Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Sciences in 30 Days Part 23 Witnesses to the Qur’anic Miracle
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The title of the Quran of Islam is a combination of multiple verses, with a large verse being equivalent to the length of a sewer and a long time being equivalent to the length of a garden. The segment also touches on religion, education, and the use of the Quran in various fields.
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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh My dear friends, dear
listeners and Allah subhanaw taala bless you all. Welcome to the 23rd
session of this series on the sciences of the Quran May Allah
subhanho wa Taala accept it. And
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So we had started, we are in the midst of the discussion on the
miracle of nature of the Quran and how the Quran is a miracle this is
a question that we are trying to answer. So we gave some
preliminary remarks about that yesterday, today we carry on with
that discussion. And we discussed yesterday how the Quran is a
miracle in as small as three verses like in our in our
calculator or a large verse, which would be equivalent to the length
of that sewer. And that's what is the inimitable nature that
nobody's been able to
produce anything like that so far, and they never will, as Allah
subhanaw taala said, and 1400 years has shown us that to be the
case so far, and the Quran says, bring as many people as you want,
take assistance from as many people as you want, you will never
be able to do it. So now you should just admit and believe. So
in that regard, it carries on our discussion. And if if the Quran is
it a miracle and unchallengeable in terms of its composition, and
the way it's worded and so on, in as little as three of its verses.
Now, you know, as I said, if it's got a large verse, a large verse
that can incorporate three small verses in it, then that large one
verse is also animatable. And some verses like the verse, right,
regarding how debts need to be dealt with in Islam, yeah, you
have Lavina and or either Diane to be they in in Algeria, some taboo
in central dakara. But that one is a very, very long verse. And that
could incorporate so many three, three verses short verses in
there, so many verses the size of in the Outliner, calculator for
solid Arabic 100, in the shiny eco well after, you can incorporate so
many of them in there, because it's nearly, you know, one and a
half to two pages long, in some version, you know, in some copies
of the Quran. So
if we, if we ignore all of that, and we just take just the number
of verses in the Quran, say that there's over 6000 verses in the
Quran, write the exact number, there is a difference of opinion
about that. It's not 666, as they generally mentioned, when there's
another number, but let's just say there's over 6000 verses for sure,
then you have to divide that by three and clusters of three verses
whether large or small, then you can imagine that all of those are
miracles. All of those are challenging people that look
produce anything like us. So every single cluster of three verses,
and I said it's going to be more than that, right? It's going to be
more than that. Because as I said, some verses are much longer than
in China Kolkata full Surah anyway, so you can imagine now how
many marches as there are that how many miracles there are in the
Quran, how many challenges there are in that? I don't know if
you've ever thought about it that way. But that's a very, very
interesting point. Now, there's not just that there's many other
ways that the Quran is a miracle as well. So let's look at some
other there's what we're going to look at is
what are the things that the Quran include in this regard? Because
the Quran is one of is the biggest Marchesa and miracle of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and it's a timeless one. So
what are the very specific characteristics of the Quran that
are helping
To make it a miracle and that making a miracle. So, number one,
the Quran is a miracle. And it's a challenge and inimitable, not just
for a few people or just for, you know, for one person or a few
people, but it's for everybody in this world who is supposed to be
believing, which means every single human being and every
single gem.
Right, and that means every single human being agenda will ever come
into existence, the Quran remains, the Quran must be a miracle for
all of them. So it's not a temporary book for a very specific
or very short amount of time. It has to remain then for as long as
humans will continue to be here, and how long the gin, the gin
community lives on the you know, in the world, on Earth. So humans
have been around since a long time, but since the Quran came
down, which was in time the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, it's been over 1400 years since then. Now, I don't know how
many more years and centuries the world will continue for but the
Quran needs to remain for that. Now, if it needs to remain for
that, it better remain preserved and unchanged. And subhanAllah it
actually so far, it's been 1400 years, over 1400. And so years,
Allah subhanaw taala said, I'm going to protect it, so far, he's
protected it and you're going to expect the same thing to carry on
because the people that the Quran is a miracle for the Quran has to
be alive for them. And that's why the Quran can't change otherwise,
it will cease to be a miracle if it starts getting changed. Allah
subhanaw taala has preserved it until now. So I dealt with a with
a university, I was at a university and I gave a talk. And
then I had to go to another program, one of the university
students on a Muslim guy is born up in a Muslim, Muslim family,
everything. And he said, I've got some questions. So this was the
question he had. He said that I believe that Muhammad Sallallahu
Sallam is a definitely a good person. I've read so much about
him, nobody can deny that historical accounts and so on. But
my question is that the Quran that he brought, okay, why it's a great
book, whatever, nobody has been able to challenge your 1400 years.
But My doubt is that what about if somebody comes up later, who's
going to challenge it for over 1400 years? Sorry, after 1400
years, like later on in the future?
So I said, like, how would you answer that question? So some
people will say, well, for 1400 years, whatever mean, I think I
may have included that before and talk to you about that before. But
eventually, what I said to him is that look, so far, nobody's been
able to do so. So why don't you just believe until now? Why do you
solidify your belief, skepticism and questions like that can appear
about anything and everything? What about if the world doesn't
continue tomorrow? Right? Now, we'll see, you know, if somebody
produced something in the future, we'll see that was just my answer
to him, just to kind of tell him where we're going with this, that
it's just skepticism at the end of the day. But the main point here
is that because the Quran is a message to all of these people
that are human and jinn, and that race continues, and the humans
continue, the Quran has to remain perfect, until the last human as
well. And then that will be the Day of Judgment. Number two.
This is really interesting, if no huddle mentioned this, that many
other miracles, right, that were, as I explained, the miracle at the
end of the day is generally something that goes against the
norm, right? It's just none customary, extraordinary, right?
So that was like the water coming out the fingers and all the other
examples that I provided splitting the moon and so on, but the Quran
is different. Is he a miracle, as I defined at the beginning was an
extraordinary event that comes in association with a claim to back
the claim up that somebody is a prophet. That's the idea of a
miracle with the prophets. Okay. Now, the Quran is something which
is the revelation. So generally, A prophet is a prophet because he
receives revelation from Allah subhanho wa taala. And he is
showing the extra ordinary event to back his claim up that he is
receiving revelation. On this occasion, in this particular
miracle. The revelation is the miracle. The revelation is this
extra ordinary thing. So it's not an outside event. But in itself,
it's so extraordinary it is the revelation itself is not separate
to it is to combined in one it's the call, and it is the miracle in
itself. And it's the proof in itself.
So Al Quran who have been EF C, l y.
Right? modality, it's the revelation which is also making
the claim it is also the miracle itself. It is a historical
mortgages and the muda al ye.
So the proof of it is in itself. So it's intrinsically a proof of
the call that it is like this, the Quran is the one that claims that
the Prophet Muhammad said Allah Islam is the Prophet and you must
believe and Allah is one and so on and so forth. And that in itself
is the proof as well. You don't need a separate proof.
That's why there's a famous Hadith that Psalm, a hadith that really I
enjoy a lot when I read it, it's in Buhari and it's in Sahih Muslim
as well. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said mom in the
be middle MBA Illa called the middle Yachty method who am an
ideal butcher.
There was no prophet except every prophet basically every prophet
was provided a sign ayat, a sign a miracle, right? Upon which
something similar to which, right?
The humans would bring faith. So that would be enough to convince
them right that this guy is a prophet that this person is a
prophet. However, he says, we're in nama cannula, the Eau de to ye
and oh Hala, who Ilya. So the sign that I was given his saying, the
miracle that I was given, is the revelation that Allah has revealed
to me. So the miracle is the revelation in this case. Then he
says, For Urdu, and Hakuna Matata homophobia and yarmulke, Yama, and
based on this, I am hoping that I have the largest following on the
Day of Judgment. So why does he talk about how it talks about
having the largest following on the Day of Judgment, when he
speaks about the Quran as a miracle as his miracle as such,
his main miracle, it shows you that the Quran the reason he's
using the Quran to express that point of hope is that the Quran
has built in enough to beautify the hearts and inspire enough
people, for generation after generation after generation until
the Day of Judgment, that he's going to have more followers than
the other than the other prophets than the other prophets. Now you
have to remember that while Muslims, they say the official
number is 1.61 point 7 billion and Christians, maybe 2 billion. But
to be honest, the 2 billion while we have also have some Muslims in
name, and it's just the number. But there are far more if you take
any group of Muslims anywhere in the world, compared to a group of
Christians, the Muslims will be disproportionately more practicing
than the Christians, right, and just much more unified in their
beliefs about their religion, nine secular and many Christians are
very secular in all the attitude and everything. They might just go
to church and whatever, you get some Muslims like that, but they
are a minority, most Muslims will have some concern for their
prayer. Right? Even if they don't pray, they have some concerns for
it. And they believe and they say salam and you know, they can tell
they are a muslim wherever you go, regardless of their culture. So
this is the Quran that is helping them to do that. Number three, the
other thing to discover about the Quran, right is that
generally, when it came to other miracles of Prophets, including
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu, alayhi, wa sallam, the extra
ordinary events, they were generally more physical in nature,
they were an event, they were an extra ordinary phenomenon that
took place, it was an activity of some sort, right, like water, the
tree moving stones are saying salam, and or taking clots of clay
and making that into a bird, there were very physical, tangible
things. Whereas when it comes to the Quran, another way the Quran
is the miracle is because the Quran in itself, right? How is it
going against the norm, it's going against the norm in the sense that
the Quran is not a miracle, like the other miracles, because it
goes against the norm in something. Right, necessarily, is
a miracle in that sense, as well. But it is a great miracle in the
sense that it is something so great and unusual, but it is
something that just talks about reality. So anybody who ponders
the Quran is going to find that the Quran speaks to them directly
about realities that they would never have thought about wisdoms
and ideas, just absolute natural ideas in the way it speaks to them
a very natural style. So the Quran is a miracle, different to the
other miracles, other miracles went against the norm. Like for
example Musashi salaam stuff becoming a snake that's just
abnormal people who are mesmerizing, you know, in that
sense, but here the people are amazed by the Quran for centuries
and centuries based on the natural message of the Quran, that really,
really resonates with the heart so that the jazz and the miracle
nature of the Quran can also be viewed in that way about just its
natural approach to thing, but makes it so welcoming, as long as
you start reading it objectively. Even those people who start
reading it in a way to actually find mistakes or find problems
like the Dutch politician who did that. And then he became a Muslim.
He's even published a book about it, I forget what it's called.
Right? It's he started looking into the Quran as have so many
other people to try to find problems with it. And he was just
bowled over. Right? Allah had written guidance for him, and he
became Muslim as well. So
The Quran as opposed to other miracles is actually so much in
conformance to their nature as a breath of fresh air that they
actually looking for something hidden about, about the way the
world is supposed to be and about the way human function is supposed
to be. That's a very, very interesting point.
And that's why
when they started asking for other types of miracles, to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, this is what Allah subhanaw taala said
in the Quran, in spiritual and Caboose verses 50 and 51. This is
what Allah said to them. What Callooh Lola who's you know, I
think he is to be, they say that, why? Science not being revealed to
him from his Lord? Why doesn't he get all of these other miracles? I
mean, he had enough miracles already, but they wanted to see
more. So like, Why aren't other miracles coming to him? In to the
law here, we're in an Athenian lobbying. Remember, whenever you
hear a call in the Quran, many, many times it's actually an
address to the professor and say, say this, because this is the this
is the objection, or this is the question. So remember, it's
called, generally it's an address to democracy. So say, oh, Prophet,
that the signs are from Allah, the signs are by Allah, and I'm just
the clear warner, the signs Allah produces, if he wants to give it
his produce, it's not something just because you asked for it, I
can show you a sign here, there's a miracle here, it's not a bag of
tricks that I have. I'm not a magician, I'm not in a circus.
Right? So say that to them. And then Allah says, our music for him
and
are they equal kita utilize him in a fee 30 Kilometer with a karate
Pomi you may know, isn't it sufficient for them, that we have
revealed upon you the book that is recited upon them. And
in it is mercy and a reminder for the people who believe so the
Quran is saying, I am the miracle. You're asking for all these other
miracles, I am the miracle and it will be a reminder for you and
it'll be source of mercy, we just start reading it.
Tell people to read it, you will find mercy in that you will feel
better, you will start getting you'll start feeling much better,
from the difficulties of the way you perceive the world the Quran
will tell you how to think about it.
Now let us look at a few historical accounts primarily from
non Muslims when they read the Quran. Now, as I said, many of us
who don't understand Arabic can't appreciate this, this aspect of
the miracle of the Quran, there are many other well, we can only
appreciate it through examples, when somebody breaks it down for
us unless you learn Arabic, you know, you're going to find it
difficult to appreciate it directly. You know, you're missing
something. There are many other aspects of the miracle of the
Quran that you can benefit from though. But let's let's look at
Arabs, Christians and others who were Arabic Who knew Arabic And
subhanAllah. Look at this. See, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam was sent as a messenger was appointed as a messenger. When
among the Arab community at that time, you know, they were at the
peak of their eloquence in their articulation in their speech, in
their writing in their poetry, and everything else as I explained to
you yesterday. So the way that Allah subhanaw taala told the
prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam to give his Tao is to read Quran
to them, to his family members, to the tribes to the Arabs read the
Quran to them, it was the best miracle to us. I mean, of course,
there were other miracles that occurred with the Prophet
salallahu Salam, but the best was the Quran itself. Okay. Imam Al
back in Lani, who has said is a major researcher in the field of
Illumina Quran from the early times, he says, Follow kind of
huddle Quran methodical Kabila share. Now you see what set it
apart was that the Quran was absolutely new and fresh and
unique and divine genre, it was a different style completely. And
the reason for that why it wasn't poetry, or it did not resemble any
of their writings yet use the same letters and words as well is, as
he says, he says, if the Quran was from the category of poetry, which
they were used to, or any other category of language, any other
genre of language that they were used to, then they may have not
been so interested in it. It may not have astonished them and
surprised them because they thought well, it's a poem, right?
It's a poem or whatever. So
the way Allah subhanaw taala gave the Quran was in a totally unique
fashion. It's not a poetry, but it resembles poems in some cases.
It's not prose, but it resembles prose in some cases, and so on.
It's it's beyond its preaching. Its exhortation is admonishment.
But it's not exactly in any of those categories, right? Even
though you may have resemblances to these things. Then Allah
subhanaw taala gave them time to challenge it, but they weren't not
able to they had years and years and years to do so even during the
life of the prophet 1023 years. And Allah subhanaw taala even
then said, Oh, well, I'm not I'm miracle Maya that coffee him into
the car, which is a common theme, haven't we given you enough of a
life that the person who wanted to reflect in there could have
reflected by now, right and the water has even come to you. But
they were unable to do so. Even after the person has departed from
this world, they've not been able to do so. And it's because they
just this is a genre that they cannot do. Now, the thing is that
this would have been the easiest thing to do, then, rather than to
fight the battles of butter and overhead, and then especially the
Battle of the trenches where they gathered and rallied all the
tribes together, it was the biggest battle that the Arabian
Peninsula, by that time had ever known. And they did all of this
difficulty to come and fight against the Muslims. They could
have easily just sorted this out because one of the biggest
miracles that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
using to convince people to his side was the Quran. Of course, it
was his personality and what he said and everything, but the Quran
is the main data here, that is what he was using, all they had to
do was cancel out the Quran, by producing something like it by
showing a discrepancy in it. And it would have it would have done
their job for them, they would not have had to fight wars and
everything like that, because the Dow all was all being done through
the Quran. That's a very, very significant point that the Dow
most of the call to Islam was being done from the Quran. And
that's why it was so powerful. And I think today if we do the same
thing, I think we can be that powerful again, right? They've
every person knows enough of the Quran to speak to people and their
CO you know, their co workers or whatever, I think it will make a
big difference because that was the most powerful tool that the
price allows them used. They had to just compete with it, they had
to just produce something like it or show a discrepancy. They were
not able to do so. In fact, the opposite happened. The Quran
started to win over some of their biggest names some of their
biggest experts some of their best some of their most eloquent
individuals, some of their best poets, some of their best
preachers, right.
So let us look at some of that. There's Imam Muhammad even though
humble has related
actually not Imam Muhammad Imam Mohammed even though his hawk has
related in his Kitab sera from Abba ignore Robbia wrote by ignore
Obeah is a Sayed was one of the leaders of the Quraysh. And one
day he is sitting among the group of I think I may have
related the story to you already, right? But he is sitting in a
gathering of the Qureshi leaders and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam is also there in the masjid alone. Right? And all of
these crazy leaders are sitting there. This Autobot ignore, Robbie
says, Oh Masha Quraysh Oh, congregation of Quraysh are
gathering of Quraysh. Should I go to Mohammed? And I speak to him
like, you know, let's try another strategy. So that he can stop
calling people to Islam, right, and he can stop messing about with
our deen and converting people, right is really causing a problem,
let me go and speak to him. What I'll do is I'll offer him a number
of proposals, I'll give him a number of offers. And maybe he
might accept one of them, you know, let me give him let me get a
score out there, think outside the box, and let's give him these
offers. Whatever, you know, whatever he demands from us, we'll
give into it. So that at least he can stop doing all of this and at
least our you know, religion can be maintained.
Now, you know, when this happened, this happened after the protests
awesomes uncle Hamza, the Allah, one of the boldest men of the
Quraysh became Muslim. And when people like that became Muslim,
right, they started getting really worried that it's no longer just
the weak and the poor ones that we used to persecute and that we
never thought much of. Now, these are some of the cream of the crop,
right? Some of the boldest men of the Kurdish that are becoming
Muslims, or Hamza or the Allah becomes Muslim, right? So they're
getting very, very worried.
And they, they see that the companionship of the Prophet saw
something he's getting strong now, right? So he said, he came to the
Prophet sallallahu. And I said, you have Nucky on my nephew.
Right? He called him his nephew, because remember, they're from
similar tribe.
He says, Look, we completely acknowledge that you have a very
honorable position, you know, among the Quraysh, that you're
from a very honorable family. Right? You have a very honorable
ancestry, you know, your grandfather's
Abdulmutallab, and so on. And you know, your respect, you're
respectable in that sense. And, but, you know, you've brought this
really new idea, it's a really, really significant idea that is
just causing a lot of issues, right? It's a very dangerous idea.
And what you've done is you've actually split up the people you
split up the tribe, and you've just basically intoxicated their
minds and you've you've you basically mess people up, you've
messed up their minds.
You've criticized this, this
the idols that Gods essentially, and their religion, you know, you
object to their religion. And you've now said that even you know
people who have passed by on this or or cafe, and so on and so
forth. So, you know, I've come to speak to you. So listen to me,
I've got several proposals for you. And you can consider every
one any one of them and see which one you can accept. And you know,
maybe we can make a deal in this regard. Subhan Allah, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam very calmly said to him, Kalia a bit
worried asthma, okay, say what you need to say, provide your
proposals, I'm listening. So then he said, my nephew, if
you are intending by this whole fiasco by this whole movement,
you're intending just to make a lot of money, then you know what
we will gather our wealth together, we will collect the
wealth, who will do the fundraiser until you become the most wealthy
person among us. I mean, they already to do that, like just stop
doing this. They couldn't find it, they could not. They could not do
anything with the Quran. Right? So this is what they said. And if you
want honor, and position, so what NACA Elena will actually make you
our leader, we have no problem with that will make you our
leader, just stop doing what you're doing. And if what you're
experiencing is an influence upon you that you cannot get rid of,
meaning if this is shaytaan, or this is some kind of gin or
spirits or something like that, which is affecting you
to do anything about it, we are willing to hire the best doctors
for you. Right? talab noelekal, Oktibbeha, we're willing to get
the best of the tubes for you. We're willing to spend as much
money behind this as possible, just so that, you know, we can
free you have this problem free or you have this devil or whatever it
is. He said that because sometimes, you know, people are
possessed sometimes in a way that you know, we can get rid of the
possession because we have people who can do that. And he said a few
things like this. And when he finished the process, that alone
was just sitting there listening to him very calmly, very solemnly.
And then he said to him a footnote. Yeah, Bill will eat
further volleyed. Have you finished? Like is that all have
you said your proposals? He said yes. So he says okay, the books
are awesome said okay, now you listen to you listen to my
proposal and you listen to me.
So he says, Okay, I'm willing to do that. A fan I'll do that. And
the Prophet sallallahu Sallam started,
said Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim. * those Elam you know Rama
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the first verses of Surah to facilite soar to facilite and
verses one to four of that. And the prophets are some carried on
reading this. And Ottawa is completely silent. He's listening
very carefully. And he's got he's sitting like this. He's got his
hand behind his back. And he's just listening like this now.
Right? So exactly. I'm not sure it's like he's just listening like
that with his hands behind his back. Right. And the Prophet
sallallahu it has been finished. And is a such that in reverse. I
don't want to read it for you. But there's a search that is a there's
a verse of prostration in this surah
and the results and recited until there and then of always awesome
frustrated.
Amazing, right the process and frustrated. And then he said he
said God summit the herbal Valley mass summit for under whack. A
mole worried you've heard what you've just heard, you've heard
it. Now I leave you with it.
That this is just so bold. He listens to his proposals first.
Then the prophets Allah Islam says any more. He says no. He says
okay, now you listen to me. he recites the Surah to facilite. And
then after he says, You've heard it, now I leave you with that.
What happens?
Ottawa gets up,
right out about ignore Obeah you know, same person, he gets up to
go back to his people, and they're watching him, and they see that
he's different, right, the way he's coming back, he's just
completely changed.
And they start saying, By Allah,
a bull what leads is coming back to you in a totally different way
to the way he left you know that
boldness which he went for the I'm going to be confident to offer him
these, you know, this, these proposals and so on. He's coming
back differently. He's not he's no longer he was. So he came back and
he sat down and he said,
no, they actually said, what happened? I will believe what
happened. He said, Well, what happened is that
I just heard
I've just heard some words. Now this may be the first time he's
hearing the Quran directly, right says I've just heard some words.
Wala he must submit to MC Nakata. I've never never heard words like
this. And remember when he actually was one of their
professionals, one of the experts in Arabic he was known for his
eloquence. He said, I've just never heard anything like this.
Wallah, he ma Hua. He said, Well, I'll be share, will I be sherry?
Well, I will Kahana by Allah it is what I just heard is not magic. It
is not poetry, and it's not soothsaying, Yamashita, Quraysh, a
three year oni which aloo Holly,
and he said, Oh, congregation of Quraysh Oh, Qureshi leaders, etc,
just obey me in this regard, like, just be with me in this regard and
leave this matter to me. And my suggestion is, have only been
gradually obeying a man who if he does he do.
He says, Leave this guy alone, leave him alone. Instead factor
zero, just just ignore him, just separate him, just ignore him,
don't have anything to do with him. Because by Allah,
for what he says those words that he's proclaiming, there's going to
be a very special position and a very special state for that
there's going to come a time, you know, there's going to be
something special about what he says.
And
he's basically saying, leave him alone. And if the rest of the
Arabs attack him, then that's fine. You've then been sufficed,
right? Without you having had to do anything, you know, they'll
take care of him, they'll they'll finish him off. But if he
overcomes the Arabs,
right now, what he's trying to say is that leave him alone, leave him
alone. Then after if he gets killed, fine, you know, you've
gotten rid of him. If he does not get killed, then because you're
his tribe and so on. He is going to supersede them the rest of the
Arabs. And that means you can actually benefit from this because
you're his tribe. So what Yahara added Oribi if he dominates upon
the rest of the Arab tribes and familia who will come then
whatever he achieves by that will be also your achievement. Where is
the Horace Zuko his respect and honor there will be your respect
because your his family will come to us at bay. And then you know,
you'll get more fortune out of that. There's nothing you can do
just leave him right. Either he'll be killed or he'll dominate and
then you can just share the riches.
And they just don't know unless it's Sahara Wallah he Sahara cola
the he's he's he's bewitched you. He's cast the spell over you a bit
worried by his tongue is cast the spell over you, you're messed up.
Gotta hurry. He says, Look, this is my opinion. Right about this
first scenario, MALBA Datacom you do then whatever you want. But
this is my opinion about it. That was in his own moment of sincerity
in a moment of seriousness solemn in his solemn moment that he said
this exactly as it was. You see this
the story continues, but this is what the issue was with them that
they could not attack this Quran because it was just they knew what
good language was and it just bowled him over. And so now on
another occasion, what's going on now is that there's going to be
the Hajj season now in the height season all the different tribes
that people from there come for the Hajj and a conversion to Maka,
maka, Rama becomes a central location. Now what they're worried
about is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam during
that season is going to be reading Quran to the people. Okay, now
remember, as I told you, the Quran is the miracle that a person has
been told and instructed to use for his Dawa. And that's his main
tool of the Dawa. Right? And he needs to become our main tool of
Dawa. So they're worried that he's going to start reading Quran to
them, and people are going to start getting affected by this.
So they're deciding what shall we do? How shall we stop other people
from becoming affected by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam.
So they said all sorts of things. That what story shall we spread?
What rumors Shall we put out there about about the Quran and so on?
Some said poet, some said soothsayer, some said insane just
an insane man with his ramblings. Another said a magician.
Now again, this worry dibden Mahira is there in the previous
one it was Ottawa right. Now, this is another one Waleed YBNL Mahira
I think I've mentioned his story to you I think before
this worried a little more Hara is there. Now what he didn't Okay.
is another expert. He is hard. He's been with his father. Okay,
this is what he'd been Maghera he's had been what his father,
he's rejecting all of their proposals,
right with, and showing them why what they're saying is completely
wrong.
That he is not a poet, he's not a magician, it can't be because
this, these words don't look like that they don't resemble that
words of a poet or a magician, or soothsayer, or whatever. And then
he said, that famous statement which I related the story to you
before, said that know, his words have a sweetness about them,
they're very pleasant and very powerful. And they just ripe for
the picking. And he said, Look, you can say any of this stuff to
people. But even eventually, if they listen, they're going to know
that you're just making stuff up, because it's so powerful. Now,
think about this as a miracle. It's so powerful, that even though
you've told them, it's all wrong, and it's all bad, and it's this,
they're gonna see through it straightaway. It's just a
different thing is too powerful. But you see, he did not want to
believe he was messed up as well. But he came up with a new idea. He
said, the best thing that you can actually say the cleverest thing
that you can get you out of this, the slightest thing you can do is
say he's a magician.
And through his magic, he's able to separate between families, he's
splitting families up because some are going his way. And so just say
that he's splitting up between a man and his brother, between
tribes and families, a man and his wife, and a man and the rest of
his tribe. That's what you're gonna say that and that, you know,
for the Arabs of that time, your own family was so important for
you, you would assist your own family members, even if
they were wrong, they would treat a woman of their tribe better
sometimes then the wife that they married have another tribe. So
tribal affinity, nationalism, to a certain degree was very strong.
Right? Their patriotism, their racism was very, very strong in
that regard. So if you tell people and that was among the Arabs, in
general, they're very tribal community, if you tell somebody
that this guy is breaking the tribe, that's a major problem,
because that people did not take to that very, very well. So he
said, use that idea instead. But obviously, that wasn't going to
affect them. That wasn't going to affect people. You know, that
wasn't enough. So the problem is a lot of some would read.
So you know what they started saying, as Allah subhanaw taala
mentions in the Quran as well Allah has recorded what they said,
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Fi hill I like them dagli Boone, they started telling one another,
the disbelievers they started saying that don't listen to this
Quran rather do lower in there, which means just do banter. Make
noise during his recitation, so that maybe you can dominate and
you can remain upper on the upper level. So when the Quran is being
recited, please go there and make lots of noise. So that the passes
by the newcomers the other tribes who are freshly, you know,
visiting, as Maka, maka, Rama and who are listening to the Quran
cannot hear what he says. That's where they tried to do they try to
drown him out. And that's what people do nowadays, as well, they
try to drown you out. You know, I've seen a number of, you know,
talk shows online where the person is trying to say, but they drown
you out. Right? So this is exactly what they this is what exactly
humans do. And that's what they were doing.
So whenever the price I was on would recite, they would cook,
they would they would start making noise, right? So that people
couldn't hear the Quran properly, because all the shouts and shrieks
and the capping and all the rest of it.
These were the plays they did this was what they tried to do.
Now, I give you a few other examples. I'm really taking
understandings, because I want you to understand this from history,
and you can check up all of this information. Right? This is not
something this has been reported down, you know, through authentic
sources. Now, among the other experts, I mean, the ones that we
just discussed, they were experts, but they were still enemy and they
did not become Muslim. Those who actually became Muslim from the
experts. There were many of them. So there's libido. IGNOU Robbia,
Amedee. He became a very good Muslim. Then you had Khabib Rizzo.
Hayden, I've mentioned his story in a few places. I don't have the
time to mention his story. He was a arch enemy. And he, you know,
wasn't going to come to Islam and everything. But eventually he just
found that life is really, really tough. So he came and he sought
forgiveness, he thought he'd never be forgiven because he used to say
bad things about the Prophet sallallahu sallam, but the price
is Allahu Allah, your Salam actually forgave him and gave him
an honor by giving him his, his tunic. And mashallah that tunic
seems to still exist in Turkey today in the Topkapi Palace, right
after all of those years. Then you had Hasani blue thermometer. The
Allahu Anhu is a major poets of the time and there were many
others who became Muslim as well. All of this shows that the Quran
is a miracle that it literally took
They're best who appreciated what he did? There's the story of
Amara, the Allahu Anhu. I've said it many times in different
lectures. Amara, the Allahu Anhu. When he was rich, he he was
effected by two stories. One was spiritual health. Right? He just,
but that didn't he didn't become Muslim then that just gave him the
seed of Islam. And then after that, the second verses that he
listened to were at his sister's house, right when he went and beat
her up when he heard that she'd become Muslim. And then he said,
Okay, fine. After he saw her * state, he got some mercy in
his heart. He said, Okay, show me what you've been reading. So, they
pulled out some papers and under it was Taha, the surah Taha was
written on there, and that took him over. Then you have the story,
which is related by Imam Muslim in his Sahai about a Buddha or the
Allahu Anhu is brother, a Buddha, the Allahu Anhu. He sends his
brother, his name, his name was always right, his brother's name
was nice. And he came to Makkah because they heard that there's
some man in Makkah, mocha Rama claiming these things right,
because the news was spreading. So when as was when he came to Mocha,
mocha Rama, and he, you know, took stock of the situation. And then
he came back and he said to his brother, a Buddha, lucky to Rachel
and be Makita Allah de Nick. Right? Yes, I'm wondering Allah
Azza, who I've observed, the only looks like he was already
convinced. So his brother says, I came back from Makkah, and I've
met this person who seems to be on a similar religion to yours who
claims that he is the Allah has sent him as a prophet as a
message. Remember, they believed in Allah right? They believe, but
they just couldn't believe that a person like them could be sent as
a prophet, right? So I said, a Buddha the alarm said, what are
people saying about him? You know, what are people saying about him?
So
people are saying that he's a poet. That's the journal. There's
just a poet, like he's a wonderful poet, or he's a soothsayer, and
some are saying that he's a magician. Now, remember, one thing
was that Oh, nice, was actually a poet, an expert, poet. So when he
said, That's what people are saying. But he says, when a says,
Look, I've heard the speech of soothsayers, this is not of their
speech. And I have tried to place his words on the different scales
of poetry. And it is not appropriate for anybody. Nobody
can claim later that this is poetry. I know my poetry. This is
not poetry. This guy is not a poet.
Then he said, Wallahi in the hula Sadiq Khan, we're in the Halacha
v1, by Allah he is right. And all of those who are saying, he's a
poet and so on, they are wrong and they're liars. Now, this is a
witness from somebody who is not a Muslim.
Then we've got the story of Jabez nomoto him
and how his heart turned to Islam. Once he listened to the Surah,
what to Wakita be missed to right, and that was being recited in
solid mercury. So Imam Buhari relates this in Asahi from his
son, right Mohammed Abdullah juvie that his father had submitted to
the via Salah ism Jaco filmography Vitor, I heard the voice or some
reciting through the Turin Maghreb and that is when the Islam crept
into my heart. So what I'm trying to tell you is that the Quran in
itself was so powerful, that is the miracle it is the word of
Allah, that okay the prophets of Allah is someone his personality
and his demeanor and his counseling and the way he spoke to
people and His compassion, His mercy and so on. That was another
aspect there. But the Quran in itself had so much power, and the
fact that the person was reciting it makes it even greater. But so
many people have come to Islam through the Quran, both at that
time. And even now, people come to Islam without understanding
Arabic, just the translation of the Quran.
We've got, you know, this is taking longer than I thought, but
this is really interesting. I'm going to mention to just about one
person.
Well, let me just mention two two stories. I know we've gone a bit
over time, two or three stories about more recently now in the
last 100 years, Christian experts or expert Arab experts who are not
Muslim, right, some of them became Muslim, some of them did not
become Muslim, but they all expressed about the Quran. So for
example, you've got this guy called Jabbar doumitt jabber
Doumit. I think he was Lebanese. Alright. And he is considered
he's, he's considered to be one of the biggest Arabic literature
scholars and scholars of Arabic literature, right, being an Arab
himself, but his Christian, his name is alostar. Jabbar. doumitt.
Right. And he used to actually teach a beloved eloquence, right
of Arabic language at the American University. Right. And he's got a
book called How it will hasten he he himself says
He had to confess how great the Quran is from an Arabic
perspective. Rafi says about this, regarding the edges of the Quran
from another person. Another one of the literature scholars of
Arabic was he was Ibrahim. He has g. Ibrahim Al ESG, who is the
Lebanese Christian philosopher, poet and journalist. I mean, if
you do a search online, you'll find him Ibrahim Al y a Zed J AI,
right? He's a Lebanese Christian philosopher, poet, journalist and
a number of other things. Right. And he is considered to be one of
the best of the Arabic scholars that in recent times. So
he's one of the best Christian Arab scholars. Let's put it that
way. He says at the beginning of his book called natural rights.
Right? He says the same thing about the beloved of the Quran,
that it is amazing.
And then Rafi who's reporting some of this stuff, he says, I asked
another of their great historical poets actually write this.
Khalil Metatron His name is Khalil, Khalil Mitra. And he they
all Arabs, right, but they're non Muslim. Right? And
he said, We don't know of any poet that can actually compare.
We don't know of any poet that is similar to Khalil Metatron. Right
of his level. But even Helene Metatron has basically said the
same thing that his teacher Ibrahim Ilyas ji said. So he was a
student of this liberal Himalayas you but they were both just
completely overtaken by the Quran.
And he said after that for any Arab who wants to read the Quran,
you know, as long as he's got a fair, just mine, right and an
intelligence and a taste for Arabic, they will understand that
this is what it is. Likewise, there is another there was another
contemporary person who may have died now. I think his name was
Nicolas Hannah. Nicolas Hannah, right.
He recited the Quran. So he actually started reciting the
Quran. Now he was not a Muslim. And it just pulled him in. Right
and he took over him and mashallah, he became Muslim.
He became Muslim. And he actually wrote this huge poem and he's got
he's a celebrated Arabic author. He wrote this huge poem, in which
he calls minhwa. He'll Quran from the revelations of the Quran. You
can check this online, you just do a search for minhwa He'll Quran
from Nick Nicola Hannah, right. And at the beginning, I mean, I
don't want to read this whole poem to you, but it's quite amazing. He
says, caught up to the Quran of *, Annie. I read the Quran and
he bowled me over what the unmarked to be for eternity. It
basically just for eternally means it just amazed me. It just took me
it just tested me in every way. So I told Kira, then I read it again
for Armand when I became a Muslim and to build Quran Allah, Allah
he'll Aleem, I began to I became a believer in the the mighty divine
Quran Wabi Rusu Rasul Allah Muhammad who, and also with the
messenger, who carried the Quran and Nabil RBL Karim, a Mullah as
far as Allah is concerned for meanness serrania de worry what is
to Iman EB? If it comes when it comes to Allah, this is a really
interesting idea. He says, then from my Christian heritage, I
inherited his understanding. I inherited an understanding of him.
So I knew about Allah before, but what Bill for Connie Adama had or
other Maha Eman but it's through the Quran that this Eman in Allah
that already had from Christianity has now become magnified. What
gave a woman were more interested in karate been a day on Zulu house
to have cool Lehane How can I not become a believer? When the
miracle of the Quran is right in front of me? I witnessed it and I
feel it every moment we'll hear more jeiza It is a miracle luck,
Buffy Ethel Marchesa, but not like any of the other miracles of the
prophets, more jisa to Ilahi Illa here holida that don't loop enough
see her anoxia This is the beautiful but I think I have
translate this. It says it is a divine miracle which is enduring
forever, which indicates upon itself by itself. It calls to
itself by itself. Well, it used to be hijacked in demain you had this
one? Oh, you Bashir will be her. It doesn't have it has no need for
anybody to speak about it to you or to give you glad tidings from
it. You read it yourself. It will speak for itself. He used to also
say what come with that idea and a sub Illa Allah or machine Oshawa
his wages robot Ahilya have been hunky either at Nokia says
How many have other religions plus religions right have had a need
for Obama and forgive us of blood typing and for proofs and all of
the other things to encourage people to adhere to that religion?
Because what they had in front of them in all of those religions was
not something that could Bode you over and could convince you.
Right? Um, well Islam as far as Islam is concerned, forgot a honey
and Cooley Daddy can be the Quran, it needs none of those kinds of
other miracles or proofs or whatever, because of the Quran.
The Quran is everything. And then he says, for one level more than
lemon, my lemon what mobile sharing because the Quran is the
most knowledgeable teacher, it is the most guided of those that can
give glad tidings. Well, what a stock OSHA Haven it is the truest
witness will oblah or her job and the most far reaching proof what
Miguel berghahn, same thing, who will Marchesa to Holly the hood
and why the sad almanzora al Maksutov equal is a man, it is the
enduring continuous miracle that you can access and you can
perceive in every time every century will mean Imani. amok,
however, is the hum to Abeokuta Cassie that he had he and it is
based on this deep faith of mine, that I've produced this poetry.
Right. And then he produces his poem, which I'm not going to I
mean, I can read for you but I'm not going to translate it. He says
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enduring limb yes Shubh hoof lumea Shubh Hakata mo that's his poetry
and people have celebrated this. So this is proof from others who
are bowled over just give the Quran chance and convey the Quran
to others. Let them give Quran a chance and may Allah subhanaw
taala accept from this. May Allah allow us to become true scholars
Sorry, I got a bit carried away. Right I know we've taken about
over 10 minutes extra. But in sha Allah it's worth it is speaking
about the Quran and what better to do in Ramadan than to discuss the
Quran Subhan Allah hopefully that has invigorated your faith, and
more so I mean, you already had faith, but in sha Allah what is
done for us is inspired you to learn more about the Quran, Visa
others, right none Muslims and others who are mesmerized by the
Quran, who are completely elated, who are completely beautified. I
mean, why not us? Why not us? So May Allah help may Allah have acid
while you do these classes, if you've got the time, you should
also listen to the 30 day Tafseer you know the at least one juice a
day inshallah or if you've not done so then you should do that
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