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SURAH ANKABUT

The Spider

Sources

YASIR QADHI

OMAR SULEIMAN

  • QURAN:
  • Translation by Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
  • Published by the Institute of Islamic Knowledge

  • WEBSITES:
  • Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research- founded by Omar Suleiman
  • The Majestic Quran- approved by world-renowned Islamic Institution, Dar-Al-Iftaa (Egypt)
  • The Quran Project- Dr. Zaghloul El-Naggar, Egyptian geologist, Muslim scholar, and author.
  • Quran.com- open source library with highly-verified material
  • The Daily Reminder- Seerah Series with Yasir Qadhi

  • CONFERENCES:
  • Anchored by the Quran- Shaykh Suleiman Hani & Yasir Qadhi

DR. EL-NAGGAR

SULEIMAN HANI

General Definitions

  • JUZ: the Quran is separated into 30 parts, each called a "juz"
  • These could almost be considered "chapters"

  • SURAH: each juz contains multiple subsections, called surahs.
  • each surah has its own name, and may be about one or multiple topics

  • AYAH: each sentence or verse is called an "ayah"
  • the longest surah in the Quran has 286 ayahs

WITHIN THE QURAN

Al-Ankabut within the Quran

  • 29th surah in the Quran

  • 69 ayahs total
  • The spider is mentioned in ayah 41

  • The first half of the surah (1-44) is in Juz 20
  • Surahs: An-Naml, Al-Qasas, and Al Ankabut
  • Main theme of this Juz:
  • examples from different periods of Muslim history contextualize the constant struggle between truth and falsehood

  • The second half (45-69) is in Juz 21
  • Surahs: Al-Ankabut, Ar Rum, Luqman, As Sajdah,
  • and Al-Ahzab
  • Main theme of this Juz:
  • describing Allah's (SWT) creative power, removing doubts, and instilling hope in the believers.

Revelation Period

  • After the third year of Islam being revealed, the Dawah (or call to Islam) became public (~613 AD)

  • Tumultuous time for the believers, extreme persecution

  • Revealed in Makkah, shortly before Muslim’s Migration to Habash (within Ethiopia, then called Abyssinia)

Attempts to stifle Islam

• BANNED recitation of the Quran in public

• Ridicule the believers and slander them with false accusations

• Challenged the prophet to produce miracles

• Torture

  • Tribalistic society, those who have tribal bonds (Mohammad SW-Quraish) (Abu Bakr-Banu Taym) were somewhat protected
  • many of the early converts were slaves or the mawali (foreigners or freed slaves)
  • they were deprived of water till they could not even sit out of pain

Attempts against the Prophet

  • Multiple threats and assassination attempts

  • Physical: choked and beaten during prayer

  • Emotional: threw camel entrails on his back during prayer, bystanders laughed and jeered

  • Many miraculous examples of him being protected by Allah (SWT)

Overall Themes

1. Truth

3. Judgement

2. Faith

4. Hypocrisy

6. Power

8. Signs

5. History

7. Righteous

lifestyle

IN-DEPTH

ayahs 1-7: OPENER

1-7

• Surah opens with a reminder that the faith and the sincerity of the believers will always be tested, just as the believers before them were tested

• But the evildoers will have to face Allah (SWT)

• Allah (SWTV has no needs, those who worship do so for themselves and they will be rewarded for it

8-13: RESPONSE

8-13

• Young men during this time were being urged by parents to abandon Islam

  • QURANIC RESPONSE: "We have commanded people to honour their parents. But if they urge you to associate with Me what you have no knowledge of, then do not obey them (8)."

• People tried to take back the new converts, saying:

  • “Follow us and we will bear the burden of your sins” (12)
  • QURANIC RESPONSE: "Yet they will certainly ˹be made to˺ carry their own burdens, as well as other burdens along with their own. And they will surely be questioned on Judgment Day about what they used to fabricate (13)."

14-27: NUH & IBRAHIM (AS)

14-27

  • Allah (SWT) reminds the believers of the struggle of prophets past. The people of prophet Nuh were sent a flood that swept the entire Earth.

  • The people of Ibrahim worshipped idols so vehemently that Ibrahim (AS), in his effort to spread the message, was burnt at the stake.

  • Both these prophets were miraculously saved by Allah (SWT).

  • "Therefore, take heart: Allah's help will certainly come but a period of trial and tribulation has to be undergone." (Quran.com)

  • This is a bid of hope for the believers and a grim warning for the disbelievers.

28-40: LUT, SHU'AIB, MUSA

28-40

  • The people of Lut will soon face their reckoning
  • When the angel meets Lut, he expresses concern for his family
  • The angels say they will protect them, but his wife is among the sinners and cannot be spared
  • God punished the people of Prophet Shu aib, who dwelled in the mountains of Ad and Thamud, with an earthquake
  • He punished the enemies of Musa with a violent tornado full of stone and a mighty blast; the earth swallowed them up and the sea drowned them
  • "It was not Allah (SWT) who was unjust to them, but they were unjust to their own souls" (40)

41-44: THE SPIDER

41-44

"The parable of those who take protectors other than Allah is that of a spider who builds for itself a dwelling, and surely, the weakest of all dwellings is the dwelling of a spider- if they only knew. (41)

Surely, Allah knows whatever they invoke besides Him; He is the All-Mighty, the Wise. (42)

These are the parables that We cite for mankind; but none will grasp them except those who have knowledge. (43)

Allah has created the heavens and the earth to manifest the Truth. Surely, in this there is a sign for the believers." (44)

45-69: REMINDERS

45-68

  • Allah (SWT) reminds muslims that prayer will protect them and that the Quran itself should be evidence to the disbelievers

  • Do not argue with the People of the Book unless gracefully, except with those of them who act wrongfully. (46)

  • My servants who have believed! Surely my earth is spacious to migrate if needed, therefore, worship Me and Me Alone. (56)

  • Allah (SWT) reminds us that this world is a juvenile past time, and that the real life begins in the Hereafter

  • Emphasizes the wickedness of lies against Allah (SWT) and the rejection of the truth

Final Ayah:

69

As for those who struggle in Our cause, We will surely guide them along Our Way. And Allah is certainly with the righteous (69).

Spider Analysis: Physical Dwelling

  • Silk threads are five times stronger than their steel equivalent
  • silk woven by the Nephila spider is three times stronger than its equivalent from Kevlar, a substance used in making bullet-proof vests.
  • spider's silk is one of the strongest substances available on earth, as it can withstand a tension force up to 42000 kg/cm2
  • BUT Allah (SWT) said in his noble book "… the frailest (weakest) of houses" instead of "the flimsiest threads". The spider's home remains to be the weakest and frailest of all homes despite its strong threads.
  • NEST facts:
  • group of intricate fine silk threads, mostly with large gaps in-between
  • cannot protect spiders from heat or extreme cold, heavy rain, strong winds or attackers
  • web’s silk threads are very minute, with an average thickness of about one millionth of an inch, or 1/4000 of the thickness of a normal human hair.

Spider Analysis: Familial Relationships

  • female spider kills the male immediately after the fertilization process
  • devours the male’s body, since the former is larger and fiercer than the latter.
  • some cases, the female mercilessly eats its offspring
  • other cases, the female dies after the complete fertilization of the eggs that it usually carries in a silk sac.
  • spiderlings feed on her body
  • spiderlings come out to find themselves in an extremely crowded place (thousands of babies)
  • start fighting over food and/or space, until the battle ends with the survival of only a few spiderlings.
  • Allah (SWT) has set the spider’s house as an example of fragility and frailty because of the lack of strong family ties or notions of mercy among members of the family.
  • Anchored by the Quran: security and certainty “yaqeen”
  • To seek that which is secure for you: tranquillity in your heart
  • Al ghaib: that which is unseen
  • only Allah (swt) knows
  • Part of the test is faith in the unseen
  • Not blind faith; we have the word of God as evidence (ayah 51)
  • Belief depends on the state of the heart, not the eyesight
  • Common sense does not require philosophy, it requires a pure heart

  • Allah (SWT) tests those He loves (the prophet and those closest to him)
  • Pain and struggle gives us an opportunity to rise
  • Any tragedy that brings us closer to Allah (SWT) is a blessing in disguise
  • The person in the pursuit of obedience, Jannah is in pursuit of them

Anchored by the Quran

My Takeaways

  • THANK YOU
  • It is okay not to know
  • Lied: misinformation
  • Proof: modern science
  • It is okay to struggle
  • Worldly test
  • Those who came before
  • Allah (SWT) is rooting for us :)
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