Abdal Hakim Murad – The Holy Recital Ramadan Moments
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Bismillah R Rahman Al Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala
Rasulillah. While he was a happy woman, we're
working our way, day by day, if taught but if thar tearaway of the
tearaway to the blessed month.
It is born down upon us that this really is the month of the Quran.
And of course there is the deep mystery of Laila to other the deep
mystery of the revelation of the Quran in this month to this dunya
and then its distribution to the noble Angel Gabriel alayhi salam
to the Holy Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam through the days
of his prophetic life. In the end, Navajo few Laila tin mobile rocket
in in Kona monzi lien beautiful verse. We have sent it down in a
blessed night. Verily We are forever
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end this is commemorated by the tidal wave
which is the great festival of the month really? The kind of
celebration or NMAT debit Allah the Quran is Allah's banquet not
not a snack at a banquet more spectacular than anything you'll
find that the Guildhall everything is there every variety of dish
Every wonder, and what's the best thing about it is that you can
just keep on eating under the luck,
filler to add to Allah talk Sahaja ibux Ha Allah to sell more Allen
ether rebuild. Sammy, the poet says one of the wonders of the
Quran. Its its wonders are number lesson uncounted, he says, and one
of them is that you never experience boredom or tedium,
however much you read of it.
And we know that Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
encouraged people to read the Quran, slowly and with reverence.
And when he led the prayer, if there was a verse of tests V is a
moderately at test beer in Sabah. He would give he would say
subhanallah. If there was a verse of punishment, he would say are
all the biller. If there was a verse of reward, he would say the
appropriate response of 100 Illa.
Slo is part of the 13th of the Quran. And early last week
somebody took his shahada here in Cambridge. And he said that before
he made up his mind, he wanted to read the whole Quran. And he did
it seriously. In English, of course, verse by verse, he wanted
to understand every single verse, and it took him a year and three
months to read the Quran. And at that time, he was kind of
certainly ready, something within him had been reconfigured, even
through the veil of translation. He's under the law, enjoying his
first fasts now
in this
kind of irradiation, therapeutic irradiation that we experienced
when the Imam is an Arab. And we're hearing verse after verse
Surah, after Surah.
We are scripture realized,
in ways that operate in a very fundamentally it's a deep therapy.
It deals with causes as well as the symptoms of our illnesses.
And as we move through it, and as we insha Allah seek to understand
what we have heard and what we have read, we learn that the
armor, this armor is to be a scriptural community. We too, are
if you like, Battlefield keytab.
So we look at other communities and to the disquiet of our
fundamentalists, the Quran is not a good document for extremists or
fundamentalist.
We find that instead of everything being black and white, them and us
we have these gradations of belief that the Koran insists on one of
them is Al Kitab. There are people of the book and we disagree with
them, as they move through their lens towards their Easter on many
things we don't believe in the three in one God. We don't believe
in the God that died. We don't believe in the gods that took
flesh has some fundamental issues that we have with evidently, but
nonetheless we find that the Holy Quran can speak of them with
approbation
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This is the difference between real prophecy and somebody just
shouting at speakers corner. Lease also they're not all the same it
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and her allele, well homie a student.
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they are not the same of the people of the book are those who
recite Allah's signs or verses through the stretches of the
night,
lowering prostrating themselves.
So we are required by our scripture to respect them for
their relationship to their book, their doctrines difficult, but the
book
to the extent that they have this reverence, and that the teachings
of their books are overlapping significantly with us.
Certainly.
This was brought home just a few days ago, in the rather profane
context of the competition to see who would be First Minister of
Scotland, the leadership contest in the Scottish National Party.
And one of them who actually did very well was Kate Forbes.
Kate Forbes, is living proof that you don't need to compromise or
sell out in order to move at the highest levels of the British
system.
She was at Cambridge, actually, she studied in Excel and only
about 10 years ago, she was quite young.
And
this girl is a member of the Free Church of Scotland,
hardline Calvinists,
and there's an interesting overlap because they actually take their
scripture seriously, you won't see across you won't see an altar. No
pictures, of course, because the Bible forbids images. Instead,
they just have a place where they read the Bible.
Those spaces of course, make very good mosques, when they come to be
converted. You don't need to throw anything out or to do anything
really that readymade.
And she has those those traditional scriptural beliefs,
and she's not compromising with them.
She
believes that marriage can only be between a man and a woman
is not afraid to say that she is pro life. She thinks that
strangely it's wrong to kill unborn children. She thinks that a
trans woman is still a man
and so on. And yet still she is able to operate because she's just
firm. This is who she is. She's al Kitab she's real al Kitab she's
not prepared to mess around.
As the Quran says, of the lair should her owner be at lay
feminine kalila they do not sell Allah's verses for a paltry price.
So yeah, quite quite inspirational, really. And in our
context, we also find that we are transformed by the miracle of
Scripture reality book really is everything we have it on our
walls. We have it on bumper stickers. Once I walked down a
road in Cairo,
where the shopkeepers were putting out their wares early in the
morning, and I counted 38 of them were listening to the 24/7 radio
Quran service which kind of perfume the air with with
eternity.
So in the month of Ramadan, we really remember this, our fidelity
to our scriptures, and also to the
the deep mystery of what happens when we engage with them
reverently for an extended period, and in the tearaway, yeah, we have
that kind of benign radiation cure.
And just to listen is is a joy.
evenness owed to some of the great Sahaba known for his love of the
Quran
was once asked by the Holy Prophet salallahu Alaihe salam to recite
the Quran to him.
Call ya rasool Allah, Allahu alayhi wa alayka owns that
messenger of Allah. I'm not going to read it to you when it was
revealed to you.
And he just said, oh hypo and Esma home in theory. He said, I love to
hear it from someone else.
For Cara, so he recited what I know Rasul Allah He sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, the Phaedo minute demo. The Holy Prophet,
eyes were full of tears.
There's something
very extraordinary supernatural miraculous about the sound that we
are a bathed in in this month.
Something that genuinely affects the deepest aspects of our our
spirits and our souls.
One night at Isha Radi Allahu anha was late coming home for now hobby
sec. So the Holy Prophet said, what, what kept you back?
And she said I was passing by somebody who is reciting the Quran
very beautifully. And I couldn't, I couldn't stop listening.
Call the Holy Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, Selim, Mona Benya
for data. He has a beautiful, beautiful voice Alhamdulillah he
Lidija Olivia Almighty Mithila
who has a beautiful voice and hamdulillah who has given this
almost somebody like him,
like this Z, you know, poor energy or Swati come adorned or and with
your voices, it's part of the aesthetic of, of the tearaway and
part of the aesthetic of Ramadan. And everybody is is astounded by
this. Not just even if you don't understand a word of the Arabic
You can participate and be transformed fully. And if you know
the Quran well and you've read it many times, it's like a familiar
landscape, like a path through beautiful mountains and the beauty
never fades. And you see I remember this and I remember that
and I remember the first time I heard this first and then we went
to the shift so and so quoted that verse and the whole commentary
like a tough series brings to life as you travel through the jaws
and it's entrancing.
And
at the deepest level, what is happening in the tearaway is a
kind of transmutation, the lead of our hearts slowly turns to gold.
The how the wherefore of that is really a mystery, because it's at
a level that's beyond words. But people feel it that's why the
mosques are full, but tucked away
and
what is going on is the experience of eternity.
I had to help him in a Rahmani Mach desert on Kadima terms, if at
all no Sophie, bill paid me versus verses from the all merciful,
which are renewed, but which are uncreated. So their quality is the
quality of God Himself.
Always creating a new
but uncreated our doctrine, our opinion and Asana is that an
Kalevala Hill, Kadeem, the Quran is God uncreated speech, which is
part of the mystery of little color, a part of the mystery of
the extraordinary Wait, which the Holy Prophet salAllahu alayhi
wasallam had to carry in their sand, okay. alayka Kolon tequila,
Allah says, right at the beginning of the process of revelation, we
will surely cast down upon you a heavy word.
And there's great Hadith at the beginning right at the beginning
of Sohail Buhari, which begins with the bulk of the beginning of
revelation
will occur there are a toward isn't it? Sure speaking, not a lot
of unhappy Welaka Idaho Yanzhou la he'll walk you
were in the jobina who later fossa to America. I saw him on a very
cold day for Yeoman Shetty, Phil yami, shady Dilbert.
And the Quran was being revealed upon him and his forehead was
pouring forth sweat as if someone had an enormous radiation going on
something unimaginable.
So when we are in the mosque, and we stand for the Tarot, we
we are being bathed in the same kind of supernatural light.
And it affects everybody, because religion is the only really
egalitarian principle. You get there first, to get there first.
If your heart is pure, you will be affected by it. If you're
different than maybe, maybe not. This is one of the miracles of the
Quran
because he has appointed upon the hearts of those who
are waivers or heartsick, akin Nitin and yeska, who will be
attorney who walk around, veils less they understand it, and a
blockage in their ears. Some people are like that. But
nonetheless, most people leave the tunnel away with a sense that they
have somehow been nourished. This is like another Iftar that the
veins are wet again, and that they have been irradiated with this
with this pure light.
So yeah, we need to revere the book in this month in particular,
and if we've been slack
about it, this is the ideal time to get back to it.
And to make it, our friend, to make it, the great source of
beauty in our lives, to make it the greatest source of all, and
the great mystery because everything about the text is
mysterious, because Allah subhanaw taala in appointing his book does
not comply with a new conventional literary style. It's not a novel,
it's not a book of philosophy. It's not a book of history,
there's no other book like it, he operates according to his own
terms of Anahata Allah and you have to get into that state.
So in this month, shadow for n,
Shadow Ramadan, Allah the only Luffy hilker en the month of
Ramadan in which the Quran was sent down.
Let us focus on the miracle of those words, on the timelessness
of those words on the non negotiability of those words, so
that in our outward lives in Azhar Here we are given proper moral
boundaries in life which we do not sell out. And in our inward lives,
we are constantly filled with this glowing and inshallah ever
increasing supernal light. And the two things really have to go
together. Desire and the button like two hands clasping each
other. The one alone is not sufficient. So may Allah subhanaw
taala make this a month of Quran for us and accept our tilava and
accept our reverence for his book and increase us in love for his
book and author of his book. And shall I make us people who are
homiletical got n bearers of the Quran, so that it might intercede
for us on the Yamo piano in sha Allah. May Allah accept your
fasting was an MO aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
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