Unlocking The Hidden Depths of the Qur’an

So today, we're gonna talk about, uh, I just wanna make a follow-up episode, I think, uh, have a follow-up discussion on the topic which we had presented in the Hall of Mysteries, um, in the previous episode, the episode that aired right before this one, um, concerning the mysteries of the Ahl al-Bayt, alaihim as-salam, and this whole concept or idea that there, uh, are these apparent meanings and these inner meanings, these esoteric meanings that are kind of hidden from the masses.

And we discussed the reasons for that, and we talked about how the reason for it is because of the fact that most people cannot handle, uh, God, and they cannot handle God's speech, they cannot handle God's commandments.

And I think that we've seen this over and over again in the stories of the prophets and the messengers.

One example we've gone over quite a few times, which is the ascension of the Prophet, uh, when he went up on the night journey, and then God had commanded him to make the Muslims pray 50 some rakahs, uh, uh, every day.

And, uh, Moses could not bear that.

He couldn't burden, you know, he f- he considered that to be too, too much of a burden.

And so he advises the Prophet, and obviously, the Prophet goes back and kind of negotiates with God to lessen the load a little bit.

So we see in that story an example of how the speech of the commandments of God can, uh, you know, might be too much.

And we've, uh, we obviously have the examples and the stories of the, uh, Children of Israel and how they consistently used to break the law, and they consistently used to object.

And so we have this idea that I hope I've been able to kind of verbalize clearly within the presentations that, um, God, it's necessary, thus, for God to speak with people from behind veils, you know? And He does so by presenting a human being, because people only understand from that which is like them.

He presents a human being, uh, or, uh, a manifestation of His that is more diplomatic perhaps, um, less, uh, less intense, uh, than the one before.

Uh, we have the example of, of, for example, Joshua and, and Moses.

Uh, Joshua and Moses, these are two manifestations of God, okay? One is the manifestation of the name, which is always a lesser manifestation.

One's the manifestation of the meaning.

And what this means is that the meaning is more raw.

It's more as God wanted it to be.

It's more as God is.

Okay.

Versus one that's, that's watered down, perhaps.

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And so if we look at the story of Moses and Joshua, what takes place is that God actually wants that Moses takes the Israelites and defeats the Canaanites and enters with them into the promised land, but the people are not at the level of being able to handle the intensity of God's true commands and what He wants in His true speech, okay?

Okay.

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And so He faces them throughout this whole process, throughout these years, with Moses, okay? In the, in the way that Moses faced them.