Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Introduction to ‘With the Noble Qur’an’ Shaykh Mahmoud Khalil alHussary
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Sayidina Muhammad wa ala early or Safi edge Marina Amma Baron called
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Allah subhanho wa Taala says a blessed book that we sent down
upon you
that they may contemplate his signs and those possessed of
intellect may reflect.
So we start this session today with the praise of ALLAH SubhanA
wa Tada revealed the pure unblemished book upon his most
blessed servant, and he made the Quran a code for this life and the
next life. Praise and blessings be upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
salam, the living manifestation of the Quranic teachings, and also
peace and blessings upon his family, his companions and his
followers until the last day, may Allah subhanho wa Taala include
us, among them as well.
What we understand from this life is because the Quran is given to
us by our Creator, and the creator of this entire universe and the
Nourisher that's why the most beneficial way that we've learned
is that a Muslim can spend his time his or her time in this
world, by living the Quran, by living the Quran, the Quran is to
be lived. So the best time that a person can spend in this world,
that will count in the Hereafter, that will be recognized in the
Hereafter, and that will be of value in the hereafter will be the
time that they have lived with the Quran. And
that the way you live the Quran is you you live the Quran through
reading it through reflecting over it. And then you apply the meaning
you apply the message you apply wherever Allah subhanaw taala is
said to us in every aspect of our life, including in our daily
interaction with others. So our life becomes Quran if we live
properly as the Sharia, as Islam wants us to live, that's living by
the Quran. And that's one of the most amazing achievements that
anybody can do in this world because that's what the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did, and that is what the Sahaba aspire
to do. And that's what they were successful in doing. So may Allah
subhanaw taala make us successful in doing that as well.
Now, in this regard, what I want to mention is that the Quran is a
light from the illuminator of the heavens and earth Allah who notice
similarity with Allah is the is the Light of the heavens and
earth, He is the illuminator of the heavens and the earth, any
light that we have, whether it's physical, late or late as
guidance, and what to do, and what not to do, all of that is from
Allah subhanaw taala because he is the provider of all types of
light, all of that comes from Allah subhanho wa Taala the Quran
is one of the main lights from Allah subhanaw taala. And if we
don't have that in our life, then there's that darkness that's what
it would mean. So the Quran is a light from the illuminator of the
heavens and earth. And through this, He guides us in this regard.
And the other thing is that you can you can say that the Quran is
actually a comprehensive manual for humanity, a comprehensive
Divine Manual for, for all of humanity. Now, to underscore this,
this is not something I'm claiming this is something from Allah
subhanho wa Taala is messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And
I've always been struck by this hadith. This hadith is absolutely
amazing, right? This is what the robber sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam
said in one very, very comprehensive Hadith. Now listen
to it carefully. He says, The Quran is the detail of what came
before you say, sir, gives you a history of what the relevant
points of the past. It is the news of what is to come after you. So
it has the future. And it is a judgment for what happens between
you. It's the criterion. It is the judge of what's going on today how
we live by what's right and what's wrong and who is correct and who
is not correct. It is decisive without jest. It is serious. In
the sense it is decisive. It is decisive, and it doesn't waffle
here and there. It is, without just any tyrant who abandons it,
Allah will crush this what the Prophet sallallahu sallam said,
and anyone seeking guidance from other than it, Allah will leave to
stray. If you want to go and look for guidance elsewhere Go ahead,
but then you will be left to stray. So we ask Allah subhanaw
taala protection from that. Then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said it is the firm rope of Allah. In Arabic the concept of
rope of Allah means that when you hold on to the rope of Allah,
Allah will take you into Allah will take you into his happiness
and his satisfaction. So that's the way of success that you have a
rope you're a drowning individual. And if we have a rope, then you
can you can survive. So it is the rope of Allah. It is
Why, why is admonition full of wisdom and that's the way it
teaches. That is the way that it advises. And it is the straight
path. That's what the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, then the
Rosen said it cannot be distorted by desires people might want to
distort the Quran to conform to what they claim and what falsehood
they want to propagate, but it can't be distorted by desires the
Quran has never been changed in over 1400 years, it's maintained.
Its exact same authenticity and its credibility. Nor can tongues
be in a bind over it. It is easy to read, it is easy to read and
you can't be in a bind over it. The scholars, the true scholars
never have enough of it. You can never get tired of the Quran.
There's so many there's multiple facets of the Quran.
The Quran has so many ways of studying it so many different
things for which you can look into it. There's so many things that
you can explore in the Quran, whether it's the the jurisprudence
in the Quran, whether it's the wisdoms in the Quran, whether it's
the future, the past, success, failure, the various different
themes, whether it's the style of the Quran, whether it's to
understand who Allah subhanaw taala is what he wants from us.
There's just multiple things, and literally for every year of your
life, every year of your life, every Ramadan of your life, is
what scholars used to do. They used to look at the Quran, from a
different perspective, for a different for different secrets,
for different things to be revealed to them. One scholar
literally spent the whole Ramadan in just focusing on the rhetoric
of the Quran on how beautifully it had been composed. And what was
the amazing features of that rhetoric, just an entire month of
the was spent just doing that, he must have done a lot of other
things before he decided to do that. That was one juice a day
SubhanAllah. And as you know, that we went through just trying to
explain the juice in an hour, a few years ago, which you can find
online. So that's why saying that scholars would never have enough
of it. And it does not become dull from rep repeated rested
recitation. As other things that if you read them, you get tired of
them. But the Quran because of the way it's composed by Allah
subhanaw taala in the various different stories scattered
through it, carefully placed in each of those instances that it
has been placed. And the way it keeps changing the title here and
that he the persuasion and the dissuasion when He speaks to you
directly when he tries to when he engages you, and He prohibits when
he chides, when he encourages, and so on and so forth. You can never
have enough of it and it can never become dull from repeated
recitation, and it's Marvels never end. That's what the professor
Lawson said.
Then after that, he said, It is what the jinn heard. It is what
the jinn heard, and will move to proclaim, I'll mention the exact
hadith of this Jinn of these Jin later on, but it is exactly what
the jinn heard, and they were moved to proclaim indeed, we have
heard a wonderful recitation, they just had to confess that and
declare that which guides us to the straight path, whoever speaks
according to it has spoken the truth because the Quran is just
fully truth and whoever acts on it is rewarded. So speaking is the
truth speaking from the Quran is the truth and then acting upon it
is rewarding, and whoever just judges by it will be just so
anybody who churches by what the Quran judges judges, then they
will be just because the Quran is just and whoever invites to it has
guided to the straight path. This is a Hadith that Imam telemovie
Imam during the the Great Mountain maybe has transmitted. So now what
we're gonna what we're what we've just discussed today is the
beginning of a series
of a number of short lectures on the Quran. And what we're what
we're really absolutely honored to be doing today is to be speaking,
and reading from a very, very interesting book, right? And this
is a book called Al Quran Al Karim in Arabic. It's called Al Quran,
Kareem in Arabic. You know, here you can see a you can see a
picture of it. This is a book that white thread is absolutely honored
to be publishing. It's, it is I think, our first book exclusively
on the Quran, right out of we've been we've been around for, you
know, nearly two decades, nearly two decades, or probably over two
decades actually. And this is our first book that's exclusively to
the Quran. We're very excited to be publishing this. And this is a
book called Mile Quran in Korean by this really great, one of the
greatest of the Egyptian Quran, one of the greatest of the
Egyptian theories of the last
The you can say 100 years and his name was clearly Muhammad Khalid
al Husseini, Muhammad HollyWell history, contemporary, maybe
slightly older than chef, Clary Abdul Basit, which many of you
must have heard of. And you probably have heard of it Muhammad
Khalil who said he's got this really, really powerful but very
simple way of reading with full text read. Right and a lot of
people use him to, to learn from to get the pronounciation right.
So we've published multiple books on theology, Hadith,
jurisprudence, spirituality invocations, so we're feeling
very, very fortunate that
we get to publish this book, mashallah, there's a really fine
scholar. He's still mashallah studying. He's originally from
America, but he lives in different parts of the world. And his name
is Gustavo, the new Saunders Allah bless him, Allah protect him. They
offered us this book because they had he and his daughter Cora team
had decided to translate this book mashallah, because it's a very,
very succinct book on on many of the most important aspects of the
Quran, and he offered it to us for publishing and we got really
excited and hamdulillah we've, we've published this book now, let
me tell you a bit about the author. Right. Let me tell you a
bit about the author of this book of mine Quran Kenny, which
essentially means with the Noble Quran, so the translation is with
the Noble Quran, like what do you do with the Noble Quran? Let's
spend a few moments with the Noble Quran. So in that regard, this is
who Sheikh Muhammad Khalil Hassan Sheikh Mohammed Khalil who said he
was born in 1335 Hijiri. And he died in 1401. Hijiri. Right. 1401
Hijiri. So that's about about 40. Just over 40 years ago, he died.
Right. And he was born in 1335 Hijiri. That is essentially he was
born in 1917. Right 1917 And he died in 1980. Right, so 1980 and
he is literally one of the most well known and influential
Egyptian cardies I would say that you've got a few Egyptian
candidates that are well known right by everybody. Sheikh Abdul
Basit probably is at the head of the list. Then you've got a che
Coleman showy, right, very, very famous Allah bless them all. And
then you've got Sheikh Khalid, Al Ha, sorry, among many others, and
then there's a number of more recent ones, right, who have
become very widely known by everybody, especially with to
YouTube and everything. So he is considered to be surely lucid. He
is considered to be widely acclaimed for his very accurate
and beautiful recitation of the Quran. Right? From the tender age
of four mashallah, from the tender age of four, he entered the Quran
school. And as as many people do, they go into the mclubbe Around
the age, and by eight years of age, he'd already memorized the
Quran. Now, that's an achievement. You know, not many people get to
do that. Hamdulillah he managed to do that. And at 12 He entered the
Religious Institute, a special Religious Institute and learn the
10th garat, so the 10 variant recitations that was as her
university so he studied that there. And then after that, he
went to this famous comedy masjid, right, the comedy mosque. And
that's a mosque where which was well known at that time for its
Cara and many of the chief Cora, the chief Cora is a plural of car
essentially recite as they would go they're very privileged
destination for students who sought knowledge of the recitation
of the Quran. It was under the supervision of some really eminent
scholars of the Quran at that time, such as the sheikh Mustafa
Mustafa Al Mora, which, so the sheikh who said he spent many
years there studying and then after that, ultimately acquiring
his, in those days it was called a bachelor's degree in Quranic
recitation.
Right? And then
he, you see, there's a lot of different types of Egyptian Quran,
and they have different styles. Now, I'm just going to quote to
you what one of the sheiks of Azhar, one of the Imams of Azhar
of the time, Sheikh Muhammad, shell tooth, many of you may have
heard of him, he was very famous scholar of the time. This is what
he says about Shere Khan, who said his recitation he says that she
hopefully isn't, is an excellent researcher who fears Allah in his
recitation. Now, when I when I saw that part, that's you could say is
the distinctive point about this. We're not saying that others don't
fear him, but with Shere Khan who said it, you can actually feel it
you can usually sense it that this man is reading with a certain
reverence and fear of Allah subhanaw taala. So this is what
Chef shelterwood says, he says that she hosts it is an excellent
recite of who fears Allah in his recitation, recitation and adheres
to the methodology of our pious predecessors in reciting the book
of Allah most time never deviating from it. He's not there to create
new styles and to do strange stuff or cringy stuff or you know,
Just to kind of wow the people or just to make them, you know, jump
up and down, but he really sticks to the rules but makes it
beautiful Nevertheless, you know, while using just the proper
Tajweed so he adheres to the methodology of our pious
predecessors in reciting the book of Allah never deviating from it.
His recitation fills the hearts with tranquility, peace and
calmness and opens the gates of guidance and the true faith for
his audience will leave a link to one of his recitations. I
personally love that recitation is just amazing, the way he does it
so, so wonderfully, and it just makes you feel so wonderful. So
inshallah we'll leave the link below for this right now. It says
that there's no surprise that when he came on to the radio in Egypt,
on the radio in Egypt, there was a Quran competition. So that's where
he when he first came on in 1944. And his unique recitation, It
compelled the judges to admit that his skill set surpassed the giants
of recitation at the time. Right, the likes of the famous quarter of
the time, where Sheikh Mohammed refer Sheikh Ali Muhammad Sharif
Abdul Fattah as Sherry, right. And when his voice was broadcasted for
the first time, on Egypt radio, he immediately received respect for
his unique style and application of the rules of recitation. It
says that people would come from all over Egypt to listen to him.
So we're gonna leave you a sample a very soothing recitation, I find
it very, very soothing. Right? And you can you can feel the peace
permeating every part of your body in sha Allah right.
Not only was Sheikh Rosetti, though, just the master of Quranic
recitation, but he devoted his entire life to learning and
teaching all sciences
pertaining to the Noble Quran. And thus he wrote many, many books on
the subject of the Quran as well. And they were published and the
Supreme Council of Islamic affairs actually published some of his
works and distribute them as far as I understand. He wrote more
than a particularly about the Quran he wrote more than about 11
books on the Quran, including mild Quran Quran, which is this book
that we're telling you about right now with the Noble Quran. Another
one is called a Sabinal. Yes sir V para RTL Imam, Abu Jafar. And
these are then he's got one rewire to wash our camel Karatedo Quran
Karim, Allah Cara to Lasher. So he's got multiple grams, not going
to go into all of his books. They're mainly related to the
various different recitations. And I think that suffices for us. So
alhamdulillah were able to publish this book, right? This very
refined it's a very, very good translation done by Western New
Highness Team, the dark Quran. And the beauty of this particular of
this, there's a lot of books out there about the Quran, right? I
mean, we're not the first people to publish books on the Quran,
mashallah, we're actually quite behind. But we feel very honored
to actually publish this book, right? Because La ilaha illa.
Allah the beauty of this book, right is in the office
comprehensive compilation of Quranic verses, prophetic Hadith,
and opinions of the traditional scholars on some of the main
issues, right, surrounding the Quran, like it will probably deal
with many of the main issues relating to the Quran. I mean, it
doesn't go into the intricate discussions of solo Tafseer. And
also Quran that we did about two years ago, you can find those
lectures online, right? But this is more about the Quran in
general, right, just how any normal person would be able to
just much better value the Quran, understand its significance and
learn its etiquette. So he get he brings together all the verses the
Hadith and opinions of the traditional scholars on this,
which is very, very illuminating. In 10 chapters. The book has 10
chapters, he effectively covers the superiority of the Quran, the
etiquette, the rewards, the virtues of listening, virtues of
reciting virtues of memorizing the correct math method of recitation,
right, the reader, then he goes into some specifics like the the
rulings of using melody, right,
a specific melody or MACOM, or something like that. And a lot of
people are quite curious about that. What's his opinion about
that? And he talks about, are you allowed to cry out of the fear of
Allah and reading the Quran? I mean, I'm assuming you can write,
of course you can. And the warning against he talks about the warning
against forgetting the Quran along with a satisfying discussion on
its seven variant readings. So that that's essentially what this
what this book is about. And I'll leave a link for you if you want
to order this.
If you want to order this book, I leave I will leave a link below
for you to do that. sha Allah. So there you go. This is what we're
speaking about in sha Allah
We are going to be covering we're going to be covering this book
insha Allah and Jazak Allahu wa salam. The point of the 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 the Islamic essentials certificate which you take 20
Short modules and at the 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 salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.