Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Character of the Qur’an Reciter

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

Lehman Cathy on Ely only been a my bad

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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