The Quran, A Guidance For Mankind

hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah where Allah Allah He was sabe ash mine. All Praise and thanks belongs to Allah subhanho wa Taala May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon His servant and final messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as to what follows My dear respected Brothers and Sisters in Islam, a Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.

And indeed, the greatest gatherings on Earth are the gatherings in which the book of Allah subhanho wa Taala is studied. So we ask Allah subhanahu wa taala to accept from us all. We ask Allah azza wa jal to reward the organizers of this event and I ask Allah azza wa jal to grant you all success and goodness in this life and in the afterlife. My Brothers and Sisters in Islam, as the world prepares

to celebrate a new ye our commitment to Allah subhanho wa Taala is that at the end of this year, we want to start a new beginning, a beginning in where we renew our relationship with the word of Allah subhanahu wa taala. And in tonight's lecture, I want to share with you why do we read the Quran? Why does the Muslim read the Quran? Why do we have to develop a connection and a deep relationship with the Quran? That Bismillah heeta Allah will be the topic. But first and foremost, I want you to understand what kind of deep connection and relationship the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had with the Quran because he's our role model. And we if we understand and know his relationship with

the Quran, it helps us understand the importance of developing a strong connection and a relationship with the Quran. My Brothers and Sisters in Islam have been above solid the Allahu Anhu narrates he says that in the the sallallahu alayhi wa sallam once he asked he believed and he said to him mana aka Anta Zhu, Radha Thora me Metis Rana and in the race sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he wants it to Gibreel what prevents you from visiting us more than you already visit us? You see the relationship of envy sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with the Quran. You build comes down with the Quran and Gibreel is coming from the heavens with from Allah subhanho wa Taala very frequently, every

second day every third day he's coming down with new fresh air. When Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says to him, why don't you visit us more? That's the lovin Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had with the word of Allah azza wa jal, he seen him come more. I want to listen to the message of Allah more. I wanted to be recited to be more and more. So then Allah subhanahu wa taala reveals and Gibreel would come and Satan to be sallallahu alayhi wa sallam one Zulu Ellerbee umbrella big you believe is Salam says to him, as Allah azza wa jal says in Surah Maryam that we the angels, we only come down and we descend by the permission of Allah subhanahu wa Donna, my brothers and sisters in

Islam.

The deep relationship and the the sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had with the Quran is also explained by his beloved Wi Fi You shall not be Allah Juana. When she described the NABI sallallahu alayhi wa sallam she said, Can Quran. His character was the Quran cannot Quran and yam she, he was a Quran that would walk when I read this hadith, I had a hard time understanding it. What does it mean that in the salAllahu alayhi wa sallam was a Quran that is walking, meaning the instructions that were in the Quran, he emulated them in his life, he behaved in the manner that Allah azza wa jal told us to behave in the Quran. cannot Quran and the MC the Tao he was, that's the relationship you had with

the Quran, you would see him and you wanted to summarize his life. You'd see that's the Quran. That is the Quran and Debbie's sallallahu alayhi wa sallam walking Allah He my brothers and sisters in Islam, if you cannot be a Quran that works, at least they are full of the blocks be an area that works have something of the Quran in your life that you work in your present yourself in society with my brothers and sisters in Islam. Look at this and a seven Malik Krabi Allahu Anhu he narrates the wolf, the wolf, a tribe of teeth. They came to visit the NABI sallallahu alayhi wa sallam at night. These are people that came, some of them want to accept Islam. Some of them have very

important questions and they need answers and guidance for their questions. So Nabi SallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam above him. He was delayed in coming out

To them, he was in his house, and they were waiting for him in a masjid another week. And this is unusual. He's never late. He's always out on time. But this time he was delayed. So then eventually he came out. And everyone's wondering, why did the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam delay in coming out? Why was he late? You know, today in our situation, if a friend of yours is waiting for you in his car outside your house, most of us what delayed us. Maybe you're brushing your teeth, maybe you're changing your clothes, maybe you're in the bathroom, whatever worldly related matter. Watch this, and maybe sallallahu alayhi wa sallam comes out and he's going to explain to them what

believed him and see, have you ever had this reason in your life? He said to them in

his be mean and Quran in the whole Bara Allah? Yeah, he's been on Quran, forget it. Lucia la come clear who he said to them. It has occurred to me that I had not recited my daily portion of the Quran. So I disliked to come out to you, having not completed it yet. Allahu Akbar. He had a portion of the Quran that he reads. And he hadn't read it yet. So he said I need to finish it. He used the word

and the word from the word poetic emergency, he declared a state of emergency. I am not allowed to leave the house until I finished my portion of the Quran. When he finished it, he came out to them and I told you these are people waiting to accept Islam, people waiting for to seek advice and answers for their questions. That's the deep relationship and Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had with the Quran. And he also gave this kind of motivation and spirit and connection to his companions. If you're to see the situation of the companions with the Quran, that Allah subhanho wa Taala says, Wait, on Zillow, to atone for pneumonia, who are you comes to he mana. Allah on social

describes the situation of the companions. He says whenever a foreigner was to be revealed, whenever any part of the Quran was to be revealed, the Companions would go to one another. And they would ask each other you can to have he matter. Who among you was increased in his Eman because of the ayah that came down? That's the excitement. They used to say to one another did this increasing email? Which one increased you an email? Have you ever asked yourself after you read Quran or you heard Quran? Which of these increased my Eman which of these increased my love to Allah? Which of these I increased my reliance upon Allah? This is what we're supposed to be doing. Allah azza wa jal said

family Lavina Amano as for those who believe for the Eman and welcome yesterday, Sharon, it increased them in Eman and they were rejoicing and celebrating and they are happy. Why the believers are happy and they are rejoicing when Allah reveals an iron. Why? Because that gives them confirmation that Allah is pleased with them. And Allah is still talking to them. He hasn't cut them off and neglected them and abandoned them. So long as you're reading the Quran. That is an acknowledgement from Allah, that I still am bestowing my love and pleasure upon you. And I'm still directing you and guiding you to that which is good for you in this life and in the afterlife. Well

whom your steps you don't take a deep look, take a deep look at the situation of alignment of the Allahu anha one of the caretakers of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, long after the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had died. Abu Bakr Radi Allahu Anhu and Omar Radi Allahu Anhu decided to go to Amon to visit her because it Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to visit her during his life. So they went to visit her and then she began to cry profusely, so they asked her, now you Kiki? Why are you crying? They thought that she's crying because she misses a Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and these are his best two friends. So they reminded often that he salAllahu alayhi wa

sallam, so Abu Bakr Umar Radi Allahu Anhu has said to Omar Amen. What is with what is with Allah is better for the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and they tried to comfort her. So she said to them, I'm not crying because he has died. However, I'm crying.

Kappa Amina Sana, I am crying

Because the revelation has ceased, nothing is coming down from the skies anymore. And as a result they began to cry as well.

The idea is

to hammer home Allah they said, it is permissible to cry just for the me thought that the wire has cut off, and it will never come down ever again until we meet Allah azza wa jal, it is permissible. If this fault was to cross your mind, you're encouraged to cry

by Brothers and Sisters in Islam. Imagine the one who reads the Quran every day is encouraged to cry because no Quran comes down. Imagine the one who has cut himself off from the Quran. He's cut himself off. He doesn't read any part of the Quran. No he does. Nor does he listen to anything of the Quran. How much more should he be crying? How sad should he be? How worried should he be that he has cut himself off? From the words of the Most Merciful from the words of our mica and our Creator? From the words of Allah subhanho wa Taala Indeed, it is a huge calamity to be disconnected from the Quran. My Brothers and Sisters in Islam.

Don't choose to deprive yourself from the word of Allah subhanho wa Taala This is the greatest gift Allah gave mankind. You all know, man, the most frequent Aya in the Quran is February a year. You're a big man to get the ban. That's the frequent ayah in the Quran, the most repeated area and it's speaking about Allah Allah, Allah fevers in the blessings of Allah subhanahu wa Donna slaughtered the man. All of it is about the mercy and the fever of Allah upon mankind. What was the greatest Mercy of Allah? What was the biggest Mercy of Allah ever revealed to mankind? It's mentioned in the beginning of the I, in the beginning of the Surah, Allah azza wa jal you said, Man, I lemon.

Even this is the greatest of Allah. That is the greatest mercy and blessing from Allah azza wa jal, the Quran itself, then Allah azza wa jal said halacha insan he created the human being, but in order, Allah created the human being, before he taught the Quran. So why did he say that he taught the Quran then halacha in son, to teach you and I, my brothers and sisters in Islam,

that the one who lives without the Quran is living without the purpose. A human being without the Quran is not a human being. What are you without the Quran? Absolutely nothing. You're living without a purpose. The one who lives with the Quran is leaving, and he's leaving for a purpose. And this is why the Quran is the soul of the believer, as Allah azza wa jal you said, Because Aliko Hanaa elago Wuhan mean Andrina Allah azza wa jal he said, We revealed unto you a rule, a soul from our commandment, which is the Quran whoo Ha Min Amina, then Allah azza wa jal said not Quinta, drymen kita Eman. Allah He seemed to the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you have no clue

what the Quran is. And you had no clue what the Eman was Imagine that. Without the Quran. You don't know what the Eman is. You will never teach the sweetness of Eman, you will have absolutely no clue about what it is. That's the state of Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allah is telling him without the Quran, you had no clue what Iman is, how do you expect? How do you expect to teach the sweetness of Eman and to develop a relationship with Allah without this Quran in your life? This is why the Quran is referred to as a soul as a euro. There is no life without the Quran, just like there is no life without a physical soul inside of you. What relationship do you have with the Quran? My

Brothers and Sisters in Islam Allah He, it is such a disturbing fact to know that the greatest the greatest complaint of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa Salam on the Day of Judgment will be as Allah says in surah Al Furqan wakad was soon be in a coma. Who has Al Quran I'm a doula. On the Day of Judgment, the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will read the complete street to Allah social look to you Do you know anyone else street Allah

Oh, he'll see my lord in the comi fees people of mine, the people that I was sent to it to have who have an Quran

they had received this Quran with neglect the abandoned dis Quran, they abstain from it matura comes from the word has your has your also has similar relationship with the word he's Euro. You know what he's euro is, he's euro is to move from one land to another far away. The people have done his Euro from the Quran. And how do the people abandon the Quran? They don't read it. They don't listen to it. They don't ponder over its meaning. They don't study it. They don't seek its rule and justice in their life. They've abandoned it. They don't apply its rule and it's judgment in their life. And they don't seek treatment through the Quran. These are all relationships that we are supposed to

have with the Quran. Imagine standing there being guilty of this complaint of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Allah He my brothers and sisters in the Quran in Islam, when I read this ayah from the Quran.

I think that there is absolutely no choice for us. Except to develop a relationship with the Quran, there is no choice. The difference between opening the most half and closing it is the difference between the Paradise and the hellfire. The one who chooses to open it is leading the life to the Paradise, the one who chooses to close it and abandon it and keep away from it. Such a person is risking his life. He's risking where he ends up. And he's certainly on a path that leads to the hellfire. We ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to save us and to protect us, my brothers and sisters in Islam, he comes to issue

many of us perhaps now you're convinced that the Quran is virtuous in his great Allahu Akbar, we need to develop a strong relationship with the Quran. But then a challenge comes and that is you read the Quran. Okay, I've read Surah Fatiha once twice. I've read it over 1000 times in my life. What else?

On who? Allah who I've heard, I've read it 100 times 200 times? How many more times should I read it? Why do I keep reading this book? This is what I want to answer with you in the remaining time that I have with you. Why do we read the Quran? Number one, listen to me very carefully. Because if you adopt this attitude, next time you read the Quran, Wallah, he, it will give you a completely different experience with the Quran altogether. Your life and your relationship with the Quran will change dramatically. But you need to pay attention.

The first and foremost reason for why we read the Quran is to seek its guidance. Every time you read the Quran, put the lens of guidance on

I want to extract guidance for my life from this area. That's why I am reading. Forget the Hasakah and 10 has an add on forget all this that's recorded, whether you intended or not, the reward is given. You don't know him over love, they discuss another. They see if a person did a deed and he didn't know what its reward was? Will he be given this reward on the day of judgment or not? The answer is yes, you will be given the reward whether you knew about it or you did not know about it. So don't worry about that focus on the main thing that will dramatically change your relationship with the Quran. And that is every single time you read and I read it for guidance. And that kind of

teaching is found from the very beginning of the Quran. You know, every single day we read Fullerton Fatiha at least 17 times a day. And within this Fatiha, there is a great DUA

and that is what what is it?

Anyone knows?

If you didn't fill out, Mr. Kim,

if Allah didn't want to answer this dua, he would have never taught us to make this.

We're saying oh Allah guide us to the straight path. You know that Allah actually answered this door. How do you answer it? Do you know how he answered it? How? In the next solar solar ton Bacara Allah azza wa jal he says Alif Lam Meem Valley Calcutta

who then lil mata ki and Allah azza wa jal, he says this is the book. There is absolutely no doubt in it. It is of great and

Humans guidance for the pious even when we say eat dinner sloppily, Mr. Kim, Allah answered this dua and gave us a Quran. This is the salata, Mr. Kim, this is it.

Many years you've been reading it, you know, sloppily. Mr. Kim, did you ever once think, did you ever once think that this guidance that Allah has given us is the Quran itself. There is no guidance without the Quran. My Brothers and Sisters in Islam, when Adam Alayhis Salam ate from the tree, and then he was expelled from the Paradise, Allahu Akbar, what a great disaster and calamity that is. Imagine that the people now if they did, he showed off from one country to another. They're anxious, they're sad, they're depressed. They're getting to know the new surroundings. Imagine Israel from the paradise to the earth. Indeed, it is a depressing moment. This is where sickness begins, old age

begins. This is where illnesses start. This is where oppression is. This is where transgression is, this is where injustice is. This is where death is. It's the dark road. So imagine Adam, Allah has Salam coming onto Earth, how dark and miserable and gloomy is it? Allah azza wa jal, he says,

we said to Adam Hawa and the bliss come down all of you descend from the Paradise is the hope. It seems to be full of darkness is there hope? Allah azza wa jal he says for in the near Kamini who the if any guidance comes to you from me, Allahu Akbar, there is hope. This light admits the storms and the many feet of darkness. Allah said team, if any guidance comes to you from me, family.

Anyone who follows My guidance, fella, you'll be Louella Shah, he will never be led astray. And he will never ever be miserable and sad.

For many who died, Allah did not say whoever reads my guidance. He said whoever follows My Guidance. reading the Quran is only step on the ultimate relationship with the Quran is to follow the command of that which you read. And that is seeking guidance from the Quran. That is exactly what it means to seek guidance from the Quran. So I give you an example. You know, of course, we live in dark times. Too many fit and sin and corruption is all around us. One very common problem we have on Earth today is adult content online. Everyone who has a social media account, you cannot avoid it. You're open and you see nakedness, lewdness, shamelessness, vulgarity, it's all there. And the

Shavon pimps Alene son, he tempts him. So you're open, you open one profile to another, until a che upon picks you to places where you shouldn't be.

I am, let's say, someone has this disease, of desire and temptation.

And it's bothering him. And it became an addiction in his life. And a cheat he's given up. He's depressed, he's sad. He's about to commit suicide. How can the Quran guide such a person? Very easy, Wallah he very simple one How often does the job but you need to read this is seeking guidance, not just reading it, seeking guidance, which means to follow its command. So this person with this disease in his heart, sits alone opens the book of Allah, He makes a dua Oh Allah guide me through the Quran.

Then you begin and you say, Oh, we let him in a shape on the regime. You seek protection in Allah from a shape on because it is the shaytaan that wants to keep you away from the Quran. Then you say Bismillah R Rahman Rahim, reminding yourself that this book of Allah is a garden of his mercy and compassion and gentleness, or you will find Allah's mercy and guidance in here. Then you say what little mini nail who boom in Uppsala him a little mini nail who boom in upside him? Allah, the Lord of the heavens in the earth, the Lord of the Mighty Throne, the Lord of all creation on earth has just revealed from the heavens and these words have passed by the House, and they've have gone past

by through the paradise and through the seven heavens and come all the way until he passed by the clouds and

till it reached the heart of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and Allah who would say to him, pull an ounce, an ounce to mankind, make a public announcement, tell the believing men little mini tell them all your hood booming up sorry him, lower your gaze.

I read desire, If I am ever tempted to look at nakedness, I will say Allah said lower the gaze. So I will lower my gaze, I'm following in desire, right now, the moment you move your eyes, you have been guided by the Quran. That is it. That is a moment in how the Quran has guided you. You do it once, twice, three four times, and Allah azza wa jal will break that cycle of addiction for you. Meaning your whole boom in outside him, Allahu Akbar, Allah He my brothers and sisters in Islam. A few months ago, I read a research that came out from the USA, because the world is discussing that there is a severe problem. And that is adult content popping online. And it is appearing before young

children as young as 678 year olds. So they're discussing this as an issue. How are we going to resolve it? How are we going to fix this issue? So you know, millions of dollars went towards this research millions and expertise, and scientists and psychologists and doctors, research money, whatever you want was put into this many years later.

The research concluded with a few points. But you know what the first two points were, number one, the instructors and the teachers at school when they're teaching their children, they are supposed to tell him whenever adult content appears online, that they should move their eyes away from the screen. And they should speak to an adult about what they just experienced. That's in the Quran. It's in the Quran for free 1400 years ago, the solution to a huge problem we have today is that all we need to do is for many who died, not only read my guidance, followed my guidance, Allahu Akbar, and you're alleviated from your problem, and you're free from this temptation, and this desire that

has disabled and crippled your heart and your mind. Allahu Akbar, put a little mini nail hook boom and upside him. When I follow follow Joan Valley cause gala home that is much purer for them. There is goodness for you. It's goodness for you, Allah doesn't benefit. You're the one that benefit in Allah abutilon Vmail SmartOne Verily, Allah knows what you're doing. So then how do you remain motivated, to keep away from the filth, to always remember that Allah is watching over you. He's lucky he watches you. And that's enough guidance. To break it away from this, see how the Quran, see if you read it with the intention of guidance, how it guides you, my brothers and sisters in Islam.

This is why we read the Quran. And there are many examples to give. And I'm going to conclude with two more reasons for why we read the Quran. We read the Quran also for a reminder, because the human being his nature is that we forget. So we need to be reminded. That's why we need to read the Quran over and over and over and over again. Because we forgot. And if you forget, you're supposed to be reminded, I tell you something.

Today, the big tech, the giant tech, like Apple and Samsung, they find the need to put millions and millions of dollars to always advertise their product. Wherever you go around the world. There are billboards massive, and just an iPhone sitting there on the Billboard. No words no nothing, just an iPhone, and a Samsung. That's all it is. Right? That's the world. And they they this company is spending millions of dollars. I ask why? Who's gonna forget iPhone? Who's gonna forget this Apple or Samsung, it's always with you. If you're at home and you left the house and it's not in your pocket, you will remember in less than two seconds, that your phone's not with you. So why do you need to

put billboards? You see the thing is because human beings forget if Apple found the need to spend millions to keep it in your face to remind you imagine then the message of the Quran, how easily would we forget this? So Allah azza wa jal, you said was a gear for in a secret and found meaning remind, remind for verily the reminder benefits the believers. So we read the Quran to remember I tell you something. Allah azza wa jal For example, He says in the Quran Nihil filming Colin Illa de he'll keep on our teeth, every word you utter there

is our key but it there is an angel that is recording and writing every word you sing. And every comment you comment, there is an angel that is writing. The one who read this air today or a week ago, will be careful when he talks and comments, as opposed to someone who read this idea one year ago. Because it's fresh in his mind. He's reminded himself, so he'll hold himself back in control and watch his tongue. But someone who read this als Ramadan had these forgotten the reality, he's forgotten, even those that have memorized the Quran, I suppose to be reviewing the Quran to remember the message of Allah.

So this is why we read the Quran for guidance to remember. And finally, we read the Quran from many points I share with you this is the last one for purification to purify our souls to clean ourself in the beasts Allah Allahu alayhi wa sallam he said, In Nell Kaluga letter to sow Boca Mata for Hadith, Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said that the hearts the rust, just like metal rusts so then they asked the NABI sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, one man Sheila Oh Ha, how do we polish it? How do we cleanse the heart? He said to them, delay our tongue Quran with remote by reciting the Quran. Yet through Allah Him He will use a key him read the Quran, it will purify your soul, it'll purify

your heart, it will purifying you from bad actions and bad character. It will purify it from all this, and I share with you at the end a story.

There was a scholar,

a student walked and entered upon a scholar and the scholar. He saw the student very worried and concerned. The signs of stress and worry were apparent on his face. So he said to him, my son, go and pray and read some Quran. So the student went, he prayed to God, and he sat and he began to recite the word of Allah. After a while, he got up and went back to the shack to his scholar. And the scholar witnessed that the signs of stress and calamity and difficulty had been erased and faded away from his face. So he said to him, my son, your soul was hungry for the Word of Allah subhanho wa Taala your soul was hungry for the Word of Allah subhanahu wa Tirana. So try it next time. When

you are distressed when you've come back from a long day of difficulty and stress and misery, and whatever it is that you're going through, sit down at the end of the day just before you sleep, pray to look at and read the message of your Lord and try to understand it, use the field Assadi buy a copy for yourself and read an explanation and a commentary on the IR theory on 2345. Whatever Allah azza wa jal allows you to read and see how this would be the greatest cell therapy for the wounded soul. We ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to accept from us all. I ask Allah azza wa jal that he bless you all, and he instilled within us the love of the Quran and the Sunnah of the messenger sallallahu

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