Ali Hammuda – Enjoy Your Prayer #18 Conquer the Arabic language!
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The importance of reciting the Quran in disputes about its meaning is discussed, including the use of it in disputes about actions and interactions with the world. The speaker emphasizes the need to engage in the natural position of individuals and recite in a proper manner. The transcript also touches on the use of the Quran in disputes about actions and the importance of learning the Arabic language to achieve spiritual goals.
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What have we been covering for the last two weeks?
So what was that? Yeah.
So for the last two weeks,
we've been covering
Surah Fatiha and uncovering some of its meanings delving into its secrets and the link between Surah Al Fatiha and the topic of enjoy your salah I think is quite obvious. So Ratan Fatiha is necessary in every one of the units of Salah that you pray if you are of course an Imam, or if you are praying by yourself.
So it's inconceivable. It doesn't make any sense to pray several times a day and repeating al Fatiha over 20 times a day on average, and not knowing what you are reciting and I hope with the journey that we started last week or the week before.
It's excited you and encourage you to begin a personal journey on Surah Fatiha by yourselves and just as importantly to start a brand new journey with the book of Allah subhanaw taala from cover to cover even if it's going to be a light of see a light commentary that you will cover at least once in a lifetime.
Don't die until you have achieved this as a golden your life. Surah Fatiha to give you an idea of how it was just the surface that we scratched of this remarkable Surah
Razi Rama hula said to one of his contemporaries, and he mentioned this in the introduction of his Tafseer called acetyl Kabir
he said that I told some of my contemporaries
that Surah Fatiha has over 10,000 rulings within it Surah Fatiha seven verses, one can extract and deduce approximately 10,000 rulings. One of his contemporaries, he said, accused me of exaggerating he said Come on this is insane.
So he decided to meet the challenge or Razi in his tafsir that whole career or at zero KB and in the very first volume was dedicated entirely to Surah 230. A whole volume where he covered 1000s of rulings Mercer l points of discussion taken just from these majestic seven ayat of Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen I mentioning this to give you an idea that two hours after the Fatiha is just enough to unlock the interest in the Surah but I leave it now in your hands you shall allow data to continue your to continue your journey
a question for you.
We've began our Salah you have said Allahu Akbar we've spoken about the introductory dua Subhanak Allah who will be handy can others. We've spoke about our bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim. The STI that we've spoken about Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim we've covered al Fatiha now you are about to do what to recite another Surah of the Quran. If you are in the first two units of any one of your five daily prayers, you are highly encouraged to recite another chapter of the Quran when you are finished Surah Fatiha
question
why is it that the citation of the Quran has been placed in the standing position of Salah? Have you thought about that? Why wasn't the citation of the Quran positioned in the bowing position? Why was it not ordained for when you are prostrating? Which of the movements of Salah is most honorable by the way in your estimation?
God That's right. So do it frustration. So why is Quran not dedicated for the moment in sujood? Why when you are standing?
There is a secret here. What do you think the answer is? Our messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said the Hadith which
bucatini writes on the authority of Abdullah he does he said Allah in Nino here to Quran Quran rakia and I'll send you that I have been prohibited the Prophet said I have been prohibited from reciting the Quran in the state of bowing or prostrating. It is haram for me to recite the Quran there. How come?
Why when you are standing any thoughts very quickly before we move on?
take a stab at it brothers.
Sisters give it some thought as well.
What do you think?
Yeah.
It'd be easy to support understanding of them
standing up straight. Yeah. Okay, good. So, our brothers our locker has given us a answer, which is probably a little bit more physiological. Perhaps he said, Allah subhanaw taala is showing mercy upon us to recite Quran understanding where everything is opened up in terms of your airways, your Pathways, etc. which may be a little bit more difficult if you are in that kind
of compromising position of borrowing. prostrating perhaps.
Yeah, great. Any other answer?
What are your thoughts?
Robin,
by the way, brothers don't wait for me to look at your face and think there's an answer brewing. Now put your hand up a robe
maybe because with the Christ commandments and so forth when you're reciting instructions
by the congregation's
standing up
Okay, good. So perhaps you are saying if I let me rephrase what you said that if you are in a standing position, you are more in a, you're more in a position to understand take heed of what you are saying. Because you are in your natural position. Is that what you're saying?
Listen
Ah, excellent. Okay. So perhaps it is easier to hear
the Quran when you are understanding position as opposed to if you are bowing.
Great. Yes.
Is it perhaps to do with the fact that we are in a state of conversation with Allah so we are standing. Okay, good. Good. You're on the right lines.
Imagine I am, he says, giving you the secret as per why perhaps it is ordained that we are reciting Quran in a state of standing about empowering or prostrating. He said, Well, I'm not gonna
Ashraful and carry celerity Al Quran during the fee Ashrafi. Hey, well, he LTM
he says the fact that the Quran the citation of the Quran is the most honorable part of the prayer in terms of what you say.
It has been positioned in the most honorable state that you are in as a human being and that is standing. Did you get that? He said since the Quran is the most honorable vicar, the most honorable remembrance that you will utter in your Salah. What can be more honorable than the Quran? It was matched and positioned in the same station that is most honorable for you as a human being and that is the position of standing. What is more honorable for you, brother, sister. Is it when you meet someone and you bow prostrate, which of course is haram to anyone or anything other than Allah? Or is it when you're standing upright in a dignified format.
So in terms of your day to day interactions with people, it is most honorable for you it is most dignified that you meet them in a standing position and your back straight.
And since this is the most honorable of positions, the most honorable Quran has been placed in that position accordingly Subhanallah heckuva Timberlea wisdom from Allah subhanho wa taala.
So now you have finished the recitation of Surah Fatiha and we've understood why there were citation of Quran is placed in your standing position. We sit now you are about to begin the recitation of other parts of the Quran. Focus with me here brothers and sisters.
I want you when you approach the next Salah and you are about to recite the next bit of Quran, do not do it mute purely because
it is what is required of you for an optimum Salah
you're not merely reciting the Quran to improve the quality of your your Salah in the eyes of Allah subhanaw taala bring you more Hassan out and these are valuable objectives. But there is also more that you seek. You are reciting the Quran with the intention of engaging your heart and soul with every idea that you are about to recite. You are presenting your heart and your mind and your body and soul to your medicine to what you need. And so you come out of sunnah as a better person. Ask yourself the question or you may ask someone who's just come out of Salah. What has Allah Almighty just told you?
Well, Allah I'm not too sure. What did he tell you not to do? Again, I'm not too sure.
How are your decisions and your life model different now that you've finished your Bahasa Maghreb salah? It hasn't changed much. If these are our answers, then realize that you and I have not unlocked the maximum of what the Salah is expected of us.
Salah is supposed to change you the Quran in your Salah is speaking to you. It is the divine message of Allah subhanaw taala to you. It is a personalized message from the heavens with your name on it. So think about this when you say Bismillah R Rahman Rahim and you begin reciting
And that is why Abdullah he pretty much ruled the companion of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said, advising us about how we should approach the Quran is transformational. He said, Latin few ruhuna radically. Don't scatter your citation of the Quran as if it were all dates falling off a tree.
What are the who do who has the sherry? And don't recite the Quran hastily as if you're going through a passage of poetry. What if What if he said Paul's the wonders of the Quran? Well, Henrik will be he'll collude and move the hearts of people as you recite while I Hakuna Mohammed Hajikko makira Surah don't make your main concern when you're reciting Quran to get to the other end of the surah the chapter
interact with the Quran. Engage with it, presented to your heart expose yourself to the NEFA heart the breezes of the Quran that have come from a different world that are extra terrestrial words of your Lord. The messengers they would say to their communities over Lugo Kumari Salah to Robbie, I am conveying to you the messages of your Lord
Kalam Allah I came here to win me Jehan would weep when he would kiss the Quran and he would say hello Morumbi. Kalaam Robbie. These are the words of my Lord. These are the words of my Lord. He's really understanding how we have something directly from Allah in our hands and within our hearts. How do you feel when you are reciting Quran in Salah ask yourself this question and interrogate your soul harshly.
We want to be like our Prophet Muhammad SAW Allah Allahu Allah He was in say you do Hi Shane, the leader of those who prayed with who humility
as Khalifa even though your man one of those companions who saw firsthand a glimpse of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam his prayer and he said Marathi he had to Ramadan Illawarra and the highest wa Marathi he had been in our kava and the higher there was. He said every area of Rama mercy that he recited in his Salah he would pause and he would ask Allah for His mercy. And every time he would come across an eye of the Quran that speaks of the wrath, the punishment of Allah he would pause and he would ask Allah for protection. Do you see Tao just engaging with the book of Allah subhanho wa Taala
Abu Bakr Siddiq Ravi Allahu Allah Allahu Anhu. I share with you a snapshot of our predecessors and how they interacted with the book of Allah for you and I to measure ourselves against their example. And then we will ask the question, Why do we feel that perhaps we're a little bit different to them in our salah, we'll get to that in a moment. As the Buddha it'll be Allah who died I know, has a fallout with a relative of his called miss the son of
Mr. Bobby Allahu Anhu was a righteous companion, who attended the Battle of battle, that he is a human being and he made a mistake. And he insulted our mother Aisha Radi Allahu Allah and her aura he spoke ill of her honor at a time when he should have defended her. So human mistake La Ilaha in Allah and Allah has forgiven him. So we're back here on the Allahu Anhu was infuriated with this behavior. How can you speak about the honor of my daughter like this? And miss that was a poor man and he was under the expenditure of a worker worker was fine and sinking completely.
So he said by Allah, I will never spend a penny on him ever again.
So Allah subhanaw taala revealed an area from the Quran from Surah to Nora saying, will tell you all on fugly mean camassia it and you too will Korba Wolmar Sakeena Well, Maha GDnf he said media,
Allah said let not those righteous people amongst you, and those who have wealth, take an oath that they will not spend upon their relatives and the poor and the migrants in the path of Allah. When he asked for, well, your struggle, and they should forgive, and they should overlook Allah to have Boehner I fear Allah hula, don't you wish that Allah Almighty should forgive you?
Allah Hua forward on Rahim, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful, will Becker he heard these baths and he realized that he was primarily being addressed by Allah subhanaw taala in this verse seem to you people of righteousness who have money you should not take an oath do not spend upon your family.
So he wept. Do you see how he behaved and interacted with the Quran? It wasn't just another area that he's doing Subak 13 memorizing with.
He wept. He realized he's being addressed. And he said, Yes, I do want Allah Almighty to forgive my sins. The verse says, Forgive, don't you want Allah to forgive you? He said, Yes. Wallahi I do love that Allah should forgive me. And he went to Mr. Han, who said to him, here is your expenditure, the money that I give you, I will never deprive you of it ever again. The idea here is this wasn't just an idea that he wanted to improve his head read his pronounciation and it was a reality that they moved with. This is the purpose of Quranic you recite in Salah and out of Salah La Ilaha illa Allah, Allah, Allah
On the other hand, he is walking through the streets of Medina in the middle of the night, and he hears a man reciting from behind the door of his home. in Burnaby, Canada, the punishment of your Lord is coming.
Speaking about Allah's punishment for the people who meet him as kuffaar, Allah said in Nevada, Nevada, the punishment of your load is coming Merleau Dafa. Nobody can avert it, it cannot be stopped. Or he heard this and he stopped in his tracks and he said, cause someone horrible cavity. I swear by Allah, the Lord of the cab, this is the truth. And then he became ill.
It had a physiological impact on him. And he went home, and he was bed bound, and for an entire month, people were visiting him on his bed next to him,
attending to his need, not knowing what has paralyzed this man.
And what had paralyzed him and hurt him was his interaction with the book of Allah, gender Judo Subhan Allah Allah Amaro, the Allahu Anhu. Here's another idea from the Quran, learn it and it will be right there too. If you call me Matt or Boone, you will never attain the position of true piety. Allah said, till you spend from the money that you love, till you give from that which you love the most. At once Omar comes to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, he doesn't have this plot of land in high bar. It's in my name. I want to give it in the path of Allah subhanaw taala. And this was one of the very first walk in downloads that was given for public use. One I changed his
property portfolio.
How many times have you and I recited this area may Allah Allah Allah, Allah will forgive you if
you see how they behave with the Quran. This is my question to you, my brother, my sister, more importantly to myself. As you were aside, what are you feeling? How are your priorities in life being reshuffled? What is changing?
Abdullah he is one of the most scholarly of our unknown when it comes to the book of Allah Jaya, literally.
He is on his mount on his horse, imagine he's traveling, the news is conveyed to him midway that his brother or his son has passed away, put yourself in that position. What would you do? I will probably fall off the mount.
News was given to him that his brother or
his son had passed away there was a doubt in the in the narration.
Abdullah had not been a true scholar of the Quran took to one side of the road, he got off his mount, and he began to pray to rock out of Salah.
And then when he finished he told his friends why he did that he said because Allah Almighty said in the Quran is valuable, but somebody was salah,
seek help in patients and in Salah. That's what Allah said, Seek patients
and patients on Salah. So this idea that you and I have remembered and have recited and have memorized up the line, I must remember it at the epicenter of his difficulty, the hour of the tragedy, what could be worse than hearing of a beloved one of yours passing away? The Quran flashes
and he begins to pray. This is how they behaved with the book of Allah and that's why Allah Almighty chose them to surround the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, they absorbed the Quran they ingested the book of Allah and it blossomed these fruits of application and transformation.
It'd be more like one of the 13 travels with Abdullah he embarrassed the companion and he said when the night would come, Abdullah him and I best would spend half of the night in Korea. He's a traveler brothers sisters, half of the nights Han Allah standing in Salah to Allah He said you will not do Khurana Harvin haha he was reciting the Quran, letter by letter where you you roofie the ALI Kameena nasheed eg one the havy and we would hear him sobbing and weeping abundantly.
We would hear him sobbing and weeping abundantly in the middle of the night as we were asleep. This is how they behaved with the book of Elijah literally.
The community of Medina is not just individual examples. The community of Medina receives the final verse prohibiting alcohol once and for all Allah Almighty said antem monta Holman when you not desist
and the Muslims in one voice they said intervene and Dana we have resisted No more drinking we have resisted. And the streets of Medina we're now flowing with alcohol as companions were coming out of their homes coming out of their shops coming out of their sellers pouring out the alcohol that they had into the streets of Medina till some duration suggests that even the animals became intoxicated.
This is how they behave with the prohibition. To present yourself against these examples. This is the purpose of the Quran as you are reciting it in Salah and outside
salah, and by the way, these examples are not limited to the men. We have also examples of women who
moved and directed and engaged with the book of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
when the verses of hijab
were finally revealed, obligating Muslim women to differentiate themselves, and to wear the veil, over their bodies and over their heads, Allah Almighty said, Well, you're dreaming of you humare hymnology will be hidden, let them throw their garments over themselves. He says, she said, depicting the type of response that the female companions gave. She said for chakra nama rupa hung the fax number, instantly, there and then, as the idea was being recited, the female companions began to rip the extra parts of their clothes, and they were repeated, and they were addressing themselves with it. They were covering themselves with it. They started to the extra parts of their
clothes, and they began to cloak and veil themselves with it. Instant transformation Subhanallah and our mother Ayesha, she spends hours hours
reciting one of the Quran in Salah when her nephew came to visit her. And he said, I found my auntie, standing in her room in Salah Shafali Allah who is wife of the Prophet slicin and reciting the Furman Allahu Ioannina, while there was some whom Allah was kind to us, and He protected us from the punishment of *. These are the words of the people of gender in sha Allah, may Allah make us amongst them, they will enter paradise and they will say, from an Allahu Allah, you know, walk on I've ever since Allah was gracious to us, and He saved us from the punishment of health. So as she's reciting this, I mean, she's imagining the fortune, the blessing of someone who enters Jana, and
she's reciting it over and over again and she is weeping every time.
And he says, I went around the entire area, and I went to the market and I purchased my needs, and I came back to get give salam to my auntie because it was his habit to visit her every morning before he goes to the marketplace. She was still standing there in her Mohawk reciting feminine Allahu Anina.
When was the last time you had this type of experience with the book of Allah, my brother, my sister.
And the examples are infinite, from the Sahaba to the tabby I mean to righteous people like yourselves Inshallah, in this very day of ours, it's true, the Quran is miraculous and has had moving,
lasting effects on people. Is it having the same effect on you ask yourself this question. Now you will say as you hear some of these examples
how come I don't feel the same way?
This hospital Salah that we carried out about half an hour ago, if you experience some of these meanings that I shared with you, then Alhamdulillah this is great. And I'm sure some of you did. But if like the most of us you didn't ask yourself the question How come? Why is it that some of us fail to interact with the book of Allah Almighty? As they did?
You see, if you were to ask the average Muslim, what do you recite in Salah? After you finish from Al Fatiha, what do you read? Most Muslims will say what beside was sewer
the short chapters of the Quran
I recite Allah class AlFalah and as a Tarik Allah, Allah tiene Ashara Oiselle Salah
and a lot of our brothers and our sisters they will say sadly speaking this has come to the detriment of the longer soul of the Quran. Some have not recited a long surah in their Salah for months, maybe years. Some of us may have never recited Al Baqarah or parts of it in a Salah of ours, or al Qaeda or I am or units or Huth, one of the longer sewer. Some of our brothers will even say and sisters, I have never even read these sewer.
I have never come across Surah Father, I have don't remember reciting Surah Zab. I haven't covered it. So we say okay.
You have just told me that you only recite the short Surah of the Quran. And you have ignored the longer Surah of the Quran. Okay, for a moment, let me ask you about some of the key words of these short sort of the Quran that you and I only recite.
What is our harness mean?
What does work mean?
What does Lee Nafi mean?
What does it mean? What does al Mauriat mean? What does it mean?
What do these words mean? Who is a summit? Putin who Allahu Ahad Allah who has summit what is a summit
and a lot of brothers a lot
Have our sisters will say, quite frankly, I have no idea. So we say hold on a minute.
Not only have you and I left and ignored the long Surah of the Quran, never covering any of them in Salah.
We only recite the small Surah of the Quran, even these short sort of the Quran we don't understand.
So all we know of these short sort of the Quran is their length.
As for their meanings, we don't know and then we wonder how is it that I find that Salah does nothing for me, love
my sister is not that Salah has done nothing for you is that we for the most part have done nothing for our Salah
Do you this is the issue.
And that is why it is very difficult to imagine a scenario of someone who recites anything or reads anything which he does not understand and somehow derive an enjoyment from it. Let alone Imani experiences, the Quran is no different.
Sometimes, the key reason why we fail to enjoy our salah and the Quran we recite is for a simple reason.
It's not for a huge complicated purpose or a reason. Like for example, I I have dark sins covering my heart and I am an evil person. And
sometimes it's not as deep as that sometimes is for a reason that's a lot simpler. And that is we
are yet to understand what Allah is saying to us.
We simply don't understand the Arabic language. And even if we do, we have not made an attempt to unlock the key words in the key sentences of Lacan.
And that is why the shape of the Morpho serine the Imam of all exegesis scholars of interpretation of the Quran that our Islamic history has ever seen. And he is Abu Jaffa imagery the thuggery he said in the introduction to his tafsir in Neela eligible me many Accra Al Quran Wallah, you have to have 90k for y'all tell up he said I am amazed at a person who recites the Quran and does not understand its meanings. How can he derive any enjoyment from the Quran?
I am amazed at a person who recites the Quran, but does not understand its tilt wheel, its interpretation How can he or she attained any enjoyment from it?
This is the key reason and that is why I say my brother my sister make an effort to get to the Arabic language.
Because this is the language that Allah Allah, Allah, Allah Allah who in his wisdom chose for his final communication to you.
The people who came before you and I saw the Quran as messages from Allah, messages that are personalized, that have your name written on it. And that is why Allah says in the Quran naka de Anza and la cama Kitab and fie the crew come, we have revealed we have brought down to you a book that has your mentioned within it. We have brought down a book that has your mentioned within it,
Allahu Akbar.
So what is the mention what is Allah saying?
Find a way to get to the Arabic language
or by even look at the companion of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said Dalai Lama Arabi Yetta Camerata Allah Munna, a surah. Terminal Quran. Learn the Arabic language as you memorize the surah from the Quran.
Give it the same amount of importance.
Ahmad ibn Khattab Radi Allahu Anhu he sees two men circumambulating around the Kaaba, they're doing tawaf their Persian men and they're speaking fatty see Persian to one another.
Omar early Allahu Anhu grabbed the shoulders of one of those two men. And he said to him, AB Terry in Arabi, Yeti sebelah. Find a way to get to the Arabic language, find a way to get to the Arabic
and for you to live and die, having not enjoyed the communication of Allah subhanaw taala directly as it was revealed in the Arabic language without the need for a translation.
It is to die in a disappointing and pitiful state. Having missed out on one of the greatest joys that life today has to offer. And that is to read the words of man subhanaw taala and understand
Yeah, man from Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, what religion? What community? What denomination out there today on our planet could claim that they had a book that is from God Almighty. Many make that claim yet all of them are false and the only one that is true and it's claimed is the claim of the Muslims.
So how can it be there for that we only know of sorrows of the Quran. We only know of their length.
Now is the time to change that brothers
Sisters, and this is an automatic change to your horseshoe and Salah when you understand what you're reciting, so that you come out of your Salah and you say I know what Allah has told me, and I know what he told me not to do. And I feel encouraged to do this and I feel Alhamdulillah demotivated to do this evil. When this has changed my the way I see things and this relationship I will now mend this financial transaction. I will stop what because I recited something in the Quran, Allah is speaking to me Subhana wa