagine that those joints start getting weak and you can see it shaking and you can hear the creaking, you know what is going to happen next, then it is going to collapse/fall
back in the day they would have 2 planks of wood and they would tie them together, but now they are getting loose bec of the earthquake the foundation is already shaken, so now what is above you is shaking and it is cracked in the middle also, إِنْشَقَّ it is torn and it is about to fall down
when a building is about to fall down where do you go? if there is an earthquake or the ceiling is collapsing if you cant go outside, what part of the building do you go to? the earth is shaking you cant go underground or to a basement, you go to the corners, you go betw the door beams, the strongest structure left is betw the doors, you go on the sides/supporting walls, beams, bec everything else might fall but the beam might stay, or you head towards the ends, you dont stay in the middle, you head outward, bec if you head outward the chances are maybe you can get out before things really collapse, the outer ends/the outer perimeter of a structure is called the أَرْجَاء , the angels are in the sky but the sky is about to fall so even the angels are terrified he is going around, he is not just saying I got a good score, he is saying hey look at this book, let me show you page 5 accepted deeds, page 6 accepted duas, page 7, what did you get?, ex. annoying students that get a 100 and they are sitting next to the student that got a 40, the guy who gets a 40 folds up his exam and sits there with his head lowered, and the guy who got a 100 opens it up at an angle and he is going over it as though he is going to find something, ustadh I think I should have got a 105, he is putting it in the other guys face a little bit, so what did you get? what did you get for this one? and the other guy is about to elbow him in the face, but on judgment day you get to do it,
its not like the guy next to you you have no idea that he got a bad report card on judgment day, you know very well who passed and who failed very very well, in this world you know somewhat (a folded paper stuck in the armpit and there is a certain look), but on judgment day there are people holding their book in their right hand and people that failed are holding their book in their left hand behind their back, left hand means it is bad, behind his back means I dont even know how bad bec I cant even see behind my back,
he goes and rubs it in their face and didnt encourage even feeding of the poor
forget feeding the poor himself, he didnt/never even encouraged anybody else to do it, didnt even incline anybody else to do it
already we learned that he was a person of wealth and power, that has already been suggested, people in wealth and power both of those things come with responsibility, on the one hand you are supposed to have even more eman than other people bec A has given you more than other people you should be more grateful than other people, but you are so obsessed with your own greatness, what about اللَّـهُ الْعَظِيم ? on the other hand bec A has given you more you should be giving more, you should be taking care of those who cant help themselves (الْمِسْكِين), forget giving, you didnt even encourage giving 