the organization in the Quran is [Music] mindblowing so we've reached uh Ayah number seven but before we do a number seven this is actually uh something important that I think it's these small things should be noted about the language of of ayat uh these are things that are often missed in translation um you know in this Ayah the caller calls the caller calls that language invokes mystery because who's the caller what's he calling to and then it it invokes irony ironic that right now there's a caller calling you and you walk away but then ironically there's another caller coming for you on Judgment Day and of course there's fear because that caller you will not be able to reject a thing sh in the the definite form is it's indefinite on it adds it adds it adds Terror meaning you know in Arabic it says but actually it would be translated a terrible thing even if the word wasn't there a terrifying thing because T can have that effect and N adds another layer of mystery irony and fear yet the same thing again mystery as in something unfamiliar what is it it's Indescribable irony because you act as if this message is unfamiliar and then finally fear also because what is unfamiliar can be the most terrifying this is the state of them on Judgment Day their eyes will be filled with now you probably heard the word andah before right and now Allah is using their eyes will have their eyes will be in a state of on Judgment Day so let's look at this word a little closer then we'll figure out how how we can understand what's being said here a hill that's Hollow to the ground meaning like a barely a hill that's called a a wall that collapsed and it's almost even with the ground is called the jash the Camels Hump when the camel starts getting sick and the hump is not as prominent anymore it's going down similarly um when when Ground becomes soft it's when you step on it it's almost muddy or damp that's um and also earth that is completely flat level and there's nothing growing on it is also uh a mountain that that is getting depressed over time like you know uh near where the archers were positioned if you've ever gone it used to be a lot higher but because people go on it so much it's now gotten dampened so that's actually it's experienced it's it's come lower now this is used for when faces are lowered so the the imagery of being lowered and softened that imagery then translated into the figurative expression for humility and being overwhelmed and being like all of your all of your emotions being lowed your temper being lowed your pride being lowed your self-esteem being lowed you're you're lowed in your heart before Allah and that's actually a state of of the heart uh when when voices are lowered we say when when hearts are humbled and and softened actually so here when the eyes are lowered actually means the eyes are humbled the idea of is actually the eyes are going to be humbled which suggests that the eyes were filled with arrogance before so they looked and by the way this is playing off of something that started in the Surah things are stitched together if they see a sign they ignore it so their seeing has arrogance in it because they ignore Divine signs and now those same eyes have been what humbled they've been LED they've been brought down this is also a continuity of something that was mentioned in the end of write the Surah right before this in Arabic is um when someone puffs up their chest and postures like they're bigger than they actually are they're called samid when someone's being obnoxious in public and singing out loud they're called samid it was actually also used for predatorial animals or animals that are about to defend or attack that puff up their chest to appear bigger than they actually are so actually all says in your in your fake arrogance you posture and you laugh and you don't cry meaning you have this like dismissive attitude towards this Revelation and now he says there's another really beautiful thing in the previous Surah the final Ayah was an ay of s make S to Allah humble yourselves before Allah and now in the next Surah we're seeing eyes have been humbled themselves on Judgment Day actually before we go on is an interesting uh piece of language uh so this expression occurs in the Quran multiple times uh you know but you don't find you find is more extreme language it's it's used for words like is used for a person that keeps changing over and over again um is used for rain uh that is actually a land that doesn't get any rain at all is actually someone who keeps again transforming over and over again these are hyperbolized patterns what I'm trying to get it is remember was more extreme than remember that and now is more extreme than so we're finding very extreme language here compared to even other places in the Quran that describe Judgment Day it's much more intense language that that you're finding here and there's a reason for that particularly when it comes to eyes Allah could have said their their hearts are humbled but he doesn't mention the hearts he mentions what the eyes so we have to understand one thing here the importance of the the the conversation about the eyes and about seeing and how the Quran is building a thought process from that basically and this is going to come full circle in the next Surah Inman but I'll introduce it now all the previous prophets saw miracles for the eyes right and that didn't help but the miracle was for the eyes the whether it was the staff or it was the water parting or it was the she camel or whatever else these were miracles for the eyes and people keep saying now we will not believe until we what until we see one of the quranic arguments is actually animals believe when they see but human beings can believe without seeing human beings can believe by reasoning thought contemplation they can believe because they they received they can they can contemplate an aah and they can see the reality human beings are capable of much more decision and conclusion making than animals but if you're saying that the only way you will ever be convinced of something is if you what if you see then You' like to reduce yourself from the elevated status God gave you as a human being and you'd like to process things at the level of an animal an that's how you'd like to process things and if you want to act as an animal then perhaps you should be treated as one you should be treated like one so you're going to find the extra terrifying language is going to now be coupled with comparison to animals that's actually going to start happening in the description of Judgment day and we the first example is coming before us now their eyes are lowered humbled they're not even looking basic could also mean they don't they're not even looking where they're going they're just going aimlessly Judgment Day comes as they come out of their grave out of the graves the word uh actually this this is not as important right now but this is a is these are notes on my notes on the word a which I'm translating as Graves the generic word for grave in Arabic isab everybody knows that right and the yemeni tribes the Arab some of the central Arab tribes and the Syrian tribes did use the word J also for grave but arguably it originated inab a tribe named H and it is considered one of the most ancient tribes of Arabia this is HUD is argued to be one of those ancient tribes from which Arabic itself began so one of the most ancient tribes used the word J for grave what would that mean that this might be the most ancient word for grave in Arabic soab is the more contemporary word relative to the time of the prophet wasallam and J is a much more ancient word so HUD used J and the the tribe of tamim used j j j j this is why you have a problem spelling things out on the phone right could you say your last name f yeah I got it f no I said e right so the th and the far are closed so but qur adopted the HUD dialect meaning they Ed the word J now one important thing to note so far about J is an ancient word for Graves an ancient word that's the first notable thing the second notable thing is that can also mean a piece a piece of Flesh like a torn up piece of Flesh basically a piece of Flesh suggests that when bodies have decayed for a long time and broken apart and completely you know debilitated and and and dissipated right that's when a would be used so interesting the word aath is the most ancient word for grave in the Arabic language and it's also describing Graves that have gone through an ancient process where the the bodies have completely decayed there not even be of a body left anymore so Ancient Ancient Graves is the word right they will come out of their way old Graves as though they are spread out locusts Allah will compare these disbelievers whose eyes are going to be humble looking down you know where locusts are looking by the way they're looking down and they're and this makes you wonder why would Allah compare you know disbelievers to locusts of all the creatures he could have compared to right there's plenty of species he created so here's a few fun facts about Locust so we can contemplate this Ayah together Locust belong to a family of grasshoppers called AC the the desert Locust whatever that says found in various parts of Africa Asia and the Middle East is considered the most destructive migratory pest in the world because they are highly mobile and can form swarms containing millions of locusts leading devastating impacts on crops pasture and flood listen to this a small swarm one square kilometer can be made up of 80 million Locus 80 million and can consume the same amount of food in one day as 35,000 people while a large swarm can eat up to 1.8 million metric tons of green ve vegetation equivalent to food enough to feed 81 million people locusts breed very fast and a single female Locust can lay egg pods containing anywhere from 80 to 150 eggs Locust do not attack people or animals cool some more a large swarm can cons consist of billions of billions of locusts spread out over an area of thousands of square kilom they can spread to thousands of miles with a population of up to 80 million per square kilometer when desert locusts meet their nervous system releases serotonin which causes them to become mutually attracted and a prerequisite for swarming so they're drawn to each other and they they keep on spreading now my question was deniers of purpose and wisdom being compared to swarms of locusts why are they being compared to swarms of locust well the only thing a locust does is reproduce and consume and it does so aimlessly they go in every direction in the millions and millions and the only thing they're interested is the urge and food and that's all sound familiar they follow their lowly lusts what an incredible comp comparison to Locus I said when you act a certain way you'll be treated a certain way now they're acting a certain way and they're being described a certain way and the even the word m spread it picks up on a theme that's going on remember I said when people follow their emotions they're all over the place because your feelings are one way one day one another way another day right Locust physically are going what all over the place andat earlier on in the series of suras you are all in different worlds different opinions all heading in different directions there's another really interesting thing with Locust they grow in the billions right millions and billions and billions and they do so much damage and yet every Locust is H hyper individualistic all it wants is its own food it's not thinking about the rest of the Swarm so even though they're a large Gathering they're actually hyper individualistic which also sounds familiar because Allah says at the end of this Surah interestingly these disbelievers say we are a large body of people that can take revenge for ourselves Allah says the Gathering shall disperse just like Locust in the beginning so this is an incredible uh description of them on Judgment day but that's not that's the first animal we kind of saw a description comparison to right also Locust are are kind of useless guys sorry for the interruption in the middle of this lecture just before you continue I want to let you know and encourage you that I want you to sign up for bv.com and help others sign up or even sponsor students for bv.com so we can create worldwide communities of students that are studying the meanings and the benefit and the wisdom of the Quran uh and are insh T spreading that in their own circles thanks so much right they they destroy crop and you there are some people who eat them by the way that happen I guess they have that purpose but the thing is they they are considered a nuisance they don't they destroy hard work and purpose right and being compared to something like that as if you're being told you want to live a life like that you're useless and I we get weird thoughts when we talk to each other he had the coolest weird thought today he goes you know what I'm thinking I was like what do you whenever he says you know what I'm thinking I know something crazy is coming so he goes just imagine with me for a moment that you're a locust I was like okay I'm with you now what he goes and you don't know that you're a locust and you're looking around like what's all this swarm everybody's getting everything why is there so many people here you're not realizing that you're part of the problem you understand like you're being compared as if you see everybody else as oh these people but you who don't you recognize that about your your own self right so the idea that they're being compared to loc is also kind of a lack of self-awareness that's embedded inside these words then there's the word if if that insult wasn't enough Allah added another Hal so their eyes are humbled they're swarming and spreading like locusts all over this is the beginning of Judgment Day they don't know where to go so they're just running in every direction right and as they come out come out of their ancient Graves then the Allah says the word so in Arabic is when the camel stretches out its neck like if it sees water in the distance and it's running towards the water it's not just running towards the water it wants its head to reach the water faster so it's kind of like like what you do atar when the when the plate is passing by and you're like there's only three of the samosas left and you were making Dua for one of them and there's four people that way and you're like how are you doing alhamdulillah I'm good like that's actually so that's actually M it's it's it's used when animals stretch out their neck and it's also used for when they stretch out their neck like perk up their neck out of fear so and it doesn't happen except if you're terrorized so this description of the neck being extended out of fear also is now being used to describe them on Judgment Day another animal description for human beings is very telling this word is not used for people in Arabic it's only actually used for for for for creatures and and then it's used for them they're going to run in fear towards the caller this is ironic language why because the caller the collar is what you're afraid of remember the CER is calling you to something terrifying so if you're going to run in fear where should you be running running away from the collar it's Allah says and their necks outstretched they're going to be running towards the colar because in this on that day your fears your feelings will not allow you to take an action based on your feelings in this life they follow their feelings if they were following their feelings on Judgment Day they would be running in the opposite direction you don't have the Licence to follow your feelings on Judgment day you will do the exact opposite of what you're feeling you're feeling that's terrifying and you're running as fast as you can your neck stretched out so your head reaches at first towards the thing that is the most most terrifying it is the most unnatural thing to do to run towards your fear and not because you're brave because you're terrified and as they haven't even experienced it just that imagine that running that's just the psychological state of that run like you're terrified of something and you're rushing towards it right this is not like a nightmare situation and it's not it's not some small jog this is a run and as they're rushing towards it this Believers those deniers what are they going to say makes sense now this is a difficult day this is a hard day and the word is actually more interesting more more extreme form of so elsewhere in the Quran for the day Allah uses difficult it's hyperbolize so was more extreme was more extreme now is more extreme even this word the the more extreme version of difficult this is an extremely difficult day this is actually again a contrast and 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