PERSPECTIVES

“One day, the Messenger of Allah صلى ألله عليه و سلم climbed al-Safa and shouted: ‘Come to me!’

And so all the Quraysh gathered around him. They said, ‘What ails you?’

He صلى ألله عليه و سلم said: ‘If I were to tell you that the enemy is going to attack you in the morning or in the evening, would you not have believed me?’

They said: ‘Indeed, we would believe you.’

He صلى ألله عليه و سلم said: ‘In that case, I am a warner sent to you against a tremendous chastisement.’

Abu Lahab said in response: ‘May you perish! Is this why you have summoned us here?’

And so Allah, glorified and majestic is He, revealed “May the hands of Abu Lahab perish, and may he perish” up to the end of the Surah.” – Abdullah ibn Abbas [Ali bin Ahmad al-Wahidi, Asbab un-Nuzul]

Halaqah Tafsir : Al-Masad 1–5

Dar-us-Salaam – December 18th, 2011

Length < 16 Minutes

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Uqbah bin Amir said, “While I was leading the Messenger of Allah صلى ألله عليه و سلم along one of these paths he said, “O Uqbah, will you not ride?”

I was afraid that this might be considered an act of disobedience. So the Messenger of Allah صلى ألله عليه و سلم got down and I rode for a while. Then he rode.

Then he said, “O Uqbah, should I not teach you two Surahs that are of the best two Surahs that the people recite?”

I said, `Of course, O Messenger of Allah.’ So he taught me to recite “Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of Daybreak” and “Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of Mankind.”

Then the call was given to begin the prayer and the Messenger of Allah صلى ألله عليه و سلم went forward  and he recited them in the prayer.

Afterwards he passed by me and said, “What do you think, O Uqayb? Recite these two Surahs whenever you go to sleep and whenever you get up.“ – Tafsir Ibn Kathir

Halaqah Tafsir : Al-Falaq 1–5

Dar-us-Salaam – December 11th, 2011

Length < 17 Minutes

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“The Messenger of Allah صلى ألله عليه و سلم had a Jewish servant boy.

The Jews approached him and kept after him until he gave them some fallen hair from the Prophet صلى ألله عليه و سلم as well as a few teeth from his comb.

They used these to cast a spell of black magic on the Prophet  صلى ألله عليه و سلم .

The person who was behind this was Labid ibn al-A’sam.

He then put the hair in a well belonging to Banu Zurayq called Dharwan.

The Messenger of Allah صلى ألله عليه و سلم fell ill for a period of six months during which the hair of his head started falling, he imagined that he had slept with his wives when he had not and he began withering away without knowing the reason.

As he was one day sleeping, he saw two angels coming to him. One of them sat by his head and the other by his feet.

The angel who sat by his head asked, “What is wrong with the man?” The second angel responded, “A spell of black magic has been cast on him.”

The first one asked, “And who is responsible for this sorcery?” The second angel answered, “It is Labid ibn al-A’sam, the Jew.”

The first angel asked again, “What did he use to cast black magic on him?” The second angel said, “He used a comb and fallen hair.”

The first angel asked: “Where is it now?” The second angel said, “It is inside the spadix of a palm tree beneath the stepping stone which is inside the well of Dharwan“, at which point the Messenger of Allah صلى ألله عليه و سلم woke up.

The Prophet صلى ألله عليه و سلم said, “O ‘A’ishah, do you not think that this is from Allah to inform me of the cause of my illness?”

He then sent ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib, al-Zubayr ibn al-’Awwam and ‘Ammar ibn Yasir who drained the water of that well as one would drain the dust of henna.

They lifted the stone and got the spadix out and found therein some of the hair of the Messenger of Allah صلى ألله عليه و سلم as well a few teeth from his comb.” – Ali bin Ahmad al-Wahidi, Asbab un-Nuzul

Halaqah Tafsir : An-Nas 1–6

Dar-us-Salaam – December 4th, 2011.

Length < 15 Minutes

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