Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Why the Qur’an Is so Powerful
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My dear respected brothers and sisters, a Salam aleikum, wa
Rahmatullah on this Sunday evening.
May Allah subhanahu wa taala give you the bulk of coming out on this
nice one Sunday, one of the first of the year, may Allah subhanho wa
Taala make this a means of our closest to him. The Hadith that
I've just
transmitted to you. It's a hadith in which it's a very interesting
chain to start with. First and foremost, Imam Muslim relates is
from his teacher kotoba to Busan read whatever took no side quite a
bit to the side then relates it from Leith who then relates from
salaried EB salaried, who relates from Abu Huraira the Allahu Anhu.
So it looks like there's a lot of Sarah in this narration, lots of
slides here, any sides here? I see a few. Mashallah. So, he relates
from Abu Huraira the Allahu anhu, that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam said the following, now listen to this carefully because
this is the crux of what we're going to speak about today. The
prophets of Allah son said Mommy, Nabil, middle MBA, Omar, middle
MBA Mandarin in La Ilaha. at Mammoth Liu, and Ali Hill, Bashar,
we look at the other prophets, they every single one or every
single prophet was given a particular type of
a sign, a miracle, something inimitable, some, something
extraordinary, that rendered the norms, and it was considered
extraordinary. Those were the things that assisted them in
proving their claim to prophecy. And then people accepted that
because they saw this was, this was extraordinary. They believed
in the sign, and thus people became believers of that
particular prophet. So that's what the Prophet sallallahu speaks
about, with regards to the rest of the prophets. Then he continues,
and then he says,
what I have been given, what I have been given, is a revelation.
I've been given away and a revelation,
which was inspired to me or reveal to me and for other Jew, an akuna,
a thorough boom,
or Jew, an akuna, thorough home Tabby and Yeoman piano. And I
hope, and my desire is that I will be
I will be the one day of judgment will the with the largest number
of followers.
So now he's saying that the largest number of followers is
linked to his miracle, which he sets out to be distinguished and
different from the other prophets, miracles. Now if you have to look
at the miracles of the other prophets. When you compare the
miracle of the Quran, to the miracle of the stuff of Musa
alayhis, salam, the stuff of Musa alayhis salam was such that you
had to be there to see it, to see it in action. Otherwise, it's just
the HCA or your knowing all you all we know about it otherwise is
what revealed about it. Otherwise, we never saw it in action. We
never saw the incident took place to take place. Likewise with all
the other with all the others as well. It's very similar. The
Sonoma and it has Solomon his miracles. We don't see it today.
They were temporary. They were they occurred at a particular
time. Many of these, many of these miracles also occurred with
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi. Salam, you look at ASR. Alayhis
Salam, Jesus peace be upon him same kind of thing. He could say
Bismillah blown to a bird made out of clay it would become alive and
fly away. He could kill the leper, which was an impossible thing to
do. Once your skin and your flesh has all kinds of all kinds of with
it and, and and been reduced to nothing and you're down to the
bone. And that's what you call lap
He was able to kill the lepers. However, again, you have to cite
that from your Basara, you had to cite that from your site, your
external site had to take that in. And that had to be an external
kind of experience, which then you would process internally, the
Prophet sallallahu I use on spoke about that, he spoke about those,
but then he distinguished himself by saying that I have been given a
revelation, I have been given a worry, and that worry is something
and then he says, Therefore, for for Hakuna, therefore, I hope to
have the greatest number of following on the Day of Judgment.
Now, that's a that is a very big challenge or a claim or a hope or
a desire. But that's what the prophets Allah Larson said this
hadith Sahih Muslim. Now, if you look at the world today, and you
look at the world since the time of Rasulullah, sallAllahu, in
Islam, and there's always been more Christians. Well, today,
there's definitely more Christians than there are Muslims in a time.
And they also had many, many years before the professor Lawson came
to have had many following greater following. So Christians have been
a large proportion throughout they've lived on this is just one
example. You've got, you've got people who are Jews, you've got
people of other faiths and so on. But if you look at the largest
kind of represented majority of any profit, it's of Jesus, yes, we
understand it's it's changed, et cetera, et cetera, all the rest of
it, but those who claim to who claim to follow Jesus peace be
upon him. Now, though, when the prophets Allah is saying this,
something definitely is going to have to happen, where the prophets
Allah is, and we'll be left with the greatest number of followers,
whether that means in serious followers or whether that is
quantitative, we leave that to Allah subhanaw taala. That's not
what we're speaking about today. Today. The point is that somebody
can question how is the Quran then a living miracle? Now, since many
of you are probably students, because this is the end of kind of
end of session program, as I was told, I'm sure you understand a
bit of a bit about Arabic, so I will be invoking some of these
things. So inshallah you'll be able to follow along. We're trying
to understand today, how is the Quran a miracle? Now, this can be
argued on many fronts. And I'm just going to try to take a few
things today. I don't I don't claim to be exhaustive,
exhaustive. In my research, or in my presentation, in the few
minutes that we've been given, we have very short amount of time,
we're going to look at the fact that I'm going to claim today that
the Quran is a miracle on many fronts, the language that the
Quran was revealed in the language that Allah subhanaw taala used and
chose to translate and compose his eternal speech, which is without
letter, word, sound or language that has existed with Him
eternally this theological discussion, but the but the
language he chose to have his have this final message, descend to
mankind, and then endure for many 1000s of years in sha Allah, that
language was Arabic, and then the Arabic that he chose, and he
composed this Quran is inimitable, and the Quran itself gives that
challenge. So first and foremost, the language itself, the choice of
that language, then that language to have endured is a miracle. I
will, I will, I will expand on this a bit, a bit more later.
Number two, its composition. Its Rhapsody, its style, its northern,
the way it's composed together, the way the words have been linked
together, the choice of the word the usage of that particular
language, then is another miracle. Because that's something again, we
will expound on number three, I would then say that it's script.
It script is special. I may not say miracle here, but it's special
because it wasn't done by Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, it was composed by Earthman, or the Allah Who under
oath manuscript, the way we have it. Number four, its
pronunciation. Its pronunciation, the way it's, it's articulated.
That's another miracle. Because we articulate it today, as we have
articulated it for 1400 years, And subhanAllah the reading that we
just had, really, I thought, subhanAllah that's such a
beautiful reading. I don't I didn't see who was reading but
whoever it was, didn't sound like an Arab, sorry, could pass as an
Arab, right? could pass a narrow sorry, if I offended you with that
slip. Right? So could definitely pass an atom and there's reasons
for that, which inshallah explained as well. Then number
five, its preservation is a miracle. So it's a miracle in
terms of its preservation, and how everything has been facilitated in
terms of having it preserved in the various different ways of
preservation, Allah subhanaw taala has made that a miracle as well.
And then number six, maybe the last point that I'm going to talk
about today or try to speak about today, but definitely not the last
because there are many other aspects is its revelations and
discoveries. What it what it what it expounds what it reveals these
revelations, that's another miracle which day by day, new
things are coming up. But again, that's something that many people
know about. Let's take the first point the language of
The Arabic language. Now, in the recent times, there's been a lot
of exposition on the Arabic language and the beauty of it, et
cetera, et cetera. What I'm going to focus on today is first and
foremost, what we know is that the Arabic that the Quran is composed
in is very much a living language. Of course, the Quran and its own
composition is a divine composition, which is unmatched,
unparalleled, its inimitable, meaning it's the Quran itself
gives the challenge 10 sorters bring 10 sources like it, bring
one sorta like it, bring an eye, you know, bring, bring something
like it that you can that could match it. Many attempts have been
made in the past, but unfortunately, nothing parallel
them. And its influence was its influence was great, which we'll
speak about in the in the second point. The other thing is that the
meaning of each word of the Quran, nothing is our cake. Yes, some
words may not be used as often today, as they were then. But they
are still living words that we know about where it's documented
as to their meaning, you don't have to speculate on their meaning
in the sense that it's been documented since the earliest
times. Now this is where I get a bit technical. So bear with me,
what I want to speak about is that when you look at Hebrew, for
example, Hebrew is pretty much a dead language until the State of
Israel was born. And then they revived the language. In fact, the
Bible, the original evangel, rather, that was that was
originally in Aramaic, which is a dialect of the which is a Hebrew
dialect. Nobody speaks that today. When you look at the earliest
versions of the Bible, today, you have Latin, so Latin and Hebrew,
these are some of the earliest languages that they have with for
these other scriptures, which, unfortunately, are not living
languages anymore in the way that they were then. And thus, this
also when it comes to lexicography, Philology, and in
terms of composing Lu hot, which means dictionaries, and
dictionaries to try to try to understand and expound on the
words and the usages, and lexicons etc. This is something relatively
recent, when it comes to these other languages Arabic, I mean,
let me explain to you that in terms of the published works, that
we have, you know, forget about works that are not extant, which
these published works took from they are very early. For example,
if you look at Sahil Buhari on many occasions, Kitab tafsir Imam
Buhari will quote from ignore, ignore adversity Hola, Juan.
That's such a such a word means such and such generally these
experts expositions are only given these definitions are only
provided for those words, which are difficult to understand
otherwise, what's the point of it, or if they're homonyms where they
could mean more than one one thing and then ignore buzzworthy? Allah
Hans perspective has given us some other Sahabi. Likewise, when you
look at the Tafseer of poverty, he has changed that he has isnaad
chains that reach back to the Sahaba in explaining what these
words mean. So it's a very much old, it's a very much preserved
language from a point of historicity. So even the meanings
of each word are there, then when you go into the publish works on
Philology, and lexicography, in terms of lexicons and so on. We
start I mean, today, you can you can have, you can read a line,
which is one of the earliest works that are still available today, a
line of Helene Libnah Ahmed Al fahidi Al bacillary, the button
scholar helenium no Amma the famous grammarian he died in 170
Hijiri. His book called A line is available today published you can
you can buy a copy you can read a copy even on line number two, you
have LG LG Chem, which is a bomber Shuja a che Bernie is a mogul of
che Barney he is he died in 206. Again, his book is available today
for you for you to for you to read. There's a number of them.
I'm just gonna quickly go through them you have as Mina, what will
be a tilde Helia Mohammed Al quatro, again. 206 Hijiri. Then
you have this amazing book, which is called a SHA, what is the SHA?
What is SHA mean?
What is a Sha Sha on a shirt on a shirt? Oh,
sorry. It's the plural of it's a plural
Schatten
it's a pool of Schatten. So what is it now? Schatten is sheep. So a
shirt is sheep. This is by none other than the great scholar one
of my favorite US Marine Abu Saeed Abdul Malik Abdul Karim al Asmaa
who died in 216 Hijiri. He writes a whole book where he discusses
about 70 different terms that they use for the sheep in Arabic.
That's early on, he decided to compose this is actually one of
the original codifies of the Arabic of the era of Arabic
lexicography. And that's not the only book he wrote the book on the
Father, Son on the horse and a number of other subjects. Now,
this is
Initially they weren't full dictionary starting from Elif
Berta, they actually were on different subjects just discussing
the words for a particular item or, or an animal or something of
that nature. Now, obviously that must have been important for him
to have done this, following him in 224 Hijiri. There's the famous
scholar abroad obaidul Qasem, Abu Salam, great scholar of Baghdad.
He's originally Hiroshi right and he's from Al Baghdad, he wrote a
Scylla a weapons so that must have been a whole exposition on
weapons. He also has a hurry Bal Musa enough and hurry will Hadith
that's three books on lexicography that early on. Then following him,
you have Elkins, Louis Finley Sunil Arabi, Al Kensal Luca we
Philistine al Arabi by Abu use of Yaqoob no sick kids who died in
244 Hijiri. Then you have a number of others al Jarrah theme Lipno
katiba deanery, this ignore kotoba deanery is a heavyweight when it
comes to again Arabic lexicography. He has one of the
four books which ignore Khaldoon has considered to be the Almohads.
The absolute basis for all works after them. And those four books
ignore Khaldoon says that I've heard this from our show you in
the majestic majority swirl, he says that the soul of this
science, the fundamental books of the science, they are four, they
are four books, and that is a double Qutab liberal kotoba. I
read the introduction to this book. It's an amazing book,
essentially, it's a book on usage. You know, like today, you have the
Oxford
Dictionary of usage, don't use this term, you know, where there's
two similar terms where people generally misunderstand, right?
The usage of a particular term or confuse it with another, it's a
clarification of all of that, but you should read his introduction.
He says, The reason I wrote this is I saw people who are in the
courts of the kings, they're writing books that, you know,
they're given expositions of Hadith and so on. And yet I see
them making deadly critical mistakes. And he just goes on to
expose them and says, they make this kind of a mistake, and he is
really really lamenting the situation. And then he produces
this massive book, which is considered the, you know, one of
the basic books that everybody is then is the need of afterwards.
That's the first book ignore katiba His addable kutub, which
means the etiquette of the scribe, how you should write, then he has
then there's al mobile runs Kitab al camel, I'll come in and mobile
that's another one of the great books. Another one is skateable by
Annie with a beam of jarhead jarhead was a martyr city in Akita
when it came to lexicography, just like the machete, who was also
more artistic but when it comes to language, and thus his his his
assessment Bulava is an amazing book as well. So that's the third
one. Then the fourth one is GitHub now version of lib ignore, ignore
a bit early. So these are the four Omaha books. However, when you
look at a full fledged dictionary, you have one, you have one with
the name of lugar Jamara to Laura, this is one of our earliest
dictionaries that we have, and it's available today. He the
person who wrote it was Abu Bakr Muhammad Abdul Hassan IGNOU dirait
as the he died in 321 Hijiri. That's the same year that Imam
Buhari passed away. Actually, no Imam actually passed away. He
passed away 328 Then you have another famous one, which some of
you may have come across. If you look in today's dictionaries, like
listen to Lara, or Tasha ruse, etc, not Handsworth. Right, but
because Hans was a translation and not a translation, but it's a it's
a modern book that was translated on German, a si ha or see her
which is Tasha lava who was a hula Arabiya. This is by Abu Nasir
Ismail, Mohammed Al Joe hurry al farabi, who died in 393 Hijiri.
This is these are early books. Only after seeing these books, the
Jews even decide the Hebrews even decided to develop their own their
own, their own lexical lexicons and so on. They still have to
resort to the Arabic ones because it's kind of from the similar
semantic roots and so on is very interesting. So we have a living
language with the meanings of each word from the earliest time
because you know, the question is that okay, you've got a Quran
here. Now somebody comes to them and says that this is the meaning
that I impose on this Quran. Now we can easily dispel that by by by
confirming it with the earliest with the earliest lexicographers
to see what did they say? What did the Hadith say? So we have a
living tradition, which is enduring until today. So that's in
terms of its meaning and the language now let's move on to the
second point. The second point is it style of composition, the
effective way that the words have been brought together, the sound
that they make, we don't have the time to they've been given
literally a very short time, but the sound that the words make, for
example, la auxin will be omitted. Whether auxin will be enough Silla
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accessible in Santa Ana Nedjma Ivana but aka Delena Allah and so
we are banana, but you read will insert only if Jura Imam. Yes, a
year and a yarmulke Yama and then it changes for either but if
Bulbasaur or husafell camo or Jumia ashrams who will come or
your coal in certain we will make even in Alma for color was Isla
Rebecca Wilma is in court. So with the changing themes, the words
change as well, and there's no way it could be arbitrary or
incidental. It is definitely it is definitely something that has been
designed in that way. And that's the words of the Divine Allah
subhanho wa taala. That is why when the Arabs of the time despite
their severe enmity towards the soul, allah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam in this new Deen that this new religion that he was
professing, despite their enmity towards it, when they listened to
the Quran, they could not help it but be affected, despite all of
the animosity. So that's why they had to stop each other from going
there. I'll just give you one incident in that regard. Omar, the
Allahu Anhu. His conversion is generally attributed to this
incident that he had that took place when he went out to kill
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he was diverted to his
sister's house he beat her up then he felt sorry, he said, Okay, let
me read what you have. And thus it was given to him and then he read
them however, ignore Josie the Baghdadi scholar, he will follow
general Josie he says that no, the seed of it was planted before that
on one occasion, aroma or the Allahu Anhu was not was not going
he had some problem in the house. So he decided to spend the night
outside. You know, today people go to the masjid sit down do test be
if the if the white threw them out, right. I don't know exactly
what happened that day. But he went into the Haram and then he
went to the Kaaba and he saw the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam reciting solid with Quran Quran in solid he was reciting.
And as soon as it came to his ears, it took over him, but he
couldn't openly listen, because that would be totally against his
theme, his life. So he even hid behind the cloth of the Kaaba.
Now, what was very interesting is that on that day, the surah that
was revealed the surah that the prophecy also was reciting was
sort of to her God and her power to my
God, which is the inevitable event. Do you know what the
inevitable event is? So as the prophets of Allah Islam is
reciting this armor, the Allah Allah is just reveling, it's
beautifying his mind. It's taking over his heart is listening, he's
listening. And then spontaneously, he says, he says to himself, he
says to himself, he says, however, will Allah He SHA,
this man by Allah has to be a poet and the prophets, Allah Larson
recited the next verse, which is at the end of circle HealthDay
says Wolmar, who will be called Felicia Pauline, Amma took me
noon. It is these are not the words of any poets. So little do
you believe? So? Then, Amara, the Allahu Anhu thinks to himself, I
remember what it is, is that when you see something, we generally
humans interpret what they see by what they know what they believe.
You're not going to interpret something in an extra ordinary,
you're going to try to fit it into something you already know. So now
he's thinking Bell worka him, then he must be a soothsayer. He's not
a poet, that he's a soothsayer. And the next verse For those who
know the surah is whether we call him Kalina, Mirtha, that Gon, the
zillo mirror of Beloved, I mean, neither is it the words of a
soothsayer, so little do you think and reflect,
it is revealed and zeal when azul It is revealed from the Lord of
the worlds and it says that that's where the Eman crept into his
heart the seed was planted, but it takes a while. That's why when you
give dower don't expect immediate changes, our responsibility is to
plant the seed and then try to nurture it not to try to plant the
seed and get it to grow at the same time. This is the biggest
mistake that many of us make, especially those who have a bit of
shit and a bit of harshness about them. They they want to make come
and make a change straightaway they are military This is called
military Dara and it's not right you plant the seed nurture it and
then let it come up and hopefully will come up if you put the right
things inshallah with the trophy will come up. So if no Josie says
that's it, this is the mesmerizing effect of the Quran and its its
composition embro pace, Imran will case is the famous Joe Healy poet
who was one of the best his more Aloka his poet a poem was one of
the best of those that were put on to the Kaaba and chosen and agreed
upon khlifa An upcoming Decra Habib infohio milli and then he
carries on like the it's Allah Mia poem. So every ending of the whole
poem Islam lamb lamb Lili, Lili is quite interesting, although it's
about
So you know some beloved movies and so on and and fighting and war
and so on like that. We'll have fun by the way Tara, Abraham
escuela Tunica, sir gingerly Rehabil, Quran felly and so on and
so forth. So now, after the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam came and the Quran was revealed, and people began to
listen to this amazing novel of the Quran, and the beautiful
composition, slowly, slowly, they realized that this is something
else. So slowly, slowly, although many of those original poets had
died and left their inheritance, they began to take off those
poems, because now something else that just come to surpass it. One
was remaining of debt that was enrolled paces poem. It remained
up there. His sister, who was his inheritor, refused to take it
down. She reckoned that there was nothing yet as comparable to it
that had come to force her to take it down. Then, when she heard the
verse where Kayla doubler in Cuba summer, Cleary will lead on all
the rules that are a little Judy, was the word earlier, Judy europei
LeBor, then little cognitiva the mean, which is speaking about new
Harley salon, at the end, how Allah subhanaw taala speaks about
the ending of the flood. And he says to the earth, what are the
blurry it when I translated into English? It sounds so simple. It
sounds simplistic, in fact, yeah, you're aren't Oh land, oh Earth,
take your water back. Take your water back, Oh, heavens, stop your
water from coming down. And then the ship came to a standstill were
called the UL UMRA, and the matter was decreed and decided and
completed, then saw nothing in our in English. But when you read it
in Arabic, it says that within these 21 or so word letters, this
is such a Najeeb composition, that there are about 21 different types
of rhetorical, rhetorical rhetorical points that have been
used here to beautify and make this word so effective. When she
heard this, she went and she took her poem, her brother's poem down
as well. These are the same words that influence somebody else.
There was another great Persian, who again, wanted to try to take
the challenge of the Quran to compose something. So what he did
was for an entire year, he was trying to compose something. Then
one day as he was going past a house, he heard a child reading
inside the same verse, And when those words hit his ear, he
decided to just go back into everything up, and he said, this
is definitely in in her Illa coluna Bashar, this is definitely
not the words of any human, this is inimitable, this is a morphism
so when you ask what some what Jesus, how is it a miracle, it's
an enduring miracle, because it will continue to continue to, to
challenge people. And that is why there are people and you hear the
you know, even recently, there was in The Telegraph, a recent article
about number of converts, one of them says, I was a racist, I used
to follow the BNP etcetera, etcetera. I started reading the
Quran and I saw it to be totally different.
When you start reading the Quran goes beyond all biases, because it
talks to the heart, it pulls the courts to the heart, it speaks
about such universals that apply to every human being. And that's
why one can but you know, one has to be affected by it. That's,
that's that's the way that if you look at the Quran, it's constantly
asking you to think that's why many of us the majority of non
speaking Arabs, and even those Arabs who don't think they
unfortunately are the great last, despite the fact that mashallah
they have the beauty of Islam and the bounty of Islam if they don't
know Arabic, if people are convinced about Islam by reading a
translation of the Quran, then can you imagine if they were to
understand the Arabic and to learn it directly from there? So I would
say that yes, it may be difficult but I would keep on to try to get
to that goal of inshallah understanding the words of Allah
subhanaw taala directly in the medium that he revealed it in.
So that's the point of the Quran, it gets to the core of the heart,
it pulls it pulls it challenges it makes you think it says help him
with the cure is there somebody to think to go to the to understand
to reflect now let's move on to the next point it script is
special. We're speaking about the Earth Mani hut, the way the Quran
is written. Now if any of you have a Quran on you, way Oh, when you
go check house just sort of refer to her is written. Like for
example, let's just take the word hula acre the word hula is written
with an F and then a wow, Hamza, and then a while now that wow is a
silent Wow. So you have signed letters in Arabic and there's a
reason for them. Those who understand the ELMO resume, they
will understand the reasons behind these things. I'll just give you
one example. When you have the first insert refer to you have
Maliki omit been as we read it in our era of Hopsin ausimm. We read
it Murni Kiyomi. Dean. However, if you look at the words, they're not
written as meme, Elif Lam cuff,
they're actually written as meme learn curve
And the reason why it's written as meme lamb kerf is because one of
the most beautiful things about Arabic why it makes it so succinct
and so powerful that in a few words you can say so much. And in
a few words you can write so much and give so many meanings is
because unlike English and many other languages, the vowels are
not letters. There is no A E I owe you big A, I owe you you know, you
don't have it doesn't take up a letter space. Our vowels in Arabic
are literally ashcan. They're just they're just lines your fat Hakka,
Adama and your sukoon and your double Photron your double, you
know, and yeah, and your double, you know, your double consonants
and so on and so forth. That takes a three letter word and rather
make it five and keeps it at three. That's why it is so
succinct, so pithy. So particular, so efficient, streamlined
language, beautiful. So the script is special. When I say Melly
Kiyomi Dean, the reason why Earth Nana, the Allahu Anhu had it
written like that, under Obama, the Obama has generally agreed to
keep the script in the same way. So today if you want to produce a
new Quran, you have to keep the same script, because it allows for
all seven Cara to be recited from it. So four of the seven Imams
that read many Kiyomi Deen, they can read and the minority which is
us, the three Imams read Maliki we can also read it by putting a
standing Fatah
putting a small Elif on top so he becomes Maliki otherwise this
medic here with him. And many of the other words as well. I like
that the way they read salatu salam ala tune, the reason why
Salah tune is written with a wow, in traditional writing, right? Sod
learn while the world is silent, but it's not as silent for us
because we don't read it. But those who read it plural, then
it's not silent for them, it comes into action. It's quite an amazing
science just to understand that and one day, maybe inshallah
you'll have the trophy to read that as well. So it provides a lot
of Arabic provides a lot of flexibility by which it's able to
provide that kind of effect that it does. It's almost as if every
aspect of it was designed by Allah subhanho wa Taala ready for the
Quran to be revealed in that language. Because the Arabic
language was not formulated at the time the Quran was revealed, it
was formulated way before that. And subhanAllah why they were
chosen over anybody else is because they considered themselves
to be very articulate. And they considered all the IgM to be non
articulate. So you had Tao is given through the mouth most of
the time. So Allah chose these people who had a lot of endurance
because of living in the desert. And they had a language in which
they were really proud of. And they took a lot of pride in it.
And they were very articulate. And that's why they were able to be so
effective there is wherever they went as the most amazing things.
All of these things require a lot more study for us to really
understand it. Let's move on quickly to the last few points.
The fourth point is the pronunciation, the intonation, the
way we read it. And again, this is the same thing. Yes, we have the
Gujarati reading and the Bangladeshi reading and the Somali
reading and we're going to have these types of the Egyptian
reading. You know, there's lots of types of Egyptian reading, by the
way. Kareem Abdul Basit and dementia we and Hindawi they don't
represent how everybody reads in Egypt, by the way, you know, just
just to let you know, it'd be very surprising if you heard some of
the way they read. So
however, the way that the Quran was read, then 1400 years ago, it
still exists today because of our isnaad system. This is the one
subject the one science that you cannot learn from a book. You can
learn the rules, but you can't learn the ways of articulation as
to where the points of articulation that Maha is where it
comes from, how it's recited. And one Hadith is really important in
this regard. The Prophet sallallahu sallam said it Karole
Khurana below Hoon Allah Arab ikura or Khurana bailor Hornell.
Arab recite the Quran, in the intonations of the Arabs. So don't
come with a Pakistani reading. Don't come, you know with some
other kind of reading from you know from some other language
because that just won't cut it. That won't be right. That's why
you're given ijazat for example, I have an ijazah in Kerala that goes
back to Rasulullah sallallahu, and through 30, through 30 People in
between a chain of 30 people. So this is what you have you have
chains even in Kerala. Right. Some of you may have that. But that's
what it is to focus on trying to get it to be read so that the
miracle of reciting the Quran is still the same. That's a miracle
on its own the pronounciation of it as well.
Now, to move on
preservation, and this is something that there's no need to
expound on really because the preservation we know that the way
Allah subhanaw taala has has facilitated the preservation of
the Quran that the preservation of it becomes a miracle. Another
aspect of this miracle. So what you have is Allah says what
occurred yesterday in the Quran, Allah Vickery. verhaal. Me Medaka
he claims him he he announces this himself that look, it's going to
be easy. We've made
Did easy Is there anybody to take it on? Is there anybody to record
it and to take it and reflect on it? Allah says we're in NIDA,
hula, half Elune. We're going to preserve this unlike the other
books where we didn't make this promise because it was part of the
grand scheme of things. But this one we promise it will endure
until they have judgment. Now, you have in the time of Harun Rashid,
we're speaking about second century, Harun Rashid is a great
Khalif suddenly this father comes in with a very small child like an
infant nearly look like just older than an infant you know, sometimes
they look very young. Sometimes they look they look a bit older.
This one very young. And the father said to him, Can you can
you read for me? He's a half is of the Quran he's knows the whole
Quran
right? So how can we she said, Okay, let's test him. So the
father says to him read now you can understand from his answer how
old this kid was. He said to him only if you give me some sweets
sweet meaning Saqqara some kind of crude sweets that he didn't have,
you know, the wrapped sweets and you know in those days, but if you
give me a sweet I'll read if you give me something sweet or is it
okay, I'll give you something. He tested him from three or four
places. And he knew every place with you know, it was playing
around is reading not a problem. Now this is not something new to
us because we have this today as well. This is another miracle. My
own teacher, I know his children, at least two of them finished the
Quran at the age of five and a half to six and I'm not this is
not an exaggeration This is not third hand a second hand the his
daughter who's much older now she was my classmate when she was that
old. My he put her to study and now a teacher.
This Mufti Shabir sub of of darlin bury his, his, all of his children
or half is of the Quran. And most a lot of them finished when they
were five and a half, six and seven years old. And that's not a
joke.
Then what you have, in fact, his wife became a half is after they
got married.
So nothing is impossible. Nothing is impossible. This is a it's a
miracle for those with a hammer to go after. You're only
shortchanging yourself if you think you can't do it.
Right? If you can memorize football scores and know this,
that and the other, then you can do this. People take three years
to do the knowledge to just become a London cab driver. Three years
to do heads of the knowledge they will call it the knowledge because
it is so big. I tell the guy there's one guy I knew he was
doing SMA you need to memorize the Quran. It'll be easier.
So then you have
people who've memorized in small amounts of time, again, that I
consider it's not gonna happen to everybody, but it's a miracle on
its own. A great shake of India Kasim Kasim nano tree, he was he
was only about 40 Something when he died, so he had a very short
life. On one occasion he was on his way to hygiene those days they
used to go for Hajj from the Indian subcontinent by ship. So it
took a few months, Ramadan was coming they had left before
Ramadan to make it there for the Hajj. When it became when it was
coming to Ramadan. There was this discussion who's going to lead us
in Tarawih prayer, know her father, he felt really bad. He
says I'm a scholar, and I'm not a half east of the Quran. As soon as
Ramadan began, he used to learn one juice a day and do taraweeh in
the evening. And in 30 days he was done.
That's amazing. That is amazing. But there's even more amazing
things.
There's another scholar of the older time or of the earlier times
he was from the blue. He was from the Colby tribe. And he was
sitting in a gathering in which in which it was they were talking
about the different scholars there and saying this guy is a big URL
in disguise a half is of the Quran, but not on the island. This
is an expert in this when it came to him. They said he's a big
scholar, but he's not a half as of the Quran. That hurts him that
hurt. So he went and he memorized the Quran in three days.
Now, look, I'll tell you the secret there. Right when you say
you memorize the Quran three days, this is not like some kid who's
never seen the Quran, right? Only read it once through and he's
gonna memorize the three we're not talking about. We're talking about
somebody who probably knew some sorrows. I'm thinking I hope I'm
not under estimating him. Right. But this is what I think as an
alum you're you know, you're going to learn things you're going to
know versus you've read Quran etc. So you're familiar with it. My
mother was not a harvest of the Quran, but she'd read it so much
that literally she would take my mistakes while I was reading.
She'd be in the kitchen, kitchen cooking, and she would be taking
my mistakes and I'm reading with the Quran and I'm trying to learn
I'm making a mistake she has taken my mistakes out because she just
read it so many times. Right so there are people like that they
just not formal her father of the Quran, they informal her father,
and you know, the other great miracle of this thing is that the
majority of the whole
files of the Quran are non Arabs. Probably Probably. That's, that's
not a exhaustive study claim that I'm making. But I think so I'll
tell you why, from my experience in studying in the Middle East
elsewhere in the Middle East has less Hellfires than your India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, or any single of those countries. In
Syria, they don't you don't get many profiles. Neither do you get
them in Palestine, as many as proportion as you know, the
interest that we have with you, everybody has to become a harvest
of the Quran and right. It's not like that. The only other places
where it's like that is in Morocco, and Algeria and those
places, that's where it happens there. They focus on memorization.
So there it's like the subcontinent. But when it comes to
the Middle East, it's not like this. Maybe even in Saudi, it's
not like that Allah Allah. So we have a huge amount of people at
different ages, memorizing here sitting here, I'm sure there are
many who are fans of the Quran that are just sitting here. If
this is not a miracle, then what is it? So in every aspect of this,
it's a miracle. And finally, I'm just going to speak about one more
thing, which is the revelant are the revelations of the Quran. And
again, this is probably something that's always discussed scientific
revelations, this that under the Quran, the science and so on. So I
don't want to go into it into too much depth but just one point that
really strikes me, Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, speaking
about Pharaoh, and when the when the sea had opened up when the
river or when the Bani Israel crossed over. And Allah subhanho
wa Taala says to the pharaoh, he says Eliot Coleman, Rolla, G can
be better, Nika Lita, hakuna lemon Khalifa. Today, I'm going to give
you respite with your body so that you become a sign for the people
off to you. This was 1400 years ago, mankind
learned this from the Quran that Allah is claiming, I'm going to
give you respite. I wonder what the tafsir the Allamah were doing,
then, as to what that meant? There must be some kind of respite. No,
mommy had been discovered until then, when did Howard Carter
discover the mummies he discussed discovered about 150 years ago, in
the 18th, you know, 18, something. So until then the Muslims still
believe that verse, but come the 18th century, or 19th century. And
maybe it's our level of Eman that is not strong enough. So we need
those kinds of revelations to support our iman, these mummies
are discovered.
And subhanAllah, you've got Ramses, a mentor, whoever it is,
whichever it was the one at a time Musa alayhis salam, he's there.
Now the age the Egyptians are making money from him.
They are, they are making money from him and from so many other
things, because everything from a needle, everything from a needle
to his chariot, is there in a fire flow Museum, and so many more
artifacts that they don't even have on display, and the
Egyptians, it brings them revenue. And you at the time I went, I had
to pay 40 Egyptian pounds to get into the museum as the ticket. And
then on the second or third floor as some of you may have been know
that there's another room where you have to pay 90 Egyptian pounds
more than double the price. It was probably different now, but that
was then about six or seven years ago to go and see the mummies
there's about eight or nine mommies there.
I'm just looking at this and I'm thinking what a Quran What did
Allah say? He says, I'm going to give you respite. And he gave him
such a respite that not only did he give him respite, but he gave
his chariot respite. And he had everything of his preserved down
to the needle and mirror. And that is 4000 years ago.
We're talking about something from 4000 years ago.
That is what we're speaking about. That's the power of the Quran.
And there are many other miracles. So when the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa salam says that the the what I was given as a sign is a
revelation, that is an enduring, enduring miracle, that was not
based on a particular time and temporary, that had to be
witnessed with the eyes only. But this the Quran is something that
has to be reflected with the basilar with the inner sight, with
the inner understanding. And as people continue to do this, and
they continue to be beautified with this, and they enter the
faith, and they join the OMA of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam. This will increase. And especially when isa Ali Salam
comes, when he clarifies when he comes and he for his mission in
the world, then everybody will become a Muslim. But one thing
that has to happen if the Prophet salallahu Salam has said that I
hope to be with the largest following on the Day of Judgment,
I guarantee you it's gonna happen because Allah subhanaw taala has
never let down his profits. And I don't expect him to do that in
this regard. So we have our faith that this is going to happen. Do
we want to be part of it? Then we need
To become there is, if we don't want to be part of it, it's still
gonna happen. But why not take part in the investment, it's an
easy investment. Just go and plant seeds, just plant seeds. The
problem with us, we are hasty. We want to give Dawa and we want a
response, you talk to a neighbor or a colleague, they don't give us
a response. We think we failed, you haven't failed. Allah will
keep all of these things recorded, you have to remember that we just
give as much data as possible. Not only when you're out on three days
or 40 days, we need to be diaries all the time. That's just
training. We need to be that is everywhere. Slip Slip, you just
talk talk, talk, action, action, action, example, example example.
And Allah will record all of this, Allah will record every single
instance when we will forget the data, that person becomes a
believer and you don't even know it anymore. Your investment is
part of that already, even though you don't know but Allah subhanaw
taala knows. And that's what I say that the Quran is a living
miracle. And hopefully, I've been able to explain that today. May
Allah subhanaw taala make us part of this living miracle in every
aspect of it, may Allah put it into our hearts and give us a true
understanding of it. And we haven't even spoken about the MCU
and all that all the rest of it, but that's something there are
many, many more things that will open up May Allah subhanaw taala
give us the Tofik well if you're gonna enable hamdulillah Hyrum bla
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