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