Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Virtues of Reading the Qur’an
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Ali Radi Allahu Anhu said the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, the carriers of the Quran will be in the shade of
Allah on the day when there will be no shade except his shade. De
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We are looking at a very specific detail today regarding reciting
the Quran.
Since this is the first day of Ramadan
there's a book that we're producing called Mile Quran Al
Karim by Chef Muhammad Khalid al Husseini, who's one of the great
bodies of Egypt of the last century of the recent century.
So
he's put together all of the Hadith regarding the virtues of
reciting the Quran.
Now hamdulillah many people recite the Quran and Ramadan anyway. But
when I, when I read this, I was very much inspired. Now when
you're doing something, or you're not doing something, and even if
you are doing something and you read, the additional bonuses and
rewards you're gonna get it just makes you feel even better.
Alhamdulillah. So may Allah subhanaw taala, grant us the
Tofik, to recite and to earn this So firstly, the verse that I just
recited to you from sort of Valtor which is verse 29, and 30, Allah
says, Those who recite the book of Allah
established the prayer and give secretly, an openly from what We
have provided them,
they may hope for a trade that will never be at loss, this
business that they're doing, is going to never be at loss. This is
a business with Allah, that is never going to lose. What is that
he will repay them in full and give them extra from His bounty,
because Allah and Allah is Most Forgiving and most grateful.
So that's the verse from Surah 40. Regarding reciting the Quran,
Allah subhanaw taala praises those who recite the Quran in this verse
and shows how great a reward that he's going, they're going to
receive that they're going to receive now what exactly does
reciting mean here? What does he mean by yet Luna Kitab Allah
reciting, it doesn't just mean reading the words with the tongue.
Right? It doesn't just mean that
without any kind of reflection, or deliberation, but it means when
you contemplate it, when you read it, and you contemplate it, and
you reflect over it, and you're moved by it, not just by a great
curry sound. When is that mashallah when some great carries
when they recite you're just moved by the sound, the beauty of the
sound, that's one movement. That's one being moved, but the real
movement is with the meaning. Especially if it's coupled with
the sound okay? We enjoy the Quran. Now let us try to read the
Quran.
With the reflecting
it's being spiritually moved. That's what this that's what this
means. Now
anybody who's moved by the Quran, the meaning of the Quran, they're
gonna act upon it. And this is why I look at what Allah says He says
those who recite the Quran and then they do the prayer. So these
are actions. So Allah Most AI follows this by mentioning the
prayer and giving from giving charity openly and publicly saying
that this is your tiara and this is the trade that's not going to
fail. And Abu Huraira the Allahu Anhu narrates that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Whoever relieves now listen to
this carefully. He mentioned a few things here. He says the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said whoever is
relieves a believer of a difficulty in life. You just help
somebody out, remove their trouble, make a phone call, assist
somebody give somebody something, whatever it is, Allah will relieve
him of a difficulty on the Day of Resurrection.
Ramadan is also a time of great generosity. Allah is very generous
during this month extra generous. The prophets Allah Islam was extra
generous believers are generous, so much sadaqa is being given
during this month. This is the reward that you will get
thereafter that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
Whoever gives respite to a person in difficulty, Allah will give
respect to him in his life in the hereafter. For example, somebody
owes you something and they in difficulty they can't pay you.
Then you say, Okay, I'm gonna give you two more weeks, for example,
that's giving respite. One example of giving respite, then the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Whoever conceals the fault of a
Muslim Allah will conceal him in this life and the hereafter, our
own wrongdoings and shortcomings and defects and
hidden cobwebs will not be revealed in sha Allah, Allah give
us a sitter Allah, Allah protect us. Now, then the Prophet
salallahu alayhi salam said Allah is in the aid of his servant, as
long as his servant is in the aid of his brother, as long as we're
helping somebody Allah helps us. That's why always be helping,
always be giving, always be helping. Then whoever treads a
path to seek knowledge, Allah will facilitate a path for him to
paradise.
Anytime you've come to the masjid to study, now, you've just made a
path for Paradise for yourself. Now the main part here,
know people gather in a house of Allah Most High to recite the book
of Allah and study it together, except that tranquility comes down
upon them. Mercy and shrouds them, the angels surround them. And
Allah mentions them to those in His presence.
In sha Allah, this is exactly happening now. We are here to
study the book of Allah or study something relating to the book of
Allah. So we're also hoping that tranquillity is descending, and
the mercy is
encompassing us and the angels are surrounding us and Allah is
mentioning us. Then he says, Whoever falls behind due to his
deeds will not be brought up to speed by his lineage. You can't
show up by being from a specific family even if you're from the
Sacred Family, from the Sharif family, from the family of the
Prophet salallahu Salam if your deeds are not going to take you
forward. This is a Hadith narrated by Imam Muslim and even no matter
Imam No, he says on this hadith he says that this hadith speaks about
the virtues of fulfilling the needs of Muslims for benefiting
other people in whatever way possible and giving in hardship.
Okay, the next Hadith I'm going to speak about is from Abu Bakr, Radi
Allahu Anhu. The great Sahaba he said is Messenger of Allah, give
me some advice. Advise me. Practice the lessons that have
taqwa, God consciousness.
Because that is the summit and pinnacle of every affair. It will
help you in every situation.
For you it is and then he said the second he said, recite the Quran.
For it is a light for you on this earth and a treasure for you in
the heavens. If no headband relates this, so recite the Quran
understanding.
This next hadith of Anasazi Allahu anhu, transmitted by Muhammad, he
says the messenger of allah sallallahu sallam said there is a
select group of people who belong to Allah. Among people, there's a
select group.
So the Prophet Solomon was asked, Who are they?
Who are these people? He said, the people of the Quran are the people
of Allah and they are his elite. They're his elite forces in this
world.
Another Hadith from Sahih Muslim abou mama Alba Hindi or the Allahu
Anhu said the messenger of allah sallallahu sallam said recite the
Quran
for it will come to its people as an intercessor on the Day of
Resurrection.
The Quran that we recite will be our solicitor, our advocate, our
lawyer in the hereafter it will defend us. It will take us into
paradise and there's many Hadith related about this.
Normally, no Bashir or the Allahu Ana said the messenger of allah
sallallahu sallam said the best act of worship for my ummah is the
recitation of the Quran
but that can't be just recite. It has to be with comprehension.
And it's easy. What we usually tell people in martial a lot of
people are doing this is your recite, but everyday also recite
and reflect over one page.
Reflecting is not easy. It's time consuming sometimes
just easy to recite, especially for the who falls for meaning the
people who memorize the Quran it's very easy to recite, but to
reflect is difficult. In fact, people who memorize the Quran who
know the Quran very well they can actually recite the Quran, even
when doing something else multitask, but you can't reflect
that way. So at least one page a day now this is Ramadan, at least
one or two pages minimum, reflect as well along with your Quran
reading and you will see that your life will just improve because the
Quran contains all of that that was from Imam BRP Ali Radi Allahu
Anhu said the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, the
carriers of the Quran will be in the shade of Allah on the day when
there will be no shade except his shade. De la mia relates to this
carriers of the Quran meaning people who have it at heart who
are always focused on it.
Or do live no Masada, the Allah one who said, the messenger of
allah sallallahu you've heard this hadith This is a very famous
Hadith you've heard this one, that whoever recites one letter from
the book of Allah
will have a good deed.
And a good deed is equal to 10 of its like Allah gives you bonus. So
every one deed you get 10 like it. So every letter gives you 10
deeds.
And then he went to clarify he said, Look, I am not saying that
Alif Lam. Meem is one letter.
Alif is one letter, lamb is one letter, Mimi's one letter. This is
the multimedia generation. So that means just in reading Alif Lam,
Meem you get 30 rewards just the different than Al hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil Alameen that somebody can count that that's hundreds.
Abdullah Hibino Amerindian answer the alarm said the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said, the companions of the Quran will be
told. So in the hereafter if we've read the Quran well with
reflection and practice, in the hereafter when we arrive the insha
Allah will be told, recite and ascend a Quran what a turkey
recite and climb up, recite in a in a good way
as you used to recite in the world for your station in Paradise will
be the last verse that you recite your mama without intermediate
related this so keep reading the high you get that will be your
upgraded paradise.
What does it mean by the companions of the Quran? As herbal
Quran? What does he mean by that? It means anybody who recites and
adheres to it who practices it, the word used here is rattle which
means to recite the Quran without hurrying
with clear pronunciation of its letters. So learn the text read
mashallah a lot of people in Ramadan, they take the tweet
classes because there's more connection with the Quran Ramadan.
So usually after after or something
after fajr different times, spend 510 minutes at least find a
clarity find the teacher, let me correct my Quran because maybe
we're reading in a Persian, Somali, Gujarati Punjabi baton
style, which may have a lot of mistakes, right? So we need to
read it correctly so that we don't make mistakes and we don't change
the meaning without realizing. Right.
For example, in Arabic, cuttlebone means heart and Kelburn means dog,
he received a difference Ahlborn and Kelburn. So if you don't do
collarbone or Kullu
you do kill, it means dog and the heart is changed to a dog. And
that's just a simple example. There's many other things like
that in the Quran.
The reader is told in the hereafter ascend in levels
according to the number of verses of the Quran that you will recite.
So that means whoever recites the entire Quran will end will receive
and attain the highest level of paradise and whoever recites a
part of him, then he'll get that rank accordingly.
So the extent is corresponding to how much you you recite in this
world. Imam Hatami who is a great Muhaddith and commentator of the
Hadith he says that
this hadith by Imam Bay hockey from Aisha Radi Allahu Anhu says
this, the number of levels in Paradise is the same as the number
of verses in the Quran.
Did you know that the number of levels in paradise same as the
numbers of verses in the Quran.
Whoever from among the people of the Quran enters Paradise will
have no rank superior to him, because they in the highest
paradise.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Abu Huraira Diem
reports another Hadith the Prophet sallallahu sallam said that the
Quran will come on Day of Judgment and say Lord, Adorn him, beautify
him
and then that person will be crowned with the crown of
nobility.
Then the Quran will say, Lord, Increase him.
So then he'll be adorned with a garment of nobility now, then it
will say Lord, be pleased with him now, be happy with him.
And he'll be told, now, he'll be told, okay, now you can recite and
ascend,
and he will be given an extra good deed for every verse he recited.
This is the man telling me these narration
got another Hadith of tamiment ivisa. All separate narrators as
well. It's quite amazing how the Sahaba spoke about this. The the
meme at that era, the Allah one said the prophets Allah. Some said
whoever recites 10 verses in a night, just 10 verses in a night
will be given a cantar measure of reward. What's akin bar cantar was
a measure they used to use in those days. But for our purposes,
Akintola is better than the whole world and everything that it
contains. Then on the Day of Resurrection, your Lord will say
recite and ascend a level for each verse.
So then he will recite and ascend the level for each verse until he
finishes all that he has of the Quran. We had five years, 10
years, 15 years, whatever. And then he will be told, hold, like
grip.
So he will hold something and then he'll be asked, Do you know what
is in your hands?
In his right hand will be eternity. Forever being forever
there. You will never coming out of this paradise. You know,
sometimes people go to a five star hotel to a great resort for one
week or two weeks. They know it's going to end eventually.
Enjoy yourself but it's going to end but in this case,
eternity This is yours forever. No. And in his left hand will be
Felicity. This is the Mantovani released this hadith
Abdullah Hypno Amma will answer the Allahu Anhu said the prophesy
Lawson said whoever recites the Quran.
Anybody who recites the Quran regularly, and then he believes
for some reason that there's somebody else who's better than
him, and more exalted than him.
for some other reason that they've got more money or they've got they
look better or they've got a better car or something, you
recite the Quran but you think that that guy with a car or with
some riches or something or position is better than you has
exalted what Allah has belittled is nothing greater than the Quran.
And he has belittled what Allah has exalted you got it wrong. This
isn't to say that you don't work and you don't earn a living. It's
not to say that say that if you've got the Quran, you've got the
highest reward. Then he said, It is not befitting for the carrier
of the Quran to act foolishly as others do, or to become angry as
others do or to become agitated as others do. Rather, he shouldn't be
a person who forgives and pardons due to the virtue of the Quran.
That's what the Quran should do for us and may Allah allow us May
Allah make the Quran do that for us. That's, you know, constant
reading and reflection will teach us these morals and character so
we can become good character like that.
Imam Abu Abdul Rahman salami. So he used to teach people Quran and
if somebody finished the Quran, he would see them before him, put his
hand on their head and say, Now fear Allah, for I know no one to
be better than you. If you act on what you know now.
You have the best treasure. You just have to act on it now.
There's nobody better than you.
Now, there's one of the benefits you get from good recitation of
the Quran. There's a famous Hadith Abu Saeed Al Hodari. Radi Allahu
Anhu he narrates that there was another Sahabi called Hussein
ignore Hoda, who say they know how they,
one day will say didn't know what day it was reciting Quran in his
stable.
Meaning he had a house next door to that you usually if you've seen
in many countries, they actually have like a little room, a little
shack like a stable for your camel or your horse. It's like your
garage. Like imagine you're reciting in your garage. Okay.
He had his son with him. Maybe he was. I don't know where his wife
was, but he had his son lying there next to him. So he's looking
after his son. And he was reciting the Quran.
As he started to recite the horse began to move around. He was
probably held with a with a rope but he started to move around.
And he carried on reciting, and he that the horse is getting excited.
So then who said he stopped?
Because he was scared that this horse might get too excited and
trample or kick the child who was lying with him.
So, then I finished and I looked up, and I saw something resembling
like a cloud above my head,
which some with something resembling lights ascending into
the sky and the end of it I could not see. So this is the experience
he had at night, like lights coming out.
So he comes to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam in the
morning and he said you had a swell Allah. Last night I was
reciting and the horse began to move I carried on reciting and
then the horse but I got fearful of my son he told him the whole
story and then he said I saw this
the in between all of this the prophets I wasn't kept saying you
should have recited you should have recited you should have
carried on reciting because that was a very special experience.
So the prophets of Allah and finally told him, those were
angels that were listening to you. Those were angels that were
listening to you. If you had continued to recite they would
have become visible to the people and no longer veil from them.
Now when we recite the angels also appear then it's just we don't
probably look around to look for them. Have you ever looked after
you recite you look up? Where are the angels? Has anybody ever
looked? Have you tried to look? No. Maybe try to look you might
see them but if not, then they they're right. Has anybody seen
the caramel Khatibi?
The Nobel writers by the way, which one is good ROM and which
one is scatti? Been?
A good question for the Edmonton brothers.
Which one is Kurama and which one is Khatibi?
They both that's really cool. Mashallah. Hamdulillah you got it
right. Some people think this is Karen This is Kathy bean. Hey,
hello Karen. How are you?
Good Robin Kathy bean. Akira I'm just means noble and Khatibi means
writers plural words so they both noble writers. You can give your
own angels if you develop a relationship with them. You can
give them your names, pet names or something. They've been with us
since birth, masha Allah, Allah Allah make us good for them.
The next Hadith from Abu Musa Allah Shadi Radi Allahu anhu, the
messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi salam said
the example of a believer who recites the Quran is like a
Citroen,
not the car. But Citroen is a certain type of fruit, citrus
fruit, right? Has a very good smell and has a very good taste.
So it tastes good and it smells good.
Then the Prophet salatu salam said that example of a believer who
does not recite the Quran
is that of a date.
And dates are good, right? But he's saying
it has no smell dates don't usually have a smell like the
citrus fruit right? But it tastes sweet. But we want both we want to
be like a date, etc. Then he said the example of a hypocrite who
recites the Quran, but doesn't have belief is that of a basil.
Basil, it smells good basil smells wonderful, but it tastes very
bitter. You have to use it very selectively, very sparingly.
That's Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim right this hadith
Imam No, he said that this hadith is actually about the about the
virtue of the one who has memorized the Quran
now look at this one do does anybody have trouble reading the
Quran? Because they struggle with reading in this in terms of the
didgeridoo in terms of because you know, they didn't you know, they
struggle with it. There's a hadith about that. In Sahih Muslim it
shatter the Allahu Anhu reports that the Prophet sallallahu sallam
said the skilled recite of the Quran.
The one who's skilled who knows how to recite the Quran, well,
okay, his reward is that he's going to be with the noble and
virtuous Sephora angels.
The Sephora angels, Sephora Sephora is a very special category
of angels in the hereafter he's going to be with them. This is the
skilled one the one knows that aside, but the one who recites
with great difficulty stuttering while doing so you still try you
don't give up
there's people who say I don't enjoy my prayers on know what's
the point of praying. It comes in practice. You keep praying and
praying and eventually you perfect it. Right? You don't play football
ones that I don't enjoy this because I can't really get get
nearly get to kick the ball. You know, and I never got the ball.
Well, you know, you do have to play a bit more to get used to it
right? So this person difficulty stuttering he gets two rewards.
Mashallah, he gets two rewards, one for reading and one for the
effort and the difficulty
Now which one is better? See the first one. This guy gets two
rewards but the first one the skilled one is going to be with
the sufferer Angel. So that's a very high level anyway, Abdullah
abnormal, but the Allahu Anhu reports that the Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam said,
one should not be envious, like you should never be jealous of
anybody except two people. Now the jealousy is talking about here is
a specific type of jealousy. But you know, when you look at
somebody who's got something and you're like, Man, I wish I had
that thing. Why has he got a why don't I have it? The only allowed
to have jealousy for two people.
One is a person to whom Allah has given the Quran and who lives by
it day and night. If there's a person like that be jealous of
him. Right? And the other one is a person to whom Allah has given
wealth. A lot of people are jealous of people with wealth. No,
this is a person who has been given wealth but he gives it away
Day a day and night Why Shala he's able to give so much and help so
many people man, I wish that was me.
The jealousy spoken about here is not jealousy. Is it two types of
jealousy one is negative jealousy which is man Why does he have you
burn inside and you think why has he got it? He shouldn't have it.
Maybe something bad happened to him?
Positive jealousy is it's called env ELLIPTA in Arabic, which is
that he's got it mashallah, you've got it. I wish I had it as well.
Oh, Allah give it to me as well. I don't want him to lose it. But I
want me to have it as well. That's beautiful, jealous. You can do
that for everything and then anything. But you could do that
for anything. But he's saying here that if jealous, even negative
jealousy, bad jealousy was permitted for anything. It would
be for these things, nothing else, but it's not permitted even for
these things. That's what this hadith means. Like, if you really
want to be jealous of somebody not be don't be jealous of somebody
who's got lots of money or whatever. But the one who gives it
in the path of Allah who is generous and the one who has the
Quran, be jealous of those kinds of people. Bukhari and Muslim this
hadith.
Ibaka thieves said, the great professor in Lucca theory says,
the significance of these hadith is that the one who carries the
Quran should be invaded, like you should really look up to somebody
who has the Quran because such a person is in such a good state
that so one should be envious of them. And, yeah, so may Allah
subhanho wa Taala allow us to think in the right way. May Allah
allow us to think in the right way. The point of a lecture is to
encourage people to act to get further an inspiration, and
encouragement, persuasion. The next step is to actually start
learning seriously, to read books to take on a subject of Islam and
to understand all the subjects of Islam at least at the basic level,
so that we can become more aware of what our deen wants from us.
And that's why we started Rayyan courses so that you can actually
take organize lectures on demand whenever you have free time,
especially for example, the Islamic essentials course that we
have on there, the Islamic essentials certificate, which you
take 20 Short modules, and at the end of that inshallah you will
have gotten the basics of most of the most important topics in Islam
and you'll feel a lot more confident. You don't have to leave
lectures behind you can continue to live, you know, to listen to
lectures, but you need to have this more sustained study as well.
JazakAllah Harun salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.