Tafsir ul Qur'an
- Explanation of Surah Mu'minoon
Classes held on EVERY 3rd Saturday of the Month - after Isha prayer.
Starts Saturday 20th October 2018
By Shaykh Thaqib Mahmood (OTKF, CEI, Ha-Meem Foundation)
A comprehensive commentary on the 23rd chapter of the Qur’an.
These classes will be drawing on traditional & comtemporary
exegeses alongside Prophetic traditions that elucidate this chapter of the Holy Qur'an.
In speaking of people’s outcomes with God, the Quran develops a number of archetypes, including: muslimun (muslims), kafirun (disbelievers), munafiqun (hypocrites), and mu'minūn (believers). In the Quran, all of these archetypes are given detailed explanations and a delineation of their characteristics. The Quran doesn't separate between a person's characteristics and their overall choice of actions. This entails an understanding that human beings are to be assessed according to the virtues or vices they demonstrate. This perspective instills a mindset of hope and of fear; that is to say, the hope they will change for the better if they reflect upon their vices, and having fear of possibly losing a virtue due to complacency.
In studying Surah al-Muminūn ("The Believers", 23), students will become more familiar with the characteristics of believers and other archetypal groups. The following is a thematic analysis of the Surah’s verses:
V1-11 Characteristics of believers and their reward
V12-22 The power of God and establishing the resurrection
V23-30 The narrative of Nuh
V31-44 The narrative of Hud
V45-50 The narrative of Musa, Harun and ‘Isa
V51-52 Guidelines to messengers and the unicity of their beliefs
V53-56 Differing of people after the sending of Messengers
V57-62 Characteristics of believers
V63-77 Characteristics of disbelievers, their actions and their caution
V78-80 Some manifestations of how God reveals His power
V81-92 Idolaters' denial of the resurrection and their refutation
V93-98 Divine directives to His messenger
V99-115 Regret at death and witnessing the Day of Standing
V116-118 Supplication
Classes are intended to be interactive, allowing for questions and encourage active participation.
Brothers & Sisters welcome.
Class Dates
20-Oct-18
17-Nov-18
15-Dec-18
19-Jan-19
16-Feb-19
16-Mar-19
20-Apr-19
Further dates to follow inshaAllah.
Ayat Notebook
A specific 'Ayat Notebook' has been devised, showing both the Quranic ayat and its associated English translation with space for note taking for the purposes of this class.
If you wish to receive one (nominal fee to cover printing cost), you MUST register you details below.
About the instructor - Shaykh Thaqib Mahmood
(taken from www.hameem.org)
The impetus to his seeking sacred knowledge belongs to Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, whom he studied under during several deen intensives in the mid to late 90’s. This resulted in him journeying to the blessed valley of Hadramawt to the village of Tarim in the winter of 97.
Here he sat at the feet of the spiritual Masters and jurists including Habib Umar bin Hafiz.
In mid 98, he travelled to Morocco where he attended a monthly intensive on religious instruction as an attendee and organiser. In the winter of 98, his journeying took him to Damascus where he began a concentrated study of the Arabic language by attending the University of Damascus’ programme for non Arabs wanting to learn Arabic. While completing this programme, he arranged private tutoring to assist him in the various subject areas of the language. He also studied Shafi Fiqh, grammar, morphology and Hadith Terminology under Shaykh Muhammad Darwish.
In 99 he was blessed to meet the traditionist Shaykh Siraj ud Deen the great lover of Allah and His Messenger, who gave him a verbal license to transmit from him. In late 99 he travelled to Mauritania from Damascus to read the blessed Shaamail of Tirmidhi on Murabit al Hajj who is no less than an embodiment of the book.
In 2000, he travelled to Damascus to pursue subjects of sacred knowledge including Arabic, Aqidah, Fiqh, and Tajweed. Towards the end of the year, he journeyed to the city of Liverpool to study Hanafi Fiqh under Shaykh Siraj until the summer of 2001.
His next destination was the area of chashambarah, Istanbul to the feet of the Gnostic and friend of Allah, Shaykh Mahmood Effendi; there he studied under one of his student’s Shaykh Ehsaan Hojah Rhetoric, Grammar, Fiqh, and Aqidah. He also sat with Shaykh Muhammad Ameen Siraj in the Fatih mosque (said to be one of the last students of Shaykh al Islam Zahid al Kawthari) and studied a text in hadith terminology, who then gave him a written license to transmit from him.
2002 saw him returning to Damascus and studying under the grammarian, shafite and Quran expert Shaykh Abdul Wahaab, he completed various texts in Aqidah, logic and Tafseer. He then settled in Damascus for the next four years to study various subjects and disciplines under Shaykh Muhammad al Yaqoubi, Shaykh Adnan al Majd, Shaykh Abdul Wahaab and Shaykh Maree al Rashid and Shaykh Khalil al Sabbagh.
In 2007 returned to the UK to become involved in the instruction of sacred knowledge and continue his studies under Shaykh Akram al Nadawi.
