Abdal Hakim Murad – The Impact of Revelation

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This evening we have completed our hearing in reverence and

acceptance of the words of our Lord.

For some, it is a familiar journey.

It is like crossing a great continent, from shore to shore.

Beginning with Al Fatiha and ending with a nests.

We've heard the roaring of the thunder and the song of the birds.

We've crossed through deep, mysterious forests. We have seen

mountain peaks soaring above us.

It is a unique land an extraordinary experience to travel

through the word of the eternal Lord.

And every believer has his own way of feeling his heart shaped and

softened and lit up by this journey.

We all have our favorite places, our memories of when we memorized

a particular verse, we all have our own way of being astonished by

the sheer musicality of the text by the concatenation of vowels and

consonants. By the extraordinary rhymes by the sometimes ecstatic

rhyming prose, the surge of it all we all have our attachment to this

most extraordinary of books

with the Quran is associated with the night which is later Takada.

And this makes the night a mystery.

Allah subhanaw taala has not chosen to disclose to this Alma

exactly when this blessed night will fall. He told me so highfill

ashram I was there. When Ramadan, seek it out we are told in the

last 10 nights of Ramadan. But for some scholars, it could be any

night of Ramadan. For others, it could even be outside the Ramadan

it is hidden, it is veiled it is a mystery.

Because so many of the greatest and the finest and the most

profound things are veiled from human sight.

We do not even gaze upon a caravan will shall refer there is a veil

before it.

And so we hope that this is the night in which we recall the

supreme miracle of God's own uncreated speech, coming to this

world, the world of World Quest, shahada, from the inconceivable

light of the unseen from the ape from above seven heavens whose

nature we cannot conceive into this world of space and time so

that we here in Cambridge can hear it sounds and benefit from its

blessings. So we've completed this journey this evening.

And we remember how the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

sallam began with this journey, when the revelation first came to

him, and the terrifying experience that that was, we experienced the

Quran is this wonderful symphony, this sweetness that we could

listen to forever. Even if we did not understand one word, the sheer

beauty of the speech carries us along, and the hours go by as if

they were minutes. This is one of the secrets of the book. And we're

reminded of the secret in this month, which is the month of the

Quran Shahara Ramadan Allah the Uzi Luffy Hill for end, the month

of Ramadan in which the Quran was sent down.

By but the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam it was no easy

introduction.

Revelation came to him like a great detonation like a light of

an unknown kind coming from an unseen world.

Imam Bukhari begins his great Sahil with the story of the

beginning of Revelation.

I want Omar booty I be here Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa

sallam a minute what he wrote, yes, tufin now.

The first beginnings of revelation for the Holy Prophet salAllahu

alayhi wasallam was the righteous the true dream in his sleep.

This is even before the Quran, but it is part of revelation

Session for cannula era in Nerja at Mithila follow up is so when he

would do not see a dream but that it came like the breaking of the

day

and we are baffled. What is a dream like that is like the

breaking of the day.

It's hard to imagine. But this was the dawn of prophecy to the chosen

one sallallahu alayhi wa sallam his illuminated heart,

which had been cleansed in his childhood by the angels themselves

and washed in the dish of ice. So that it could be the purest thing

on earth to receive this great word. He was being prepared for

this tremendous event.

This way, this inspiration from the beyond, from the real world

from Unhak, terracotta Allah.

And then,

in His purity, his disappointment with his own people, his

determination to follow the way of his forefathers Ibrahim Kalibo,

Allah alayhi salam, he goes into his retreat in the Hari Hara, in

the cave on Mount Hara.

And then it happens. The journey for him begins

not with the Fatiha, but with the commands in Accra.

The magnificent Angel whose wings spread from horizon to shining

horizon terrified him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

and the angel grabs him

in this most fearsome of experience without Tahu and chokes

him

and says, a crop

and the choking is so great for vata, who had gotten he has tabula

rasa menial Jahad

he choked me until I almost came to my my end. I reached the limits

of my endurance for Allah.

And he says recite

the Holy Prophet replied to Alayhi salat wa salam ala Ana, Bukhara I

am not a reciter. What am I to receive was to read? What is this

strange, mysterious commandment this this incredible being who's

throttling me is asking me to do

and this happens three times to make it even more terrifying. So

Allahu alayhi wa sallam, and finally he hears the words which

rock like, do you from heaven. The first words in this mirror of

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recite in the Name of your Lord, who is created caller called

Insert I mean Allah created man from a clot of blood clots.

The Raja RP ha Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the

Yarra drew who who Adam.

So he goes back with these words with this message that has been

delivered to him. This explosion from the unseen yarn shuffle for

adult, his heart is palpitating,

beating fast, the fear of it the majesty of it and the weight of

this word, I think comes to Khadija and she covers him in the

mantle and you know the story.

But the point is that this experience on this night of power

is a powerful one indeed, might majesty Jalil.

This is what was revealed to him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

in a low tea or lake Collins Akela we shall send down on you a heavy

word.

What word Allah is uncreated speech

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motorcycles the unmanifest Yeti lab, where we descend this quarter

and down on a mountain, you would see it shattered, broken apart

from the fear of God.

That would be its impact if revealed to a mountain mountain

could not take this cosmic luminous detonation. But where did

it come? In all of the heavens in the earth? What is it appropriate

landing place Mozilla who? Allah calbeck He sent it down on your

house. No other phenomenon in space and time could carry this

immense word. But the heart of the chosen wants on the word to Allah

He was to them or they could and did carry it, but it helped it ace

and then the message proceeds and that is immensely powerful. Jalali

word gets out amongst the Arabs with their miraculous knowledge of

the beauty of the language. It is their only beauty

and it melts their heart hearts. It is the full n that does this

and

This is from the miracle of Allah speech. So we hear it, and we

enjoy the beauty. And then this night of power, we experience the

majesty of it. And we try with our hearts because it's beyond the

mind to imagine what it is for God's uncreated speech to be with

us in Cambridge this evening to hear words that are not created,

not written, not composed, not premeditated, no drafts. No

proofreading, the word of God alone will not heal Kadeem.

So as well as the beauty and as well as the terror and the majesty

of our frail human flesh, experiencing the majesty of the

sublime creative, as well as this.

We experience eternity.

What happens in the myth Rob? Why is our worship about the Quran?

Why is the Quran in everything? Everything in the Muslim life

leads to the mosque, and the mosque leads to the Quran. And our

prayer is the Quran and the Quran is the center of everything. It is

our experience of transcendence. It is our experience of the

existence of the real world.

Because it is not of this world.

To help them in a rough man him of desert on Kadima tones, if at all,

no Sophie Bill returning

verses of truth

from the all compassionate, renewed, but ancient. Their

quality is as the quality of he who has no beginning.

So this word that is uncreated, that is not part of the normal

growth and decay of this

mortal world. This part of eternity comes to us to the heart

of the chosen was sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in this

spectacular night. This event horizon is place where the normal

rules of space and time and cause and effect and literary convention

are torn asunder, because Allah subhanaw taala is not bound by any

of our laws. And his book is mystery upon mystery upon mystery.

Why did the sources become shorter as we go through the book? Have we

come across another book like that? We have not. Why does so

many of the sources begin with detached letters? Look at tox Alif

Lam Meem Haleem? Yes, seen. Taha? Do we know what they mean? Not

really, this is a mystery. The book is mystery upon mystery upon

mystery. But when we experience it, when the sweetness comes to

us, we experienced this light

in every verse, send a hammer rebuttal us

radula Juan, who was a Sahabi had a particular connection to Allah's

book. used to say, mannakkara Alko N forgot to put the rejet in Nobu.

What will be Legend V 11. The hola yo ha Elaine. Whoever recites the

Quran, prophecy has been included between his two sides, it's just

that he doesn't receive revelation. So when we hear it, we

memorize it, we recite it, we read it, we engage with it, we breathe

the breath of eternity.

That which is purest of us, is the breath that comes from the roar.

And it is that part of us that experiences transcendence, and the

divine majesty and the divine glory and that is what we have

done this evening. As we have heard these vibrations and this

resonance of the syncopations of these extraordinary sounds which

are unlike anything in this world, transform us and melt us in ways

that are too deep for us to understand.

It's in harmony with us. So so many things about Allah's book.

The also says that the recitation of the Quran is da Raja Tolan feed

agenda of reverse you recite is another degree in Jana will miss

Vahagn, feeble your Tikhon and a lanten. In your houses.

There is a light for what kind of light, not electricity, not this

light. The light we've experienced tonight was from the one who is no

summer where it will erode the Light of the heavens and the

earth. That which is below and beneath the surface of things, and

gives those things their reality. So this is the mystery of the

letter to God, which we struggled to understand but we feel its

importance. It is a night of power of majesty. We recall the

shattering impact of the revelation of the unseen to the

heart of the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and we

feel that majesty,

that Allah is generous to this ummah. And our experience of the

Quran is a bit sweetness. We love to hear

Aren't those extraordinary tonalities and rhythms.

Somebody who has now passed on to the next world who are Jewish

convert to Islam, who lived in wider streets not far from here.

He came as a musician. He was a composer. His works were performed

by famous symphony orchestras in England. He came to Islam through

not knowing a word of Arabic.

There's the rhythms of the Quran. He said these rhythms in this book

are unlike anything else we musicians have ever experienced

ever. This is extraordinary.

In the Lynmouth, Davina repairs, hada our neighbor work, our eye

trauma and so forth all of this hypnotized and gave him joy. It

used to write pieces of music. Maybe the muftis will be

uncomfortable. But he wrote pieces of music with the aura and rhythms

in them and they were popular. This was what melted his heart and

brought him to Islam. Prophet Allah, how are they?

So that's one aspect. one facet of the diamond. That is allows book.

And as I said, we all have our own relationship with Allah's book on

there and gratitude to allow for what he does for us. And what he

discloses to us through his book because it is nourishment. It is

the greatest nourishment of Ramadan. There is the joy of Iftar

we nourish our bodies.

There is after the Asia it's the nourishment of the spirits that

comes from the Tarot. We, when we feast upon God's Word, the battle

law goes banquet. And what a beautiful banquet it is.

A banquet, like all best banquets shared between good friends,

between brothers, the OMA which is the ALMA of those whose hearts

have been changed by the Quran.

So may Allah subhanaw taala make us those who hear his book, not

just with our ears, but with our hearts, who recognize the majesty

and the greatness of the revelation that were sent down

upon the beating heart of the chosen one psalm Allahu alayhi wa

sallam, on Jebel, and nor so long ago, May He make us people who

hear the word and follow the best of the word istemi Oh, no Cola,

for your Tabby owner. Afsaneh make us people who are not just made

ecstatic by this word, but whose actions are changed,

from whose hearts light spreads out into their families, into

their neighborhoods, into the whole world? Because it's been

almost of light. Because Allah subhanaw taala has blessed us with

this extraordinary blessing. This unique treasure, this chest full

of sparkling diamonds, which it is us are privileged to experience in

Ramadan and insha Allah at any time, so may Allah subhanho wa

taala. Grant us all of the baraka Ramadan excepto productions and

accept our fasting, accept our good neighborliness accept our

forgiveness of each others, accept our Adam insha Allah and make us

truly people who have whose hearts are connected to the poor and make

us people who have some share in the mystery and the majesty of the

little color or color of equal will offer them income was salam

aleikum wa rahmatullah