Abdullah Hakeem – Fall in Love with the Quran
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The speakers discuss the importance of the Quran and its use in religion, including a distraction between two individuals named Nain and Omar who diverted from the Bible and caused people to feel angry. They also discuss the secret of becoming a Muslim and protecting one's life, including the importance of learning and sharing the Quran on social media. The speakers emphasize the benefits of elevating one's effort and standing up to competition, as it provides insight into the importance of learning and sharing to enhance one's understanding of Islam.
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All praise is due to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
We praise him,
we seek his help, and we ask for
his forgiveness.
We should all praise and thank Allah
for once again allowing us all to be
gathered here today
to listen to the chutba,
to perform the
together.
I ask
Allah
to bless each and every one of us,
and I ask Allah
to gather us like we are gathered here,
but in.
Now, this morning,
we had
our Quran competition
winners announced,
and
alhamdulillah,
it is amazing to see
some of our students in our school
who put a lot of effort
into memorizing the Quran
and to recite the Quran beautifully.
And it is also amazing to see that
a lot of us here,
we have a very strong relationship
with the Quran,
and this is something that we need to
continue
and also improve.
As Muslims, we want the Quran to be
a part of our life.
And today, I wanted to dedicate the
about the Quran.
And I know that you've heard a lot
of reminders about the Quran,
the importance of the Quran.
So inshallah today, I wanted to share a
few stories with you, a couple of stories
with you,
and how inshallah we could be inspired
by these stories.
The first story that I wanna share with
you,
and some of you may know this,
is how Umar, ibn al Khattab, radhiallahu an,
how he embraced Islam.
Now, Umar Radiallahu An in the early stages
of when Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was giving
Dawah,
Umar ibn Khattab,
he
was one of the staunchest
enemies
against Islam.
He hated
Islam.
He hated the Muslims.
He
wanted to kill the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
Yes. We are talking about Umar ibn Khattab.
That's how much he hated the Muslims.
They used to have these gatherings, the leaders
of the Quraish.
And they used to come up with plans
of how to stop the dawah from happening.
And Umar as
being part of the nobles,
he would give some of his advice,
others would listen, some would give their own
advice.
It came to a point where Umar radhiallahu
an could not take it anymore.
He's like, that's it. I'm
done. Today,
he said, I'm going to kill
Muhammad salalahu alaihi salam.
He made this plan.
He's like I'm done. And the story goes
that Umar Radhiallahu an, he was such a
beast of a man
that when he would walk with his sword,
he would carry his sword around his neck.
So much so that he would walk and
he would swing the sword around him.
That's how he was.
And people would look at him and they
would get scared just by looking at him.
And he was on the way
to go and find Muhammad
to
cause him harm.
Now along the way,
he meets a man by the name of
Nuaem ibn Abdullah.
Now Nuaem ibn Abdullah was a Muslim in
secret
because no one none of the Muslims wanted
others to know that they are Muslims because
they would have been tortured, some of them
couldn't could even be killed, they were scared.
It was very early on and the Quraysh
leaders didn't like the Muslims back then.
So he meets Nuaem
and Nuaem sees
Umar furious,
angry.
And he says to him, you know, it
seems like you are upset, you are angry,
you've got something in your mind.
And Umar radiAllahu an, he tells him, yes,
I'm going, I'm on the way to go
and kill Muhammad.
And Nwaim, he was, remember, he was secretly
a Muslim.
He says to Umar,
Beware, O Umar, if you harm Muhammad,
you will not be saved from the fury
of Banu Hashim.
Muhammad sallallahu salam was from the tribe of
Banu Hashim. So they will get very angry
with you. So Umar radiAllahuhan replies to him
and says, Naim, have you become a Muslim?
And Umar radiAllahu
Naim, he said don't worry about me. Forget
about me.
He said, but you should worry about your
own household.
Your sister and your brother-in-law have become Muslim.
Now, Omar hearing
this, my sister
my sister has become Muslim.
That's it. He diverted.
Now he was going to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, but now he went to
the house of his sister.
Now you may think, I'm going to pause
for a moment, you may think how could
Nain do that? How could he dub in
Umar's sister like that? But remember,
he was trying to save the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. We would give our lives
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That's
how much love there was. And of course
it was Umar Aryan's sister. He probably wouldn't
harm her like he would to Umar to
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So
he thought about all those things before he
even answered.
So
now has diverted and now going to the
house of his sister.
He went to the house, he was about
to bang on the door, and he heard
the recitation of the Quran.
Inside,
he heard the recitation of the Quran and
he listened
and it made him angry because he knew
this was something, it was something from the
Quran, he He banged on the
door, and as he banged on the door,
there was a man by the name of
Khabab ibn Arat. He was a servant
at the, before that, and he was teaching
the sister of Umar Fatima
and her husband
the recitation of the Quran.
And when he heard that it was Umar
at the door, he went and hid.
He was scared. They were scared of him.
And the sister Fatima, she said, don't worry.
I'm going to handle him. I'll open the
door. I'll handle
him. She opened the door, Omar Radiallam came
in. He was furious.
He grabbed his brother-in-law.
He grabbed his brother-in-law Saeed bin Zayed.
He grabbed him, he pinned him down
and he was saying what is it that
you were reading? And he said nothing, nothing,
don't worry about it, nothing.
And while this was happening, Fatima's sister tried
to save her husband
and Omar struck
her
And it mentioned that she started to bleed
a little bit.
So upon seeing this, Umar
got upset at himself for doing that.
So it calmed him down a little bit
for seeing his sister in such a way.
So he said, okay. I'm I'm sorry,
but tell me what you were doing.
So she said, we were reading the Quran.
Have you become Muslim?
Yes, we have become Muslim.
The words he used was, have you apostated?
Have you left the the path of your
forefathers? They said, no, we have become a
Muslim.
We have become a Muslim.
So
he said, okay, show me what you are
reading. So it was on a piece of
paper or some say it was on a
leaf that was written and the sister said,
no, we're not going to show it to
you because you're unclean.
So he said, how about I clean myself
and I if you can give that to
me? So he went, he bathed and he
came back
And she gave him that parchment where the
Surah was written. It was Surah Al Faha.
And then he started to recite Surah Al
Faha.
Which means,
we have not sent down to you the
Quran
that you may be distressed,
but only as a reminder for those who
fear Allah.
A revelation
from He, Allah, who created the earth and
the highest heavens.
The most merciful
who is above the throne established.
To him belongs what is in the heavens
and what is on the earth
and what is between them and what is
under the soil.
And if you speak aloud, then indeed
he knows the secrets, meaning Allah knows the
secrets,
and what is even more hidden.
Allah.
There is no one worthy of worship except
for him. To him belongs the best of
names.
When he read that, now remember, they know
Arabic.
And when he read that part, he knew
immediately
this cannot be the words of mankind.
It can't be.
He himself knows poetry. He knew that this
cannot be the words of human beings. And
then he asked the question,
is this what Quraysh are running away from?
Is this what Quraysh is fighting the Muslims
for? This?
They're worried about this?
And they said, yes.
He said, no. Whoever sent this down
should be worshipped.
Whoever sent this down should be worshipped.
And his sister embraced him and he said,
tell me where Muhammad is. Tell me where
the prophet is. So he went to Darul
Arkam,
and he was there, the prophet
They were scared, the Sahabas who were there,
they were scared to let Umar in because
remember he had the sword around him, right?
They were scared to let him in. But
Hamza, radiallahu, and he said let him in.
Don't worry.
You know, we've got him. Let him in.
He came in and then he met the
prophet
and he declared his shahada. He said,
There was a huge takbir that happened in
that house, subhanAllah.
The reason why I'm telling you this story,
a man,
Umar Radiallahuan,
the one who was an enemy of Islam,
the one who was on the way to
kill the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, it
was this Quran
that turned his mind. It was the Quran
that changed his heart.
And that was the same day that he
went to the prophet
and he embraced Islam.
How amazing is that? How beautiful is that?
This is what the Quran should do to
us.
This is the beauty of the Quran.
You know, there was a priest.
There there was a priest, a sheikh was
mentioning his story. There was a priest.
He said, I have heard the recitation
of the scriptures
of every religion that I know of. Every
religion. He's a priest.
He said, but I can tell you now
without a shadow of doubt,
whenever the Quran is being recited, it shakes
me.
He's a priest. He said when I hear
the Quran, it shakes me. It's something different.
It gives me goosebumps.
And I'm sure that you many of you
have seen videos of people in the street
when they're walking past and those people who
are working for dawah, they tell them to
hear the Quran.
What are their response? This is amazing. This
is something different.
Some of them are crying when they hear
it.
And then you hear people, they hate Islam,
and all of a sudden they open the
Quran, they start to read from the start
to the end. The meaning of the Quran,
they embrace
it. Those who read with an open mind
and an open heart, they embrace Islam.
We have staunchest of enemies in this world.
One from the Netherlands.
He was in this political party that hates
Muslims.
When he read the Quran,
that staunchest enemy became the lover of the
Quran. He embraced Islam.
So now my question for myself and all
of you, what does the Quran do to
us?
What does the Quran do to us? Does
it move us? Does it shake us? Does
it make us love Allah more when we
hear it? Do we recite it? Do we
read the meaning of the Quran? What does
it do to us?
So we'll continue
The prophet
he said in a hadith,
The best of you
now this is look at the words.
The best of you.
Like, we all wanna be the best of
everything.
The prophet is telling us the best of
you are those who learn the Quran.
So what does learning the Quran mean? You
learn how to read the Quran.
You try your best to understand what you
are reading. You go through the meaning. You
learn the tafsir, and we are so fortunate
to be in a school that teaches you
tafsir from a certain age onwards.
And then you have the Quran at home,
you've got Quran apps, You've got your parents.
You've got Quran classes. You've got you've got
all these places that you can go to,
online classes, where you can learn the Quran.
And not only that, the best of you
are those who also teach it to others.
Now let me give you an example that
you can relate to.
Many of us here have social media accounts,
and when you
see something you like, let's say you saw
a video,
probably made you laugh, probably learned something from
it,
And then you thought, wow. You know? And
you start doing it yourself.
You start doing whatever it is yourself.
And then you're like, man, I'm gonna share
this. I'm gonna show it to my friends.
I'm gonna share it on my account. And
you share
it. And then you wait for people to
like it. And you wait for people to
share it to others. Right? We do this.
All of us we do this. We see
something we like, we try to do it
or we try to say it, whatever it
is and then we share it to others
because we wanna show others. Or I'll give
you another example.
Let's say you met someone famous,
very very famous. Think of someone famous in
your mind. You took a picture with this
person.
Right? You know this person really well, in
and out about this person, and you want
to share this. You want to show it
to others. So you put on your social
media account. You share with your family and
your friends and you show them, look who
I was with. I was standing next to
this person.
Right? We go crazy over small signature of
a person. We we we do this. But
we like it. Why? Because they are famous.
They are well known.
Right? Now I want you to think,
we have
the best thing that anyone could ever ask
for. The best.
And that is the words of Allah.
We have the words of Allah.
The one who created me and you.
We have it. We have it on our
phones. We have it at home. We have
it in our heart.
We recite it from our tongue.
Right? So our job, because we know how
amazing this is, we know how beautiful this
is, Our job is to learn it because
we love it. And not only learn it,
wow, I've learned something from the Quran. This
is amazing. It it moves me. You know
what? I'm going to share it. I'm going
to teach it to others. Call your sibling.
Come. You know this verse? Learn this verse.
You know what it means? This is what
it means.
Share it on your social media account. Use
it. We can use social media and good
things. You see an ayah of the Quran.
You loved it. It moved you. You know
what? I'm gonna share this. Find the verse,
find the meaning, share it in your social
media account. It may change someone else.
It may change someone else, their life, and
it's through you, your work, your dua that
you made this happen.
So my advice to myself and to all
of you today is,
fall in love with the Quran.
Fall in love with the Quran.
Be the people of the Quran. Because wallahi,
this is the Quran that will stand on
the day of judgement and will say, You
Allah,
this servant of yours,
he used to wake up at night,
stand up and would recite me you Allah.
He would recite your words.
You Allah, forgive his sins. Admit him into
paradise. The Quran will stand for you. The
Quran will speak on your behalf. How amazing
would that be? How amazing would that be?
But it's scary
if the Quran stands up and says to
Allah, you Allah, this servant of yours
never used to read
me. This servant of yours
never used to read your words.
You Allah, take him to hellfire.
Imagine if the Quran says that. So Quran
could be a Huja for you or it
could be a Huja against you. Fall in
love with it,
learn
it, share it, and like Umar radhiallahuan, the
one who was about to kill Muhammad sallallahuan,
changed because of one part of a Surah.
One part of a Surah. It moved him.
It changed him.
Be that person who changes as well. The
ones who are away from the Quran, use
the Quran to change your life.
Learn it, share it, and be a part
of this glory. We ask Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
to make us the lovers of the Quran.
We ask Allah
to strengthen our relationship with the Quran. We
ask Allah
to make us
the huffal of the Quran. We ask Allah
to make us amongst those who understands the
Quran.
And I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, like
we have the competitions, the Quran competitions.
Insha'Allah, I want to make it even bigger
next year, and I want to see all
of you trying very, very, very hard to
try your best to to perform
at your utmost level inshAllah.
Because you know competition in good is good.
Competition in good is good. We know Abu
Bakr and Umar. Umar radiaallahu an
specifically, he used to compete a lot with
Abu Bakr in good. So we are allowed
to compete with with one another, but we
never put anyone else down. It is Allah
who rewards every one of you, not for
your results.
Allah rewards
you for your effort. We ask Allah
to elevate elevate us in that as
well.
Please stand up. Make yourself.
Fill up the gaps, please.
Your heel your heel must be on the
line.
You can try.
It's a long leg mode.