Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Getting more from reading the Qur’an

Bismillah your man you're walking to

Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim hamdulillah Ramadan is very close.

It's coming upon us insha Allah within a very short time and

Ramadan shahada Ramadan Allah the unzila few Quran Allah subhanho wa

Taala says that Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was

revealed and mashallah based on that people have great attachment

to the Quran in the month of Ramadan. Now among many

communities, there's something that they do which is really

praiseworthy. They read a lot of Quran there's a hadith narrated by

Imam Bukhari. They've namaste master under the Allahu Anhu

relates that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam said whoever recites

the Quran, then he gets a reward for every letter, he gets 10

rewards harder and harder for every letter, he gets 10 rewards.

Now, generally among people who don't understand the Quran because

Arabic is not the language and they know how to read but they

don't understand the language and they don't understand the words.

They see no reason to read slowly. They see no reason to necessarily

ponder because they don't know the they don't know the language.

However, you have to realize that Rasul Allah Salah Lawson's reading

in general, if you if you look at the Hadith about it, there's

actually a whole chapter on the recitation of Rasulullah

sallallahu alayhi salam doesn't matter if you get it Rasulullah

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in the Shama ill collection of Imam

telemovie. And he mentioned in the first three Hadith, or there were

related from almost selamat er, the Allah one hand, and so the

Allahu Anhu that the Prophet salallahu ideas and recitation

was, with a lot of pauses, where he would stop at the IRS. He his

his, the way he would read would be amorphous Sauron, which means

that every, every letter of it was correctly intoned and pronounced,

and he would reflect it was in a very nice voice. So essentially,

what they're mentioning, is that, rather than read a lot, it's

better to read a lesser amount, but with concentration with

understanding, right, so that's exactly what I want to make the

point of my message today, that people think that if they just

read lots and lots, and there's actually competitions that they

can take place, I finished 10 grams in Ramadan, I finished 20 I

finished 30 I finished this many I read this many, or Supatra in a

day, you know, that's all very good. It's all very good. But

really, if you're spending, for example, five hours in Ramadan,

reading Quran, and you get and you managed to read maybe 20 Jews in a

day, like, you know, the really fast ones, right? The point is

that if you read slower with more concentration, even if you don't

understand it all, you'll understand certain things that

Allah subhanaw taala is saying it might even drive you to actually

go and look in at 502, to look in a taxi, and to try to understand

the message of that surah and the message of that story that you're

reading, to read it slowly and savor it thinking that it's the

word of Allah subhanaw taala not just something that I want to read

lots and lots of, because there are other might have mentioned

that to read with understanding is better to read more without

understanding. Now I know that we're not going to learn Arabic

overnight. But at least if you read slower with the vocabulary

that we have, as Muslims, you know, there's a number of words

that are from Arabic, that is in every Muslims vocabulary, they're

going to get some understanding of the story, you will know for

example, there's certain things that meet you know that certain

sources have this story in them or have this message in them, or it's

about this. So that's why I would really encourage that we split our

time properly. Now, first and foremost, to read slowly, and you

know, with proper intonation, observing the rules of tangerine

and Clara and making sure that we don't mix up the Tsar and Val, we

don't mix up the scene and Assad, we don't mix up the heart and the

heart, the coffin, the calf, you know, these make a difference.

They make a difference to the meaning for example, the weather

in Arabic for collarbone, for heart is all born. And if you

don't say collarbone with a cough, and you say Kilbirnie actually

becomes a dog. So likewise, the word column on column which means

a pen, and if you say Kellerman, it means a wound, right? So you

can see the big difference between just cough and cough. There's a

similar difference between her and her. Right. And that's why it's

very important that we learn, you know, we learned some rules of

Tajweed as well. However, just for a practical level, firstly, we

should genuinely slowly anyway, right? It's about the time of that

time you take to read the Quran, then how much you read. Now I know

we have stories from the past of Imam Abu Hanifa Rahim Allah and

many others, they finished this many currents in the month of

Ramadan, 60, Quran and 40 and 30 and 20. We have all of these great

numbers. The thing you have to remember is that first and

foremost, it's their karma. It's it's a special miracle that Allah

subhanaw taala bestowed on them, that they could fulfill the rights

of the Quran, and at the same time, really read a lot of it. And

you can understand that from the Quran. You can understand that

from the story of Diodati salaam, where it's related that you

He read the song he used to read, be able to read the whole of the

Psalms, the Cebu just when he was saddling his horses, so you can

you can tell from that as well that there's a miracle aspect to

it. Right? And you can't expect that these great orlimar are

reading without thinking. The thing you have to also realize is

that once you become a professor of the Quran, you understand that

I've seen of the Quran, you could actually read faster, and just

have all of the ideas just flow by, right because you know it so

well, right? So you know, what it's relating to, you can, you

know, you can ponder over it. And then there's the miracle aspect of

it, as I mentioned, as well. So firstly, read slowly, it's about

the time that you spend with the Quran as opposed to how much you

get accomplished without any kind of thought whatsoever. However, on

a very practical note, I would like to really encourage that we

split our time like this. Let's just take an example that if we're

going to spend, just say, you know, we're going to spend one

hour with the Quran, right? Whether in Ramadan or outside of

Ramadan, we're going to spend one hour with the Quran, what you want

to do is that okay, 50% of the time, let's just say for half an

hour, what I would suggest you do is that you read the Quran slowly,

calmly, just as reading just to accomplish a certain amount that

you read because you think that's very important to do that right

because it is important to read the Quran. So you do that.

Number two, the other 25% of the time so half an hour is spent

reading 25% 15 minutes is spent memorizing so increase your

memorization. What that means is if you have memorized certain

chapters of the Quran, certain suitors of the Quran verses of the

Quran like Surah Yaseen salata Rahman so little Mocha, whatever

it may be, you've memorized it before. Now you kind of don't have

it fully memorized or you've forgotten it. Use this time to

memorize now remember, if I say that I want to memorize the baraka

Idibia, the Hillman Surah Mulk because I forgotten it, I want to

memorize it afresh. If I had to memorize it, you're gonna have to

repeat it over and over again. So USA. Today, our calorie via the

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hill Moocow, who are the coalition in Kadota Baraka, Libya, the hill

Morocco, who are the coalition in Kadir so you read over and over

again, remember, you're still getting 10 times, you're still

getting reward for every letter 10 times, right. So turbo raka VBA,

you get you're getting 10 rewards, as you'll get the same reward as

you're just reading anything else? Yes, you're reading the same verse

over and over again, I think you're gonna get more reward, in

fact, because you're using it to commit it to memory to record it

in your heart, which is a really noble thing, because in the

Hereafter, whatever you memorize, whatever, you know, whatever you

acted upon, Inshallah, that is, will help you to ascend Jana. So

the more sources that we can have memorized in our heart, even if we

don't have the whole Quran memorized, by the end of our life,

it's only virtuous, and you're still getting the reward for

reading. In fact, when you memorize something, you'll be able

to read it a bit faster than if you had an anyway, you'd be

reading more fluidly, right, so you can still have more thought

without having to worry too much about am I reading correctly or

not. Because if you've memorized something correctly, it's like

that, you will know it. So that's 15 minutes for that, and then 15

minutes minimum to look at it of Syriana translation. So, take a

portion, right start with the sources that we really know a

solid, then read that then start to look at the Tafseer and

translation of the famous virtual sources that I mentioned are at

the scene so to look so that rakia Surah Rahman, Surah, Al calf Surah

to Sajida Surah Doohan, these are the ones that are mentioned to

have great virtue, specific virtue. So sort of a rocker to

look at the meanings of that. So when we read it, the next time

around, we will know what it's speaking about, we will know what

the secrets it holds, we will understand what the message is in

there, we will see what Allah subhanaw taala is telling us to

do, what is instructing us to do. So again, 50% of the time, read

25%, memorize, and 25%, ponder, reflect and understand the

meaning. And eventually, you will see that the benefits of this will

be much greater than just reading. Now I have to just clarify that

there are people who go around and putting down the whole of the non

Arabic speaking world by saying that if you read Quran without

understanding, it's not worthwhile at all. That's also a fallacy.

That's also a total wrong notion. Because the Quran is powerful

whether you understand it or not. However, those who have read it

without understanding they need to move a notch higher because the

beauty, the benefit, and the objective is to be able to

understand what you're reading so you know what your Lord is telling

you. There Allah mentioned that reading Quran is superior than

doing vicar of Allah subhanaw taala because the Quran is the

words of ALLAH, there's no comparison to it. In fact, it is

considered the most and greatest form of obedience to Allah

subhanaw taala you might think was solid is yes Salat is but solid

has a major aspect of Quran recitation in there as well. So

in terms of the optional worships that we have read in the Quran is

very powerful. And there's a hadith which mentions that whoever

has no time to

Make dua to me to ask me for his needs or to remember me in any

other way because he's so engrossed in reading the Quran, I

will give him the best that that is given to the people who are so

all the best dollars that are made in the world. Allah will give it

to the one who is so engrossed in the Quran because he has no time

for anything else. So based on that again please the division of

the Quran really let's look at it properly and let's really like

make our Ramadan and outside of Ramadan because will when you

understand what you're reading you're going to be more encouraged

to to to read it and to to benefit from it and it's going to go even

beyond Ramadan as well. It shouldn't just be in Ramadan it

should be outside of Ramadan as well. May Allah give you an eye

and everybody told me to do this. Welcome to that run. I know hamdu

Lillahi Rabbil Alameen