The Parables of The Quran #25 - The Spiders Web [29-41] and The One Falling from the Sky [22-31]
Yasir Qadhi
Muslim Central
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🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:31.0 | Today we're going to do two parables, both of them dealing with the topic of Shirk. |
| 0:42.0 | Surat Al-Ankaboot verse 41, and all of us have heard of this verse. |
| 0:52.0 | The example or this parable of those who took as protectors, others besides Allah, |
| 0:59.0 | is like the Ankaboot, the spider, when it takes a web as a house, |
| 1:05.0 | and the weakest of all houses is the house of the spider. |
| 1:13.0 | In this parable Allah SWT tells us the falsehood of those who think that other gods can protect them, |
| 1:24.0 | that there are protectors besides Allah. Allah is our Mullah and Allah is our Wali. |
| 1:30.0 | So anybody who turns to other than Allah, thinking that those gods can protect them, |
| 1:36.0 | Allah says their example is like the spider that takes a web as a house, |
| 1:42.0 | and indeed the weakest of all houses is the house of the spider. |
| 1:46.0 | The spider's web is the weakest house. Now this is a very profound metaphor and analogy, |
| 1:52.0 | and the more we learn about science and the more we learn about spider's webs, |
| 1:56.0 | the more powerful this analogy becomes. |
| 1:59.0 | Actually, scientists tell us that the web of the spider, which is made out of a particular type of protein, |
| 2:05.0 | it is actually one of the strongest materials for the world of the spider. |
| 2:11.0 | And if we could make something like it, it would be almost ten times as strong as steel. |
| 2:18.0 | But because it is super thin, so it is easy for us or for any creature or for the wind to break it. |
| 2:25.0 | And the miracle of the spider's web is something that is well known in science, |
| 2:29.0 | it is still being studied to this day. |
| 2:31.0 | We are trying actually in our laboratories to imitate, to emulate the spider's web, |
| 2:36.0 | because the spider's web is very amalleable, you can move it, and it is also very thin, |
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