Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Miracle 9 Year Old Memorises Whole Qur’an in London (Hifz Khatam)
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A lot of people think this hadith which says that read the it will
be set to a half is of the Quran in Arabic, right? It says that
read and continue to upgrade yourself and ascend. And your
final place is where you end where you stop reading. almost say that
this is not necessarily reserved for half is only it's also for
those who read the Quran and know what they're doing with the Quran.
So if you read the Quran and you start understanding it, and you
have that connection with the Quran, you can be called us herbal
Quran,
practitioners of the Quran, people related to the Quran. Can we be
called people of the Quran today? Because we believe in it in that
sense, yes. But in terms of like, he knows his BMWs
he knows his Apple products, take it to him, he'll know that guy
knows his VMs
right? Don't come to me. But go to a BM guy if you got to be in
problem. That's what I'm taught go to a person of the Quran, who's
going to be considered that mashallah, this guy. He is he's
always reading the Quran. In his conversations, you won't have to
just talk about what you're reading on WhatsApp, then all of
those weird forwards you get on WhatsApp, it'll be Quran insha
Allah. So that's the benefit of the so it's for all of us.
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My dear brothers and sisters, our dear children.
Allah make this task easy.
This is a very auspicious occasion. I don't know how many
Quran Huttons you have, but this one seems to be quite special
because of mashallah the age of the child who's completed
Alhamdulillah historically, we've had children who finished at the
age of five and six,
but definitely in England with everything else and the obligation
to go to school.
And all the other distractions that this modern world of the
current times bring to us. This is definitely an amazing occasion
that Masha Allah such a young child has completed the
memorization of the Quran, and may Allah subhanaw taala allow that to
continue. And may He be allowed to memorize many, many more things.
So we hear about many things of the past many people of the past
to memorize the Quran in a short amount of time, for example. And
we think that that's something only past people could do. But
it's definitely something humans are still made the same way where
Allah subhanaw taala is just our surrounding is a bit different to
what used to be in the past, they used to be less distractions in
the past, would you agree that we are living in probably the most
dis distracted times,
even 100 years ago, you did not have the number of distractions
available to you, at your fingertips that we have now.
Those times if you wanted to go and get some kind of
entertainment, you'd have to go out of your house and go to some
bizarre or some central location and hope there was a clown there
or somebody there to entertain you. Because there wasn't a show
taking place all the time. But now literally on your fingertips, you
can have as many shows as you want in the privacy of your room with
as many people you want, watching as you want. And it's so difficult
that it's so difficult to stay away from it. It's so difficult to
avoid it. So distraction is abound. Distraction is the name of
the day. And I think everybody knows that. So with this it
becomes difficult because then what do you focus on? That's where
things become difficult. Also, another benefit is that
hamdulillah Allah subhanaw taala has blessed us in this country
that we have so many orlimar so many alums who are literally
teaching the hate because it's difficult for children to memorize
on their own.
It is difficult for many children's to memorize with the
teacher.
And even more so it's difficult to memorize on your own. Very few
people would memorize on their own compared to how many would make
Whereas with the teacher, so you need teachers with dedication. You
need parents with dedication. Because there's a way in a child
becoming in most children who memorize the Quran, parents play
one of the biggest parts. That's from experience, I'm telling you,
very seldom is it going to be that you're going to have somebody just
inspired a five year old kid inspired or a 10 year old child
inspired that I want to do hips. I don't care what my parents say,
you get that it's not impossible. But most of the time, it's the
parents who give a routine, who give a timetable, who give the
support will give the backbone so mashallah, that's why it's quite
amazing that there is a Hadith that says that any who anybody who
memorizes a memorizes, the whole Quran, they get to intercede on
the day of judgment for 10 people,
for 10 people. Now, one of the ways that I want to maximize my
chances chance of being
interceded for is that when you see a child doing hills of the
Quran, you give them some encouragement, give them 10 pounds
or 20 pounds, I guess the more you give them, they might just
remember you and they might you include you in the 10 because
that's going to be quite competitive, you know, the 10
people they can intercede for, that's going to be quite
competitive, right? Because by the end of your life, you know, you,
you're gonna have a lot of you so I'm thinking that if I can
mashallah get this child to remember me.
Right? Just remember that I'm the one who came and spoke at your
heart and so then Hamdulillah you know, then if it doesn't work in
some other place, it works through him Inshallah, we have to maximize
our chances to to get success, literally, that's what it is, we
want to maximize our chances we can't put our eggs in one basket,
because we don't know if it's going to be accepted or not. So I
don't trust my actions enough. So I'm hoping that somebody's
intercession me work Subhanallah so that's why this becomes a more
of a communal effort in that sense as well.
But memorizing the Quran is not just something we do to get a
crown on your head for the parents or to get into session. That's
just additional perks, there are so many benefits related to
memorizing the Quran.
And that's what people don't understand the brain is a muscle.
And I have seen multiple harvests of the Quran that a straight A
students even if they're not interested in GCSE.
Once you memorize the Quran, especially at a young age, you
know how to use your brain, you can then literally pass anything
you want,
you can literally then go and take whatever you want and mashallah
ace it as they say, you know how to use your brain. It should not
stop there. The people of the past used to memorize lots of things.
And there's only, I mean, this is maybe a very specific thing that
my teachers who taught me the hips in the Alim course, after he was
the only I only have one complaint against them. And I say this
compassionate, you have a compassionate complaint, which is
that I wish they made me off the hips of the Quran memorize a lot
more stuff.
Because I could memorize, I can't memorize any more as much as I
could at that time. And it didn't really take much away from me, it
wouldn't have taken much away from me. But today, whatever you
memorize is your knowledge. Especially as a scholar, the more
you memorize, the better is so you don't have to consult notes. And
you just have it all in your, in your in your brain. So Masha Allah
still today Allah is still creating human beings, right with
the similar kind of brains, like the people like human body head,
right? Like the way, all of these great scholars that we've had,
we're still getting the same brains, it's just that outside the
environment is not the same. And that's changed a lot. That's why
parents will play the biggest role of making sure that they moderate
that environment and created to be conducive and appropriate for the
children. Now, there's a unfortunate idea that in order to
survive in this world, you have to get a good degree.
Some of our wealthiest don't have degrees. So that's number one. I'm
not here to discourage you from degrees or university. So don't
get me wrong. I have a PhD, I've done it all. Okay, so I'm not here
to tell you that that's not a good thing. But what I am here to tell
you is that you don't want to be putting your eggs in one basket,
and is not just about this world. As Muslims as you can see how
Muslims are dealing with with affairs, what really matters is
the hereafter. Now imagine if you are told to leave from your home
to safer areas. And as you're going in that direction, you get
bombed, even though you've been given assurance, and you get
bombed, what is the point of this world? And what guarantee is there
of success in this world?
Now imagine the same people who don't find anywhere to go because
they're in an open air prison, for example. They got nowhere to go,
what hope did they have
if you did not have hope in Allah, and if you did not have hope in
Another life then imagine where what kind of depression is already
depression. But imagine what kind of increased despondency and
depression
that would lead to that this is a miserable world is a miserable
life that we're living with suffering this plight, and there's
difficulty and we don't even have any hope to look forward to
hamdulillah Allah has given us this belief, the Quran, which is
the living book, which gives us this amazing message, that we're
in the hero tele heal Haiwan.
It's the hereafter which is your real life.
The hereafter is the real life we don't come in this world and hope
to die straight away and try to get ourselves killed. That's not
what we do. That's not encouraged in Islam. Murdering yourself is
actually haram. Suicide is haram. We don't live to die, though we do
live today,
in the sense that we will all die, nobody lives forever.
But our real life is the preparation for that life of the
hereafter. We given this life for us to prepare for the hereafter.
So even if this life has been miserable, from a worldly
perspective, miserable, in the sense that we never got peace, we
never got accomplishment, as long as we've done enough to accomplish
for the next world, and we are successful, because that world is
forever. That's why believers will always have something to look
forward to. That's only what keeps people going. Otherwise, the
suffering of these people for 50 6070 years,
it would have been all finished and done with like, what's the
point of it. But the thing that has kept them going is their faith
is their faith that we are rewarded for our struggle.
We're rewarded for our struggle. Now we think we are sitting safe
here.
And Hamdulillah, we've been safe, we ask Allah to keep us safe. That
is, we're not trying to say that we're calling a calamity upon us.
But the way the world is going, and things are changing, it
doesn't always remain the same. We just need to be prepared that if
we do and when we die, because that's just about when it's going
to happen, because we're all gonna die, even if we die in the safest
place, even if we die in the most comfortable of environments, with
everybody around us. But ultimately, what matters is the
way our death will be and what comes in the afterlife. And that
will all start in the grave.
How is that going to be? Have we got enough prepared? Have we got
enough sent forward? Have we do we have sufficient provision to take
there because that life is going to be forever. And the problem is
once you get there, then what matters is what we've already sent
forward. You can't do anything there to earn an extra level or an
upgrade. It's all here. You can't pull any strings there. Unless
you've already pulled the strings in this world and got people
connected, as though our righteous people have where they would
literally Imam Shah, only one of the great scholars of Egypt. He
says in his other Sahaba that true companions are those who will
encourage and do wasa to one another. That in the hereafter
look out for me in the hereafter. That's what I really want you to
look after me. Look out for me. If you don't see me around, you need
to come and find me and intercede for me. If you are successful,
Mashallah. You need to find me and try to take me as well because
Allah will give the ability intercession rates to certain
righteous people, that they can help other people who may be
destined for the hellfire. So Allah subhanho wa Taala has given
us this Quran. And the wonderful thing about the Quran is that
there's many Hadith regarding it, how its directly connected to the
hereafter, the Quran being directly connected hereafter, it's
the one thing which is the most important element of our faith.
Our entire faith is in the Quran. Without the Quran, we don't have a
faith, because that's the manual, that is the blueprint of our
faith.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the Hadith are all
there to explain the Quran.
So the Quran is the most important thing. The Quran is available in
Arabic, the Quran is available in every language that anybody
sitting here speaks.
But the unfortunate question is that the Quran is seen as this
book that lawyers use. So you know, when you go to a lawyer, and
you pay them 203 100 pound and for half an hour to write you a
letter, the reason why they can charge you that much is because
they look in all of those books that sit behind them on the
bookshelves are these big tomes of very deep, profound legal statutes
and law which you and I can't read. If you even if you read good
English, it's difficult to read that because there's a certain
way of reading that they can charge that much. We think the
Quran is like that it's only for the MA.
It's only for some special people. And I'm not saying that this is
only people who are non Arab. They think like that even Arabs think
like that, although they can directly understand that they
think it's something special that nobody can we don't have access to
I'm not good enough for that.
Never even it's not even on the radar.
That's, I mean, I'm not I'm not doing this to show ourselves up
because we all including this, my question is that if we have a show
of hands here, of how many people have genuinely had an ambition to
they've started reading the Quran with the ambition that they're
going to complete reading it with meaning not just reading the
Arabic mashallah we have many people read Arabic a lot in in
Ramadan, they'll they'll finish up three, four or five, seven Huttons
Masha Allah Hamdulillah this amazing, but how many of us have
actually started reading it or have read it with the meaning? At
least once?
Let's have some hands aside from the scholars. Let's have some
hands. Mashallah. One, two, don't let Wembley down. Wembley, there's
a lot of stuff that goes on in Wembley. And I want some Quran
happening in Wembley as well. Right. So that's about four people
that I saw maybe just for good measures, just say five people out
of the whole congregation who have read the Quran, I'm not sure if
they finished it or not. But if I started reading or they've read
the Quran, that's really sad case. Because, you know, the Quran is
not this deep book for nobody to access. Yes, it's deep, though.
But the majority of it is easy. It's conversation, the majority of
the Quran. In fact, all of the Quran is a conversation,
conversation between our Creator and us. And the way it's written,
you won't even think that it's written for somebody else, you
will actually start reading and thinking he's talking to me.
That's the amazing way. You know, the Quran is so eloquent. Eloquent
means it's so amazing in its delivery. You know, you read a
piece, right? You read a piece of writing, and it's so convincing.
It's so effective. It's so moving. Right? Some, some pieces are very
dry, and they're like, you struggle to understand what
they're saying. And you think, man, he could have said it easily,
could have said it in an easier way. The Quran despite being
Allah's words, and so complex in this, in that sense, so
sophisticated, it is so easy to understand the majority of it.
We're not telling you to read the Quran seeing the fatwas and start
saying you're better than everybody else. That's not the
purpose of it, personally, is that I want to know, I want to know
what Allah my God says to me, he knows everything about me, he's
the one who created me created everything in the world for me. So
I want to know what he's telling me and you know, you'll see how
your life will change the people who start reading the Quran, they
start becoming wiser people because all the wisdom is in the
Quran. I'm not just saying this as a statement in the course that
wisdom is in the Quran. But it genuinely is, and it's for you,
it's there available for you. And all you have to do
is you take a translation of the Quran, whether on your phone or
otherwise, and just read casually a page a day, just read in English
or do
Pashto, especially if you read push the Punjabi whichever
language excites you the most, get a translation just read and
reflect. You will see what Allah is saying. You see what Allah
wants. You see what Allah dislikes, you see what Allah is
encouraging. You'll see what he's discouraging. You will see how he
deals with people, multiple stories of how he deals with
people, how he
literally piles on rewards for those that do good. And how he
punishes and warns those who do evil, he shows you what's going to
happen in the future. He tells you what's happened in the past. He
tells you how you should look around the world and what is
available around you in the heavens and the earth. And what
Allah The purpose of these things. And yes, we keep getting
distracted with other things that we see around us. But the Quran
will ground us again, it'll come and give us a grounding and a
force of moderation to understand what real life is about. So how
can we how can we go from this earth and say to Allah, we didn't
even bother reading what you told us to read. Your message was when
bother reading and rereading. I didn't open the email. Sometimes
it happens. I get multiple messages on WhatsApp or email. And
then I get a call from you know the brother. Have you read my
email yet? I'm so apologetic. I'm really sorry. I didn't see it. But
I was so busy. I didn't get to read it. How do they feel?
Right? I mean, unless they know that you're like a super busy
person and they are willing to respect that. They're gonna think
you're just just don't care about them. Allah knows us. We know the
importance of
he's and he's gonna say did you open my email?
I read the I read the heading Al Quran Al Karim, but I didn't
bother reading inside. And you know, I don't want to make this
like a blame game really. That's not what I'm here for. I'm not
trying to make people feel guilty. I'm trying to inspire that. When
you read the Quran like that, it's just absolutely amazing. You'll
change your life, you know the misery in your life, because even
if you're a successful individual from a worldly perspective, where
you've got a good job, and you've got a good car and got a good
house and good family and all the rest of it, inside the turmoil
that's inside that can never be quenched without Allah.
Only Allah and His dhikr and his reminders and remembrance gives
you the inner comfort, outer comfort, Mashallah. But the outer
comfort is of no use unless there's an inner comfort. And
that's how that's what people found with this. And I've spoken
to multiple regular people who started reading the Quran, and
there's just something else about them, there's a with wisdom, they
start to talk a lot more sense.
They are mashallah they are they do a lot more.
So,
when the reason why the Quran is so important because it's Allah's
words, Allah is Allah, I don't need to. I don't need to explain
who Allah is Allah is sending the Quran, he sends it to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam His most Beloved, He sends it to this
ummah and the prophets Allah some said about this ummah manual earth
he wrote a Serbia cone, though were the last ones to come in the
order of nations to come after all the prophets we will be served
with corn on the no OMA will be able to enter paradise before the
people you and I Inshallah, if we're inshallah destined for
Paradise will enter Paradise, we get first choice into paradise,
because we are the almighty or Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, though we came last, another for Lila of this ummah,
another virtue of this ummah, is that the nations before us, Allah
subhanho wa Taala said, Do this, do this, and I'll give you this
much reward. They did it. And Allah gave them the exact measure
of reward with the with the Muslims. Allah said, do this, do
this and I'll give you a double measure of reward.
He's just doubled the measure of reward. He's multiplied it, the
others they complain, they said, How come you're giving them
double? Is that what it did? I Allah when Allah has replied, that
did I give you did I shortchange you in any way. I gave you what I
promised. Like you said, I promised you a measure of reward.
So I'm giving you that measure I'm not I haven't. I'm not giving you
any decrease. I'm not taking away from you to get but others I'm
just giving extra is a bonus I like them.
Nothing wrong with that Allah can give a bonus to whom he wills
that's what Allah has promised this OMA
but for us individually, because the this OMA is going to carry on.
Right? And for the Hafiz of the Quran. Usually we associate this
particular Hadith that it will be set to the half is of the Quran
that you start reading, start reading and every if you read you
take an additional step getting upgrades in paradise. Over 6000
verses there's that many upgrades how how that's divided Allah knows
best but all we do know is that the higher you go, the better the
paradise. Right? If you stayed in five star hotels, the best room is
the penthouse usually, and the higher floors are better because
there's less noise up there. They may come slightly better, right?
Usually, maybe the worst in the case of a fire. But definitely in
the case of luxury, it's higher up usually right with however with
the paradise there is no fire. You know, there are no hazards. When
the Prophet SAW was on was taken on his ascension. He was shown
paradise and everything and then after that, he looked up and he
saw in the place that you would see stars as far as that which are
millions of miles away. He saw something shining up there he said
what is that? That's your abode in paradise? Can I go and check it
out? No, you're not It's not time yet.
That's how it is. They say that for just a certain group of
people. Paradise has 100 levels a certain that's a certain paradise,
not all paradise, a certain paradise. There's you can just say
100 level paradise, we say 100 levels
you know 100 storey building is what we think of but this is not
100 stories in that sense
each between each two stories and sorry you guys what I mean by
story is different floors. Okay, because these guys want understand
story.
In this building, this is one story. And that's another story.
Nobody's saying any stories up there. Okay, but
flows or levels are called stories as well.
I don't know why they call him that I'm still trying to figure
that out. I'm as confused as you are. But at least you know now
what it is okay? My son when when our children sit with us,
when our children sit with us, we have to have them involved,
otherwise they fall asleep. And then
so as long as you understand what's going on, so what it says
is that there's 100 levels, then it describes the 100 levels,
between every two levels of these 100 will be the similar size
between the heavens and the earth. You know, when you go outside and
look up at the skies, that is all one person on that one level.
You get one level, and there's a lot of real estate up there.
Because it says that the absolute last person out of paradise,
literally the last person who was the greatest sinning person, but
who had Lyda Hill Allah.
And I don't know which OMA that was from this is from all the
owners, the worst individual who literally did nothing except
probably just believe Lila and Allah did nothing is the worst of
them. He finally comes out of hellfire after fulfilling his term
in prison. Right? And there's a whole story about that. And then
finally, when he gets into pero, when he's enters Paradise, and
Allah says, Okay, now, there's multiple Hadith says, Okay, I want
you to start
asking for whatever you want, for Termina. Start asking and desiring
whatever you want. So he says, I want this, I want this, I want
this, I want this. And he just can't think anymore. Allah says
some more. Finally, Allah says, I'll give you everything.
Literally, he gives him 10 times the size of this world according
to one duration. And the other narration says one times the size
of this world, either way, that's big enough, you to yourself will
get the size of this world that includes Australia, by the way.
And New Zealand, all of that area includes all of that, for one
person. The other Hadith, Abu hydrocodone over there, they had a
bit of a difference of opinion on this 10 times the size, how do you
get that there's a lot of real estate up there.
Allah will give that to the last person out of hellfire. So imagine
all the other people who are who did a bit of stuff at least used
to come to the Mercy rooster pray we did some that
Allah has a lot of space and that's a special price that he's
created for this. So
the Quran is definitely one way now a lot of people think this
hadith which says that read the it will be set to a half is of the
Quran in Arabic, right? It says that read and continue to upgrade
yourself and ascend and your final place is where you end where you
stop reading. Although I must say that this is not necessarily
reserved for half is only it's also for those who read the Quran
and know what they're doing with the Quran.
So if you read the Quran and you start understanding it, and you
have that connection with the Quran, you can be called us
horrible Quran.
Practitioners of the Quran, people related to the Quran. Can we be
called people of the Quran today? Because we believe in it in that
sense, yes. But in terms of like, he knows his BMWs
he knows his Apple products, take it to him, he'll know that guy
knows his VMs
right? Don't come to me. But go to a BM guy if you've got a BM
problem. That's what I'm to go to a person of the Quran, who's going
to be considered that mashallah, this guy. He is he's always
reading the Quran. In his conversations, you won't have to
just talk about what you're reading on WhatsApp, then all of
those weird forwards you get on WhatsApp, it will be Quran insha
Allah. So that's the benefit of that. So it's for all of us. It's
for all of us. There's a Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
And imagine you're in London. And somebody said to you, that,
you know, in reading
every week,
there's a Sunday market.
And they literally give out gold bars for free.
You can get one or two gold bars every week. You just have to go
there.
Now, that would become your business. I mean, who wouldn't go
to gold bars? I mean, that's a lot of money. In reading, do you know
which market it is? You can check it online?
Do you know which market it is? Yeah, there's a special market and
you get two gold bars. Every time you go there. How many have they
got or they don't worry. They got loads. There's as many people turn
up the barrel give them to you.
That's what the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam said he mentioned the
place outside of Madina Munawwara and he said, which one of you
wants to really fat animals?
really fat animal meaning really plump, very well endowed animals
that, you know, are very valuable. You just have to learn a verse or
two
is equivalent to that. That's, that's what it is you learn a
verse or two of the Quran and you get the most valuable property. So
mashallah, when a child has learned that that's a huge amount
of value, he just has to now understand what he has learned.
That's the next step. Now, we all memorize, I sell, I memorize the
Quran first, then I got to learn what it meant afterwards. And
that's fine. That's another way to do it. But it's open to all of us.
You don't even have to memorize it. You just have to go and learn
what it says. In the comfort of your own homes. You don't even
have to go to reading or Basildon on the other side.
Or Hounslow, wherever it is.
You know, whatever is outside of London, right? You just learn it
from the council and you get the benefit.
So
we've had people who
there was a little kid who was brought in Harun rush, Rashid's
caught that this little kid is memorize the Quran. Now imagine
the miracle of the Quran. He says to the kid or somebody said okay,
read. You don't even want to read because he's into play, but He's
memorized the Quran finally gave him a sweet so he started reading.
You can tell what level what you know what age we're talking about.
The Quran is a miracle and amazing miracle. There are literally I
would say that in some town in some boroughs of London or some
towns up north as well. Like in Clapton, I would say there's at
least if not, there's at least 100 have sorry, 1000 copies of the
Quran. Like I can probably say that without any exaggeration,
because I know families where everybody's half is in the house.
Why? Because that his class has just been going for years. I don't
know about Wembley, how many offers you have here?
Okay, Inshallah, you will get there. Clapton is beating you.
Right. And, you know, Wembley is more known in the world and
Clapton is,
you understand? Everybody comes to him, the whole world comes to
Wembley, for whatever reason, they come here, okay.
It's an effort on behalf of the parents ultimately. Alhamdulillah
now Alhamdulillah. Now, especially, you know, in a lot of
the Eastern especially in Madras I teach. We have students there who
have memorized the Quran who are doing Olim course becoming
scholars, who at the same time, doing PhD at Imperial College
masters at UCL
LSE, one of my students has become a Mufti. He is an LSE graduate
masters from Birmingham. He's doing a PhD and in Oxford right
now. And he's a Mufti.
So stop limiting Allah's mercy. Stop limiting Allah squadra. Stop
limiting the ability of your students because it was never done
in your family. So what if it was not done in your family? Why can't
you start you want to stay dumb forever?
Sorry to say that, you know, you get this case of some mother, some
daughter in law, suffering at the hands and tongue of their mother
in law. So you go and ask the mother in law, why'd you do that
for my mother in law did the same thing.
Right? You go and ask her if she's still alive. After you Caressa up
nessa Cucuta Amarrian Absa gotta
stop the tradition.
Make a change. You know, a lot of people ask me, Why do you do what
you do? Why did you choose this way?
You know, because I left home at the age of 11.
To go to a boarding school up north, dark room. I was 11 and a
half. hadn't finished my primary school I was in the last year
primarily before secondary school. Right? I cried. I was homesick for
a few months, but I never wanted to come back in the sense. We used
to come back to London four times a year. I'm sure Melinda did the
same thing. Right. So when I finished there, my hips and then
my Alim costs in between I went to India for a year I was 22 When I
graduated, that means half of my life literally 11 to 22 had spent
outside and gone home four times a year.
Then after I left the country, I got married straight away at 22
and left the country with my wife and went and studied abroad for
three years in other in South Africa, in Syria and in India, by
the age of 25 at state more outside of my house than inside.
And then I went as an imam to America for eight years. And I'd
stayed more more time outside obviously. Now, why did they do
that people are so I stopped thinking and I used to respond.
They said well my dad
is a half isn't Ireland. His father was a half is his brother
is a half is my mom's father was a comedy and a half is and her
brother was a Mufti it kind of runs in the family is abducted
Heather maybe Dr. Vanga you know, as they say, are conducted even
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Quwata illa biLlah as though none doctors don't get reached us.
Savannah live heard of some of our Muslim countries and cultures
where there's a whole group of girls who have been through the
medical degree, but don't practice it. The only reason they did four
or five, six years of medical degree with all of that money and
effort and whatever is so they could be charted get rich data
from another doctor.
That's it. We need doctors come on, but not did this kind of
crease
as though nothing else works in this world. You know,
may Allah bless our doctors, I'm not putting any doctors down. But
I'm just saying the kind of crazy obsession as though nothing else
works. Be a doctor. I've got in our mothers, we've got two or
three doctors who are doctors plus alums. That's what you should do
you want to be a doctor to be a doctor be a half is of the Quran
as well be an alum as well. You can really shine the lights. And
these are the two vocations remember where they come COVID are
no COVID They're always going to be in demand, which are the two
doctors and other ma people need doctors for medical issues. And
people need orlimar for spiritual issues. And in COVID That's what
happens or in any kind of, you know, in any kind of issue. So we
need to achieve both and it's absolutely possible today. Right?
It's absolutely possible today. So I started thinking that if I tell
people this, that they will all items that's why they're going to
think well my parents nobody could have seen it like in this family.
I don't believe there's any other who fuzz right so then I started
thinking why did they really do it because there's lots of people who
everybody's a doctor, or whatever they are right and they refuse
they rebelled they don't want to do they don't want to be what
their parents are or their family is right. Really what it really
was is that my I think Islam being an a half as being an Arlen was
glorified in our home. Whenever we heard of somebody doing his
finishing, Masha Allah, Masha Allah, not like, what Gassett
dunya vinayaga whiskey poor game and his his time, we've heard some
people that the time is wasted.
Whiskey whiskey is in the giggles Zaccaria How will the biller
zindagi Gaza as though they will suffer in this country? I've never
seen anybody suffer, by the way, in that sense, right?
It's amazing. It's our job that we make that it was no it was
glorified. Wow, I want to do that as well, then that's what I heard.
That's what I want to do. I will tell you, there's another family
very close to me, in the first generation before no half is
in that generation now, which is now my age 40s 4550s. Every single
boy except I think one is a harvest of the Quran from all
those families. There's like 20 of them, everybody's office. Now
they're going to make all of their children harvests. And they also
going to be successful in whatever vocation is engineers or business
people or whatever you call us. They carry both the world and the
after insha Allah.
So this kind of restricted thinking that it has to be one way
or the other. That has to stop because that's no longer reality.
That's shaytaan because that doesn't have to be like
Alhamdulillah. Our children are phenomenal. They've got the
ability to do both.
I know two or three Hibbs gay people who've memorized the Quran,
they just got straight A's in their GCSEs it's just straight
A's. They weren't even interested in in following that path of going
and getting a degree. But then after I thought we might as well
do that. So they come up with their first as well in even as the
degree
that he gives of the Quran is amazing. It's your brain, you're
just preparing your brain and the Quran that inspiration in your
heart,
the light that will shine
the aspiration it will provide subsequently amazing, get the best
of both worlds. Get the best of both worlds. And so that's why
mashallah there's so many people now who had no half is in the
family. Forget half is nobody who prayed properly in the family.
Nobody who covered properly in the family. Nobody had a beard in the
family and now their children are well they've started a new
tradition. We're not going to do them on our daughter in laws
anymore. We're going to change it. That's just an example. We're not
going to carry on doing what they did. Going against culture, though
is very, very difficult.
It's one of the most difficult things you have to listen to a lot
but carry on because you're doing it for Allah and then you'll hear
mashallah Allah's beautiful voice in the
Here after speaking to you, and it's sadaqa jariya for you because
ultimately, if I take an example, are you a grandparent by any
chance? Mashallah, how many grandchildren you have hamdulillah
they are your grandchildren, you have brothers and sisters.
Okay, but they have children,
okay, these are your children.
Ultimately they all come back to you not to your brothers and
sisters, they come back to you,
your whatever you do now is going to influence them is going to lay
out a tradition for them.
And there is no stopping from the inshallah from the two there'll be
other children that will come, and then we'll be gone, and they will
continue to multiply. If we don't set them on the right path,
then we haven't done much, but if we set them on the right path, our
akhira is made because we've given them we've created for them an
environment. I want my children and my grandchildren to be like
this I have a path I'll be then gone. They will inshallah continue
and multiply and hopefully they'll continue that path. I'm really
leaving a legacy inshallah that's what we want to do.
I've done my job now I've done my best I couldn't Allah make it easy
for us and we go and then after that they carry on and the Eman
stays in. And Mashallah.
And you will get the best of both worlds inshallah.
You will get the best of both worlds, you can have your luxury.
In this world, that's not a problem, you will just do it in
the halal way, that's all. And you will be in sha Allah. At the end
of it, you'll feel good about it. That Hamdulillah I haven't messed
up with my Deen, I won't feel guilty every time I need to do
something for my earth here. I need to do something because
inshallah we're already doing it. Get your children into it. I was
in another. I was in another town in India, a city. Everybody's like
really
advanced there. It's the Silicon Valley, very wealthy people, and
so on. And they're worried about their children, but they don't
want to send them to the traditional madrasahs there
because most of them are for usually poor children. So the
facilities aren't that great.
Like, what can I do? He's been telling me all that, what can I
do? Finally, I think it just hit me. I said, Look, if you look at
us, when our parents came to this country in the early 70s, late
60s, right.
There was nobody to lead the prayers and so on. They were
older, older mother they brought but they were worried about their
children so they sent us to madrasa. That was a mess. My mom
cried. is the way I cried. She cried, missing her child. Allah
bless her lorry water. But that was a sacrifice. Not like I can't
bear it any more. Bring him back. Hamdulillah I wasn't like that.
With a heavy heart shall send right?
Sacrifice. I told him you're gonna have to sacrifice.
You're gonna have to sacrifice guys, a big businessman.
Your children have gotten made already, man.
Literally, they just can do whatever they want. Right? It's
time to come back and just manage the business, running business for
you know two generations. And you're worried about your
children?
No, he's worried why shouldn't they Islam Hamdulillah. Then after
a few days when he met me because you know that your word shock me?
That is what I've been looking for, in the sense that there's no
other answer. There aren't any. I mean, there aren't too many
madrasahs that are catered for. You can say the upper classes
such. So they don't feel like sending but in England is all the
same. Everybody is the similar classmen who live English the
class system is not here. And now. You can study online. There are
online classes online.
And he says you He says you have to give the sacrifice. If our
parents had not given the sacrifice. I wouldn't be here. And
many of these birds that have a half 800 1000 Who fuzz if you go
too badly, and areas of Bradford, Bradford and Blackburn and Bolton
and Walsall. I guarantee it as 1000 who falls in there hands
down.
In just a few streets, there'll be like several syllabi 1000 of us
because they just didn't and they still surviving in this world.
They're doing very well Mashallah. I went to a country in the
Balkans, but three years ago, and
in this country, they've been there Muslims have been there for
longer than us. We've been here for about 6070 years, right?
They've been there for about 300 years. But after the 1920s when
the Ottomans have to recede, they they were they went through a
massive problem. Right. indoctrination, liberalisation, so
secularization and so on, so forth. In that whole country, even
though it's made up of 20 to 25% Muslim of the whole country.
There's only three half
was in the whole country, or was it five? I think there's three
half is in the whole country. They've never done a Tarawih
prayer with full Quran in their, in their living memory, maybe an
Ottoman times they used to do that. Because Alhamdulillah now,
since the three years they've started a hip school. So by now in
sha Allah, they're going to have more.
We are very lucky that these have schools they're everywhere and if
you I don't know if all of you know the stories I was just told
you have Druckman Masha as a cool name you have
right it means the slave of the Most Merciful One. Rahman,
Carbondale Sequoia Chinamasa
Raman Cabinda, I mean, it's an amazing name. Some people say
like, what's your answer Brahman Cabinda? Because that's what I
want to be, you know, I'm not showing off. I'm just happy to
have that name. I've got a you took my name. Right. So apparently
this guy was sleeping every day at 530. I don't know how you did
that. You were sleeping every day at 530 getting up at three o'clock
or something? Right. And starting his comm sunshine or winter? Or
did it change at all? That was it. Even on Saturday, Sunday's five
o'clock, 530. Wow. Savonarola. So he's started about at the age of
five and your nine now something. And he completed in four years.
Amazing dedication, where like, I want to see but I want to wake the
kid up. That's tough. That's really tough. Because you know,
you have to have your own discipline to wake up a child at
five o'clock. And the longer that he went to school and everything
right? He went to school normally. Yeah. And he looks quite healthy
to me. Right? So
you know, not everybody has to do it that way. But I'm saying that
you can, you can go against all of this is a miracle. The Quran is an
absolute miracle. There's no other tradition in the world
who have so many people that have memorized their entire scripture
that is just that does not exist. That doesn't exist. People are
shocked when you like, you know, 800 pages from it. Yes. Test test
me. They're amazed. It's just like, how do you even do that? How
do you even do that? It's a miracle. But Allah gives those
brains and now for this guy. I know another half is of the Quran
Mashallah. He's memorized the Quran is brain just works amazing.
So we they got him to then memorize a whole 130 Page douar
book.
That guy doesn't need to learn any more doors for the rest of his
life.
How to double his will album, He's memorized a whole level his belaga
nuts. I don't know how many $1,000 in there, he just knows him. You
tell him to do off the top of your whatever the guy can sit there and
do a half an hour no problem. Right with the prophetic was
after that. He's married. He's memorized the whole of a
procedural procedural Buddha.
Which is that wonderful poem is quite complex about the praise of
the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam. Then now he's memorizing
other stuff. There's another kid up north. He memorized the Quran
his memory and sailed Buhari.
I don't know how much he's done so far. But the last time I saw him a
few years ago, he had memorized quite a bit just mashallah just
blows it off his tongue.
So Al Bukhari is about 7300 Hadith. He wants to memorize all
of it.
I went to a mother's site in Pakistan in Karachi, to actually
have to they have three years of a Quran memorization course, then
have a two years of a hadith memorization because they
literally memorize how many 1000 ideas for two years.
Our kids have that bit and then they carry on do others this a
young age, they do this. It's not difficult. I'm giving you so many
examples. So it's not difficult. Please open up our horizons and
have a desire that I want this, this and this, I want him to be
the best of this and the best of this. And I've seen multiple
success stories we're just reducing ourselves to I only want
this, I only want that. No, Allah is able to give you what you want.
As long as you ask him, and you push it and you create the right
environment. Support, fortitude, steadfastness, lots of dua to
Allah subhanho wa Taala and a goal. And in sha Allah, Allah
bless all of our children. Allah bless every single child of house,
so inshallah the next time well
I'm gonna say the next time but in sha Allah in a few years, we're
going to have 100 This has to just take off okay? 100 Half is when we
come on man.
100 houses you don't even have 100 houses Come on.
I won't tell everybody don't worry.
But yeah, I mean, I think we need to do that Allah subhanaw taala
give it Tofik Allah subhanho wa Taala make this easy for us.
Right? Because if we don't know we can't even try but now we know
that it's possible. Other people have done it. They're doing it.
We're going to do it as well. And Allah will Allah Allah loves all
of us. Allah loves every single one of us he just wait
waiting for us to take his take his take his call. So what we,
what we end with here is why we're here to mashallah celebrate this
great occasion. But we all need to take away from here because we
can't leave it all to the you know, to Abdul Rahman. Right, we
all need to do something. And I think one thing is we all going to
decide that before we die. By the time we die, we would have at
least read the Quran once with meaning. So that at least we can
say Allah, we did check your email out your message all right, and
I'm telling you get hooked. Once you start, you will get hooked.
Just try, you will get hooked. We started the masjid was empty in
the mornings, because that is the first prayer of the day. So we
decided to have women's classes for the stay at home women in
Stanford when I was an imam there we started in 2008 209 2009.
So we've got We got about 20 Somethings students from the age
of 17 to 70. Okay, some of them did drop out. The course was
designed to be two years, a bit of Hadith. A bit of Aki, that a bit
of Fick a bit of stuff seen a bit of drudgery, just a bit so at
least you know we get going and after two years, they didn't want
to leave. They were supposed to graduate two years. There's no
please another year. So we got them additional books syllabus.
After third year, they don't want to leave they carried on for seven
years.
You get hooked because I mean, come on. You're learning about
your deen you're actually understanding the purpose of your
life now you're becoming enriched your heart is becoming beautified
your mind is becoming illuminated. What more do you should humans
desire for mashallah seven years.
The only reason I think we have to stop is because we need to place
for other classes. So
this needs to be not just for our children who speak for us because
we need to be learning and learning and learning as we go on
each time so that we are at our highest peak when we meet with
Allah subhanaw taala we've got our whole life to become more
knowledgeable. If we've stunted our growth by saying that we got
enough what we you know, hum were sufficient Muslims, by based on
what we learned when we were children, that's not good enough,
we need to continue to read, continue to learn not just random
hotbars and Beyonce right but some in an effective way. So Inshallah,
if you don't have classes, they should be classes I'm assuming
there are classes they should be more classes and also now online
go to our we got a website called Rayyan courses Rayyan courses what
that does is that it literally gives everybody access to the
basics of Islam there's one course on there called the Islamic
essentials certificate 20 Short modules you can finish like in a
few weeks or someone fix someone had the someone Tafseer somebody
some make history someone archy their beliefs and so on. So by
that mashallah you will get a decent understanding of what Islam
is supposed to be then you can take some of the more higher level
courses inshallah take it at your you know, at your leisure,
take it at your leisure, and stop it when you want the Sheikh is at
your disposal.
Right meaning it's on demand so you can literally start in the
shake is talking too fast, slow him down, speed him up, tell him
to read again because it's it's all yours now and you know on the
computer, so mashallah take that Rayyan courses, it's called, right
by answer just for inspiration. Learning comes through proper
solid learning. So Rayyan courses, and if you can get a physical
course it's even better. So may Allah subhanaw taala take up Duran
and everybody else here from strength to strength and make us
the best that we could be before we die. And then so that we can
enjoy our meeting with Allah subhanaw taala Allah relieve the
issues that are our brothers in the oppression, absolute blind
oppression that our brothers and sisters are right now going
through in Afghanistan allow our leaders to start getting some
understanding and be honest and fair in their judgment, and in
seeing the truth rather than just following politicized motions and,
and lines and things like that. And just regurgitating old
mantras. Allah subhanaw taala give humanity back to the human being
and Allah Allah allow this allow allow this carnage to stop the
burglar Donna Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen
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Walkman you're watching ladies and gentleman, esteemed guests As
salam o aleikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh.
Thank you so much for
taken your precious time out to come and celebrate this momentous
day with me.
My name as most of you know, is Abdul Rahman. And today I stand
before you as a nine year old who has been blessed with the
incredible opportunity to become a half as of the Quran.
It is with immense joy and gratitude that I share my thoughts
with you today.
First and foremost, my successes only from Allah. Without him, I'd
be nothing and could not achieve anything. I want to express my
heartfelt thanks to Allah subhanaw taala, the most merciful for grant
Musa tofield strengths and guidance to complete this
remarkable journey of memorizing the Quran. It has been a journey
filled with challenges, but with Allah's help Alhamdulillah I
persevered.
I am also deeply indebted to my beloved movies. He has been more
than just a teacher to me. He has been a mentor, a guide, and a
source of inspiration. His unwavering support, patience, and
dedication in helping are listening to me read the Quran,
and correcting my mistakes have been instrumental in my success
will result you have shown me the beauty of the Quran. And for that
I am eternally grateful.
I cannot forget the love and support of my dear mother. She has
been my rock throughout this journey, providing me with endless
encouragement, love and understanding. She listened to
Marissa resuscitations daily, and prepped me for my next lesson with
one resolve. She helped me with my studies and prayed for my success,
success. She will make sure I slept on time every day by 5pm and
had enough sleep so I could go against the next day, early
morning, Mom, your sacrifices and love has shaped me into the person
I am today. And I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
To my family, friends and the entire community. Thank you for
your prayers, encouragement, and support. Your belief in me has
been a driving force motivating me to give my best Alhamdulillah.
Today as I complete this significant milestone, I'm
reminded of the early 3am mornings when I had to get up I read my
work. And when we saw in the mosque of the soldier prayer,
those moments were challenging. While they were also the moments
that made me strong so I could succeed.
I'm also reminded of the dreams and the eyes of my grandparents
who longed for Heaven and the family, especially and goes out to
my grandmother who made lots lots of
lots of toys at 100 time for me, and most importantly fed me her
delicious halwa that I absolutely loved to keep me going.
Many of you knew my grandfather, Muhammad Yunus called them more as
the North is a wonderful masjid, who I unfortunately didn't get to
me. But I've been told on numerous occasions by my dad, what type of
man he was, and how we would always pray for health is in the
family. May Allah grant him genital fair dose.
Both of the herbs and others have been fulfilled through me, and I
am humbled to have been a part of their dream.
Even though I didn't get to meet my grandfather, there's a special
person here in the mosque, who always made me feel like I was his
grandson. He always encouraged me and gave me lots of love, which
helped me fill that void, which I was missing. And this person is
none other than mere sob, Uncle Atolla. Even when he heard that I
was about to complete my hips. He was the first person to
congratulate me and bought me a cake and a present. Thank you so
much uncle for always being there for me, and showing me lots of
love.
I also acknowledge, I also acknowledge the aisles of all my
family and friends.
Your supplications have been a source of strength. And I believe
it was your collective, the iris that made this journey possible.
Your unwavering faith in me has touched my heart deeply.
And then there's my Baba my biggest support. If it wasn't for
him, I don't think I'll be standing here right now. In 2017
When my Baba was going for hedge, he made a video to everyone in my
family in case he didn't return. He made one video for me too. In
the video. His only wish was for me to memorize the Quran before I
turned to him. After watching this, I decided I will try to do
it. So I started memorizing at the age of six so my Bob would be
proud of me and I could fulfill His only wish. My Baba didn't only
just make the wish and sat back, but he helped me and supporting me
to learn. He firstly made the deal with me. They if I managed managed
to finish the first truth, then he would get me approved. So I did
and go
My president, after this every juice I finished, he would throw
me a pie and we would celebrate the achievement and I would get my
present. I wasn't asking for small gifts. I was asking for so many
present, but he never said no to me just said to earlier by
learning the Quran. This is one of the ways My Baba motivated me. Not
only that, though, he also helped me when I would get stuck and
could improve us in the Quran, eat us or finished shade or attack me
and make me feel I couldn't do more. But my Baba had so much
faith in me.
He will always encourage me through all tools, and then he
would go to make the IR for me. I praise Allah gives everyone a Baba
like mine. I hope and pray he gets rewarded for every single word I
read, and may Allah bless him and let him be with me for all my
great days.
As I move forward in life, I understand the responsibility that
comes with being a half is of the Quran. I promise to carry the
teachings of the Quran. In my heart, I strive to live a life
that reflects his values and principles. I pray to Allah to
keep me guided and connected with the Quran. And I may I never
forget why I've learned May the Quran always illuminate my path
and be a source of strength or wisdom throughout my life.
In conclusion, I'm filled with gratitude to Allah, my teacher
movie sobs, my teacher movie sob, my dad's motivation and support my
loving mother, my grandparents films and last, under the eyes of
all my family and friends. I am excited to continue the journey,
my journey of learning and understanding of the Quran and I
hope to inspire others to embark on this beautiful path. Thank you
all for being a part part of this special day in my life. Zack Allah
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man as well. Oh Allah accept from all of us and accept and accept
all of us. Oh Allah for your Quran Allah acceptance all for the
Sunnah of your messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Forgive us our delay in this regard. Forgive us our
procrastination. Forgive us our excesses our distraction. Oh Allah
forgive us our sins. Forgive us our wrongdoings of Allah forgive
us our misconceptions and misunderstandings of Allah give us
the right knowledge and give us the beneficial knowledge of Allah
give us success in this world and the hereafter. Oh Allah, Oh Allah
accept all of our children and us for the service of your deen for
the continuation of the knowledge of this theme. And the transfer of
this theme of Allah remove the oppression from our brothers and
sisters around the world of Allah remove the oppression of Allah
remove this carnage that is happening. Oh Allah bring back in
so near to the inside of Allah grant them freedom of Allah grant
them their freedom, grant them the dignity of Allah grant them their
honor, and oh Allah protect all of us. And Allah allow us all to be
accepted for the service of your deen of Allah bless the parents
here of this child. And Allah bless the teacher of this child
less all the other support that was given from everyone else in
the masjid, oh Allah make this a thriving place where many many
offers many, many orlimar many solar has many core raw many of
these will come from an Allah they will benefit not just the
surrounding areas but in sha Allah the whole world our like except
Allah except to Allah accepting granted sincerity of Allah protect
our Hafez, our Allah allow them to carry on to do many other things
all of our children here we're like give them inspiration of
Allah turn our families around so that they can become comprehensive
families for the success of this world and the success of the
hereafter. Subhan Arabic herbalist, Yossi fauna Salam al
Morissette ino Hamdulillah.
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 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 be, 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.