Allah, Almighty, said in Surah Ibrahim..
"And those who disbelieved said.. " 14:13
".. to their messengers "We will surely drive you out of our land, or you must return to our religion.".. "
".. So their Lord inspired to them, "We will surely destroy the wrongdoers. "
"And We will surely cause you to dwell in the land after them.. " 14:14
".. That is for he who fears My position and fears My threat."
"And they [Istaftahu], and disappointed, [therefore], was every obstinate tyrant." 14:15
"Before him is Hell, and he will be given a drink of purulent water." 14:16
These were verses..
from Surah Ibrahim..
Our Lord said:
"And those who disbelieved said.. "
from varied nations..
".. to their messengers.. "
i.e. each nation said to its messenger.
".. "We will surely drive you out of our land, or you must return to our religion.".
They are not giving them options to choose..
But, this is an oath..
because they were confident of their might.
that, the matter is only one of two..
either we drive you out of our land..
or you must return to our religion.
And, one of these two will occur for sure.
The saying that they've said..
Allah, has mentioned it here, in general.
And, Allah, Almighty, has mentioned it in details too..
".. Expel the family of Lot from your city.. " 27:56
And, Allah, Almighty, has mentioned it, in case of Noah..
and in case of Muhammad, SAW..
"And [remember, O Muhammad], when those who disbelieved plotted against you to restrain you or kill you or evict you [from Makkah].. " 8:30
".. But they plan, and Allah plans.. ".
"And those who disbelieved said to their messengers.. "
".. "We will surely drive you out of our land, or you must return to our religion.".. "
Definitely, all messengers..
They were not following the Shirk of their people..
but, before they were assigned the message, they were not..
trying to stop people from doing Shirk.
because, they were not told to do so, yet.
So, their people thought, they were following their belief..
because of that, they said: or you return.. to our religion.
".. So their Lord inspired to them.. "
Where did the inspiration come from?
From Allah.
to His messengers..
".. We will surely cause you to dwell in the land after them.. "
i.e. the command of Allah, Almighty, will supervene.
and, Allah will destroy these people.
".. That is.. "
i.e. this victory, this establishment..
and, it is present in all Quran..
".. "And We have already written in the book [of Psalms] after the [previous] mention.. "
".. that the land [of Paradise] is inherited by My righteous servants." 21:105.
Allah, Almighty, said:
".. That is for he who fears My position and fears My threat.". "
Fearing the position of Allah..
is from the greatest merits of the righteous.
whom Allah has promised, because of this..
bounties which no eye has seen, no ear has heard..
and no human heart has ever perceived.
Our Lord said: Glory to remembering Him..
"But for he who has feared the position of his Lord are two gardens. " 55:46
And, our Lord said:
"But as for he who feared the position of his Lord.. " 79:40
".. and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination. "
"Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge." 79:41
So, the greatest merit of the servant..
is fearing the position of Allah.
But, enough of fearing that..
would prevent you from doing sins.
keep the fear that would prevent you from doing sins.
The situation of the believer is between..
fearing Allah, and hoping with expectation.
Mu'aath, may Allah be pleased of him and please him.. he said..
when he was about to die..
And, we know that Mu'aath, may Allah be pleased of him..
he died as martyr, during the plague of 'Aamwas
in Ash-Sham..
So, when he was about to die, he said:
'Allahumma, I used to fear you..
and today, I.. '
Who would complete?
'.. and today, I'm appealing to you.'
He said: 'Allahumma, I used to fear you.. and today, I'm expecting from you.'
So, we are to have good expectations from Allah.. all the time.
But the most crucial moment..
when a believer have..
a great expectations from his Lord..
is when he is about to leave this life..
'Allahumma, I used to fear you.. and today, I'm having good expectations on you.'
Allah said:
".. That is for he who fears My position and fears My threat."
Blessed audiences, in Quran, we have..
a promise..
and a threat.
And, in this verse, Allah, Almighty, has mentioned; the threat.
And, in Quran, there are many threats..
e.g. the threat for the people who are associating with Allah.. people of [Shirk].
that, they will be abide eternally, in the Fire.
".. Indeed, he who associates others with Allah - Allah has forbidden him Paradise.. " 5:72
"Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him.. " 4:48
".. but He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills.. "
".. And he who associates others with Allah has certainly gone far astray." 4:116
And, the threat of Allah is for..
who deliberately kills a believer.
Allah, said:
"But whoever kills a believer intentionally.. " 4:93
".. his recompense is Hell, wherein he will abide eternally, and Allah has become angry with him.. "
".. and has cursed him and has prepared for him a great punishment."
And, the threat of Allah is for..
those who consume the wealth of the orphans, unjustly..
Our Lord said:
"Indeed, those who devour the property of orphans unjustly.. " 4:10
".. are only consuming into their bellies fire.. "
".. And they will be burned in a Blaze."
And, the threat of Allah is for..
those who have disconnected their ties with their relatives..
and have caused them harm..
"So would you perhaps, if you turned away, cause corruption on earth and sever your [ties of] relationship?. " 47:22
"Those [who do so] are the ones that Allah has cursed.. " 47:23
".. so He deafened them and blinded their vision."
Blessed brothers..
these were examples of the threat from Allah.
Allah, said:
".. That is for he who fears My position and fears My threat.". " 14:14
"And they [Istaftahu=a request to open] from Allah.. " 14:15
Grammatically, the Subject is; them..
But, the question is, who are they?
Some people of knowledge said..
They are the disbelievers from Quraish.
from their evidences is..
the saying of Allah, Almighty:
"And they urge you to hasten the punishment.. " 22:47
And, the saying of Allah, Almighty:
"And [remember] when they said, "O Allah, if this should be the truth from You.. " 8:32
:.. then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment.". "
And, some people of knowledge said:
The pronoun; They, refers to the prophets..
and their evidence is the saying of Allah, Almighty:
in the story about some of His prophets..
"Then [Iftah=Open] between me and them with decisive [Fatha].. " 26:118
and in similar verses, where Allah said that the prophets..
have asked Allah, Almighty, to [Yaftaha] a sort of judgment..
between them and their people..
And the best is to say..
The pronoun; They, is about both, the prophets and the disbelievers from Quraish.
"And they [Istaftahu=a request to open, or to judge] from Allah.. "
Then our Lord said:
".. and disappointed, [therefore], was every obstinate tyrant."
"And they [Istaftahu].."
".. and disappointed, [therefore], was every obstinate tyrant."
When will every obstinate tyrant be disappointed?
at Dunya.
And, the saying of Allah, Almighty; they will be disappointed..
at Dunya..
because, He said after that..
"Before him is Hell.. " 14:16
i.e. at Akhirah.
Our Lord said here..
".. and disappointed, [therefore], was every obstinate tyrant."
Now, we have two Adjectives; Tyrant and Obstinate.
The tyrant is a person who observes himself as great..
he sees no rights for others.. as far as he is concerned.
And to assure you..
may Allah grant us all the tranquility.
Two issues, were mentioned in the Book of Allah, they won't be together.
they won't be together, in the heart of anyone;
tyranny[Tajabur]..
and benevolence[Bir] to parents.
They won't be together, in the heart of anyone; [Tajabur]..
and [Bir] to parents.
And, no proof of this better than in Quran.
Allah, Almighty, said:
"[ Allah ] said, "O John, take the Scripture with determination.".. " 19:12
".. And We gave him judgement [while yet] a boy. "
"And affection from Us.. " 19:13
".. and purity, and he was fearing of Allah. "
"And dutiful[Bar] to his parents.. " 19:14
".. and he was not a disobedient tyrant."
This was the saying of the Lord of Dignity.
He said: "And dutiful to his parents.. "
".. and he was not a disobedient tyrant[Jabar]."
So, Allah, Almighty, has confirmed that Yahya, peace be upon him..
he was benevolent to his parents.
and that he was not a disobedient tyrant[Jabar].
because of this, the scholars said, these cannot be together..
[Bir] to parents..
and Tyranny[Tajabur].
these two features can't be together.
".. and he was not a disobedient tyrant."
Our Lord said in our verse..
"And [Istaftahu], and disappointed, [therefore], was every obstinate tyrant."
Obstinacy is a result of tyranny..
And, it is the rejection of truth.
it is the denial and the refusal to accept it
We seek refuge with Allah, this is the behavior of who has denied Allah, Almighty, and refused his Quran.
The Lord of Dignity said:
"And [Istaftahu], and disappointed, [therefore], was every obstinate tyrant."
"Before him is Hell.. "
etc, with the blessed verses of this Surah.