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Today we're going to be doing Surah Ibrahim verse 24 and this

parable is actually my favorite parable of the whole Quran. We're all allowed to

have our favorites and this parable is a parable that I personally have given

no exaggeration at least two three hundred khudbas around the world for the last

ten fifteen years in fact even here the first khudba I gave was about this

parable so for sure you have heard me speak about this parable multiple times

and it is a profound and beautiful parable and in fact even the first phrase of

it Allah Zawajal is emphasizing that we need to think about this parable it is

the only parable that Allah begins with the rhetorical question alam taura keif

ad-darab Allahumat ala haven't you seen the parable that Allah has given there

is no other parable in the whole Quran that Allah Zawajal draws attention to

like he does this parable haven't you seen this parable and at the end of this

verse Allah says and we give parables to mankind so that they can think about these

parables so both the beginning and the end of this verse Allah Zawajal is

drawing extra attention to this parable and this is unprecedented nowhere in the

entire Quran is so much emphasis placed on a parable as this parable and it is

in fact a very profound parable so we'll actually be taking two days to do this

parable because you can view it from two different angles today we're going to

view it from one angle the ayah goes as follows alam taura keif ad-darab Allahum

at ala haven't you seen the parable that Allah has given what parable kelimat

anta yibat an ka shajar atin ta yiba Allah has given the parable of the kelimat

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