Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Character of the Qur’an Reciter
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The importance of reciting the Quran for better understanding of Islam is emphasized, along with the need to practice it to be successful. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of preparing for death and being prepared for it, as it is crucial to avoid becoming overwhelmed. The speaker advises against trying to be a good person and avoid delving into fear. The importance of shaming fear and avoiding delving into excessive chatter is emphasized, along with the need to learn and practice to become more aware of Islam topics and confident in writing.
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So we shouldn't be constantly grateful for his blessings and the
blessings just not dunya the blessing. I think the greatest
blessing is the fact that Allah has made us Muslim has made us has
given us the ability to recite the Quran to learn the Quran to have
something to do with the Quran has blessed us in this world with the
Quran because what would have been the benefit of being in this world
without the Quran that would have been a major deprivation?
Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala
Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala early he or Safi robotica was the limit as
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Hamdulillah we are looking at
this book
with the Noble Quran by Shia Khalil who sorry, that has just
recently been published. We're looking at chapter nine right now
and this is about the recommended etiquette for the recite of the
Quran. So she actually lucidly talks about the person who recites
the Quran, that he needs to have different types of etiquette to
get the most out of reciting the Quran. So what he says is that he
should adorn himself and take great care in holding on to these
etiquette.
He says, both the listener and the reader should do this. So we're
going to speak be speaking about the reader today. There are two
types of etiquette he says that pertains to the reciter. And these
etiquette, you'll see I just see recommended for Muslims all over.
So this is not necessarily just for somebody who's reciting the
Quran. This is what just behooves a Muslim, to have these etiquette
to be you know, who they are as Muslims and to represent Islam and
to have Allah subhanaw taala in their life. So this is the first
set of etiquette if a person has this etiquette, and then they read
the Quran, then Insha Allah, they have a much greater understanding
and much greater benefit from the Quran. So he says that the first
set of etiquette are required at all times, and the second are
particular to reciting so we're going to look at the first ones
today, sha Allah. So the first time he says that a person should
constantly try to remember Allah subhanaw taala they should be
constantly remembering Allah subhanaw taala and be grateful for
Allah subhanho wa Taala his blessings. And you know,
subhanAllah, especially in these Western countries, those of us who
live in the UK, in Europe, in in the US in Canada, martial law, I
think we literally probably
enjoy enjoy a lifestyle of the top 10% of the population of the
world. And that's quite amazing when you look at it from that
perspective, how much Allah subhanaw taala has provided us. So
we should be constantly grateful for his blessings and the
blessings just not dunya the blessing I think the greatest
blessing is the fact that Allah has made us Muslim, has made us
has given us the ability to recite the Quran to learn the Quran to
have something to do with the Quran has blessed us in this world
with the Quran. Because what would have been the benefit of being in
this world without the Quran that would have been a major
deprivation? So that's what he says first, then he says,
the next thing that a person should do is place his trust in
Allah subhanaw taala for everything that we do. And that's
just EMA, and essentially, because why should we place our trust in
Allah because everything comes from Him. And if we don't, then
we're just looking at the wrong place. We're focusing on the wrong
area, we have to focus on Allah subhanho wa taala. Because
everything comes from Him, we have to place our trust on him. Because
he is behind everything. He is in control of everything. He should
seek aid from him, he should yearn for him. So not only do we know
that everything is from Allah subhanaw taala. We also need to be
saying, well, we can only ask Allah, all other doors are closed.
Right? All other doors are closed. Nobody can help us the way Allah
subhanaw taala can help us. Nobody can help us always, as Allah
subhanaw taala can always help us other people are sometimes busy,
they can help us sometimes, but not all the time. Allah subhanaw
taala can actually help us all the time, because he has time for us
all the time, as long as we just yearn for him
and be dependent on him. And then he says, We should always be
prepared for death. That's a more difficult one. Be prepared for
death. I don't think it's that difficult, I think prepared for
death doesn't mean that you literally are in your shroud.
Right? And you have, you know, everything ready, that doesn't
necessarily mean be prepared. Be prepared means that if I was to
die today or tomorrow, then yes, there might be a few things here
and there that are left to do. There might have been a few
projects that I wanted to do. But however, anything that's going to
bother me in the Hereafter, that's going to be a nuisance to me in
the hereafter and that could actually cause my detriment
in the Hereafter, like debts that I haven't organized, so I might
not be able to pay my debts off today because I don't have that
kind of money to pay off. But I've organized it, I've left something
I've left a bequest, I've left an asset or something that could be
sold and, or somebody who could assist like, like a child or a
friend or somebody who can assist in doing so. I've sought
forgiveness from people if I've ever wronged anybody. I've done my
cover prayers, I've done my colourfast I've either arranged
for a paid of any zakat that that I owe, or something like that, all
of those kinds of things, that that is mean, just just good
Muslim practice. That's what it means to be prepared. And then the
second type of preparation for death is essentially that I've
sent something forward. Right, I've left some sadaqa jariya, I've
left some continuous charity, something that's going to keep
going on, whether that be a book that people are continuing to
read, whether that be a masjid that people will continue to pray
and maybe a half is or two or an alum or two or somebody who has
learned something, and they're going to continue to practice with
what they have learned. Right, I've donated to an institute a
madrasa a, a school where they teach children, they teach them,
they teach adults, and those people are just going to carry on
doing those things and there's no stopping them. Now afterwards.
I've left some pious children, pious family, pious assets,
righteous assets that that do good or are these things then we can
say we prepared May Allah prepare us may Allah prepare us may Allah
prepare us for this.
Always be in a state of fear for his sins, that if we do have sins,
or even if you don't have sins, we're fearful of committing sins,
that consciousness
and have hope in the pardon of his Lord. So the fear of sin should
not overcome us in such a way that we become overwhelmed. And we give
up or we become despondent, it should be that we have hope in the
pardon of Our Lord, his fear of Allah.
While he is healthy now he decides to explain that he says that a
person's fear of Allah while a person is healthy should be his
dominant state. When we're healthy, our dominant should state
should be fear rather than hope, because that just keeps us going a
bit more. I think I've discussed this in much greater detail in our
health. Health described our Health Series on the description
of the Hellfire, which you can find on zamzam academy or on our
channel at YouTube and other places, right. So the dominant
state in a situation of health should be that we
are more fearful because that just keeps us better on our feet. And
then he says, and I have hope in the pardon of his Lord, that along
with that we need to have that while at the time of death. Or
when a person is sick, and a person thinks they're going to die
or there's going to be terminal illness or something, then the
prevalent state at that time should be a good opinion of Allah
Most High, so not fear, because then shaytaan can use that fear in
the wrong way. And we don't want shaytaan to do that. It should
then be hoping Allah, that that love and earnestness and their
eagerness towards Allah subhanaw taala the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said, Let not one of you die, except that he has a
good opinion of Allah.
Let not one of you die except that he has a good opinion of Allah
subhanho wa Taala Subhan Allah, may Allah allow us to have a good
opinion of him. The way to have good opinion is to do things in
the right way and to understand Allah in the right way.
So then Allah will have mercy on him and forgive him. Furthermore,
the author says he should call himself to an abstention from the
worldly life. abstention from the worldly life doesn't mean that you
just give up everything and you don't use anything of the world.
No, you can use whatever it is in the world, as long as you don't
let it come into your head. You use it for its utility and its
functionality. That's, I think, the secret of this world. I think
the secret of Zoho is that you get the world for it for serving an
important and necessary function. You don't get it to show off and
to indulge and just enjoy for no reason. You get it because it's
functional. And then it provides a certain function that could mean
that sometimes you need to have some Halal pleasure to a certain
degree, right?
So if you keep it functional, and not show off, then I think it
should be fine insha Allah may Allah subhanaw taala make it easy
for us. You should have scrupulousness in his religion, so
be careful and be scrupulous in particular about matters. Don't
just keep saying oh Allah would forgive Allah will forgive ALLAH
forgive Allah make it easy for us. A continuous vigilance about his
master, we should be constantly vigilant about Allah, our Master
inwardly and outwardly privately and publicly. So this isn't
something that we just show
outside but don't do inside or that we do inside and outside we
just try to make it seem like we are not very practicing. I don't
see any point of that. We don't want to show off about our
practice may Allah give us practice, but at the same time we
need to be vigilant of Allah subhanaw taala he should distance
himself from falling into prohibited and doubtful matters.
He should take care to have forbearance, dignity. So these are
personal traits have forbearance. So be patient,
dignified, gentle, be composed of humility towards the poor love for
the destitute, and abstention from arrogance and vanity and be as far
as possible from disputes and argumentation. Wherever you can
avoid a dispute. It's just best to avoid a dispute because it just
can explode. It can just bring up many other issues. It might be a
small thing, if it can be tolerated, and you can just deal
with it without it and you can just let it go is best to do that.
Okay. In some cases, you do have to try to deal with something then
do it in the wisest of ways. May Allah have mercy on Abdullah
Masuda the Allahu Anhu he said, It is befitting for the reciting of
the Quran, that he should be known for his nights when other people
are asleep for his days while the other people are not fasting so he
should fast for his tears when people are laughing for his
silence. While the people are engrossed in speech. They in
speech for his humility, while the people strutting around pompously
and for his grief while the people are happy, and alive number the
Allahu Anhu said it is not fit befitting for the carrier of the
Quran. To delve into excessive chatter. This refers to both
people who are Hafez of the Quran and those who like to read the
Quran and who want to consider themselves to be attached to the
Quran. Their character is that they should not delve into
excessive chatter with those that do so he should not be ignorant as
those who are ignorant, he should not participate in vain acts with
those who do so. Rather he should forgive and pardon out of
veneration for the right of the Quran. Because the speech of Allah
Most High is inside him. I think that just provides the crux of
this because the speech of Allah is inside him. It is narrated the
Hasson bacillary Rahmatullahi. It said, those who came before you
view the Quran as messages from the Lord Subhanallah like imagine
it, everything you read of the Quran, they consider them to be
letters, emails, text messages, from Allah subhanaw taala. Like,
individually for us. That's how Hassan Busey says, those who came
before you view the Quran has messages from the Lord, thus, they
spent their nights in deep reflection of it, because there's
a message I got, I need to be concerned about this message and
their days in the implementation of it. It is befitting for the
carrier of the Quran, to choose friends who will assist him, so
you have to have good friends. Right? And that really makes life
that really is what changes life is to is the friends that we have
in the circle that we have, you have to be very, very careful
about it, you have to cure curate your friends, keep the good and
distance the bad, right otherwise they will be your doom. They
should also be people they should also be people one does not feel
evil from and is hopeful of their good meaning their friends, they
should live in harmony with the regulation of the Quran and its
meaning if everybody can do that, that makes everybody together and
it's just easier than they should know the unambiguous verses and
the ambiguous versus that abrogating versus and the
abrogated versus the unqualified versus and the detail versus the
general versus under specific versus that which Allah has made
obligatory and that which he has encouraged by this, it will
benefit the person will benefit by what he recites and act upon what
he read what he reads. It is not befitting for the care of the
Quran to recite its injunctions, rules and regulations and not
understand what he is reciting no comprehend what he is reading.
Similarly, it is not befitting that he be asked about the meaning
of what he is reciting yet not have any knowledge of it. So now
he's getting more into the more specifics of it, but as you see,
this character is just the character of a Muslim and may
Allah subhanaw taala allow us to become like that and to benefit
from this. So, inshallah in the next section, we will be dealing
with the specific characteristics of when etiquette of when a person
is actually reciting the Quran. So inshallah until then Jazak Allah
here on a cinema alikoum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh May
Allah subhanho wa Taala blessings through the Quran and elevate us
through the Quran and make us people who are worthy of reciting
the Quran as mentioned here by the author, she sad, Muhammad
Colleyville who study may Allah subhanho wa Taala reward him
abundantly assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh the
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lectures, but you need to have this more sustained study as well.
Joe sokola here and Salaam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh