Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Knowing Allah through the Qur’an

One of our great Muhaddith, one of our great Hadith scholars, he says

that mercy does not come faster to anyone as it does to the one who

listens to the Quran. If you listen to the Quran, Allah

subhanaw taala sends down mercy because there's another Hadith

which says that when people sit and discuss the Quran, the angels

surround them. There's Sakina which comes upon them and Allah

mentioned them. So anyway in this particular lady Prasad is saying

that mercy if you want mercy from Allah, listen to the Quran.

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her moon, so my dear brothers and dear listeners hamdulillah so we

speak a lot about reading the Quran, and people know the virtues

of Li of reading the Quran. Today what I want to speak to you about

is the virtues of listening to the Quran, and how to listen to the

Quran. What is the other way of listening to the Quran or the

etiquette of listening to the Quran? How the Sahaba used to

listen to the Quran and what their states used to be. All of this is

discussed by Sheikh Mohammed Khalid al Husseini, who was one of

the great corpora of Egypt in his book called Mile Quran Al Karim,

which is with the Quran with the Noble Quran. So

Imam Latham new Sadd Imam Latham Messiah was one of our great,

great debate in

and one of our great Muhaddith one of our great Hadith scholars, he

says that mercy does not come faster to anyone as it does to the

one who listens to the Quran. If you listen to the Quran, Allah

subhanho wa Taala sends down mercy because there's another Hadith

which says that when people sit and discuss the Quran, the angels

surround them. There's so Sakina which comes upon them and Allah

mentioned them. So anyway, in this particular laypeople, Saudis

saying that mercy, if you want mercy from Allah, listen to the

Quran.

Why?

He takes this from a verse that I recited at the beginning Allah

subhanho wa Taala says in Surah, two Raf 204 He says, when the

Quran is recited, listen attentively, and be silent so that

you may be given Merci, that's where he takes it from whenever

the Quran is being recited. If the Imams OB is reciting the Quran, or

anywhere else, so you're listening to Quran at home or in your car.

Make sure you listen carefully.

And if you can learn the meaning and really understand and reflect

over that, then you will be given mercy. There's mercy that descends

because of that. Now, there's another verse in spiritual unfurl

the second verse of sorbitol and fall Allah subhanaw taala says, in

mineral arena either Akira Allahu wa Jalla Kulu whom were either

totally at adding him to who's the tomb Iman Oh Allah or be him yet

our karoun true believers are those whose hearts tremble

with or when Allah is mentioned.

Whenever Allah is mentioned, the true believers are those whose

hearts become they start trembling with respect. You know, whenever

you see, and you come across something that you respect,

whether it be an individual, whether it be a great scholar,

there's a change that overcomes a person. If you've got respect, if

you have respect for that person, then you suddenly feel humble. And

you're in all that's what's supposed to happen when the Quran

is being recited and when Allah is mentioned, because Allah is

awesome. Then Allah says, and true believers, those whose faith

increases when his revelations are recited to them whenever the Quran

is recited, our Eman increases, and then they put their trust in

Allah. How do you put your trust in Allah by listening to the

Quran? If you lack trust in Allah or you don't know how to trust

Allah, it's because we don't know Allah. When we read the Quran with

meaning, then what happens is that we learn about Allah, we learn

more about Allah, who Allah is, how he's in control of everything,

and how everything is in his power, how he is the only one who

can do whatever. And he can. He's the only one who can give us

whatever we want. Then we have our code.

So by listening to the Quran and learning the Quran, the Tawakkol

increases. So as I as I've mentioned before, what we

encourage people to do especially in

Ramadan is that you're reading Quran, but at least at least one

page a day, read with meaning so that you can reflect over it. You

could read your Jews to Jews, five Jews, however much you want

hamdulillah but at least read one or two pages with meaning. Because

then you get an access to what Allah is telling you. And then you

get all of these additional benefits. Because when you listen

all of these things will happen to you learn about Allah, your love

will increase, you will get to know Allah you can only love

someone if you know more about them. And the reason we don't know

enough about Allah and thus we can't love Allah more than

anything else is because we sometimes don't know what we're

reading. So keep on reading, but also read with the meaning at

least a bit.

So that insha Allah this can happen and believe me the Quran is

such that it will make your heart tremble if you know what it means

you will be standing in salah the Imam will be reading and they will

be crying you can't help it. Once you know the meaning and you focus

the the meaning share Khalil who said he says that the meaning of

hearts trembling what does that mean? It means that they have fear

and they become agitated. Which moves them to then act because

they feel like okay, after Salat, I'm going to do that I've been

doing wrong.

Allah is telling me not to do it. So Allah is telling me to do this.

I'm going to do this inspires you to do these things and you will

find peace in it. Allah subhanho wa Taala in Surah Zoomer, Allah

says in verse 23, Allah Hoonah Zilla accidental Hadith Nikita

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Yaksha Hoonah rob the home. So Magdaleno julu Houma, Kulu, whom

ala the Quran,

Allah has sent down the most beautiful of all teachings,

a scripture a book that is consistent, meaning you're not not

going to find any conflicts in the Quran. If you read here or read

there is nothing conflicting with one another. And it draws many

comparisons. Allah provides multiple comparisons in the Quran

gives you many examples to make us understand things. For example, He

says, haven't you seen the rain? When Allah showers the rain down,

there was a land that was totally desolate and barren. Allah sends

down the rain and suddenly you see mashallah, this amazing crops and

field down there afterwards. And then Allah subhanaw taala mentions

how Allah will get your heart to become inspired, and multiple

examples like that. And we need to learn from these examples. Then

Allah says that

Allah has sent down the scripture that is consistent and draws

comparison that causes the skins of those who are in awe of the

Lord to quiver. That's our same does our skin quiver when we

listen to the Quran? If it does, then it means that we are the

people that Allah subhanaw taala is talking about that means we

have respect for Allah, the due respect how much it should be,

then their skins and their heart soften a dimension of Allah.

Does anybody think that they are hard hearted, that they are harsh?

There's a lot of people that actually proud of the fact they

said, This is how I'm born. This is how my family is. I can't

change and they take pride in their harshness. It's okay to be

strategically harsh or hard when you're when you're trying to get

work done. But to be harsh by nature, is a problem. Gentleness

is what Allah wants. And the Hadith mentions that anybody who's

deprived of gentleness, they've been deprived of all good. So a

lot of people are narcissists. They are arrogant people they

always heard and they always think they're right. And how do they

change? Well, volunteer voluntarily, they can change by

reflecting on the Quran. I've seen people who are very hard, may

Allah protect us. They didn't change. And then what made them

change was a illness. They became very sick. Now, because of that,

you see, suddenly they start being so humble with everyone.

Totally changed person for 50 years, 40 years of their life.

They're hard. Like, you know that they're hard people, you just

can't deal with them. They make everything difficult, stubborn,

arrogant, and then suddenly they stop being very humble. What

happened? Illness, we don't want that. We don't want illness to

wake us up. We want the Quran to wake us up. So start reading the

Quran all of us whether you're hard or soft, it makes we need to

read the Quran.

Now even though I Buster the Allahu Allah narrates that the

Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said A multiplied reward

meaning multiple rewards.

So our little brothers you guys listen to the Quran, right? Do you

know what reward you get for listening to the Quran? Do you

enjoy listening to certain carries? Have you got a call?

On cube, okay, so, if you listen, a multiplied reward is recorded

for whoever listens to even a verse of the book of Allah.

Whoever recites a verse from the book of Allah, it will become a

light for them on the Day of Resurrection. Imam Muhammad has

related this Abdullah Gomez ruder the Allahu Anhu says the messenger

of allah sallallahu alayhi salam said.

So once I do live demos, so these are Sahabi are the Allah Juan, the

Prophet sallahu Salam is there and he says to him read. He told

Abdullah Abdul Masuda Dion to read the Quran. This is really amazing.

So are the lawsuit said

your Rasul Allah, you want me to recite, even though it was

revealed to you? Why do you want me to recite for

the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Yes, I love to listen to it

from someone other than myself. ajeeb that the Prophet SAW Selim

is receiving the Quran recited he gives it to everyone now he wants

to listen to it from someone because he said that's what I

want. So then, Abdullah Masuda the Allah and said I recited Surah

Nisa, Allahu Akbar i started reciting Surah Nisa until I

reached the verse for K for either jitna mu.

Misha he didn't watch it, because

Isha he, this is relevant to the Prophet salallahu Salam, how will

it be when we bring a witness from each community, each OMA and we

bring you as a witness against these people. Now the prophets are

awesome. He said, That's enough. That's enough. When I looked up at

him,

I saw that his eyes were flowing with tears.

The Prophet Salas and became overwhelmed he said that's enough

he started crying at listening to someone as this is a Hadith of

Bukhari and Muslim

imam No, we can't comment on this hadith he says, what we can learn

from this one Hadith is simple Hadith, right? Is there are many

teachings here. One is the recommendation of listening

attentively to the Quran. Why did the Prophet saw some cry because

he was listening attentively. He knew the meaning he understood

what was going on.

Number two to cry when you listen to the ground. This is a sunnah

the Prophet saw some cried when listening to the Quran, it's a

sunnah to cry, may Allah allow us to cry, and then to reflect upon

it. Because this verse was relevant to the verse on that the

prophecy last time is going to be brought as a witness. So that's

when he he started crying. It also indicates the recommendations of

others to recite so that you can listen to it. So one is you they

say that reciting the Quran is superior to listening to it.

Because you're reading, you're hearing, right? It's more now when

you listen, you only hear, but sometimes they say that when you

listen, you can reflect more than when you're reading, because when

you're reading, you have to be focused on what you're reading. Am

I reading correctly? And you know, am I getting it right? When you're

listening, you just relax and just listen and just absorb and be

inspired. That's why some say that's better. But the other view

is that reading is better, because it includes listening as well,

however, to listen is more easy to reflect that if you know the

meaning, Before, we used to have these recordings with the Arabic

plus translation, Arabic and translation. Now you can get this

on the screen. So it's a good idea. If you want to listen to a

query that the translation is playing there as well. There's

lots of ways to do it. Of course, if you know Arabic, it's even

better because when you understand it directly, that's the most

superior thing.

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

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 will 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.