Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to Get the Best out of Your Qur’an Recitation
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So when you do start, you're reflecting on a page, mark out the
verses that really strike you, there'll be some verses that will
just strike you more than others because they're more relevant to
you, or they just ring true for something, mark them out, mark the
translation, and then repeat them when you need SubhanAllah. You
know, I think as human beings we need moments of reflection. So
when we just, especially I will say when you had a really good
time, then it's a time to reflect just to kind of Earth us again,
just to ground us again. Sometimes some people leave read verses of
the Quran, some people lead read or listen to certain machines or
say something poetry is very, very profound. And but even the Quran
has multiple verses like this that can help to ground us. So pick
your verses that just help you that just help you. Whatever that
verses and you will make your selection as you go along. As you
read, you will make your own selection that are relevant to us.
Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu
salam ala Sayidina Muhammad wider early he or Safi or Baraka was
seldom at the Sleeman Kathira on Eli. Oh, me, Dean.
I'm bad.
So what we'll do is we'll continue with the etiquettes. Right, so
we've done five air ticket, we'll continue with the rest of the
etiquettes of reading the Quran, one to get the best out of our
recitation now, all of the ones we've just covered, they're to do
with their to do with the state to be in the most optimal state and
the permissible states. Now what we're going to discuss is how to
get the best out of our reading. One should seek protection in
Allah before reciting. And most people do we say our villa homina,
shaytaan the regime why do we do that we don't want shaytaan to
misrepresent anything for us to be missed. Understanding something,
we can still misunderstand, but at least it's not from the shaytaan
then it's just to our in
inadequate knowledge, if we're if we're trying to understand and we
get it wrong. So Allah subhanho wa Taala says in Surah, two Nahal for
either Cara del Quran Fs there is bIllahi min a shape or a new
regime, when you recite the Quran, seek Allah's protection from the
outcast Satan. And we do that by Allah bIllahi min ash shaytaan the
regime or you can do any of those are with the Billa his semi
illegally Mina shaytani regime or Altavilla him in a shaytani
regime, any kind of
seeking refuge is fine. reciting this Dorado is is not necessary.
Like if you started reading without that it'd be fine, but
it's just not the other to do. So we want to seek protection from
the shaytaan before we do this, okay, number seven.
When you recite, we should recite with reflection and pondering.
Now, the author is an Egyptian, he is expected he's probably writing
for Arabs who understand what they're reading, or they better
understand what they're reading, or they should.
What about the rest of us who don't understand what we're
reading? Well, we do the best that we can. But this is what he says
he says that you should recite with reflection and pondering. I
guarantee you even us there's words that we can ponder over. If
you're not reading with a translation, there'll be certain
words that will allow us to ponder
but this is what I'm encouraging. Mashallah, this Ramadan, you're
reading, right? May Allah subhanho wa taala, except our Quran
Hutton's that we do. But I'm going to suggest that at least once a
day, do one page a day start off, start off with just one page a day
of reflection. Meaning in all of your reading that you're doing
before after fajr after the after your work.
After Arthur McGraw whenever you're reading, you take a
translation. And you do reflection of at least one page you can get
translations everywhere now online everywhere, whichever translation
you want, at least reflect on one page, just read it with thought.
Even if you don't understand Arabic, read the translation, you
will see an improvement and an enhancement and an increase
multitudes in sha Allah in and that's the only way you can learn
about Allah through the Quran, because that's Allah speaking he
tells us so much about himself. So start reading with meaning one
page at a start off with that and then you'll see that you can
you'll just want to increase you will want to read the whole Quran,
Quran and you'll be wondering, like, why didn't I do this for the
last 50 years?
The last 30 years last 20 years.
You just start doing that.
You got to translation?
Yeah. Okay.
So one should recite with reflection and pondering, with
deliberation and devotion,
the purpose of it until the heart becomes soft
As the sole becomes humbled
and one becomes overwhelmed with all of Allah, that will happen
when you read when you start understanding Allah directly. All
of this will happen. You can't stay arrogant if you start reading
the Quran with this kind of focus.
It's very powerful.
Until one becomes overwhelmed with the or the reverential fear, power
control majesty, authority might and the strength of Allah will
discover all of these things. This will eventually then reflect in
one's limbs and character. If you want a good, good, good character,
then read Quran that way. He says that deep reflection is the main
objective and the most important goal of reciting the Quran. By it,
the soul finds solace and the heart is illuminated. That's why
Allah subhanho wa Taala in Surah Nisa, verse 82, says, fella that
Barone will or
will they not? Then reflect on the Quran?
You need any more proof any more encouragement? Allah is saying,
will they not reflect on the Quran? Not just the way it looks,
and it's published very well this edition, and it looks beautiful,
and the pages are so nice, but the wording Subhanallah
another verse in Surah, Saad 29 Gita Boone,
who Eli UK mobile, I couldn't leave the Blue Yeti. Were the
letter that girl will.
This is a blessed scripture, which We have sent down to you so that
people may ponder on its verses. People may ponder on his verses,
and those with understanding take heat.
Well, one of the great Egyptian scholars, his name was Ibrahim Al
house, he said that the cure of the heart lies in five things
reciting the Quran with deep reflection
curing the heart, right if you want to cure the heart, I think
this might work ideologically as well, to a certain degree he's
talking about spiritually, but from a cardiological perspective,
let's see if this works right. Number one
reciting the Quran with deep reflection. I would say that this
is cardiological as well because the Quran is a Shiva we given you
a Shiva. Okay, number one, number two, the emptiness of the stomach.
That's definitely good for the heart.
Not starving yourself to death but emptiness of the stomach means not
eating too much
standing for the night prayer
I don't know what the doctors would say about that. But standing
for the night prayer definitely good for the spiritual heart
though right? supplication before dawn good for medically as well
because doors right supplication with before dawn, this is so time
and we've got a good opportunity in Ramadan. All right, because
you're waking up a soul. Don't let a day pass of Ramadan. If you
haven't done it already. From tonight, that you don't do the 100
It's easy to do to the gods while you wake up to eat to Ricketts and
do some some DUA and if you can pull these next 20 Something days
with that inshallah Allah will open up the door for tahajjud for
the rest of the year. I know it's difficult usually but now in
Ramadan. It's easy because people wake up for school anyway. May
Allah make that easy for us.
Now look at this, he says it is also praiseworthy to repeat any
single verse that one wishes to so when you're reading an A verse
just overwhelms you and there's some verse
that just kept captures you captivates you. Well go reread it
over and over again. Absolutely fine. Nothing wrong with that.
With the intention of reflecting on its meaning, and pondering its
significance. Once the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
continuously repeated a single verse in his prayer until the
morning
what was that?
To the boy whom for in Whom are you Burdock? What you thought of
it love him for in NACA, tell Azeez will hacky for his Alma
Subhan Allah for his OMA not for himself. This was for the OMA. And
if you punish them, they are Your servants. So you can punish them
if you want to. But if you forgive them, you are the Almighty, the
wise, meaning you could have punished them. You're not in a
state of helplessness that you can't punish them. So you're
you're not punishing them. You can you're the Almighty, so you can
definitely punish them if you want to, but you choose not to. It's a
subtle way of pleading with Allah not to. That's what the person
read the whole night.
Allah sent His abundant blessings in our messenger Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi salam is reported
From another Sahabi Tommy macdaddy Radi Allahu Anhu that he
continuously repeated the following verse until the morning
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them in the in the same way as those who believe and do righteous
deeds that they will be alike in their living in the dying and
they're dying how badly do they judge the people who do good deeds
they will be in a special state may Allah make us of them
say they have no job Adriana the tabby He repeated the following
verse in his prayer 20 or so times what the WHO young woman towards
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well whom law you're on struggle Baqarah verse 281, beware of a day
when you will be returned to Allah, every soul will be paid in
full for what it has earned. And no one will be wronged 20
something times he recited this,
you can only do this. So when you do start, you're reflecting on a
page, mark out the verses that really strike you there'll be some
verses that will just strike you more than others because they're
more relevant to you, or they just ring true for something, mark them
out, mark the translation, and then repeat them when you need
Subhanallah you know, I think as human beings we need moments of
reflection. So when we just especially I will say when you had
a really good time, then it's a time to reflect just to kind of
Earth us again, just to ground us again. Sometimes some people leave
read verses of the Quran, some people leave read or listen to
certain machines or say something poetry is very, very profound. And
but even the Quran has multiple verses like this that can help to
ground us. So pick your verses that just help you that just help
you, whatever that verses and you will make your selection as you go
along. As you read, you will make your own selection that are
relevant to us.
So Hasson bacillary Rahmatullahi Ali,
he continuously repeated the following verse in prayer, what
you would do near metal Allah healer to sue her, he must just I
mean, I can just imagine what it means. If you try to count Allah's
favours and blessings on you, you will not be able to calculate
them. I can just imagine that he was there thinking, this blessing,
that blessing, that blessing, this blessing. And I've got this and
I've got that Allah has given me this. And Allah has given me that.
And he just kept reading this. That's exactly what Allah wants us
to do with him. These verses are relevant to us as well. Somebody
asked him about this, what are you doing? Said, I see a lesson there
in I see a lesson there in wherever my eye looks, I see a
blessing and the blessings of Allah that are not known even more
that I can't even think about right now we could spend the whole
life thinking of the blessings.
La ilaha, Illa Allah, and it's been reported that many of our
other pious predecessors, they would continuously repeat a single
verse,
any verse, whatever that is, you can do that.
It is also praiseworthy to cry while reciting the Quran. It is a
characteristic of the knowers of the and the emblem of the
righteous servants of Allah.
Why is it a sign for the nose of Allah that they cry? Because they
know Allah more than anybody else? Well, they know Allah Well, or
sufficiently. So when you know Allah, then when you know someone
enough, then you can really understand the secrets and
subtleties of what they're saying, when you know, somebody will.
Sometimes people talk in various languages, they say certain
things, not in a full word manner. But if you've worked with people
for a long time, you know somebody very well, when they say something
in a particular tone, or certain words, you know what they're
talking about. You get to know Allah like that, then you can much
more benefit from the verses of the Quran. And then after that,
you're just frightened that you get it wrong. Or you're just
awestruck. I don't want Allah subhanaw taala to see me in a
place that
I shouldn't be, or to be thinking in a way that I shouldn't be
thinking. So it's just this consciousness. This Taqwa that
appears, may Allah give us May Allah give us the trophy for that.
Imam has early he quotes him because earlier he says it is
praiseworthy to cry when reciting the Quran. The way to do this is
to bring the heart how do you cry when reading the Quran? Well,
you're going to have to
I mean, if you're the only time we see usually people cry is if
there's a reader who has a tone, a melody that is a crying melody
because music has an is one of the most powerful forces in the world.
Music is one of the most
powerful forces in the world.
When I mean by music, I don't mean just instruments instruments are
very powerful, but also singing the voice melody, according to a
certain rhythm. Certain melodies can put you to sleep, certain
melodies can wake you up. Certain melodies can make you jump up and
dance, get you excited, right? That's what music does. And
certain can make you sad, make you feel grief, make you feel sorrow,
it's in there, it's in the tone, because humans resonate with that,
and react to that. So we don't want it that it's only those
readers who do that, that make us cry, because they're reading so
wonderfully. And we don't know what we're saying, we need to move
beyond that to the actual wording. And if that then is coupled with a
reader who makes you cry, then Subhanallah, then that crying will
be amazing, be much better than the usual crying that you get from
just crying because of the voice.
And don't think it's beyond you. Believe me, try this, just one
page a day of reflection. If it's too much, I mean, you have to get
used to it, you know, and you have to kind of understand Allah so
that you can do more, absolutely, but just at least do one page a
day. Right? Take as long as you want me to cry when reading the
Quran is to develop a state of melancholy.
By pondering the threats and admitted admonitions that are in
the Quran, as well as the promises and the guarantees, you interact
with them. Thereafter, one should ponder over one's own
shortcomings. So you do this kind of reflection that Allah has given
us so much, but we have been so bad and we've not done enough. And
then you just feel that guilt and guilt helps a person cry.
I've done that a lot of times, I want to cry, you just feel guilty.
Just feel man, Allah has given me so much. I've not done enough what
a despicable human being I am. And you just break down. Arrogance
goes down the drain. That's really, really helpful.
So if one is not overcome by a state of melancholy, and crying,
as the elite are, then one should cry for not being able to cry.
Allahu Akbar, he says, If you can't cry for the right reason
that you should cry that I can't cry, so I should cry because of
that. What a bad person I am. Because that's a greater calamity.
Okay, we're just going to finish off one or two more points
quickly. Whenever one recites a verse, mentioning promise and
mercy, one should pause ponder on its meaning, find joy in what
Allah has promised. Take it as a glad tiding. See, you're gonna get
this interaction, which you don't get when you don't understand what
you're reading, right? There's just this amazing interaction. So
it's a promise. It's like, yes, that's promises for me.
sha Allah that promises for me. And then you ask Allah for
Paradise. When one recites a verse mentioning punishment.
The one should seek Allah's protection from evil, seek his
refuge from punishment, and seek should fear for themselves.
When there's a verse of forgiveness, seeking forgiveness,
when should seek forgiveness for one's sins? When there's a verse
of repentance, one should turn back to Allah. If there's a verse
talking about the flawlessness of Allah and His completeness and
perfection, you should declare Allah subhanaw taala to be perfect
and for your faults Subhan Allah. If one recites a verse of do Allah
in the Quran, robbing Allah to Zico Luban birthday of Hadith and
our habla will lead them Kurama in inter Wahab one should stop and
call on to Allah and ask him for that dua. And if when they come
across the verse in Surah Aza in Allahu Allah Iike, who you saw
Luna Island, Wii U haul Edina um and also Lulu he was selling with
a slimmer, which basically means that Allah and His angels bless
the prophet so you believe you who believe blessed him to and send
him greetings of peace or anywhere else where the Prophet Solomon has
mentioned, send Salawat on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and then of course when you have when you go past the
verses of Sajida do a search don't miss those. If you can't do it
straightaway do it later.
If you read the whole Quran and for some reason you didn't do the
from past years doing
the only one that gets cancelled is if you read the verses such
that in the Quran sorry in the salaat and then you forgot to do
it then you can't do that when afterwards but if you read it any
other time you should why should we do such the verses? And we'll
stop here for today. The reason we do such that you might be
wondering there's 14 places we do such then you we go by the marks
right a lot of people like yes to doing yes to do you know when you
see that verse, it's got something to do with such that right? So
usually what it is is that it's saying for Allah do they prostrate
so then we prostrate to show that we are doing this for Allah or it
says something like they don't prostrate when they call for
prostration they don't prostrate. We prostrate. So we're literally
and this is obligatory all the other responses to the Quran like
at least Allahu BIAC Emil Hakim in Bella those are option
You know, this one is a necessary response that when you read these
verses you have to prostrate otherwise it's just like what kind
of non Greek ungrateful people you are that you know it's talking
about frustration and you don't demonstrate them best time to
frustration is straightaway unless it's a time when you can't you
need will do for prostration right so if you can't then you do it
later but do make up for them if you haven't done them. May Allah
subhanaw taala allow us to prostrate and may Allah subhanaw
taala to make us of the frustrating ones mashallah we've
just had one under Allah
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Allah bless us. Yeah Allah we ask you for your generosity. You know
Allah, we ask you for your kindness and your mercy. This is a
month of kindness. This is a month of mercy, a month of forgiveness,
a month of blessing of Allah we ask You for all of these things to
shower us with this envelope us to drench us in Your Mercies in your
blessings. Oh Allah we know we are sinful we know we have many things
that prevent your mercy from coming to us. But Allah we know
that your generosity knows no bounds your mercy and your
forgiveness forgive us. O Allah forgive us yeah Allah forgive us.
Yeah, Allah forgive us. Allah purify us during this month this
month has started a few days have passed. Oh Allah. Days are going
fast already. Don't let this month pass and we have not received
forgiveness. We have not been exonerated from the hellfire. Oh
Allah every night you are writing people to be free of hellfire.
Make us have those put us on that list. Oh Allah we try. We try but
we keep failing. We make an effort we have a desire. That's why we're
sitting here today. But Oh Allah, we keep failing. Oh Allah grant us
the strength and fortitude to live this life with iman and with
strength. And with that we do the right thing and we pray we are
protected from the wrong things and the distractions and the
problems out there. Oh Allah. There are multiple problems
multiple issues of Allah grant has a higher than paper in a way that
we can actually worship you properly. elevate us to the Quran.
Bless us to the Quran, beautify us to the Quran. illuminate us from
the Quran make us closer to you through the Quran, O Allah, O
Allah grant us, grant us the ability to, to respect the Quran
to recite the Quran with correctness with understanding
with reflection, to interact with the Quran to be blessed by the
Quran. Oh Allah to understand your words of ALLAH to understand what
you're saying, to speak to you directly to listen to you directly
of Allah make us of those who will listen to you directly so that our
hearts will become soft, and our hearts will be prepared to enter
into your pure court of Allah do not throw us away on the Day of
Judgment. Do not turn you away from us do not refuse to look at
us Do not turn your profits on the license away from us. Oh Allah
bless us. Bless all those who are listening all those who all those
who want to who desire you, and Allah make us the way you want us
to be. And bless all of those who established these massages and
these programs and who work for for the betterment of the Muslim
community and accept us all for the service of your deen Subhan
Allah because Allah is at the IOC Fonasa anonymously, you know what?
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on there, the Islamic
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end of that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of
the most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more
confident. You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue
to live, you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have
this more sustained study as well as local law here and Salam
aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.