[وَنَحْشُرُ الْمُجْرِمِينَ يَوْمَئِذٍ زُرْقًا] And those Mujrimeen. Those people who happen to be criminals,
Allah (swt) will raise them up on that day Zurqa, blue eyed, okay.
Now, some of the deviant sects, such as the Nation of Islam, they
believe that this is referring to white people, okay? Because the
word Zurqa, the Mufassirin they explained it to be blue eyed. And I
remember several years ago, that I was standing in the heart of
downtown Toronto, and I met someone from the Nation of Islam, and they
started speaking to me, and they obviously saw that I'm a Muslim,
and they affiliate to Islam as well. So they started speaking to
me and in the conversation, of course, I said, "Why do you think
that the white people are devils?" and so on and so forth, because
that's the premise on which the entire nation of islam was founded.
It's not an Islamic movement, they just call themselves the Nation of
Islam, right. So of course, it's very sidelined and it's very, very
new as well just was founded in the last century. Malcolm X was one of
the great preachers of this, but then he moved out to regular Islam,
basically, the Islam of the Prophet (pbuh) and all of the generations
thereafter. So he quoted this verse, [وَنَحْشُرُ الْمُجْرِمِينَ يَوْمَئِذٍ زُرْقًا] And of course, this
movement didn't come out of a void, it came out of the extreme racism,
which black people in the United States of America had to deal with
throughout the 20th century. And also till today at some level to
some level in some degree, black people in the United States and in
many other parts of the world continue to face racism. Now
Allah's Messenger (pbuh) came and he eradicated this racism from the
face of the Arabian Peninsula, anyone who treated anyone with
racism, he would be very, very harshly brought to justice. And the
law would deal with him very, very severely from the very getgo of
Islam. And that's why anyone from even from amongst the closest of
companions of the Prophet (pbuh) that would make a racial comment.
The Prophet (pbuh) wouldn't take this lightly, you would take it
very seriously so that this particular idea of racism becomes
eradicated but because, as I said, the 20th century was a very
racially supercharged time. And to be honest, now we are going through
another similar era of a very racially supercharged time as well
more against Muslims than it was then other people. Just as
yesterday it used to be more against black people than then
towards other people as well. But that is not to undermine the racial
racism that black people till today experience it is disgusting, it is
despicable. It shouldn't be tolerated in the least. And but on
the flip end, we cannot become extreme on the other end as well.
And then start misquoting the verses of the Quran and say, "Look,
the Mujrimeen, the criminals Allah said they will be raised on the Day
of Judgment blue eyed, Zurqa". Okay, so that means who has blue
eyes, white people have blue eyes, as in they're the Mujrimeen they
must be the criminal. This is what this individual is telling me in
the heart of downtown Toronto. But anyways, I told them that let me
ask you a question. What is the word Zurq mean? The word Zurq means
blue. Okay? It means it's the plural of Az Zarqa. Or it's the
plural of the singular word blue. Okay. So how do you know for sure
that the Zurq are in fact the Uyoon? How do you know for sure
that the blueness is in fact within the eyes, because even the
Mufassirin have differed about this whether it is referring to blue
eyes. And when they say blue eyes, they further explained that not
just blue eyes for the sake of blue eyes because human beings have
blue, black, brown, and other complexions in eyes as well. So
it's not referring to blue eyes, that a person is born with it is
referring to the blueness that gets in the eye when a person goes
blind. Okay? That's the blueness that this is referring to or when a
person is dehydrated dehydration can also lead to slight blueness
within the eyes. So that is the blueness that this must be
referring to it's not referring to the natural blue eyes, that people
end up having. That cannot be the case. That's if the word Zurq is
referring to eyes. Right and I said I asked him, How do you know? So
naturally his response was that the person who had explained this he
has 20 years of experience in Arabic, What experience do you
have? Anyways, that's not a comment that's of any use. It's not a
comment that should be responded to. The word Zurq simply means
blue, there's nothing about the eyes, in the ayah of the Quran
itself. So that's why the scholars of tafsir differ whether the
blueness is in the eyes, or the blueness is in the body itself. You
know how, when somebody gets punched in the face, may Allah
protect you and I, the eyes go blue, right? So that's, that's a
blue eye, right. And similarly, if a person gets harmed anywhere in
the body on the arms or the bruises, right, they're all blue.
So some Mufassirin they said that this is referring to bruises all
over the body. So the blueness that occurs because of the bruises all
over the body because there'll be coming out resurrected through out
of the graves. Of course the graves are within the ground. So when
they're coming out, it could be that they get bruised along the way
and for any other purpose. Anyways, Allah tells us only the fact that
they will be resurrected Zurqan right blue, as for the eyes or
whether it's the skin or the body or if even if it is the eyes, as
many Mufassirin did say then it is definitely not the natural blue
that people have. That happened to be Caucasian. It's referring to the
blue that happens when a person becomes blind.