Summary of Quranic Clusters
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The speakers discuss the importance of not missing the 30th night and pushing for acceptance until the end of the month. They emphasize the importance of praying at the last night and focusing on understanding the book of Allah. The structure of the Quran is discussed, including the importance of accepting the book and learning from it. The importance of carrying the message of Islam through one's life and community is emphasized, as well as the importance of avoiding interpretation and not acknowledging one's mistake. The speakers provide positive advice and advice on finding one's character and collaborating with others to avoid mistakes. The importance of learning and practicing is emphasized, and the importance of following guidance and following the same rules is also discussed.AI Generated Transcript ©
Please squeeze in, to make room for all
the people that are
Take a step to the left and allow
room for people so they can sit.
Yeah. I mean, it's the 30th night of
Ramadan. We're not done yet. We're almost not
finished yet.
It's only done at the Maghrib of tomorrow.
Yeah. Tomorrow, we'll be here at Maghrib of
then, and that's when it's over. It's not
over before that. And,
and
No. The no. This it's it's a it's
a reflection of a of a of a
of a mistaken understanding of things.
Not coming up the 30th night means that
somehow you think you've, you made it or
you did you took care of your business
and you've been accepted. You have no evidence
that you've been accepted. You don't know when
Allah will decide to accept you. You have
no idea. So you continue to push till
the last, minute to keep on, you know,
giving your best until Ramadan's over. And then
you can you can say, I have I
have no more opportunity, so I have to
stop. I need in terms of Ramadan, any
push. Yeah. But to stop, oh,
I don't need it. No. Of course, you
need it. I don't know that I've been
accepted. Do you? If you have some information,
then that's a whole different story.
Otherwise,
you you, you know, you commit the last
night actually more than most scholars, or I
won't say most. That's maybe, many scholars I'll
say, you know, in the 100.
But always say their opinion is that the
is the last night of Ramadan.
That that's how they word it, as the
last night of the month. So if it's
29th and 29th, and if it's 30th, then
30th.
And this is a very well known established
opinion within
that, you know, the 30th night of Ramadan
is is must be treated as any any
other night of, of of the holy month,
with no exception. So just kind of a
reminder for everyone to, continue to,
bring in bring your best. Pray talawiya, pray
talhajjud. You know, push yourself. You know, you
try to, draw yourself closer to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accept
your good deeds and grant you that which
you hope for and more.
Tonight, I'm going to do a little bit
of
of a summary. I tried to do this
last year, and I failed. But, this year,
I I set it up a little bit
better, so hopefully, it'll work out.
It's a quick, summary
of the 12 categories,
of, or or the 12 sorry. That's that's
from this morning. The 12 clusters of Suras
in in the Quran.
This is how I this is how I
divide it. This is not, you know, this
is not wahi. This is not revelation in
terms of the the division and the breakdown
of the groups and what they talk about.
This is isjihad, and anything isjihad, it can
be accepted and can be rejected. It's not
a problem. I don't claim any,
ownership over it. I
don't claim that what I say is that
is correct and what others say is wrong.
And I don't believe that there there are
not other ways to see the surahs in
the Quran understand them either. There's a lot.
But this is my,
this is my reflection on it, and this
is my breakdown of the I found it
I found this breakdown beneficial for me in
terms of understanding the the book of Allah
and,
connecting to it and being able to learn
from it. And I share with you to
hopefully
maybe does does something similar to you and
helps you kinda also understand and comprehend and
draw yourself closer to the book of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Because that's the point of
this month. So the 12 clusters, I'll go
through them, Yani, quickly, and then I'll share
with you maybe some final words,
regarding Ramadan and what the plan is afterwards.
I do expect I'll say this now. I'll
say it again later on. I do expect
people to show up for Fajr
tomorrow morning. I'm looking at Fajal specifically,
because those who won't but even if you
if you don't show up as at least
listening during the time.
I choose Fajal because that's where people kinda
have to, those who are committed will show
up for that stuff. And it's just easy.
Everyone can come for that. Fajr is much
more difficult. So I'm putting in Fajr the
final night the final morning. There's a barakah
in the final Fajr of Ramadan. This is
a well established and well known tradition within
Islamic law and within within Islamic faith that
the final fajr of Ramadan is a very
blessed time. It's a very very blessed time.
So you always want to try and pray
in the in the last morning of Ramadan
and perform your zikr and dua and if
there's
a then you attend that and you subject
yourself to that, to those blessings.
And and and that's why I'm choosing. And
I'm hoping that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through
the barakah of that timing, and he grants
us the reward and the ability to, to
to comprehend and understand what we wanna talk
about. So the 12
plus of surahs in the Quran,
start with the the the longest of them
all by far. The longest of them all,
the 10 juzuk one. So a third of
the Quran the first cluster is a third
of the Quran. The first ten juzuk from
Al Baqarah to Tawbah is the first cluster.
All the ones after them are much are
much shorter. Some of them go up to
5 5 and a half juzuzu, 6 juzuzu,
but nothing nothing is close to the to
the first one. And the first cluster of
Surah tells us the, the story of the
faith, the story of Islam. As in
who you are as a person, what your
job is, your Khalifa, what you're going to
use to achieve your job, which is Islam,
the methodology, which is the way of life,
that's what Allah explains. How you're going to
maintain it and protect it from different challenges
and obstacles and that's what value system
fuels all of the teachings and all of
the rulings and all of that you're going
to do with the value system.
What the obligations are, what the halal and
the haram, and what it what you should
do, and what the do's and don'ts are,
what the contractors which are what what buy
in Islam requires in terms of behavior, which
is Surah Al Maidah. Their individual
relationship you have with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
which is iman, Surah Al Anam. The communal
relationship we have with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
which is with it,
which is decisiveness and lack of the any
oblivions and indifference.
The salvation is the salvation of the nation.
The laws that we're going to adhere to
in order for us to prevail, in order
to or order for us to to be
victorious as a nation.
And the relationships our nation will have with
other nations and other other
counterparts within or without our group, which is.
And that's the story of what Islam is
gonna look like. And that's the first 10
juz the third of the Quran. The second
2 thirds of the Quran will detail
some of that stuff.
That's how the Quran works. The first 10
juzu
basically
state all of the main parts of what
Islam is built upon and what we require.
The second 2 thirds,
they
detail certain aspects that were not properly detailed.
I don't wanna say not properly. Not fully
detailed. Again, with the the Suas didn't talk
about them, and so that's what the second
2 thirds of the Quran does. And if
you see the Quran that way,
you're able to achieve a few things.
First is you can always connect,
surahs in the second 2 thirds to that
within within the first 3rd. They can always
make a connection that these surahs here, this
cluster here is is expanding
on what was talked about in this early
one in the first third of the Quran.
Because the first 3rd covers everything. The second
2 thirds is just detailing stuff, and you
can figure it out and you can make
those connections.
The same connections
that you can make from
to the to the middle of the Quran.
Because the from qaf to al nas summarizes
everything, so you can make connections from qaf
to al nas to the middle of the
Quran or the and you can take the
2 thirds in general and collect connect them
to the first 10 years of the Quran.
And in that fashion, the Quran all becomes
yeah. I mean, it's like a web.
It's a web. It's a network. Everything is
connect is interconnected. There's no there's no compartmentalization.
There's no silos in the Quran. It's all
it's all come it all works together. And
if you and that's why the that's why
Allah tells us.
Right? You you accept some of the book
and and and reject some of it? No.
It doesn't work. No. No. You can't you
can't do that.
You have to accept the Quran in its
in its in its in its entirety.
Every word has to be accepted. You may
not you may not be great at, yeah,
practicing every word, but you have to accept
it, and you have to be trying to
to follow it. Like, the goal has to
be that I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying
to do my best, and I'm gonna keep
on improving even if I'm not there yet.
I'm maybe 50%, 60%, 70%, whatever Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala has granted you.
But you can't reject it. You can't decide
that I no. This part of the Quran
I'm or this verse or this teaching I
don't like or it goes against, you know,
whatever is my best interest or what I
think my self interest is.
So that's the first cluster, which is a
a third of the Quran, which is a
lot. And I always still tell you, I
mean,
there's 12 clusters or 12 groups,
and yet the first one covers a third
of what the most half is. Everything after
it, much shorter.
Then they just are connected back to the,
to the originals. So the second cluster of
Surah in the Quran from Yunus to Arad,
and they take there's a couple of the
meeen because they're around a hundred verses each,
a little bit more or less.
And they cover critical points within the four
disciplines of of life. In life, you have
you have your theology, you have the message
that you live by, the ethics that you
follow, and the laws that you adhere to.
That's what that's basically what what humanity requires
to function. Within Islam, those four disciplines exist
as well.
Each surah takes one of those and focuses
on
a critical piece that without it, the faith
fables.
So the so the youness within theology, within
atjifa, it talks a lot about qaba and
qadah, the hikma of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
the wisdom. If this is not clear to
you then the rest of your aqeed won't
do you too well. It won't do you
well. It won't do much for you because
because if you don't understand his will and
you don't understand how his will is translated
into our world and what that means for
us then you can believe in Allah and
his
but
then you're not gonna know how actually that's
going to affect you. You don't know how
to deal with it. So it's very important
and and it's an ongoing, yeah, any issue
of difference of,
of opinion amongst not just scholars but of
humanity in general, the issue of qaba and
qada. Surah Hud talks about the message and
the critical piece of that is reform.
We need reform. Islam has to continue to
be a reformist,
faith, has to be a way of life
that that's identifies challenges and obstacles and problems
and corruption,
and and and moves people towards fixing that
corruption
depending on their context and and kinda where
and when they're living. Surat Yunus talks about
ethics and behaviors and talks about the consistency
of these things. They have to be consistent.
An An ethic that is not consistent is
not really an ethic. It's a selective, mode
of behavior.
It's a selective behavior. Wanna be kind to
this person, not with that person. That's not
ethic. And ethic is consistence across the board.
It's the same to everyone.
Generosity and, any, chastity. The same thing. That
has to be that's what ethic is. That's
what so it's you Yusuf teaches.
Which is we which we,
had the blessing of Allah Subhanahu wa'ala, allowing
us to explain it within the, weekends of
this holy month after
talks about the laws and the critical law
of righteousness of
in contrast to.
Has the word a lot, by the way.
So you may be listening to what I'm
saying, say, well, haqq in Surah, haqqah is
is contrast to.
Is aimlessness.
Is purposefulness there. Purpose purposefulness is how you
understand qaba and qadr, that it's not it's
not random, meaning it's not unaccounted for. It's
not forgotten.
No. There there's a wisdom in it. So
so live understand what's coming to you and
deal with it appropriately. Is
conscious about it. It's righteousness versus falsehood, so
so they're a bit different.
That's the second cluster of. The 3rd, from
Ibrahim to, it talks about bounties. It's it's
a really beautiful,
group of Suras. It's probably the easiest one
to choose a verse to recite in a
if you want to. You can just they're
just they're an ocean of that are just
really really beautiful and easy to memorize and
easy to recite. I know some people don't
like memorizing
just because they don't understand it though. If
you understood if you understood what it's talking
about, it's actually not difficult at all. They
all talk about bounties, talk about the concept
of concept of
Understanding again, yeah, what is it that we're
receiving in our lives from Allah
How almost everything we receive is a nama,
yeah, unless it's and it's and it's
which very rarely happens. And if it does,
it's not identifiable by by, you know, the
naked eye. We can't really see it. But
everything else is namah. You need to, number
1, be grateful.
You have to show thanks.
You show I have to show gratitude. That
happens in Surat Ibrahim. Surat Ibrahim starts
You have to show gratitude. Gratitude
is not just, thank you. No. It's it's
it's taking what you have and using it
appropriately. It's using it. It's it's serving others
with it. That's what gratitude means. So hamd
is a piece of gratitude. Where you say
I thank you. I am overwhelmed by your
blessing. Gratitude is wider than that. It's more
than that. It's where you actually take what
you've given, you use it appropriately. Surah Al
Hajj talks about acknowledging the nama. Because if
you can't acknowledge a blessing then you can't
be thankful towards it. If I don't feel
that what I have in my life is
a blessing, then how do I how do
I thank it?
If I don't acknowledge it as a blessing,
then I'm it's always gonna go under the
radar. Right?
Al Hajj is
about moving all that you have above the
radar so you can acknowledge it. And sometimes
things that you don't think are blessings are
blessings. You just miss them, so try not
to miss them again.
Sometimes something will happen to you and you
will feel like it's not a blessing. You'll
see it as a difficulty when it is
a blessing. You just missed it through the
lack of of a perspective. The lens were
were not,
the the lens needed clean cleansing.
The lens needed cleansing that you couldn't see
it. It's what
this was an issue of his this was
a reason for his inferiority. It wasn't. It
was a reason for his potential. It's the
opposite.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told him, because he's
made of that. That
hardened crust with the with the rot on
the inside. That rot is where life comes
from. Have you ever have you ever smelled
earth that's that that life is coming out
of? It stinks.
It stinks.
Wet mud does not smell nice.
I know we see it on the screens
and it looks all it it smells horrible,
but that's what life that's that's how the
origin of life smells like
that, true life. So when Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala
he
was talking about the potential of Adam alaihis
salam, The life that he had to give,
the life that he had inside of him,
the potential that he could achieve. So he
said as this is a reason for him
to be inferior. I am from from
from a smokeless fire.
I come from a very very pure origin.
You're from this mud. It stinks. It's like
it's it's crusty on the outside and it's
and it's rotten on the inside.
That's why his potential is higher. You just
you weren't able to see the blessing as
a blessing, so it misguided him. Ibrahim was
told during Surat Hajjara, you can have a
child. He's 90 years old. He's like, what?
A child? How is that good news?
What is this bishara that you're giving me?
I'm 90 something. My wife is 90. You're
gonna have a kid.
So he then he then he quickly quickly
said, no. No.
No. I I was wrong. He would give
they would give birth to Ishaq. From Ishaq,
he would have Yaqub alaihis salaam. From Yaqub,
we have Yusuf alaihis salaam. Right? Prophets upon
prophets upon prophets would be would would descend
from his heart alaihi salaam. All the prop
the majority 20 out of the 25 prophets
we have in our book is are are
descend from, from his heart alaihi salaam.
That he didn't want that. For a moment
he didn't want him. Imagine how much shayd
would have would have been missed. So the
Nahl talks about the fact that you have
to use you have to see the blessing
coming from Allah, you have to see it
coming from Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala that's how you
identify it, and then you use it according
to his law. You have to use it
to the way the way he wants it
to be used. It's his, it's not yours.
It's his. You have to see it coming
from him. They have to use it according
to his law or
as the surah says, things will collapse. And
that's the third cluster of schools in the
Quran. Talks about bounties.
Be grateful.
Acknowledge them appropriately and then remember they're from
Allah so use them according to his law.
Those are the 3 Surah and they and
they basically detail everything we need to know
about bounties. The 4th cluster of surahs. I
mean, it's a lot to end them. This
is a longer one. This is definitely, you
know, I need a longer one. It's a
couple of. I think I'm around 5. I
think I did one calculated once. I'm probably
wrong.
This goes through of Surah. It talks about
carrying the message, not to other people. No.
But carrying the message in general as an
umma, as a nation.
This cluster is very important.
How do we carry Islam as a as
a nation? Well, number 1, you have to
make sure that you understand that the you
kept you're responsible for it. That's Surat al
Islam. You're responsible for this message?
From now on, it's you as a Muslim.
You're the one who carries Tawhid. No one
else does. You carry Tawhid, and he's gonna
carry it through the Quran. That's your that's
that's the book they're gonna use. You can't
make up some other book. Carry the message
through some other book. You're gonna carry it
through the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So the Qur'an tells you what you need.
You need to establish
a nation, to establish a society, a civilization.
There are a couple of requirements. You need
the idea, you need the wealth, you need
the knowledge, you need the power. Without one
of those things, you won't establish anything. Read
that surah every single week from the day
from now until the day you die. Every
Friday, sit down and read it before the
so you're reminded what it is that you're
trying to achieve, what it is that you're
trying to get for the nation that you're
a part of.
Tells us that the unit that will carry
the message is the family. So the Quran
tells us that carrying the message is not
means for misery. It's means for
uprise. It's means for achieving ruba, acceptance and
and and solace
and and tranquility and serenity, and allows you
to stand up against oppression. That's what Surah
teaches. Surah
tells us that you need flexibility,
and you need striving because this whole thing
is a journey. It's a long journey that
will require an ongoing effort. Tells us who
our role models are as we carry this
message.
Tells us that in order for you to
succeed, you need to invest in the person,
in the individual, in the human being. Sultan
Noor tells us in order for your community
to carry this message, it has to be
an enlightened one. It has to actually adhere
by the by the ethics of this law
or it can't carry this this message altogether.
Gives us a number of warnings of what
will cause us to fail in terms of
carrying this message.
Tells us that you need the proper narrative.
You have to be able to counter the
propaganda that will come against it.
Tells us that you need power balance
power to carry this message because the weak
because the strong will never follow the weak.
The strong will never follow the weak. The
weak will follow the strong. So if you
want this message to be carried appropriate, you
have to be strong.
And that's the cluster. That that's what these
stories talk about.
They they
point out each and every requirement
that we need to think about if we
are people who are Umma oriented.
If you're Ummah oriented,
meaning
your long term goal is the status of
this nation of
and what and what that and who
who those people are. If that's what you're
oriented towards, then what you'll come to the
to the conclusion of
is that there's a number of things that
have to be established in order for us
to get there and that's what Surat al
Nabi explains which is why it's really important
but it starts out by telling you first
of all you need to understand that you
are responsible. So the remind us, it's you.
You're carrying the baton. You're holding on. You're
the flag of Islam, the is in your
hand. The prophet is not around. He did
not assign someone specifically to carry it. It's
you
which is why that surah is probably the
longest amongst them and the most important of
understanding. So it's a lovely Surah. I love
it. Everyone loves
it's just filled with these verses that are
iconic. Yeah. Yeah. But have have memories in
our in our lives. But the the the
purpose of it is to make sure that
you know that you're responsible to no one
else's.
You're sitting around waiting for someone else to
carry this, then, you're gonna be very disappointed.
No. No one's gonna do it. You have
to do it.
But then if you all felt that way,
then collectively then collectively, we carry it and
then things actually work out.
Here are your requirements. You have to have
strong families. You have to have a proper
understanding. So, you have to have the requirements.
Know who your role models are. Make sure
you invest in people. Make sure that you
understand that it's a journey. It's long. It's
gonna be very tiring. Nothing works out well.
Nothing works out well from the first time.
There's a lot of problems. There's a lot
of struggles.
There's always gonna be struggles.
But communities have to be enlightened to carry
this message. We have to work on our
communities.
We have to we have to increase the
Islamic literacy.
We have to increase our ethicality and morality.
We have to talk about this stuff. We
have to discuss why is it that we
don't know how to park our cars properly
when we come to places. No, we do.
This is a reflection of lack of morality.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. It's a it's a reflection of
poor morals,
poor ethics. When you when you when you
shove your car in someone's life because you
want to worship, that means you don't understand
how Islam functions and you have 4 morals.
Like, you don't understand that this is harming
someone. You don't have the right to harm
someone ever. I don't care what the reason
is.
Your kid your your wife's having a kid.
I don't doesn't matter.
You're not allowed. And with the fact that
we have that problem where we we don't
feel that way, we're willing to, you know,
we we do not that sensitivity
that higher is not a part. We have
to talk about that. We have to discuss
it. Why is it that we're behaving like
this? So we have to start actually pointing
out. We have to start holding it. I'm
not saying we have to be harsh with
one another.
I don't believe in I don't believe that's
the right way to go. Like I don't
believe in in Yani, but harshness as the
method of correcting behavior. No. I believe it
happens through conversation, through discussion,
through offering advice,
through through brother, through help, through mentorship. That's
how you change behavior. You don't change behavior
through being harsh.
Yeah. Okay. We're gonna tow all the cars
that that to her. That doesn't work. You
just you just, you know, repel people in
the back of the house of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. It doesn't mean that we don't
address something when it's wrong.
We're a wasteful nation. We're wasteful.
Yeah. We don't really we're very we're environmentally
very unaware.
We don't we don't have that feeling. We
we bring a lot we waste a lot
of food. We waste we we reduce a
lot of garbage.
We lack that respect for the environment that
we live in.
Again, I don't I don't believe in harshness
in fixing this. It has to be it
has to come from a any mentality of
of of of of of awareness and education.
But that's what these surahs explain from
the they offer you a bigger picture, you
have a lighter community, you have to be
aware of things, and be aware cautious of
certain pitfalls. So tells you that here's the
pitfalls. Here's where you'll fail. Watch out for
that.
Talk about 2 narratives. You need you need
you need you need a clear
ideological narrative, and you need a clear
authority narrative. Like, you need to have these
two things established. You have to have your
narrative clear. What is it that we believe
in? What do we stand for? Is that
is that clear? Or is everyone
just pulling
the,
Everyone's trying to, you know, take Islam and
say Islam is what I what I say
it is and not what others have.
We're fighting over something that we don't own.
And we're fighting over something that we don't
have the right to fight over, and we're
trying to draw Islam as a picture of
of of being a,
this this very narrow line when it's a
river where we can exist within the banks
of this river,
sometimes in parallel, with not necessarily
having the same opinions on a lot of
stuff.
As long as we agree on the basics
that allow us to be inside within within
the banks.
And that narrative has to be established. Shoaib
talks about the fact that you need a
strong one because if you don't have one,
then there's a there's a there's propaganda that
will ruin you.
Media.
The the poets who can ruin stuff and
that's what the Surah teaches. Sultan never tells
us
that power, you need to have you need
to have strength. You need to have strength.
So what, namil, I I've been trying to
push it a little bit,
so that when I start doing tafsir of
it, you attend
because it's a long cluster. It's a couple
of juzuk. I think it's really, really valuable
to learn it, to really take time and
reflect upon the meanings that the, that the
surahs carry. And even if you don't do
it by attending something here, you do it
on your own and you kind of reflect
upon these surahs and learn something from them.
I mean, these slides are always available. You
can always use them as your guidelines if
you like.
The, 5th cluster from the to a
is a very
it's a light cluster. It's not very long.
But it talks about relationships
talks about relationships between people. The relationships you
have in your life, There's a number of
them that really matter. Number 1, the relationship
with with the people around you, their stories.
Be aware. Be careful from judging others. Be
careful
from overestimating, underestimating,
underestimating,
or passing judgment on other people. You don't
know. You don't know what people are going
through. You don't know what their stories are.
You don't know much about them.
Be helpful or be quiet.
Be helpful or be quiet. Don't don't don't
judge people. So Surat al Khasr, which is
the longest in this in this in this
cluster, talks about the relations we have with
others,
how everything is broken down to the simple
simple stuff. The simple
stories seem complex, they're not complex. They're actually
very simple. Just basic urges. However however, you
still don't have the ability to judge people
and to say that And and see something
and think they can understand them, you can
break them down. And every Surah and Surah
And every
story in Surah Al Qasas is one of
those where someone seeing something from afar will
misunderstand it. And then when they actually go
in and ask the question, like, oh, that's
why this is the case. I thought it
was, so you learn not to pass judgment
except that it's not, you don't you don't
know. You don't know.
Surat Al An Kabut.
Yeah. We're done. We're almost finished.
We're almost finished. What is it?
How many more hours is it?
I'm counting it by the hours, Allahu Akil
Kumbl.
So I'm I'm count by the hour, I'm
counting this.
Allah grant us the blessing of this blessed
month, InshaAllah Ta'ala.
People would,
my my my teachers used to, used to
get upset if it turned out 29.
They used to they used to cry when
it became 29, like tears would run down
their face in in
in in in in in sorrow that I
was 29. And when it was 30, they
would cry in happiness that they had one
more night and one more night to make
to see if they could make it. One
more night to see if they can show
Allah their best. One more night to present
themselves to God, maybe he'll choose them as
a Muslim. That was their that was their
mentality of it. So, Alhamdulillah, Allah subhanahu wa'am
grant the 30 nights of Ramadan. And if
you didn't do well in the 1st 29th
and you do well, you still have a
chance tonight. If you don't have the chance
tonight, you have a chance tomorrow morning at
Fajr. If you don't have Fajr, you have
a Uhlhru. If you don't have a Uhlhru,
you have a Asr. And until the last
moment before Mezalib, you still have a chance.
If you didn't make it, you can make
it.
It doesn't it's not over until it's over.
Until until Adan and another time tomorrow, it's
it's not over. So you always you still
you still have a chance? Wallahi, wallahi, you
could be someone could spend the whole month
doing nothing.
Tonight and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
He puts effort tonight and Allah accept them
and maybe someone who's been,
strutting in and out all the gets rejected
for for something wrong in their hearts.
Never never walk into a position where you
feel comfortable
that, oh, Allah must have accepted me. I
did how do you know? Did he give
you a did what do you have? Do
you have a stamp? What do you have?
I I I never received anything in the
mail. I I know I never
if you don't know that you're being accepted,
then
you work till the last moment, till the
last moment.
And that's why this night is, just as
valuable. A lot of the scholars in the
past, by the way, used to used to
say that Al Qadr, this is like a
well known established opinion. Al Qadr is the
last night of Ramadan. If 29 then 29,
if 30 then 30, they would see it
because it's the last moment.
When does the, employed person get paid?
3, 4 days before the end of the
month? At the end of the month? The
last moments, that last night. May Allah subhanahu
grant us the blessing of this night, insha
Allah accept this amongst those whom He accepted,
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, if not already done so.
Surah Al Dinan Qaboo talks about your relationship
with life, the difficulties, the ups and downs
of life. It's a relationship it's it's a
relationship. If you start seeing it that way,
what well, I change it so much.
If you if you see that you if
the difficulties of life, it's a relationship. It's
an ongoing relationship. There's no I I took
my quota of of hardships, so I'm done.
It's an ongoing process. You have to develop
a healthy relationship with life and its ups
and downs,
And that is it comes in the sense
in the in the form of mujahada,
and immigration moving from one situation to the
other and striving. It's what Surah An Abu
teaches. Surat Murug talks about relationship with Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's Suran, with his laws and
his rules.
It's similar to Surat Rad.
It's explains similar concepts
that Allah puts certain laws. If you follow
those laws, you'll get where you want to
go. If you don't follow those laws, if
you go against those laws, you're not gonna
get anywhere. And so the room talks about
our relationship with those laws. If we honor
them, then we make it as far as
Allah wants us to make it. If we
don't honor them, he's not gonna break those
laws for us because he made them.
This this,
sentiment that we expect Allah
to break all of the laws that he
created for us it's extremely arrogant.
Yeah. It's extremely arrogant
for him to create laws,
and then you feel like, oh, I'm not
gonna follow any of those. Just pick give
me what I want without following them. It's
very rude.
He he made those laws
Those laws did not precede him.
These laws that that govern the world, you
work hard, you get farther, you're you're united,
you're stronger. All these basic laws of existence,
these laws were did not precede god. No?
They did not precede him. Allah
precedes them. He made them. They're his laws.
He owns them.
Newton did not, Yani, invent gravity. He just
discovered it. He just explained it. That's Allah's
law. These are his laws. You honor his
laws
You get as far as he as you
can get. You don't honor his laws
and you fail to actually not honor his
laws openly. That means just be for it
to be clear that you're not honoring his
laws. You're not actually living by his teachings,
and then expect him to break all of
those laws to to serve you.
It's just not it's not appropriate. It's not
an appropriate mindset.
Talks about the relationship between generations, between parents
and children, between the generation that's old and
the generation that's young. Those are on the
way out, those are on on the way
in, and what that has to look like
and how we have to build that because
without that, there is no hope.
A certain degree of rahman, compassion, a certain
degree of respect, a certain degree
of of service that has to exist within
these relationships. Sulekhman explains it, Yani,
immaculately.
And the final surah in this cluster, Sulekha,
talks about the relationship you have with God,
with Allah
himself. That's why we pray we we recite
it every Friday at Fajr.
Every Friday at Fajr, in the first of
all, he recites with the Sajdah or at
least a part of it, and you do
sujood because that relationship is the most important
one that you have. But just like every
other relationship, if you don't invest in it,
it, it it fizzles out.
If you don't invest in it, put your
heart in it, then it dies off and
it becomes boring and it becomes,
habitual
becomes habitual and then if it's taken for
granted, it doesn't mean anything anymore. You have
to invest in it. And that's this the
5th, cluster of suhmm. Plus also to a
stage of relationships.
Talks about the different relations you have with
people, with life, with the law's laws, with
the with really with with other generations and
with the Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. These are
the 5 the the relationships that you need
to think about in your life. The 5
ones that matter. The 6th cluster of 2
in the Quran from to
is a long one. It's really simple. It
talks about ta'a. That's really all it talks
about. Talks about the concept of ta'a. It's
really really simple. It's really beautiful. I I
We just finished tafsir of it in Arabic
on Fridays. I started
to We've been doing tafsir of it for
2 years straight, probably, to get through the
you know, to or a bit more even.
And these Surahs from, I just talked about
the concept
of. It's a big deal to obey Allah.
Great. That's the center of that's the cornerstone
of our faith. Excellent. How do you do
it? If it's not important, then there should
be some explanation regarding, and that's what these
surahs do. Agha talks about obeying Allah's when
it's especially
hard, when when it's especially hard to do
so, whether that difficulty is financial or spiritual
or psychological or social or or whatever it
is. Whatever type of difficulty when it's especially
hard, you have to obey. That's where you
show your true colors. That's how you get
enlightened. And when you prove to Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala when it's hard, you obey. Everyone
can obey when it's easy.
Everyone can obey when they're you can give
sadaqa when you have a lot of money.
It's easy. Can you do it when you
have very little money?
Now we can you do it then? That
that's what's what's what explains.
The the the, the the the obedience of
a community looks. And so it's very unique
in that perspective, and there's no other su'er
like it. And that talks about this, and
it's really worth time to kind of contemplate
it and learn it because it talks about
how how does a community obey Allah. Here's
what it looks like. It looks a little
bit different. The collective looks a little bit
different than the individual rhythm. Now the individual
rhythms of of look a little bit different
when they're collective. So its father talks about
the fact that you obey Allah
through knowledge, not through ignorance. You obey Allah
Allah as he wants to be obeyed, not
the way you want to do it.
I don't get to choose how I obey
Allah. It's not my no. No. He chooses.
He tells me what's obedience, what's not. So
I have to have knowledge. I have to
understand. I have to know what he's talking
about, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. I have to learn
and to allow myself to learn from him,
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, appropriately so I can actually
obey him. Surah Kaysin tells you that that
that this that he's talking about is the
is the way that you attain eternal life.
Not just biological life, but life of the
spirit, life that matters, life that will continue
on forever. The legacy that it leaves and
the and the life that you will find
in Aqirah,
it's it's life.
Is life. It's not death. It's not death.
Don't don't don't associate the obedience of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to to a grim
to grimness, to a dark endings. No. It's
it's it's it grants you life,
Death is not the way yeah.
This is a part of life.
This is transitional piece. Yeah. In the midst
of it.
So the Safa tells you you must obey
Allah's
even when you don't know why,
Even when you don't have the wisdom, you
understand the wisdom behind it or when there's
lack of, He's
telling you something is. You don't know you
don't
You had an encounter with them before? No.
So you. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling
you here's what they do, here's who they
are, you accept you accept because that's you
you you obey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
when you don't understand exactly why he's telling
you to do something.
This is like a big one for us
Muslims in this age because we've gotten accustomed
to doing a reasonable job explaining why things
should be done. What the purpose? What the
benefit is? And I don't disagree with that.
I am actually a big advocate of that
being the way you teach Islam. But you
have to parallel to that teach people that
you follow Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's teachings regardless
of whether you get it or you don't.
It's not a condition. It's not a condition.
Never has been.
You accept Allah
whether it makes sense to you or it
doesn't. If it makes sense to you, great.
If it doesn't, then you accept it anyways
because it's Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala's word. Ibrahim
slaughter your son. Alright.
That's a word.
When they submitted, when they obeyed,
when they they submitted.
Surah taught talks about obeying Allah
by always always returning to Haqqah,
always accepting. If you if you made a
mistake, you always admit it. All the stories
in Surat Sala, really really easy Surat to
memorize to understand. All the Suras are are
prophets who made mistakes and quickly repented like
instantaneously.
And then he, well, I'm sure
recognized that he made a mistake at some
point during his story.
I am certain that some point in the
middle of that story, he figured out that
he had
Yeah. No.
I I didn't think this through. But instead
of hitting the brakes and quickly repenting and
admitting that everything he thought about was wrong
and the way he's been living was wrong,
he he he he went down the path
to the end of it. The end of
it, when you make a mistake and you
walk down the path, the end, yahwani, is
Jahannam.
Alright?
You make a mistake and you decide you're
gonna go with this make mistake till the
end. I just just let you know that
the end is is jahim, is nar. That's
where the end that's where it ends. Every
mistake that you refuse to to acknowledge was
a mistake and and step back and lie
to
Allah. Lie to Allah.
Be very careful of this.
Be be be be very careful of this.
It's so easy for us to get into
the into the,
it's hard. It's hard to admit when you're
wrong, especially if you if you committed yourself
to being wrong for a long time. Especially,
whatever it is you you're wrong at, you've
been you've been committed to. Like, you spent
a lot of years defending. It's hard to
go back and say, yeah, yeah, that was
wrong. But that's what MBI'a do and they
didn't even think about it. The moment it
was obvious that it was Haqdi quickly repented
back.
Iblis did what he did. And the final
surah in this cluster is Zumal, it talks
about
the spiritual
or intellectual or mental submission to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala which is sincerity.
Meaning, how do you mirror
submission? All the other Surah is talking about
submission,
physically, like the actual actions, the practical the
practical the practice.
Surah Al Zomar talks about the the, the
spiritual one. How does it mirror inside your
heart? Necessarily.
And that is how is mirrored inside. Tawhid
is the ultimate act of obedience. That's what
happens on the
outside the mirroring of it the is projected
into the heart as as as a khallasa
sincerity. And that's this, 6 cluster of surahs.
Obey Allah when it's hard as a community,
through knowledge.
It grants you life. Do it when you
don't understand or it's in. Do it by
always going back to the truth when you
make a mistake and make sure that you
do it spiritually through sincerity. That's what this
cluster,
shares. The 7th is from to
Al Akhaf. It's called the Hawaamin,
and they offer pieces of advice on the
way of dawah of carrying this message not
as
talked about, which is as a community to
establish it, but rather carrying it to others.
Like carrying it to other people and dealing
with them and bringing Islam to them. And
3 stories give you 3 positive pieces of
advice.
So tells you take it to those who
don't want it and make sure your connection
with Allah Subhanahu is strong. Don't take it
to people if you don't have dua in
your heart. Like, if you're not making dua,
if you're not connected to Allah, don't do
it. Make sure you have some connection and
take it to those who don't want it.
Yeah. Do grant them
via your character. So it's and then make
sure you consult
make sure you consult, make sure that you
go back and you work with your group.
You collaborate with your with the people around
you. You don't do this alone.
Yeah. Okay. You can't work alone in an
Ummah.
You can't work alone.
You can't you can't be you can't be
a part of the Ummah and work alone.
You can't do that. You I mean, you
can't it's not appropriate.
Islam is the group. There's no other group
within Islam that needs to exist unless it's
going to serve a specific purpose that the
rest of us don't have time to invest
in. In that case,
kudos. Amazing. You're gonna take on what are
you gonna take on? Take on advocacy.
Then you have a small group that is
gonna be focused on just that,
lobbying and educating people politically. That's important. We
don't need you don't need a group within
the group. A group within a group that
does everything that Islam does is just it's
a phenomenon.
It's a well established, well described
phenomenon that occurs with enlarged ideologies that leads
to those ideologies dividing and collapsing.
The group within group phenomenon. It's well described.
Sociologists talk about this. They know it. You
don't need it. Muslim. You're Muslim. We don't
need more groups unless what the group you're
gonna build is going to focus on something,
something specific that the rest of us
meaning
a. A group has to be for.
They're gonna carry a on the behalf of
the rest of us because we don't want
to all be focused on
this one thing. That's okay.
But a group that's gonna do everything, that
that doesn't work.
And you can't do without collaboration. It has
to be That's
what the Surah teaches us.
A few warnings, do not be materialistic in
Surah Zukr. Do not be delusional or miss
the cues or miss the signs of what's
coming. Do not be do not be distracted
in Surah Duqan and do not allow arrogance
to enter your heart if you have knowledge.
If Allah subhanahu guided you and gave you
knowledge, do not let that being you become
arrogant and look down on people who don't.
Be careful. And so the last piece of
last surah in this cluster tells us that
regardless of what you do, you do dawah.
Let's say you follow all three pieces of
advice. The positive, the negative, you do them
perfectly.
The outcome
the outcome is is controlled by Allah
alone.
Whether it works out or it doesn't, it's
not your
you can't control that.
That's with Allah
Who did everything right, no one listened. The
prophet
prayed one night and unknowingly the jinn accepted
Islam.
You you don't know how things are gonna
turn out. Some people,
their children will be pious.
You
you
don't know. You can't control this stuff. You
just do your part. You do it to
the best of your ability and then the
rest of it is
all of it is in the hands of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that's this last
cluster the the 7th cluster is the 3
pieces of advice, positive, negative, and then a
conclusion at the end of them.
And they're called the hawa'min because they all
begin with hamim. I talked to them about
them not too long ago.
The,
the 8th cluster from Muhammad to Al Hajuat,
and this is the cluster of Sayyidna Rasulullah
alayhis salatu wa sasam. It talks about him.
The first tour is named after him. It
tells us your deeds are only as good
as they are ad in adherence to his
teachings.
The farther your deeds are away from what
he taught, the less value they have.
The only value for any good thing you
do is that if it adheres to what
he taught alayhi salaam.
It's how he lived. You have to do
what he did, what he taught, how he
taught it alayhi salaam or there's no
your deeds are useless.
No matter how long and how much it
doesn't matter. It has to be according to
his teachings.
Gives us examples of those who adhere to
his teachings, those who didn't, and the consequence
of both groups. And Surat Al Hujal tells
us the manners, the mannerism of the prophet
alaihis salatu wa sallam. His manners, his adab,
his etiquette. How what he lived by and
what he what we're required to live by
regarding each other and regarding, you know, regarding
him,
and that's his cluster. Three short, beautiful, well
known surahs that tell us things about him,
that
are important for us. The final I'm not
Yeah. We're running out of time, so we're
done.
Qaf to al hadeet, Mujadah to tahareem, mulk
to al muslal, and nabat to anas. And
I talked about those quite a bit over
the last couple of days so they're still
hopefully fresh in your in your mind. But
the mufasal
summarizes everything that was talked about up till
now.
Everything that was talked up to this moment
was summarized in the last 4. That's why
if you don't have much Quran inside of
you, have the last 4 jus.
Take it
Take the last 4 juzah. Know them well.
Know them, memorize them, and be able to
recite them appropriately. If you're not someone who
has the ability to memorize the whole thing,
know those.
And then move on to Al Baqarah with
Ali Imran and then maybe pick up for
yourself. But know these are because they've summarized
all of the basic values and teachings of
Islam, and they're short and they're and they're
easy and they're summarized and there's so much
information in them that is similar to almost
everything that was that was shared before without
the detail, but with the same degree of
profoundness.
I'll end with that Insha Allah Ta'ala. We're
gonna go for salatul Isha tonight.
Tonight's a little bit
of a of a, of a treat since
we finished the khatam yesterday.
The sunnah is always whenever you do a
khatma, the sunnah I know I know this
is in case you don't know this. If
you're reading the Quran the sun is when
you finish surat An Nas
you turn over
you recite Surat Al Fatiha and the first
five verses of Surat Al Baqarah and and
then you stop and make dua. That's the
sunnah if you're reciting the Quran
verbally and I measure this without prayer or
if you're doing an Ijazah to a shirk.
If I'm reciting to my shirk, once I'm
done with the nazah, I go back, I
do fatiha, and I do albafarawai,
it's an indication that you will read again
and again that this doesn't end, you need
to keep on doing it. So since we
can't do that in Surah, I can't just
start you know we can't recite Surat An
Nas and then start the all over again
with Bilbaqara. What we're going to do is
today we're gonna start with Surat Al Baqarah
and read a couple of verses. It will
be short 8
followed by 3 so it'll be a bit
shorter than what we have usually. And here's
the catch.
The at tonight is going to be wash.
All of the and the
is going to be the
So we recite
and sometimes at least I do and
those with the same thing. So is the
name of our recitation.
There are many there are other reciters. There
are 10 other reciters with with those who
are,
the narrators from them. So is
what is a recitation.
And today is Allah Kashaykhaman and brother Abdul
Rahman Wawba and Abdul Rahman Sallidam have agreed
to, to leave the prayer with then
we'll we'll pray, Yani Shafi and with
the regular salah, we'll have our dua inshaAllah
ta'ala. So if you're hearing the Fatiha sound
a little bit different or you're, you know,
following on with the and it sounds a
little bit different, enjoy. I I I watched
it's a beautiful qira and it's it's very
very enjoyable because it's it's a it just
has a lot way more So it's
this is for you. So InshaAllah hear a
different qira'ah and hopefully enjoy hearing the word
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in a little
bit of a different manner. So just so
you're not
or or or or starstruck.
or or or or starstruck.