Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to Understand the Qur’an The Six Main Themes
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
Salatu was Salam ala UL Mursaleen. While early he was soft behavior,
Baraka was seldom at the Sleeman. Kofi are on Isla yo Medina Amma
Barrett, Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the Quran a fella yet that
Brunel Quran.
Since the topic for today's discussion is the Quran, and
that's what we've been speaking about, and how to bring it more
into our lives and how to interact with the Quran, how to make it a
reality in our lives. I just want to give a few simple pointers
about how to approach the Quran. And the reason why I mentioned
this is that the Quran is magnificent. The Quran and its
content are timeless. They are the divine Word of Allah subhanaw
taala that is revealed to mankind and you can understand if it's the
divine Word of Allah, which is timeless, eternal, and
everlasting. It's going to contain some really magnificent and great,
extraordinary themes, some very profound ideas. And sometimes a
person just just does not know where to start, doesn't know how
to interpret how to make sense of the various different things, the
style of the Quran is very unique, it's very different to any other
composition, piece of writing, whether that be prose or poetry,
it's totally unique. That's why you've had people who sometimes
get confused when they read the Quran, because they're expecting a
certain style that is recognized or conventional, when they don't
find that they get mixed up. So that's why recently in Madina
Munawwara, I met with a scholar, and he suggested that
this is what people are, this is the dilemma that people are in,
that they just don't know sometimes where to start. And they
just feel it, it's too mighty, to to don't it's like a huge
mountain, where do we even start from to climb this, and to immerse
ourselves into, like, what was mighty ocean, what's the best
place to start with? Now, I would generally say that the best place
to start with, you know, and I'm talking beyond just doing Huttons
of the Quran by reading them, right, which is great. But to
really get the Quran in our lives more and have that private,
personal interaction that Allah subhanaw taala engage us
individually, then you need to start approaching it from its
meaning. So let's just say somebody takes a translation, or
commentary short or long, then I would assume that most people
would start from like Surah Al Fatiha, because that's something
that everybody knows and generally certified, there is quite a simple
Surah to understand because they only has really three major themes
in there. I mean, of course, it has many more themes if you really
want to open it up. But in terms of just the overarching themes,
the first part is praise of Allah subhanho wa Taala in terms of
various issues, then it goes into a declaration that only you do we
worship and only you do we seek assistance from and then it ends
with a long dua of Allah guide us guide us the right, provide
providers guidance, then I think the next thing generally what
people should do is take the last 10 2015 Surah of the Quran that
they would generally read in their Salah and try to understand them,
then they can take the main sources of the Quran, right like
Surah, Yaseen, and Surah Rahman, Surah, Waka, su Surah, to Doohan
Surah, to gaff, and so on. And there are obviously books and
lectures on each of these as well. However, for a person who's gonna
then read the Quran, and try to make some sense of it, this is the
main point of today's discussion is that you can categorize the
Quran into six major themes. So when you start reading the Quran
from anywhere, if you know these themes, they will help you to
categorize and compartmentalize and basically a lot each of the
discussions that you see into one of these categories, and the
benefit of that is then you know, what the purpose and the message
of that because ultimately, the book of Allah is for the guidance
of man, it's for the guidance of people. It's our manual of life.
That's what it's all about. And it's not such a daunting task.
Once you begin to be honest, it's not such a daunting task. A lot of
us think just because we're so used to tuxedos and so on, right,
we're so used to listening to other people comment that we think
we can not interact with it directly. In fact, even in some
quarters, it's almost like it may even be discouraged maybe, right
because saying that you may misunderstand something. Now, I
think misunderstanding something generally would come from a, a
confused mind. A person who's looking for radical views or to
looking for deviances Allah says himself in the Quran cannubi him
Zaven for it to be Runa Mata Shah. I mean, if they've all fitness,
you have the hot wheel and now you don't really need to know the
translation of the Quran. So there's enough people doing that,
who absolutely not don't know a single word of Arabic. Right? They
do that through translations.
through other sources anyway. And anybody who approaches the Quran
will be humbled. Generally people with iman who approach the Quran
are genuinely humbled, and they understand what a mighty, what a
mighty piece of writing that they're dealing with, right? It's
not just a piece of writing, it's only reduced to writing for our
phones to be able to be accessible to us. Otherwise, it's the divine
Word of Allah, which is basically beyond letters and sounds, and so
on and so forth. But Allah subhanaw taala revealed this in
this special Arabic composition for us to understand and benefit
from its beauty. So the six themes of the Quran Right? Very simply,
as you start reading, one of the first themes that you're going to
encounter one of the very important themes and main themes
and they're all important, but this one is, you can set the
foundation of it, it's basically Allah subhanaw taala, Aki, the
issues, issues related to belief, making sense of the world, making
sense of our Creator and ourselves, our relationship to
him.
And basically, what is required from us what Who is Allah, and you
will see Allah subhanaw taala has interaction with this world, His
creation, his assistance, His mercy, you will see his
benevolence, his clemency, you will see his forbearance, you will
see his gratitude, you'll see how he gifts people, how He bestows
huge favors upon people. You will also see how he destroys people
you will understand His wrath, you will understand his might, his
grandeur, his greatness, his majesty, His beauty, his
compassion, his magnificence, you will see all of these things, his
benevolence and his generosity, you will see all of this in
action. And then if for the people who love Allah, for the people who
are believers, and we are all believers, we all consider
ourselves to be Mothman. We have Iman, one of the greatest ways to
understand who Allah subhanaw taala is for us, right in order to
reach a status which is mentioned in the Quran that believers should
have Allah subhanaw taala says Alladhina, Amanu Usha do have been
Lilla those people who believe that people who believe they are
most ardent in their love for Allah, their most ardent in their
love for Allah, if we find that we're lacking in that regard,
unfortunately, which many of us, you know, would feel that we're
lacking because we seem to love other things more. That's why we
give preference to other things when it comes to the crunch of
whether we should do something else or pray or pray in a certain
way or learn something. So one of the main reasons for why we don't
love Allah subhanaw taala as we ought to, is because we don't
really recognize him, there's no doubt that anything of beauty, the
more you learn about that the love will increase, because that's what
love is love is an inclination towards beauty. And Beauty means
perfection and symmetry, right. And if there is something that has
beauty, and the more you find out about it, the more you will become
inclined to it just like you want to buy a new car and somebody says
that's a good card. The more virtues you hear, the more praises
you hear the more features you hear about it or a phone or
something else, the more you become inclined towards it until
it becomes exclusively that's what you want, and everything else dims
and diminishes in your sight. Now the reason that doesn't happen
because we're not exploring and looking for Allah and who he is,
we're not trying to find out more, we just have the bit of
information that we've grown up with and maybe developed over time
or heard a few stories here and there. read a few books here and
there. Or, you know, when we were young for example, that's our
understanding of Allah. So
reading the Quran is probably one of the most effective ways of
understanding Allah through His own words in his own words.
So in Allahu Allah Iman for for as he is on Hakeem are food on
charcoal. How Rahim will do it on a foreign love it is them our
ability tobe Shadi shahidul, a cob with Toll La ilaha IL Allah, you
will start understanding Allah subhanaw taala the way he wants to
describe himself, the way he wants to explain his interaction, the
way the way he wants to demonstrate his work in this
world, the divine order, you will understand from there that divine
order Allah's system and the divine order in the universe, in
societies, in history, among people, how He rewards how he
punishes how he encourages what he discourages all of these things I
mentioned and that's the first theme in the Quran. Allah subhanho
wa taala. The second theme in the Quran has to be none other than
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and that part is amazing,
as well. And what that shows you is that obviously
That includes Allah, because it's Allah who's praising the Prophet
salallahu Salam, it's Allah who's mentioning various different
incidents interactions with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam. For example, Allah subhanaw taala is reassuring him,
Allah subhanaw taala sometimes admonishes him, for example, in
one place, Allah subhanaw taala says, like a bell here enough sec,
Allah Kulu Momineen la like a bell here enough sec, Allah Kulu
mumineen showing the great are the desire that the prophets Allah,
some had, for people that concern he had the worry that he had the
focus he had
for them to become to be saved, basically. And Allah subhanaw
taala looks at him and expresses His mercy for him with this
beautiful word saying, maybe you're going to destroy yourself,
you're going to consume yourself
because of the fact that they don't believe
he tells him to. He tells him to to be satisfied. He tells him that
you will not be abandoned. He expresses his love to him. He
hardly ever addresses him accepting uh, you know, very
seldom does he address him even with the word Mohammed he has
numerous other characteristics sallallahu alayhi wasallam Yeah,
you have Muslim male. Yeah, you helped with death here. Bill Mina
rufen Rahim toes says that the prophets Allah wa salam with the
believers was extremely compassionate. And he was merciful
to them gives all of these Baja ya seen there's numerous words,
numerous words used to speak about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
For example, there's a number of places where he even admonishes
him.
For example, when after the Battle of better when you had numerous
captives, from the Quraysh, that had been captured and taken into
imprisoned, now what to do with them. This was one of the first
major battles as such, what to do with these prisoners of war so the
prophets Allah some asked for
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he asked for views about
this worker the alarm said, Take a ransom let them go. The Amara. The
Allah one said they should be, they should be finished this this
is what they used to do with the prisoners of war anyway. Right?
And that that will send a message. Now the prophets of Allah is and
being his very compassionate self. He said, Okay, we'll go with that
view, the Compassionate view. In this context, he thought was to
just let them go, make it make them pay ransom and so on. And
that's not what Allah subhanaw taala had wanted. But this shows
the human interaction, the human aspect of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, he is divinely guided by he's allowed to make
these kinds of alternative decisions first, then Allah
subhanaw taala tells him No, that's not the right thing to do.
This was the better thing to do. So Allah subhanaw taala says in in
Allah subhanho wa taala, says Walla Walla, Kitab, Amin, Allah He
subaqua, the most second FEMA has to Martha when I either when we
had it not been
for a decree that had already passed like something written that
this ummah will continue. This is just to show how the decision
should have been the other one, and how this was not the decision
Allah wanted. And he said that had it not been for that, that this
Dean should continue and the mission should continue, the
punishment
would have would have overcome you and according to what some of the
tradition you mentioned that the punishment had come to the trees
very close by.
But then in numerous places after Allah subhanho wa Taala says
things like that to him. Allah says,
if Allahu Allah has forgiven you, so you learn about this
relationship between the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam and Allah
subhanaw taala and his immense love for him.
In another place Allah says hello hola and submit Nerja look at kit
the Turkana la him che and collibra is in Ladakh naka de fall
higher the wonderful mammoth So, Mala digital Ekaterina no zero
that had, we know strengthened you and made you firm that maybe you
could have inclined towards them even slightly out of obviously
love for the Dean because they they used to come the corporation
say we'll believe but you know only this much or if you do this
much and make a slight difference and so on just praise our idols or
praise our so and so. And Allah subhanaw taala shows his jalala at
this point and he's speaking to the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
so where does that leave us? The most beloved to him. Right to such
a degree that the poet has said, that you the Prophet salallahu
Salam, it is as if you have been created as you have wished. And
Nikka Holika Kamata Shah, but Allah subhanaw taala loved him so
much. But that shows Allah subhanho wa Taala there. Somebody
contacted me recently and I've had this eye
I've heard this issue before as well that they're finding they're
having trouble reciting Abba Soweto Allah because I remember he
should love reading the surah because it has a beautiful
message. It has a wonderful, lyrical quality in it that really
just comes into this really enters the heart very easily. However, it
begins with a discussion about an incident in which the focus on
Lori's Salam had this really special meeting he was having with
some of the leaders of the Kurdish with this view that maybe they
will learn and they will understand and maybe they will
come to Islam and to the, to the belief in Allah. That was his
motivation. And as he's having this meeting with some of these
leaders of the Quraysh come comes in one of the believers who's
blind Abdullah ignore Abdullah IGNOU
Maktoum probably Allah when he comes in and the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam doesn't focus on him.
Because he's engrossed with these people and Allah subhanaw taala
reveals of us I Bursa, what Allah and Jaya who aren't ma wama? You
Rica, la isla, who is Zika? Oh, yeah, that girl, but then Pharaoh
who vichara that the face frowned
and turned away that a blind person had come to him? How do you
know that maybe he will find purification, meaning your
discussion with with him would have been effective. So this is a
bit of an admission to the Prophet salallahu Salam in great love.
Now, I remember I used to read and I think it was at that time and
somebody said that, why'd you read that because that so and so
somebody learned person has said that you shouldn't read this
because it's admonition of the Prophet sallallahu sallam.
And then recently, one of my students she contact you sit down,
I'm having trouble reading this surah she was actually part of our
Quran language style and structure and Quran understanding and tafsir
course. So I'm having trouble
reading this because it reminds me of the Prophet saw some being told
off essentially, in other words, so I'm finding that hard.
So what comes to mind in that is, look, Allah subhanaw taala loves
the Prophet saw some more than any one of us can ever do. So that's
clear, he kept the surah there, had it been something to have put
the Prophet sallallahu Sallam down as such, it would never have
continued. In fact, it's one of the signs that the Quran is true,
that the prophets also did not write it. Otherwise, he would
never have written something. So you know, that somebody will make
a class as negative about himself, but actually shows the truth of
the revelation that is there and he proclaimed it as it was. My
understanding of this is that don't focus on the purpose
awesome, because remember, in any incident pretty much in any
incident, in many incidents, you can actually look at it in many
different ways. So why look at it negatively. Why allow the shaytaan
to just put in your heart that hey, Allah is taking the Brazil
autism often think of it like that in its in a kind of a negative
sense. And let that then stop you from reciting a part of the Quran.
But every part of the Quran is there and according to our Aqeedah
books, like immeasurable hangovers and frequent Akbar, it says that
every word in the Quran and ayah in the Quran is equal in it being
the word of Allah, even if it's talking about further on, even if
it's talking about the shaytaan and Elise,
even if it's quoting the words of bliss, The Omen, NIA Nahum, well,
moron no further you bet tikkun
olam
while a moron no follow up, you don't the Hulk Allah. These are
words of iblees that have been related in the Quran. But in terms
of the wording, it is all Quran and that is equal in words, in
terms of being the word of Allah, that is equal to Allahu La ilaha
illa will how you look the human AYATUL kursi or almanor rasuluh
Bhima Anzhi La La Hema Robbie will be known, or Al hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil aalameen. However, in terms of content, obviously, there's a
difference.
Right, obviously, in terms of contents, there's a difference,
the power of the message of AYATUL kursi, because of the subject
matter is clearly going to be different and superior to
something that talks about the sheath binding the contents type,
but they're all for our guidance.
So nobody should have a problem with reciting anything, any part
of the Quran, right in a consistent kind of cohesive way.
So, what I said was simple that stop focusing on that, but focus
on the aspect of how Allah subhanho wa Taala shows so much
compassion, and teaches us in general to the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam of how to take care of people and not to ignore people,
especially people who come with a polyp. And with sincerity,
immediately the other side of it this diminishes in our mind that
no longer does that remain at the forefront. Hey, this is an ad
money
Vision, rather see it as a guidance as a love for the weak,
the disabled. And suddenly you will have no problem with that
there's a lot of things in the world is a negative way of looking
at it and debilitating yourself or there's a positive way of looking
at something and basically strengthen yourself and doing
what's right. So focus on the practical aspect of it, right, the
message that's coming through, right, the admission was a
temporary idea that happened at the time, and that was done and
dealt with. The verses are there for a timeless message, which is
that you need to focus on these people. That's why today, in one
of our measures in one of our gatherings, there's a Ay, ay
Molana, who is actually blind, Mashallah. And when he comes in, I
tried to make sure that he is welcome. Right? You have to go out
of your way, because blind people need some support, generally
speaking, right? They just don't have the eyes to be able to do
what the rest of us can do. So that's why just out of difference
for this verse, that's the focus of these things. So that was the
we can go on about each one of these topics, to be honest, right?
It's worth a book on it's on each one of these topics. But that's
the second theme of the Quran, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam and his
Syrah. The third, the third topic of the Quran, the main as you go
to read, you will see that it is the life stories and interactions
and the missions of the other prophets. So besides the books are
some of the other prophets. So you, you speak about Adam Alayhis
Salam, and thus his two sons they see begat new holiday Salaam and
his mission, his message and and the ark and then the destruction
of the people including his own son, then you have Luca alayhis,
salam, you have Musa alayhis salam, you have numerous stories
about Musa Assam use of at least some of the interaction that we
can benefit from because you see people are the same, right at the
end of the day in terms of human beings, in terms of having love or
affection or hatred, in terms of ostentation, in terms of greed in
terms of miserliness, stinginess, generosity, humans have been
pretty much like the only difference between us and people
100 years ago, or 1000 years ago, or 10,000 years ago, the
difference pretty much is just basically, the gadgets that we
deal with, we have a lot more gadgets, we have some more
sciences to understand things, but in terms of personal traits, were
all the same. People felt greed, people felt hatred, people felt
anger. And that's why you see that in the children of the first man,
Adam Ali, Salaam hobbylink Kaabil, you see anger in that story you
see love in that story. You see, you see jealousy in that story,
you see remorse in that story. And these are traits that humans have
today, that's not going to change. Nobody can say today, humans have
a new trait. They've just developed a new trait that's been
downloaded, upgraded. Right, a new chip has been inserted, that
there's a new trait that was never found before.
We it's just, we're gonna react to things differently. Allah has
created all of us with a bit of each of these traits, and we have
to moderate them. So the beauty is that when you read the stories of
the prophets, you get an understanding of how the wealthy
and the influential class reacted to the message of the prophets in
their time. And you see the same thing happening today. They felt
like the religion was a club for the poor and the downtrodden. And
thus, you see, the followers of I think it's know how they said, Oh,
it says,
A not Minoo look at what tabernacle or the loon should we
believe in you when it's the lowly class, the downtrodden class that
has followed you. Like it's not for us, it's for a different group
of people. So this is a message for the the wealthy and the
influential, that don't be misguided. Don't be deluded, don't
be overly confident, and comfortable in what Allah has
given you of the riches of this world, so that you ignore the
truth and you ignore the original purpose of this life and where
you're going to go to and then talks to the poor and the needy
and the oppressed and the subjugated that your end is going
to be good because without Cuba to limit talking.
Right, the goodly end is going to be for people who have fear of
Allah subhanaw taala. So you've got to weigh out, even though you
have no physical way out. So there's huge interactions you see
about the in the Quran, that Allah subhanaw taala has, between the
prophets and the people and numerous other incidents related
to that, that we can we can benefit from. But as you read, so
as you read the Quran,
you will start seeing these themes, you will be able to
categorize you will be able to understand, okay, this is from
this perspective, and this is the benefit of that. So that's three
themes. So we have so far, which is basically the Allah subhanaw
taala then the Prophet sallallahu Salman is
zero, then the other prophets, then you move on to the akhira.
That's another major theme in the Quran, or related to the Agora
because that is what we are here for this world is a temporary
world in preparation for the Hereafter. And Allah wants to
drive that message home. Because this Quran is a manual for our
life. And Allah subhanho wa Taala is I have created, He did not
leave us without a manual, he did not send a product without the
manual. Unfortunately, we just ignore whenever we get a washing
machine or whatever we start using it. I remember once I got a
washing machine, and we've had a few washing machines before this
was a, you know, the other one had broken, we got the new one. And we
took off all of the packaging, and there's a few other bolts and
screws. And we took that off. There was some other things at the
back, which I didn't really bother with. And I didn't really In fact,
I had somebody with me who does plumbing all the time. And he
didn't even realize this. And we fix the machine and he started
working. But every now and then it would make a banging sounds like
the drum was banging onto something. So what happened is,
then we read the book, the manual, and we found that at the back,
there are these, there are these holding screws that hold the drum
together. So while we take out the screws, I think the there's a
plastic piece of four plastic pieces, if I remember correctly,
that had not been taken out about and they had to be removed
according to the manual, we thought that there's a hole behind
it. So there's no real reason to take them out. But that is what
the drum was banging against. Now, this shows that if you don't read
manuals correctly, you sometimes run into trouble, even though you
think you're experienced. We think we're experienced with life. So we
don't think we need to know. So after whatever we've studied when
we're young, when our parents sent us to a mother or a mother or a
teacher to study our deen after that we at that time we were
immature. So we didn't really even have control of how much we're
learning or it wasn't a guided study of us. It was a guided study
of somebody of the other man who told us what to study. And then
after that we may have developed interest in certain things, or we
may have developed problems with certain things but we then haven't
done a strategic study of those issues. Somebody's having a
problem with weakness in some areas or
over desire in certain areas or anger issues. They've never gone
back to the Quran sunnah to look for answers. They've just tried to
deal with the bit of working knowledge that they've had. So
the fourth theme is the hereafter which is very powerful. Now when
you look at the this fourth theme, there is just so much in there.
And it talks about paradise. It talks about hellfire, it talks
about the good people it talks about the for example, you look at
social worker, and in there you're going you're going to have this
huge discussion about what this group of righteous people are
going to get a Serbia cool, Serbia cool, Ecole Makara Boone Fijian
nothing nyeem Allah serie muda Karbolyn You're too funny him and
so on and so forth. Then you look in certain insaan it's the same
thing as big discussion of,
of Paradise, and Hawaii, Ramin fit.in, Kedah Ruha, Taka de la
where you scone fer Kitson camisa xinja Biela I in and via to some
Marcel sebelah where to for any him Willdan Mohalla, Dune, and so
on and so forth, every time that and then of course there are the
discussions of hellfire depiction of hellfire, the ending of bad
people, the ending of bad actions, the volume of those people who
oppress what they end up as the people who are the losers. So all
of that drives the point home for us that we don't want to be like
that. We want to be the good people. We want to be the people
with taqwa in the Latina Manuel Latina taco FOCA whom Yeoman
Qiyamah right we don't want to be dialect like the Muna 15 who will
say that the Runa Nakata, disminuir recom. And then I
believe, as we say, a killer Giroux or a comb filter mizunara
For Dori Verbena home be sued in lieu Bob. So there's a huge
interaction that it can't it can't not affect us. That's the hero but
yeah, one thing that you will see when you start reading the Quran,
right one thing you will definitely see when you start
reading the Quran that anytime there's a discussion of hellfire
or condemnation, or the punishment, it is never just that
there will always be Allah subhanaw taala showing away out
right, there is always a place where Allah subhanahu wa taala
will show away out and you say but ALLAH is forgiving, but Allah
subhanho wa Taala will bless those who seek forgiveness in the medina
Allah subhanaw taala says, Those people who who have done wrong,
and then after that they've made Toba then for them is this and so
on. And so there's just numerous verses like that always gives you
a way out. There's never a place where he mentions Hellfire or
anything like that and just makes it just pure condemnation. And you
will start seeing this so that may that helps. Then the fifth
the
theme of the Quran is basically the Messiah il than the fic.
The the
GM and the laws. So you have for example, Hakim Salah and Zakka la
Takara was Zina la Takara. Will mallia team
don't go close to the wealth of the orphans in lability, here
accent tells you how to do certain things. And
ways I do when I need my heat cold who are other factors it only sort
of in my heads, right, and about fasting for example. Well Kulu was
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the ethical. So there's numerous laws in the Quran, where we'll
worry the near Santa.
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foods and so on. While Masana tahmina Nisa illa ma Melaka a man
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contextualize it, for example, the chapter in the Quran, which not
not every verse is a is a verse about hokum, and law and commands.
Only some are like, you know, in the integral, but that's a major
theme of the Quran. And if you look, there's a surah cultura to
Talaq and in surah to talk the laws of divorce I mentioned,
although an equal, if not more laws of divorce are actually
mentioned in Surah Al Baqarah. And here it's more about it the and so
on about the waiting period. But along with those verses of Talaq
and Ada, one of the biggest themes in that surah is Taqwa. And what I
find most amazing is that when you get married, the Sunnah hotbar. To
recite is the hotbar of related to the verses of Taqwa three verses
of Taqwa. And also when there's a divorce issue that woman yet
tequila years zoco mean hydrolite. So, when we get tequila for her
husband, numerous verses of taqwa, along with divorce, and Ada, if
you if any woman who's divorced, we get so many women who get
divorced, and they become depressed, if they were to read
this surah of the Quran, there's so much in there to give them
strength, and to help them move on.
This is what we're missing, essentially, this is really, can
you imagine the Quran is our manual, and the majority of us
don't have access to it. We're not saying go and force yourself to
learn Arabic, if you could, that's wonderful, you will appreciate the
Quran in its original language and lyric. And that would be even
better, but at least start interacting with the Quran to make
it part of our life. That's the fifth theme. And the last theme, I
mean, in this broad idea of themes. Of course, there are many
other ideas in the Quran, but most of them, if not all of them can
actually be brought down to these six themes. So the last theme then
is a HELOC and character, how would you basically round it all
off? How do you interact with these various things and interact
with one another? What is the hook Allah? What are the o'clock of
Allah that He wants us to engage in imbibe within one of ourselves
imbibed within ourselves? So that's where you see a huge amount
of understanding of how we need to weigh the hardtop Umoja, he Luna
cardhu, Salama, that when the ignorant
confront them, they basically deal with it
beautifully, they deal with it with soundness where they don't
get drawn into a useless engagement and argument. That's
just a simple idea of the Quran telling us the HELOC that we need
to have. Then it tells us that a HELOC of the prophets and how they
dealt with people, right, and other great people for example,
the like in sort of the scene the messages that were sent, then the
people who then the call originally minim, in early frown,
yet to Imana, who attacked Cthulhu and Orajel and Kula Robbie Allah
and His mission. So numerous malarkey character points conduct
points of how a believer should it what a believer should embody
praising the Prophet sallallahu Sallam for his high character
whitener colada who looking after him and
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada talks about the Prophet sallallahu some being
on the highest paradigm, right? And and so on and so forth. So
those are the six themes of the Quran and in sha Allah. If you
just start recite reading even the smallest tourists you will start
being able to put this into these themes. So again, the themes are
Allah. His Messenger, Salah Salman is Sierra
The prophets and their interactions, their mission.
Number four was the hereafter everything read paradise hellfire
and so on and so forth. God's pleasure and so on. Number five
with the government, the rulings and the Islamic law essentially,
and number six is going back to a HELOC and character and how to
change oneself in that regard. It's an absolute complete regimen
for a perfect human being a perfect human being is a perfect
Mortman that's essentially what it is a perfect human being is a
perfect movement and the Quran has all the food and guidance and
therefore thought for us. We ask Allah subhanaw taala to allow us
to benefit from this and make the Quran part of it and allow it to
benefit us and inspire us and remove our troubles and
difficulties and make it the
Make It basically the light of our eyes as the Hadith as the doer of
the box. Awesome says that Allah make it the Nura upside in Jilla
and we have a Hulu Mina make it the removal of our sadnesses and
our concerns from our hearts. And again, don't let it be don't make
a thing that it's too big of a task. I've never seen others I've
never seen I've never looked at the Quran like that grab a copy of
the Quran. Right? And there's some good translations out there.
Right. Progress. Abdul Halim is good mufti, Turkeys of mine is one
is decent, there's a number of others as well. Grab a
translation, grab a commentary, like the medieval Quran of serious
money or others and start reading, even if it's just a bit and you
will be in sha Allah, you will be enlightened. So we ask Allah for
tofi qualquer that Rana and Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen