Surah at-Takathur, al-Humazah and al-Ma'un Explained: What Is Really Yours?

About this video

What is really ours of everything we call 'mine'? This calm, sourced explainer walks through three short surahs about wealth and people — at-Takathur, al-Humazah and al-Ma'un — verse by verse in plain words: the race for more that lasts until the grave, the Prophet's (peace be upon him) answer to 'my wealth, my wealth', being asked about an ordinary meal, the sharp tongue and the counted fortune, the orphan and the needy, an honesty note on 'heedless of their prayer', and what al-ma'un — the small kindness — means. Framing is drawn, with attribution, from Ibn Kathir, Maulana Maududi's Tafhim al-Qur'an, Dr Israr Ahmed's Bayan-ul-Qur'an and a lecture by Maulana Ishaq.

Chapters

1. 0:00Three short surahs
2. 0:18Surah at-Takathur · 102:1–2
3. 0:40“My wealth, my wealth”
4. 1:06A valley of gold
5. 1:31Surah at-Takathur · 102:3–8
6. 1:53A simple meal
7. 2:18Surah al-Humazah · 104:1–9
8. 2:51Surah al-Ma'un · 107:1–3
9. 3:13Honesty note · 107:4–6
10. 3:53What is al-ma'un?
11. 4:26Recap
12. 4:41Today

Sources in this video

• Qur'an 102:1–8, 104:1–9, 107:1–7
• Sahih Muslim 2958, 2038
• Sahih al-Bukhari 6439, 401, 6446
• Sunan Abi Dawud 1657 (hasan, al-Albani)
• Tafsir Ibn Kathir on 104:1, 107:1, 107:4–5, 107:7
• Tafhim al-Qur'an, Surah 102 nn.1, 2, 4; Surah 104 nn.3, 7; Surah 107 nn.9, 11 (Maududi)
• Bayan-ul-Qur'an (Urdu ed.) vol. 7 pp.525, 535–536 (Dr Israr Ahmed)
• Maulana Ishaq, lecture on Surah at-Takathur (2009)