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So the idea of the story is to actually take you step by step by step into a into an account. So what Allah does often in the Quran is He will mention specific steps and He'll skip deliberately skip certain steps. So He's actually directing where He wants my mind to go. He wants me to go to this incident that He wants me to go here that He wants me to go here. He's building a train of thought that's not necessarily based on chronology. So actually the subject that I want to be talking to you about.

That I chronologically speaking is the story of the sacrifice, the famous story of the sacrifice. That's also mentioned in the Bible. You know, Abraham having to sacrifice his son. And then the story that's been echoed in the Quran with very distinct important differences. That's the story we want to talk about. And I could get to that part of the story in Surah Al-Sawthat. But I'm deliberately not going to because Allah didn't start there. Allah started by telling the story of Ibrahim Ali Saddam over again from some of the things we've heard before. Right. And then.

From there he transitioned over to the story of the sacrifice. So what is Allah doing? Allah is stitching together two separate episodes of his life. Right. And he's stitching them in a very particular way. The wording in every every place in Quran Allah uses very specific kinds of wording. So we have to pay attention to the wording he's using in Surah Al-Sawthat. Before we get to the point that we're interested in, we have to surrender our curiosity to the sequence that Allah has dictated. Right. So instead of me just going to

take to the point that I'm interested in, I want to see how is it that Allah wants me to think about this? Because that gives me real insight into what am I supposed to be getting out of this particular passage or this particular story. So we're going to take it from the top. We're telling the story of Nuhhaleh Saddam. Then Nuhhaleh Saddam. Then Ibrahim Ali Saddam. These three prophets. Okay. Really interesting. Adam Ali Saddam. The first, the father to mankind. Nuhhaleh Saddam. The restart of humanity.

In a sense, again, a father to mankind. And then Ibrahim Ali Saddam, who is considered that we are following the religion of our father. So in a sense, three fathers are being mentioned in sequence. Adam, the Nuhh, and then Ibrahim Ali Saddam. That's also interesting that Najah Allahu min al-Gharq. Right. Allah rescued Ibrahim Ali Saddam from drowning. When Najah Ibrahim Ali Saddam, min al Harq. And he rescued Ibrahim Ali Saddam from the fire. Right. So two different kinds.

The rescues are going to be talked about one on the other on one extreme, the other on the other extreme. Right. So now. So after after Nuhhaleh Saddam Allah says. And no doubt about it. Belonging to his very group. His very faction. She. She has used for a group that you have affiliation with that you consider yourself tightly bound with that you have loyalties to that you are connected to. That's actually called.

She is a fairly a strong affiliation. Okay. And it's used multiple times in the Quran in a positive sense. The word gets different connotations in Islamic history. And a group can call themselves that and other groups because they are working against the she is et cetera, et cetera. That's not the Quranic terminology. You have to keep Quran's vocabulary separate from what happens in history that happens after the Quran. Right. So you can't allow post Quranic history to taint the words that are that are used in the Quran. The Quran's vocabulary is

free from that. The same way I argue the word. In Muslim tradition, we use the word or amount for a certain group of people. Right. These people have studied in seminaries. They've gotten a jazat and maybe in Hadith and fiqh and sharia in the Islamic sciences. And they get to a certain point. And then we consider them. Right. They're, they're are. But when the Quran was using the word or amount none of this existed. None of these jazas systems existed. None of the seminaries existed. Right. So when the Quran is using that word. You cannot superimpose

the meanings that came a few centuries later and say, oh, the Quran is talking about Islamic scholars here. No, it's it's not talking about Islamic scholars because it's talking about al-Alamat at the time when it was revealed. Right. And at the time it was revealed, the majority of the people didn't even know how to read and write. And yet it was using the word al-Alamat. Right. So we have to you can't go, you know, a chronologically go later on in history and then superimpose definitions backwards.

That's not being original to the book of Allah. So the word shia, it has to do with being part of a group that you are loyal to. And Allah says that Ibrahim alaihi s-salam is from the shia of Nuh alaihi s-salam. That they are generations apart and yet they belong to the same group and they have loyalty to the same cause as if they are members of the same, as if they are alive at the same time, even though they're, their generations apart from each other. On a side note, I thought this little passage from Ibn Aashir

was beneficial in understanding the early chronology of prophets. After Ibrahim alaihi s-salam, the chronology of prophets is easy. Right. So Ibrahim alaihi s-salam has this hack and or Islam alaihi s-salam. And then from the lineage of Islam, Ibrahim alaihi s-salam. And then from Islam, you get Yaqob and Yaqob, you get Yusuf and Yusuf's lineage has the prophets of the Israelites. That's the easy part. What's happening before Ibrahim alaihi s-salam? So I'm going to read a little bit of this to you because I thought it was helpful.

So Allah considers him part of the Shia of Nuh alaihi s-salam because these are the messengers that came before Ibrahim alaihi s-salam, but they were following the same religion.

And among those who came before Ibrahim were Hood and Salih. Now there are four Arab prophets. Just on a side note, there are four Arab prophets. Hood, Salih, Shuaib and Muhammad.

I'll say that again. Hood, Salih, Shuaib, Muhammad. Those are the four Arab prophets, but two of them are before Ibrahim. Which two? Hood and Salih. Hood and Salih are going to be before.

Hood and Salih are going to be before Ibrahim alaihi s-salam because the Quran mentioned those two multiple times before talking about Nuh.

Or right after talking about Nuh. So he says Nuh, then Hood, then Salih.

And he mentions them before mentioning Lut. So now this is what the Quran does. So the Quran will say Nuh, then Hood, then Salih, then Lut.

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