Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Book Launch Tentative Themes of the Qur’an Prince Ghazi
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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
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respected, distinguished guests, Almighty Allah.
Friends,
I would just like to say a few words, that is looking at Sam and
his Royal Highness Prince Razi, when Mohammed and musulmans are
all our alumni Kira. And who are alumni Quran, Allah ma Hua Tulum
via, they are the heirs of the prophets, they do the work with
the prophets used to do the guidance. They are like the
lighthouse in the darkness which provides light and guides people.
May Allah subhanaw taala preserve them, give them long life with
certain fear. Sometimes we remember the coat of say you do
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people will become like cattles. I think I sent bursaries that
Motorola elite was referring to or the moonlighters doesn't have to
sell. So, if we have these watermarks, they can guide us they
can provide that light and the mood for us in the darkness that
surrounds us. So Hamdulillah we are very, very honored to have
husband move this out among us and our respected here by batter has
great love for some of this. He likes you know, bringing us move
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Allah subhanaw taala says,
as the Quran reads, and now we have sent down to you people, a
scripture to remind you when you're not understand
then I'm going to quote a hottie. They have a very short amount of
time I'm going to quote a hadith which is related by him until
maybe
in it, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam speaks, there's a
discussion about the challenges that are going to face the ummah.
And the one thing that approximates and responds with is
the importance of the Quran and he mentions a number of the
characteristics of the Quran and how the Quran will help,
especially in times of challenges and darkness, and temptations and
strife. And that's, I mean, an apt district description of our
contemporary times. But in the the prophets of Allah Almighty, who
was salam said, among a number of other things, we'll look at that
as he will be held our further Teletubbies will be Alsina. What
is the roadmap the OMA will never be quenched by the Quran. They can
never be satiated completely. There's always more. And then the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said whether you have to
look either Kathy Rudd will never become worn or old or weary, there
will always be something fresh about it. And finally, what often
called the Ijebu its wonders will never cease. And today, this book
that we're looking at, which I'm supposed to introduce, I mean, I
only got my hands on this copy just before the program because it
was a rush job that we did. Right? I think
Um, we got this book I think typesetting designed and
everything in about three days, including the sound politics. So
maybe maybe I should say that if you see anything in this short of
perfection, then there's an excuse for that shot. But
anyway, so today it's all about that. The, the Quran, if you want
to put it simply, it's a mortgages, it's a inimitable
miracle of Allah subhanaw taala it's timeless, all of the miracles
of the other prophets, as one Hadith in Bukhari and sahih.
Muslim speaks about it says that every prophet that came mommy,
mommy MBA in the vegan Illa, booty, I have two min min minute,
every single profit was given a sign. Now, if you look at the
signs of all of the other prophets, they were something that
you would have had to capture with maybe there was no YouTube in
those days. It was something that was time specific, something that
was witnessed by the people there, for example, the staff of Musa
Moses peace be upon him.
It was there, it created the effect for the time we have a
history of it, we are reminded of it. But in terms of something that
still continues with the Prophet saw some says at the end of that
narration, he says that I have been given the Quran, what
I've been given the revelation. And then he says something very
interesting at the end of that narration, and he says that I
would love I would like to be a thorough home that Serbia and Yan
piano, I would I would like to be with the greatest following on the
Day of Judgment, he links that to the Quran. And I think that's very
pertinent reason is that the Quran is a living miracle. And it's not
the time to go into that in depth right now. But the Quran will
continue to reveal things. And just one of those aspects is what
is trying to be encapsulated in this book. So
the people of Arabia whether they were believers or not, there's
numerous stories from the early Sierra that you find that when the
Quran was being recited, they were just totally mesmerized taken them
back despite the fact that they hated the province that loves them
so much at the time. There's a famous incident related by
employer Josiane is elemental them speaking about Amara, their lungs
initial attraction to Islam, which is when salted hotcopper was being
recited, and he was in the Haram area. And when he started
listening to it, he started beautifying his heart and
illuminating his mind. But he couldn't openly stand and listen.
So he went and hid behind the cloth of the garb.
And it was an amazing interaction where he then finally said, Hello
Hola. He's called Blue Coat chalet. This must be the words of
a poet and then the next verse in Surah can help that there is a
promise or loss and then recite it was well now whoever the coalition
or the Elam man took me know the some of the words of Shah
intervene so little do you believe so then if not, Abdullah Omar the
Oman is then interacting with this, you know, in his own way
that he says okay, then he's a guy him because that's what they could
reduce it to. They didn't have idea of beyond you know, the
eschatological ideas or metaphysical ideas. They just
didn't have those. So he said, Okay, he must be a guy in a
soothsayer. The next verse actually is what the only guy in
Karela mata karoun 10 Zero, Mirabella al Amin revelation, it's
a revelation from the Lord. So if it beautified even the enemies of
Islam at that time, then today, it will continue to do so for anybody
that ponders and this is the book all about the pondering of
mashallah, our eminent speaker here. Our eminent friend, his
highness, Prince Halsey, this is exactly what this book is trying
to
try to bring together now that it's called a tentative guide to
the themes of the surah of the Quran. If you look at it closely,
I remember in the designing of this, we had to emphasize this
tentative because there's a reason for that, I'll go into that. The
reason is that the Quran is not restricted to themes that are
these underlying themes that people may discover. The benefit
from the Quran isn't restricted to them. The benefit of the Quran is
quite direct. The Quran speaks to everybody at their level. If you
want more from the Quran, it will speak to you, right I mean, I
don't know if I want to pull in some hetero glossier here, right
in terms of linguistics where the Quran speaks for itself, because
that's Allah subhanaw. Taala is wonderfully composed words that
will speak to everybody according to their level, according to how
much they want to ponder according to how much they want profound
insight. So, in terms of what the contents of this book is, it's
clearly an HD heavy endeavor. Right? It's an it's an issue, how
the Endeavor it's a wonderful endeavor. But the Quran, Quran
guidance is not restricted to that because it's also very direct and
very clear cut in terms of the themes that it has in general.
There are generally two opinions with regards to the order model,
especially the amorphous zero on the X
digits of the Quran in terms of these underlying themes that take
a whole surah and bind it all together, link it on together.
What is the approach to that? So nowhere in the Quran and Sunnah
when you actually find any particular theme like that
mentioned, as monsoon as something which has been legislated or
mentioned in the Sharia is something for people to find if
they find it.
So some of them I think that there is no theme, it's just direct,
direct bits of guidance that are provided and put together in a
particular way. But there is another school that actually
believes that there is a cohesive scheme scheme, a theme that binds
it all together one of the most wonderful books which I was
actually introduced to in solace with Professor Abdulhadi because
we're doing the language style and structure of the Quran with him
and it was a wonderful course Masha Allah may Allah bless him.
It's even Bihar is not McDonnell Phaeton, as well, it was sure it's
a 1222 volume book. And what it is, is called a string of pearls
or the arrangement of pearls on the harmonious relationship of
verses and chapters. He brings the relationships between the chapters
and the verses together in this amazing way. Right? Of course,
it's an HD how the endeavor, with the man with the alarm desert from
Amuro movie cinema with one of the above one, there is a a statement
of his which says that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
whenever he would call the scribes to write down whatever revelation
had just had just come down, he'd say, Please, these verses in that
particular surah, in which such and such as mentioned, from this,
we get the impression understanding that there is a
secret to this, of why it's not. It's clearly not haphazard, for
sure, as as some Orientalist may may wish to say, because when they
first read these books, when they first read the Quran, they can't
understand what genre to fit into. So you have the likes of Nanda and
others who have had some massive criticism because they just, they
wanted to fit into some kind of western genre, and the Quran has
its own genre anyway, to now move on to the book in front of us.
I believe that this book could have only come together I, I
haven't, I don't think I've given due attention to it that I
shouldn't have, because we're in such a hurry. And I inshallah hope
to read it a lot more deeply. Because it's not something you can
you can read it in a day. But really, to benefit from it, you'd
have to read it with each chapter with the Quran by your sight and
reading with reflection. That's what it's all about. It's
basically must have come after lengthy reflection, I think
anybody would jump, anybody would come to that conclusion. But I
know this for certain, because we've been having discussions
about this book with with principality from several months
ago. And I mean, I know he's sitting here. But I'd like to
mention that he's got an amazing love for the Quran. And I can tell
you this, because there's proof for this, the proof is out of
sierra.com. I don't know there must be so many among you that
have probably benefited from ultraseal.com. And if you haven't,
then you should, because it's the one portal where you can pick any
idea, any verse of the Quran, and then choose which Tafseer you want
to see. And it's all there for free. Right? It's a massive
contribution. It's a massive contribution. And that's been I
mean, how many years has that been going on?
Since 2000, that's, that's 18 years. Then the other thing, which
is a bit of a hidden gem, and I really suggest that you look at
this and benefit from this, and it's cost a lot of money. And I
know this, right? It's called free Islamic calligraphy.com. Right? If
you want for your messages or your centers, you want nice calligraphy
with whatever border you want, and you don't want to pay huge amounts
for it. Going to free Islamic calligraphy. I know the name
sounds a bit tacky, right?
Right. Free Islamic calligraphy.com You know, when you
see free in the name, maybe that sounds a bit tacky. But believe
me, there are gems in there from some of the master calligraphers
and you know, he's paid lots of dinars for each of those pieces.
Right. And it's all free, masha Allah. So that's all to do with
the Quran. And this is a farmer, it's a fruit of a lot of that
labor and focus. So very quickly Hamdulillah, the book has come to
fruition, three sections in this book. The first is, he goes
through the it goes to all 114 sources of the Quran. And he
explains that theme, the main theme, he has a dominant theme or
primary theme, and sometimes there's a secondary theme.
Sometimes you can link two of the sources together in a single
theme, and he's pointed all of that out, as well as that you can
just read this, but you won't retain it. It's something you need
the Quran and next to him, you need to ponder over what he's
saying. The second one. I mean, this is not in any particular
order. But the other major section here is that he then takes just
the first 12 Sutras of the Quran, which actually amounts to about
45% of the entire Quran. And then what he does in there is that he
actually goes through all the verses or the cluster of verses
and he brings them together under sub themes that relate to the main
theme and that's the Wonder
Have this book. Right that's, that's what that's the great part
of this. So you can actually go through the first world. So for
example, just in brief, if you look at certain Fatiha Surah Al
Fatiha is supposed to be about a bother and devotion. That's its
main theme. Then when you move over to sort of the buckler, the
main theme of that is Iman and belief faith, then when you move
on to sort of algebra, and then it's about Islam, an expression,
which is submission and expression of that faith, the outer
expression of your EBA. So it starts off with devotion as an
absolute profound level of devotion that is expressed in
certain fatty which anybody can, you know, understand, but those
three are, you can say they encapsulate the main message from
the hadith of Gibreel, as well, for instance. So that's the kind,
I'm just giving you a sneak peek here, I'm just giving you these
tantalizing tidbits. And I hope that you will get a copy of this
book and actually read it for yourself and keep it alongside
you, when you read the Quran. Ramadan is coming up, it's an apt
time to do that. All of this is part of the edges of the Quran, he
pays at the end of it, he actually pays special focus, special
attention to sort of the use of Surah Yusuf is an amazing, I mean,
you know, we could spend hours on that he speaks about it from
various different perspectives, about the various different links
within it, the themes within it, the objectives within it, and let
you read that the section which actually really captivated my
attention, at least last night, was the when he links, the father
and the virtues of some of the chapters together with the theme.
So you've got the Virgin chapters that come from the hadith of
Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi, wasallam, the process of his
mentioning such and such a virtue for a particular summer, so he's
less than So he, but he then links the theme to it. And I just want
to give you one or two examples about that, because
we don't have too much time. One of them is uncertain and non
fertile. And and
the sixth chapter, the sixth, sort of its main theme, he says, is
associating partners with Allah, so shift basically, and anything
that would hinder you from that or would lead to it I mean, God's
mercy if you don't have the absence of God's mercy would lead
a person to ship because it's only by the gods by Allah's mercy, that
we are believers. Otherwise if this can learn in the absence of
that mercy and absence of that dough feet and we lost souls, may
Allah protect us then, so that's the main theme shook and Rama.
The Prophet sallallahu sallam said in a hadith reads a bygone era
yesterday, when salted an island was revealed. There were a host of
angels covering both sides of the sky. This is related Omar Hakim
actually this this version is an imam Hakim, then TaoTronics
relates that Soto Nana was revealed all the all at once
accompanied by 70,000 Angels. Alright, so now you've got these
two ideas. This theme of skeletal anatomy schicke warning against
it, sort of an arm is one of those largest sorters that will reveal
together. So what does that tell you? It's being revealed at once
means there's a unity here is a subtle idea of a unity of
everything being together, it accords perfect, perfectly with
the theme of
abstinence from Schick
in partnering with Allah, even in its very form, then I'll just
mention one more sort of gaffe, the theme of sortal gaff, and lots
of people are probably pondered over silica because it's something
very regioni more often, it's supposed to be knowledge. That's
the overarching theme in everything, the promise of
loathsome says, race by hacking the monster drug, whoever is a
sort of gaffe on Friday, and light will be lit for him or her until
the next Friday. Light.
Light is a an idea of knowledge. That's how the theme is knowledge.
So the light is a massive symbol, a very pertinent symbol of
knowledge. And again, you've got a perfect synthesis there between
the theme and the virtue, I'm going to leave the rest because
there's one sort of the ASEAN, which I wanted to mention, but in
the interest of time, I'm gonna move that on.
One thing that I found in this book, he's actually got another
section. It's a small section kind of comes in between, right? It
kind of comes in between, I'm sort of wondering why you did that. But
it's called assessment and discussion. So it's almost like he
provides some themes. And then he says, Hold on, let me give you an
assessment disk. And just because you may start looking at this in
disbelief that where is this author getting all of this wrong?
Where's the backing for this? In there? He actually deals with a
number of potential contentions to this whole endeavor. And that's
where he I think, very convincingly, unsuppressed and you
can actually read as it moves the turkey subs introduction to it,
and he explains this kind of thing that I believe
that that's vague because I remember when we're doing this
book, he kept saying has to be tentative because our actual
series is a thinking Person's Guide. So this one, we have to
change it to a tentative guide, right for that purpose because he
doesn't want to say that this is for definite, it's convincing, in
fact, he invites are the amount to verify this to ascertain these
things, before being convinced if that's the case, but his humility
is definitely on display here. Right, which I know of anyway, but
that's in display. Finally, there's a narration of a Buddha
with an Imam, Mama without intermediary by Mohammed, which he
quotes. And I think it's pertinent to mention that here the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Wherever speaks about the Quran,
according to his opinion, meaning given to his own opinion, or in
accordance to that which he or she has no knowledge, then let that
person assume their place in hellfire. And I think this is so
important. I think this is because we've got so many random people
out there doing a lot of stuff see you. In fact, maybe there's not
the time for this, but a survey or some of the most modern tissues of
the last 100 years. One of the problems where we got the inherent
fit the fallacy, where it went away from Orthodoxy is because it
was none or the month wedding bucked on reflection on the Quran.
And thus, they came up with some really strange ideas. And it
filled up some of the most contemporary diversity that we
have that some of them are very popular actually, one of the
reasons for the inheritor is that they didn't have a backing of
knowledge. It was pure reflection, based on the context of their
time, their subjectivities, and so on. And that's obviously created
so much of the issues that we have in the world today.
Right. I'm going to finish off with actually a quote from both
the turkey sub in the introduction in his preface in his foreword,
this is what he says. He says His Highness has also endeavor to
answer possible contentions on the nature of this novel endeavor. In
his scholarly introduction, it is utmost precaution on his part
meaning principles, that instead of insisting on his discoveries,
he named his endeavor as a tentative guide. I trust that the
current pioneering work will in sha Allah form a basis for further
study in this intricate field. May Allah grant this work, his
approval, Allah's approval, and May He make it beneficial. If this
is the time, you've been waiting to start pondering over the Quran,
which we shouldn't be all be doing, then this is the time to
grab one of these books in sha Allah and start pondering the
Quran. May Allah grant us Baraka in our journey, and a blessed
Ramadan. Welcome