Abdal Hakim Murad – The Impact of Revelation

Abdal Hakim Murad
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The journey of spiritual experiences and moments of joy is described in a series of verse and rhymes, including a holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy. The story of the Holy Prophet is also discussed, including the transformation of spiritual experiences into reality and the importance of the word "ENT" in the spiritual experiences of the Christian community. The segment also touches on the transformation of spiritual experiences into reality and the use of "areps" in the title of the book.

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			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim
		
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			hamdulillah Hirak Amin. Also that
was salam ala acromion NBS even
		
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			more serene CD nap or Mola. Now
have you been on Mohamed what
		
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			other early he was such behavior?
Hmm I mean
		
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			brothers, sisters, children.
		
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			This evening we have completed our
hearing in reverence and
		
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			acceptance of the words of our
Lord.
		
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			For some, it is a familiar
journey.
		
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			It is like crossing a great
continent, from shore to shore.
		
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			Beginning with Al Fatiha and
ending with a nests.
		
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			We've heard the roaring of the
thunder and the song of the birds.
		
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			We've crossed through deep,
mysterious forests. We have seen
		
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			mountain peaks soaring above us.
		
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			It is a unique land an
extraordinary experience to travel
		
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			through the word of the eternal
Lord.
		
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			And every believer has his own way
of feeling his heart shaped and
		
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			softened and lit up by this
journey.
		
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			We all have our favorite places,
our memories of when we memorized
		
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			a particular verse, we all have
our own way of being astonished by
		
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			the sheer musicality of the text
by the concatenation of vowels and
		
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			consonants. By the extraordinary
rhymes by the sometimes ecstatic
		
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			rhyming prose, the surge of it all
we all have our attachment to this
		
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			most extraordinary of books
		
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			with the Quran is associated with
the night which is later Takada.
		
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			And this makes the night a
mystery.
		
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			Allah subhanaw taala has not
chosen to disclose to this Alma
		
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			exactly when this blessed night
will fall. He told me so highfill
		
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			ashram I was there. When Ramadan,
seek it out we are told in the
		
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			last 10 nights of Ramadan. But for
some scholars, it could be any
		
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			night of Ramadan. For others, it
could even be outside the Ramadan
		
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			it is hidden, it is veiled it is a
mystery.
		
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			Because so many of the greatest
and the finest and the most
		
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			profound things are veiled from
human sight.
		
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			We do not even gaze upon a caravan
will shall refer there is a veil
		
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			before it.
		
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			And so we hope that this is the
night in which we recall the
		
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			supreme miracle of God's own
uncreated speech, coming to this
		
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			world, the world of World Quest,
shahada, from the inconceivable
		
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			light of the unseen from the ape
from above seven heavens whose
		
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			nature we cannot conceive into
this world of space and time so
		
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			that we here in Cambridge can hear
it sounds and benefit from its
		
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			blessings. So we've completed this
journey this evening.
		
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			And we remember how the Holy
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam began with this journey,
when the revelation first came to
		
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			him, and the terrifying experience
that that was, we experienced the
		
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			Quran is this wonderful symphony,
this sweetness that we could
		
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			listen to forever. Even if we did
not understand one word, the sheer
		
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			beauty of the speech carries us
along, and the hours go by as if
		
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			they were minutes. This is one of
the secrets of the book. And we're
		
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			reminded of the secret in this
month, which is the month of the
		
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			Quran Shahara Ramadan Allah the
Uzi Luffy Hill for end, the month
		
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			of Ramadan in which the Quran was
sent down.
		
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			By but the Holy Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam it was no easy
		
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			introduction.
		
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			Revelation came to him like a
great detonation like a light of
		
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			an unknown kind coming from an
unseen world.
		
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			Imam Bukhari begins his great
Sahil with the story of the
		
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			beginning of Revelation.
		
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			I want Omar booty I be here
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam a minute what he wrote,
yes, tufin now.
		
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			The first beginnings of revelation
for the Holy Prophet salAllahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam was the righteous
the true dream in his sleep.
		
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			This is even before the Quran, but
it is part of revelation
		
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			Session for cannula era in Nerja
at Mithila follow up is so when he
		
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			would do not see a dream but that
it came like the breaking of the
		
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			day
		
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			and we are baffled. What is a
dream like that is like the
		
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			breaking of the day.
		
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			It's hard to imagine. But this was
the dawn of prophecy to the chosen
		
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			one sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
his illuminated heart,
		
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			which had been cleansed in his
childhood by the angels themselves
		
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			and washed in the dish of ice. So
that it could be the purest thing
		
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			on earth to receive this great
word. He was being prepared for
		
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			this tremendous event.
		
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			This way, this inspiration from
the beyond, from the real world
		
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			from Unhak, terracotta Allah.
		
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			And then,
		
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			in His purity, his disappointment
with his own people, his
		
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			determination to follow the way of
his forefathers Ibrahim Kalibo,
		
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			Allah alayhi salam, he goes into
his retreat in the Hari Hara, in
		
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			the cave on Mount Hara.
		
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			And then it happens. The journey
for him begins
		
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			not with the Fatiha, but with the
commands in Accra.
		
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			The magnificent Angel whose wings
spread from horizon to shining
		
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			horizon terrified him sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam
		
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			and the angel grabs him
		
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			in this most fearsome of
experience without Tahu and chokes
		
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			him
		
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			and says, a crop
		
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			and the choking is so great for
vata, who had gotten he has tabula
		
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			rasa menial Jahad
		
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			he choked me until I almost came
to my my end. I reached the limits
		
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			of my endurance for Allah.
		
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			And he says recite
		
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			the Holy Prophet replied to Alayhi
salat wa salam ala Ana, Bukhara I
		
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			am not a reciter. What am I to
receive was to read? What is this
		
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			strange, mysterious commandment
this this incredible being who's
		
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			throttling me is asking me to do
		
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			and this happens three times to
make it even more terrifying. So
		
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			Allahu alayhi wa sallam, and
finally he hears the words which
		
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			rock like, do you from heaven. The
first words in this mirror of
		
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			Deacon let the Halacha
		
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			recite in the Name of your Lord,
who is created caller called
		
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			Insert I mean Allah created man
from a clot of blood clots.
		
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			The Raja RP ha Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the
		
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			Yarra drew who who Adam.
		
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			So he goes back with these words
with this message that has been
		
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			delivered to him. This explosion
from the unseen yarn shuffle for
		
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			adult, his heart is palpitating,
		
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			beating fast, the fear of it the
majesty of it and the weight of
		
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			this word, I think comes to
Khadija and she covers him in the
		
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			mantle and you know the story.
		
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			But the point is that this
experience on this night of power
		
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			is a powerful one indeed, might
majesty Jalil.
		
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			This is what was revealed to him
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			in a low tea or lake Collins Akela
we shall send down on you a heavy
		
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			word.
		
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			What word Allah is uncreated
speech
		
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			Lorenzana * for ANA Allah Jabba
Nila eita, who call Shia on
		
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			motorcycles the unmanifest Yeti
lab, where we descend this quarter
		
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			and down on a mountain, you would
see it shattered, broken apart
		
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			from the fear of God.
		
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			That would be its impact if
revealed to a mountain mountain
		
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			could not take this cosmic
luminous detonation. But where did
		
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			it come? In all of the heavens in
the earth? What is it appropriate
		
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			landing place Mozilla who? Allah
calbeck He sent it down on your
		
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			house. No other phenomenon in
space and time could carry this
		
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			immense word. But the heart of the
chosen wants on the word to Allah
		
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			He was to them or they could and
did carry it, but it helped it ace
		
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			and then the message proceeds and
that is immensely powerful. Jalali
		
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			word gets out amongst the Arabs
with their miraculous knowledge of
		
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			the beauty of the language. It is
their only beauty
		
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			and it melts their heart hearts.
It is the full n that does this
		
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			and
		
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			This is from the miracle of Allah
speech. So we hear it, and we
		
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			enjoy the beauty. And then this
night of power, we experience the
		
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			majesty of it. And we try with our
hearts because it's beyond the
		
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			mind to imagine what it is for
God's uncreated speech to be with
		
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			us in Cambridge this evening to
hear words that are not created,
		
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			not written, not composed, not
premeditated, no drafts. No
		
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			proofreading, the word of God
alone will not heal Kadeem.
		
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			So as well as the beauty and as
well as the terror and the majesty
		
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			of our frail human flesh,
experiencing the majesty of the
		
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			sublime creative, as well as this.
		
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			We experience eternity.
		
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			What happens in the myth Rob? Why
is our worship about the Quran?
		
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			Why is the Quran in everything?
Everything in the Muslim life
		
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			leads to the mosque, and the
mosque leads to the Quran. And our
		
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			prayer is the Quran and the Quran
is the center of everything. It is
		
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			our experience of transcendence.
It is our experience of the
		
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			existence of the real world.
		
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			Because it is not of this world.
		
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			To help them in a rough man him of
desert on Kadima tones, if at all,
		
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			no Sophie Bill returning
		
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			verses of truth
		
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			from the all compassionate,
renewed, but ancient. Their
		
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			quality is as the quality of he
who has no beginning.
		
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			So this word that is uncreated,
that is not part of the normal
		
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			growth and decay of this
		
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			mortal world. This part of
eternity comes to us to the heart
		
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			of the chosen was sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam in this
		
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			spectacular night. This event
horizon is place where the normal
		
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			rules of space and time and cause
and effect and literary convention
		
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			are torn asunder, because Allah
subhanaw taala is not bound by any
		
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			of our laws. And his book is
mystery upon mystery upon mystery.
		
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			Why did the sources become shorter
as we go through the book? Have we
		
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			come across another book like
that? We have not. Why does so
		
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			many of the sources begin with
detached letters? Look at tox Alif
		
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			Lam Meem Haleem? Yes, seen. Taha?
Do we know what they mean? Not
		
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			really, this is a mystery. The
book is mystery upon mystery upon
		
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			mystery. But when we experience
it, when the sweetness comes to
		
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			us, we experienced this light
		
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			in every verse, send a hammer
rebuttal us
		
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			radula Juan, who was a Sahabi had
a particular connection to Allah's
		
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			book. used to say, mannakkara Alko
N forgot to put the rejet in Nobu.
		
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			What will be Legend V 11. The hola
yo ha Elaine. Whoever recites the
		
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			Quran, prophecy has been included
between his two sides, it's just
		
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			that he doesn't receive
revelation. So when we hear it, we
		
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			memorize it, we recite it, we read
it, we engage with it, we breathe
		
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			the breath of eternity.
		
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			That which is purest of us, is the
breath that comes from the roar.
		
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			And it is that part of us that
experiences transcendence, and the
		
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			divine majesty and the divine
glory and that is what we have
		
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			done this evening. As we have
heard these vibrations and this
		
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			resonance of the syncopations of
these extraordinary sounds which
		
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			are unlike anything in this world,
transform us and melt us in ways
		
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			that are too deep for us to
understand.
		
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			It's in harmony with us. So so
many things about Allah's book.
		
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			The also says that the recitation
of the Quran is da Raja Tolan feed
		
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			agenda of reverse you recite is
another degree in Jana will miss
		
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			Vahagn, feeble your Tikhon and a
lanten. In your houses.
		
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			There is a light for what kind of
light, not electricity, not this
		
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			light. The light we've experienced
tonight was from the one who is no
		
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			summer where it will erode the
Light of the heavens and the
		
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			earth. That which is below and
beneath the surface of things, and
		
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			gives those things their reality.
So this is the mystery of the
		
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			letter to God, which we struggled
to understand but we feel its
		
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			importance. It is a night of power
of majesty. We recall the
		
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			shattering impact of the
revelation of the unseen to the
		
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			heart of the Holy Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and we
		
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			feel that majesty,
		
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			that Allah is generous to this
ummah. And our experience of the
		
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			Quran is a bit sweetness. We love
to hear
		
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			Aren't those extraordinary
tonalities and rhythms.
		
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			Somebody who has now passed on to
the next world who are Jewish
		
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			convert to Islam, who lived in
wider streets not far from here.
		
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			He came as a musician. He was a
composer. His works were performed
		
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			by famous symphony orchestras in
England. He came to Islam through
		
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			not knowing a word of Arabic.
		
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			There's the rhythms of the Quran.
He said these rhythms in this book
		
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			are unlike anything else we
musicians have ever experienced
		
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			ever. This is extraordinary.
		
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			In the Lynmouth, Davina repairs,
hada our neighbor work, our eye
		
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			trauma and so forth all of this
hypnotized and gave him joy. It
		
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			used to write pieces of music.
Maybe the muftis will be
		
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			uncomfortable. But he wrote pieces
of music with the aura and rhythms
		
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			in them and they were popular.
This was what melted his heart and
		
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			brought him to Islam. Prophet
Allah, how are they?
		
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			So that's one aspect. one facet of
the diamond. That is allows book.
		
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			And as I said, we all have our own
relationship with Allah's book on
		
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			there and gratitude to allow for
what he does for us. And what he
		
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			discloses to us through his book
because it is nourishment. It is
		
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			the greatest nourishment of
Ramadan. There is the joy of Iftar
		
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			we nourish our bodies.
		
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			There is after the Asia it's the
nourishment of the spirits that
		
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			comes from the Tarot. We, when we
feast upon God's Word, the battle
		
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			law goes banquet. And what a
beautiful banquet it is.
		
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			A banquet, like all best banquets
shared between good friends,
		
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			between brothers, the OMA which is
the ALMA of those whose hearts
		
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			have been changed by the Quran.
		
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			So may Allah subhanaw taala make
us those who hear his book, not
		
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			just with our ears, but with our
hearts, who recognize the majesty
		
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			and the greatness of the
revelation that were sent down
		
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			upon the beating heart of the
chosen one psalm Allahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam, on Jebel, and nor so long
ago, May He make us people who
		
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			hear the word and follow the best
of the word istemi Oh, no Cola,
		
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			for your Tabby owner. Afsaneh make
us people who are not just made
		
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			ecstatic by this word, but whose
actions are changed,
		
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			from whose hearts light spreads
out into their families, into
		
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			their neighborhoods, into the
whole world? Because it's been
		
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			almost of light. Because Allah
subhanaw taala has blessed us with
		
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			this extraordinary blessing. This
unique treasure, this chest full
		
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			of sparkling diamonds, which it is
us are privileged to experience in
		
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			Ramadan and insha Allah at any
time, so may Allah subhanho wa
		
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			taala. Grant us all of the baraka
Ramadan excepto productions and
		
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			accept our fasting, accept our
good neighborliness accept our
		
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			forgiveness of each others, accept
our Adam insha Allah and make us
		
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			truly people who have whose hearts
are connected to the poor and make
		
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			us people who have some share in
the mystery and the majesty of the
		
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			little color or color of equal
will offer them income was salam
		
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			aleikum wa rahmatullah