Aqeel Mahmood – The Miracle AlQuran
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Brothers and sisters, if we look
at the history of the prophets,
we'll see that
every single prophet
which was sent to their own nations and
to their own people and to their own
tribes
were given certain things and they were given
certain miracles.
And those miracles and those things that they
were given by Allah
were relative to the nations of their time,
and they were appropriate
for their people.
So if you look at, for example, Musa
alaihis salam, he was given the ability,
at the time to transform, for example, his
staff into and
other such things because
at the time magic was something which was
widespread.
And so he was given something which was,
and suitable for his nation. And likewise if
you look at,
Isa alaihis salam
and his time
and the abilities that he was given by
Allah Azzawajal
curing the sick and healing those who are
blind and so on and so forth. It
was those things which were current for the
nation of his time.
And if you look at the time of
the messenger of Allah Alaihi Wasallam
and the Arabs
that lived at the time,
they had a great fondness for poetry.
They had a great fondness for poetry.
And this was something that they would use
just like we use. For example, nowadays, we
use the radio and we use television and
we use the Internet to spread news and
to spread, you know, propaganda and whatnot.
They, in those times, would use poetry
to spread news.
And if there was anything that a person
wanted to to announce, they would use poetry
as a means of,
spreading this information.
If somebody, for example, was oppressed or somebody
wanted to show off his tribe and the
honor and the status of his tribe, they
would use poetry to do this. And so
people
at the time in Mecca, they will stand
in the Haram and other areas in Mecca
and
the poets
of those tribes and of those particular tribes,
they will stand and they will start to
deliver their poetry. And the they
will stand and they will start to deliver
their poetry. And the people would come and
maybe they would give them money and they
would hear this poetry and it would spread.
And so this is how news was spread
and information was spread. And there is and
the honor of the tribes,
was spread in in that society.
And so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
when he gave
the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
a miracle,
the best of miracles that the messenger of
Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam was given was
the Quran.
And when the Quran was revealed
and the Arabs heard this as you all
know they heard this and they realized that
this is something different.
There's nothing like the Quran.
And first and foremost when we talk about
the miracles of the Quran
and you know what make what made the
Quran a miracle.
We have to understand
that the Quran in of itself was the
speech of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It was the actual kalam of Allah aza
wa jal. So Allah aza wa jal spoke
to Jibril alaihis salam and then Jibril alaihis
salam sent this down to the messenger of
Allah subhanahu wa
to the messenger of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The word of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And sometimes we, you know, overlook this when
we read the Quran.
You know sometimes we find it it's it's
a chore and it's something tedious to do.
And if we sit down and we actually
contemplate
when we read the words of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. When we read the Quran that
we're reading the kalam of Allah Azzawajal.
Allah Azzawajal spoke with these words.
And so when a person recites
These words in of themselves are from Allah
Azza wa Jal and they are kalam of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And so first and foremost is something that's
you know very important for us to realize
that these words
are the kalam of Allah.
This is the words of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
And if these are the words of our
creator,
the words of Al Khadik, the words of
the King of Kings Malikul Mulk, then no
doubt there's going to be nothing but good
in these words.
It's not possible for the kalam of Allah
azza wa jal to have anything you know
wrong with it. No errors in it. No
deficiency in these words, in this Ayat of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And also when it comes to the book
of Allah azza wa jal
each
aya
is known as that. It's known as an
aya.
And an aya is something which is an
evidence.
So every single
every single aya and verse in the Quran
is an evidence and is a miracle in
and of itself.
Every single Ayah in the Quran.
And so there may be some Ayah of
the Quran which you know we understand and
we can comprehend
and there may be some Ayah of the
Quran which maybe we don't understand.
Yet every single ayah whether we understand them
or not they are from the miracles of
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
When it comes to
the miracle of the Quran in and of
itself
The messenger of Allah Subha'alehi Wa SAW was
somebody who wasn't able to read and he
wasn't able to write.
He was someone who was illiterate.
And from the examples that we can take
in the sire of the messenger of Allah
SWA to prove this is the treaty of
Hudaybiyyah.
When the messenger of Allah SWA was
in you know, went for the pilgrimage to
Mecca and they, you know, prevented him from
entering
and
they made a treaty, the treaty of Hudaybiyyah.
And when they wrote this treaty,
the
and the Quraish of Mecca,
they wanted to write in this treaty.
And they wrote
the beginning of the treaty as you all
know. And they wrote this, the the the
scribe and the one who was writing was
and
he wrote
and they refused this.
And they said if we knew that your
Lord was most gracious and most merciful we
wouldn't we wouldn't be fighting you.
And then when they wrote from Muhammad the
messenger of Allah,
from Rasulullah
they weren't happy with this. And they said
if we knew that you were the messenger
of Allah we wouldn't be fighting with you.
And so the messenger of Allah SWALLAM he
conceded and he said fine we'll erase this.
And Ali radhiallahu an
being the beloved cousin of the messenger of
Allah SWAMI he refused to rub this out,
he refused to erase it. And so when
the messenger of Allah SWAMI
wanted to erase this, he took the parchment
from him, he took the scripture from him
and he said to him where does it
say this? Tell me where it says this.
And so pointed out to him where it
said this and the messenger of Allah
raised it himself. And so this in and
of itself
proves to us that the messenger of Allah
was someone who was illiterate. He wasn't able
to read and he wasn't able to write.
And so those who say that the messenger
of Allah took,
you know, scriptures and ideas from the from
the scriptures of the past and from Judaism
or from Christianity,
this is something which has no basis. That
he made this up and he concocted the
religion of Islam from his own head is
something which doesn't make any sense
because he was someone who wasn't able to
read in and of himself.
From the blessings and from the miracles of
the Quran
is the,
inimitability of the Quran.
The fact that the Quran can't be imitated.
It's something which is unique. When it comes
to the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
it's not poetry.
And the messenger of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
wasn't a poet.
As Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says and he
wasn't a poet.
And so the people
of the time, the Arabs of the time
because they were into their poetry. When they
heard the Quran they realized that this isn't
poetry.
They realized straight away that this isn't isn't
poetry.
And so first they will say that this
is poetry and then they would say that
this is the words of a madman. And
then they would say that it was the
words of a magician.
Now why did they realize this wasn't poetry?
Why did they realize that what they were
hearing wasn't poetry?
The Arabic language, brothers and sisters, just like
the English language, it has certain rules. So
you have grammatical rules and you have, you
know, a flow to the to the sentence.
Likewise, in Arabic, when it comes to poetry,
you have certain rules that you have to
follow in Arabic grammar when it comes to
poetry.
So the way that a verse is set
out and the way the stanzas are set
out in poetry, there's a certain,
rhythm to them and you have to abide
by those rhythms
and those rules of of poetry
in the Arabic language.
And so every, you know,
piece of poetry
would follow those same rules. Up till today,
it's the same thing. Poetry follows, you know,
a specific set of rules. And they realized
that the Quran
doesn't follow those rules.
And that the sound of the Quran is
different. And the flow of the Quran is
different. And of course it would be different
because it was from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And so it differed to the poetry that
they had at the time.
And so they realized this.
And when it comes to the the uniqueness
of the Quran,
himself challenges the people.
And he says that if you are able
to come up with a surah like this,
then come up with it. And it was
a challenge, an open challenge to everybody
to show the people whether they can come
up with something similar to the Quran. And
of course they weren't able to. And it's
mentioned that many people,
from the non Muslims at the time from
the Quraish would go out at night and
they would listen to the messenger of Allah
SWA. And
it's mentioned that also
people like Umar Radiallahu An. He would go
out at night and he would hide behind
the cab and he would listen to the
messenger of Allah Subhassalahu Wa Salam. And he
would hear him recite the Quran.
So these words were were blessed.
And when it came to, you know, the
flow of the Quran,
there was once a man known as Musa'lam
al Khidr, Musa'lam Adalaiyah.
And this man claimed to be
a messenger.
And he once wrote a letter to the
messenger of Allah Subhassalem and he wrote from
Musaillama from Musaillama Rasulullah.
From Musaillama the messenger of Allah to Muhammad
Rasulullah. To Muhammad the messenger of Allah Subhassalem.
And he wrote that rarely the earth has
been divided into 2.
Half of it is for me and half
of it is for you. Allah has divided
the earth into 2 half of it for
me and half of it for you. And
so the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam replied
and he
wrote
to to and this is the name which
has stuck since since that time.
He said from
from, Muhammad
Verily the earth
is
for Allah. It belongs to Allah.
He gives it to whomsoever he wills. Who
he gives the earth to,
that's up to him. He might give it
to someone who is just. He might give
it to somebody who is unjust.
And this is from the hikma, the wisdom
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And Musayl al Khazab
originally he was a Muslim. He was somebody
who was a Muslim but eventually he started
to claim that he was a messenger of
Allah.
And obviously as you know at the time
there was a lot of tribal
There was a lot of tribal loyalty. So
if you were from a certain tribe then
they would be loyal to those people of
that tribe. And because Musa Al Kaddab was
from a certain tribe that was known for
its strength, those people decided to follow him
when he claimed that he was a messenger.
And it's mentioned that one of the companions,
he went to Musa Al Kaddab
and
he asked him
and he had a conversation with him and
he asked him about his religion.
And Musa Al Kaddab had heard about Surat
Al Fil.
And he heard that the messenger of Allah
SWAMI had been given this Surah,
Surah of the elephant.
And he said to this companion, he said
that I have also been given a Surah
known as Surah Al Fil.
And so the companion he said to him
let me hear this Surah.
And so he said,
he said the elephant, what is the elephant?
And what do you think the elephant is?
It has a long trunk and it has
a short tail.
And that was his surah. And so the
companion Radia Allahu An he said to him,
he said Musaile Lama
I know or you know
that I know that you're lying.
And I don't even have to tell you
that you're talking a lot of rubbish.
And you know that I know that you're
lying. And it was only because of the
the the tribal,
loyalty that people had that they followed him.
And so subhanallah you know people tried and
people have tried up till now to try
to imitate the Quran and the flow of
the Quran.
But it's something very different to, you know,
provide
something which sounds like the Quran and also
the immense
benefit that you get from a small number
of verses.
You know, people have wrote chapters and chapters
and books and books on the shortest shortest
surah of the Quran.
And so when it comes to the Quran
it's something which isn't able to be imitated
because it's the word of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Also when it comes to the miracles of
the Quran
there's certain things which happened
during the time of the messenger of Allah
and
these things were prophesized in the Quran.
So there were certain things that Allah
mentioned in the Quran
and they came to happen and they came
to fruition.
And so there were prophecies which were mentioned
in the Quran.
Who can tell me some things that happened
in the Quran which ended up coming true?
Certain prophecies.
Verily we have given you a great victory.
What was this victory?
Opening of Mecca.
At the time when the treaty of Hudaybiyyah
was written, I'll be going back to this
now, the treaty of Hudaybiyyah when it was
written it seemed like it was going against
the Muslims. Something which wasn't going in favor
of the Muslims.
If one of the Muslims went to Mecca
they weren't going to give them back. If
one of the Quraysh went to Madinah then
they had to send them back.
And there was no fighting
for a certain amount of years.
And there were other and there were other
conditions of the treaty.
And it seemed like there was no benefit.
And they they weren't even able to to
perform the pilgrimage. And they said you have
to come back the following year.
And they weren't able to write Muhammad Rasoolullah
on the parchment itself. And they weren't able
to write Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim.
So all these things it felt like the
Muslims were at loss. And Allah
revealed the aya.
As soon as the companions heard this they
started to praise Allah
and they started to make takbeer while they
were on their way back to Madinah from
Makkah.
As this, surah was revealed on the way
back.
And so straight away the companions subhanAllah they
started to praise Allah azza wa jal because
they knew that the kalam of Allah is
the truth.
And they didn't ever had they never had
any doubts.
And they knew that what is going to
happen is going to be the truth and
it's going to be a victory for them.
Why? Because Allah azza wa jal says so.
And so 2 years later they conquered Makkah
SubhanAllah.
And this was from the blessings of Allah,
Azzawajal.
And the fact that they went back the
following year or maybe, I think it was
the following year with, you know, 3 or
4 times more companions that they already had.
And as a result of the peace that
they had, the treaty that they had, there
was no fighting. And so they were able
to spread the message of Islam freely. So
you had people from many cities and many
places, they would talk and they would converse
and they would have dialogue with the non
Muslims. You would have Muslims, you know, talking
and having conversations with non Muslims, and there
was no threat of violence.
So, subhanAllah, the word of Islam spread and
many people came into Islam because they knew
there was no threat anymore. They weren't at,
you know, they weren't, in any danger if
they accepted Islam because there's a peace treaty.
So this is one of the things that
Allah
revealed which was to be true.
And it was from those things which was
a prophecy.
What are the examples are there in the
Quran which were prophecies and, you know, ayaz
and surahs which came true.
Yeah.
Very good.
The defeat of the Romans by the
Yeah. Very good. By the Persians.
So the Romans were defeated by the Persians
and Allah
mentions in the Quran that the Romans
will be victorious.
The Romans will have victory.
And at the time the Quraish when they,
you know, heard this, when they heard that
the Persians had defeated the Romans, they were
happy.
Why were they happy? Because
the
the people of the book had been defeated.
And so they were telling the messenger of
Allahu alaihi wa sallam that, you know, this
religion of yours
and you claim that Islam is, you know,
a follow on from Judaism and Christianity,
your religion has, you know, it's it's at
fault
and it's something which isn't the truth.
Because if you look at the Romans they've
been defeated. And so Allah
mentions in the Quran
and he talks about how the Romans will
be victorious
and how they will give they will be
given victory.
And it's mentioned also in history
that eventually the Romans did, defeat the Persians
in a battle that happened in the in,
they say, 622
AD when they fought the Persian at the
Battle of Isis.
So this was something which was mentioned in
the Quran and it was, you know, a
prophecy which was mentioned by Allah Azza wa
Jal.
And it was something which came true.
From the things that's mentioned
brothers and sisters in the Quran
are certain scientific miracles.
Scientific miracles
which are mentioned in the Quran in and
of itself.
And there are many of these miracles that
I mentioned.
From the miracles that I mentioned
Allah azza wa Jal
talks about the earth and he does the
earth and he describes the mountains. And he
says have we not made the earth as
a bed
and the mountains as pegs.
And he talks and he describes the mountains
as being pegs.
And so scientists they've discovered
that the mountains themselves
are actually things which are pegged into the
earth.
And they keep the earth stable when there's,
you know, earthquakes and whatnot. They make the
earth firm.
And so mountainous areas,
they say that the mountains are paved and
they go deeper into the ground.
And they say that the mountain what you
see of the mountain is actually more of
the mountain underground.
And also from the miracles that I mentioned,
in science
is
the Maruja Bahrain,
the meeting of the 2 seas.
As Allah
mentions in the Quran
that the 2 seas
meet.
That the 2 seas meet. And if you
look at,
the the ocean,
they say if you look, at Cape Town,
for example, in South Africa, you can see
the meeting of the 2 oceans, the meeting
of the 2 seas.
And because of the texture of each sea
and, you know, the the value and the
chemical value of each sea, they don't mix
with each other. And this is something which
is a miracle in and of itself.
SubhanAllah, the fact that you have 2 seas
and you can you can even see pictures
if you go on, you know, the Internet.
You can see the pictures of the 2
c's and one of the colors of the
c's is lighter than the other
and they don't mix with each other. And
it's like, subhanAllah, there's actually a line there
to to, you know,
divide the 2 seas. There's an invisible wall
there
and they don't meet and they don't mix.
And so you have 2 seas, 1 which
is like a darker blue and one which
is like a lighter blue.
And subhanAllah this in of itself is a
miracle of Allah azza wa Jal.
And when it comes to the scientific miracles,
of the Quran
there's many things that I mentioned
in the Quran you know with regards to
astronomy,
with regards to the human reproductive system, with
regards to, you know, embryology and zoology.
There's so many of these things that I
mentioned in the Quran.
But one thing that I want to stress
with regards to,
scientific miracles
is
that
science is always discovering new things.
There's always new things happening in science.
So there might be something
which might be fact today
but it might be fiction, you know, 50
years from now or 15 years from now.
And when it comes to scientific,
miracles,
you know, if you look at the companions
during their time,
they never knew any of these things. They
never knew about the mountains or about you
know the way that the fetus is described
in the mother's womb in the Quran itself.
They never knew about the or any of
these things but they believed in the book
of Allah azza wa Jal. They believed in
Allah azza wa Jal himself
And they believed in the, you know, the
the the miracle of the Quran through the
literacy of the Quran, through the the the
the the poet the the kind of, you
know, flow that the Quran had. The eloquence
of the Quran itself.
So it wasn't about the the
eloquence,
or the, you know, the the certain miracles
that that are in the Quran when it
comes to the scientific miracles because the companions
never knew this.
And so it shows their status in Islam.
The fact that they had this belief in
the Quran
without ever understanding the scientific background and scientific
miracles mentioned in the Quran. And this is
why they are the best of creation.
And so we have to understand when it
comes to the Quran brothers and sisters
that regardless
of any of these scientific miracles,
regardless of whether they're backed by scientific miracles
or whether they seem to be contrary to
scientific miracles we have to know that the
Quran is the haqq
and that the Quran is the truth.
And that it's something which regardless of what
science says and what scientist say whether it
goes with or you know against the Quran
this is something which we believe.
And we know that the Quran is here
to stay until the end of time.
Our science
is going to change, you know, from day
to day, from year to year, from century.
They've discovered certain things that they never discovered
200 years ago.
100 years from now, 50 years from now,
there's gonna be certain things that they might
know. It might contradict with Islam. It might
contradict with the Quran or it might not.
Regardless of what they say, we believe in
the Quran because it's the word of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And when it comes to the book of
Allah Azza wa Jal and from the miracles
of the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is
that
it's something
which is a cure.
It's a cure for the people.
It's a cure for mankind.
And one of the names of the Quran
is Ashifa,
something which is a cure for the people.
And it's mentioned,
from the stories of one of the scholars
who while he was delivering his lecture.
He was delivering his lecture and he was
bitten by a scorpion,
a poisonous scorpion.
And they say if you're bitten by the
scorpion you have like 10 15 seconds
and that's it, that's the end of your
life.
And so while he was delivering his lecture
he was bitten by the scorpion
and he flipped the scorpion away when he
was bitten by it and he recited Surat
Al Fatiha from the Quran. And when he
recited Surat Al Fatiha he carried on delivering
his lecture and nothing happened to him.
And this is the power of the Quran.
You know this is this is the the
power of the Quran and how powerful the
Quran can be. It's something which is a
cure. And this is why for example if
someone is possessed they read the Quran on
this person.
Because the power of the Quran is something
which you know something we can't imagine.
The fact that a person is possessed by
something and a person can read the Quran
and the jinn can be affected by the
reading of the Quran, by the kalam of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And this is something
which we can only begin to imagine the
immense power of the Quran.
When the messenger of Allah SWAWSAW LEHN
would travel sometimes
and
revelation would come to him. They say sometimes
he would be on his camel and revelation
would come to him and the camel itself
would kneel down. He was unable to walk.
He was unable to move. He was unable
to even stand
and he had to go down because of
the power of the Quran,
because of the miracle of the Quran in
and of itself.
So the Quran, brothers and sisters, was something
which was.
It was something which was very heavy,
something which is very powerful.
And so when the messenger was given
the Quran and he was being you know
given this Quran by the end of Jabeel
alaihis salam it was something which would have
a toll on his body.
And they say when revelation would come to
him he would sweat and he would shiver
and he would have like a cold sweat
because of the, you know, the severity and
the seriousness of the Quran in and of
itself.
When it comes to the, linguistic
miracles of the Quran
there are many things that I mentioned in
the Quran
which
it has a certain style to it.
And
it can be read, you know, if it's
read in a certain way it can have
a certain meaning.
And if you stop at a certain place
it'll have a separate meaning.
What do I mean? If you look at
for example certain surahs of the Quran, you
look at certain ayat of the Quran. Allah
Azzawajal he says in one ayah, he says
He is Allah in the heavens and in
the earth.
He
knows what's in your hearts. He knows your
secrets. He knows what you do openly.
He
knows what you gather in the day. Any
from your provisions, from your risk.
And so a person can read his whole
ayah without stopping.
And he's Allah in the heavens and the
earth and so on and so forth. And
the scholars they say that a person
can also read it in another way.
There's another type of gira that he can
read. Another type of reading where he says,
Wawalla hufis samawat
and then he stops.
And then you carry on, Wafil Arduyaalamusirakum
Majarakum Mayalamuatuhsiboon.
So you say and he is Allah in
the heavens
and then you stop.
And on the earth
He knows what you do when it comes
to those things you do in secret, those
things you do openly, and what you collect
every single day.
So subhanAllah
just by this stop it changes the meaning
and it brings emphasis to the and to
the to the to the, you know, to
his high status
and the fact that he is most high.
And he is Allah in the heavens.
So subhanAllah
just by you know stopping at a certain
place it gives a whole new
view and a whole new meaning to the
to the to the verse of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
You know it gives a whole new understanding
to the verse.
You know the words are the same
but depending on where you stop and where
you start it can change the whole meaning
and it can give more depth to the
Quran and to the to the Ayat of
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that's why when
a person reads the Quran,
when a person reads the Quran
he might learn something
and it might be something which another person
might have understood from it.
I
might read an ayah from the Quran
and this brother might read another the same
very same ayah from the Quran and yet
we might benefit and we might learn different
things from it.
And also when it comes to the Quran,
unlike other books for example a person might
read a textbook or he might read a
novel or he might, you know, he might
read something else, a manual or an instructive
book or, you know, a self help book
or whatever it is. He'll read it once
and he'll read it twice and, you know,
there's not much that he can gain from
it after reading it a couple of times
or a few times. When he comes to
the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the
more you read it and the more you
read the ayat of Allah azza wa Jal,
the more you learn
and the more things you discover.
You know, the more things you learn and
the more things you pick up and it's
something which is very personal.
So a person might read a certain aya
and he might learn something.
And he might read it again the next
day or the next week or the next
month and he might, you know, look at
it from a totally different angle.
And he might look at it as a
personal thing.
Maybe something happened to him and he reflects
on the ayah.
And how many times I said, you know,
something happened to us and then when we
hear the imamri sight, we hear something which
is, you know, suitable for what's happened to
us in our lives around that very same
day. Or maybe around Twitter or, you know,
around the internet or we hear something on
YouTube. And SubhanAllah those very same ayat we
hear are things that are very relevant to
what happened to us in that day or
in that week.
So SubhanAllah when it comes to the Quran
it's something which is very personal
and also when it comes to the Quran
it's something which can move a person.
It's something which can move a person emotionally.
You might have someone who's maybe someone who's
very stoic and he doesn't cry, he doesn't
get emotional, he doesn't you know doesn't show
any emotion and yet when he's praying for
example in the imam reciting
those very same words would cause him to
crumble and he'll start weeping for the fear
of Allah Azza wa Jal
because of the words that he hears.
And so this is the power of the
Quran that when we hear it it's something
which you know makes a person emotional. We
might not know what's been recited.
You know many of us we won't know
what's being recited. We won't know what the
imam is saying.
But just the fact that it's the kalam
of Allah Azzawajal is the word of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, it has an effect on
a person's heart.
You know and it makes the heart soft
and a person starts to weep even though
he doesn't know what the imam is saying.
But he knows that it's something which is
different. He knows that it's something which is
special. And that's why during the time of
their companions
sometimes the Quraysh would send poets
to tell the messenger of Allah Subhalehi Wasallam.
And once the messenger of Allah Subhalehi Wasallam
was faced with a poet and he started
to recite the poetry and this man, this
poet he started to cry because of what
he was hearing from the messenger of Allah
Subhalehi Wasallam from the Quran.
And so he tried to put his hand
on the mask of the messenger of Allah
SWA. Because you know he knew that what
he was hearing was something different. It was
something very powerful and he wanted the messenger
of Allah SWA to stop.
And so this companion eventually became Muslim.
So when it comes to the Quran brothers
and sisters it's something which can have a
very, you know, emotional impact on a person.
And even those of us who understand basic
Arabic,
you can differentiate between
the Quran
and normal Arabic.
You know you can differentiate between the 2.
You don't even have to have you know
a master degree or degree in Arabic
to know this.
There's a difference between somebody said
and somebody who
says
There's a certain flow to the Quran that
you won't find anywhere else. And that's why
the story has mentioned about a person who
gave his car in to the garage
and he had Saad Al Uhamdi playing
on the stereo, a CD on the in
the CD in the car. Sheikh Saad al
Ghammadi, a famous reciter.
And
when he went back to collect the car,
the mechanic said to him, he wasn't a
Muslim, and he said to him, what what
what is that sound you've got playing in
your car?
I heard this sound and
it was really soothing.
I've never heard anything like that before and
this is someone who's a non Muslim.
And he told him that this is our
book, this is the book of Allah and
something which we believe is in the Quran.
And so the man was saying was something
which is very soothing.
So he would have it on and he
would do his work in the car and
he would have that plain.
So this was you know the effect that
he had on somebody who wasn't even a
Muslim.
And also one of the Mashaq he mentions
that once he met a non Muslim
and
he
demonstrated to him
the, you know, the the the flow of
the Quran and the eloquence of the Quran.
And so he
said some Arabic
which wasn't from the Quran. So he said
a few, you know, lines
of just abnormal sentences from the, you know,
from his head
and then he started to read the Quran.
And so he said to this man who
wasn't a Muslim, he said did you notice
any difference
between the 2? And he said yes. He
said the first part wasn't like the second
part. The second part has certain flow to
it. And this is a person who wasn't
even a Muslim. So even when it comes
to non Muslims
they know and they recognize
the, you know, the fluency of the Quran.
Now my question is brothers and sisters, my
question is
that if this is the case
when it comes to
the you know eloquence of the Quran and
we don't even understand the Quran.
We don't even understand Arabic in and of
itself.
And this is the power that the Quran
has when we don't even understand
the Arabic language. Then imagine
how much we'll benefit from the Quran if
we knew the Arabic language.
Imagine how immense
and how moving the Quran would be if
we had a basic understanding of the Arabic
language.
And even now you know most of us
here we understand basic Arabic
and yet we still don't you know ponder
over the Quran as much as we should.
Because all of us here we all know
for example
when it comes to the Quran we all
know certain words of the Quran.
We all know what Jannah means. We all
know what Jahannam means. We all know what
Kitabullah means.
You know we all know what we all
know the names of the prophets alayhi mus
salam. Ibrahim alayhi salam and Musa and Yaisa
and Adam and all these prophets.
So the question is when we hear these
words that we understand and we know what
they mean.
When we hear these words being recited by
the imam or when we read the Quran
and we come across these words, how many
of us actually think and ponder over these
words of the Quran?
How many of us actually think about these
words? How many of us actually think about
the prophets of Allah when we hear them
in the Quran? How many of us when
we
hear the the name of Musa Alaihis salam
do we think about his trial that he
had with Bani Israel? With the tribe of
Israel? How many of us think about Isa
Alaihis salam when his name is mentioned?
How many of us think about Nuh Alaihis
salam and the fact that he gave Dawah
for over a 1000 years.
So you know when these words are mentioned
when Jannah is mentioned do we actually think
about paradise and the rewards of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala for the Muslim. When we hear
the words Jahannam
and we hear the word Nar, do we
actually think about the whole fire? And do
we ask Allah azza wa ta'ala to protect
us from it? Do we actually think about
the, you know, the the punishment of of
the fire?
So when it comes to the Quran brothers
and sisters
you know some of us may claim that
we don't understand the Quran
and we don't understand Arabic so we can't
understand the Quran. All of us here to
a certain level can and you know should
ponder over the Quran as much as we
can and we don't. You know the sad
matter of the fact is that we don't.
And it's not just about knowing and understanding
and learning Arabic but it's about implementing what
we already know from the Arabic language. Whatever
difference that may be.
Because if it was just about learning Arabic
and everybody in the Arab world, you know,
there would be masha'Allah, you know, righteous and
practicing Muslims. I mean no that's not the
case.
Okay. So don't think that just because you're
going to learn Arabic
that you're going to be, you know, in
the salah and you're going to be paying
attention to the imam. It's something you have
to make an effort for. You have to
put the effort in to, you know, ponder
over the Quran and listen to the Quran.
And when it comes to the Quran
from the you know the the the miracles
of the Quran
is something which in English is known
as
a palindrome.
A palindrome.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he mentions in the
Quran he says
and glorify
your lord.
Glorify the name of your lord.
And in english language they have this thing
called a palindrome
where,
for example
I'll give you an example like race car.
Race car is a palindrome.
Okay. So race car
is spelled race car and if you look
at it backwards,
it's also spelled race car.
Okay. And that's one of the longest of
you know palindromes that you'll find. When you
look at the Quran and you look at
the miracles of the Quran you look at
this ayah.
Rabaka Fakkabir.
Glorify the name of your Lord.
This in of itself is a palindrome.
Rabaka
for kebir.
What's the first letter?
Ra. What's the last letter?
Ra. What's the second letter?
Ba.
Rebekah
Fakabir.
What's the 3rd letter?
Kaf.
So you have a palindrome here and the
middle letter is a fa.
Rebekah Fakabir.
In no other language,
no other language will you find glorify the
name of your Lord
being a palindrome except in the Arabic language
SubhanAllah.
So you have this palindrome in the Quran.
Glorify the name of your lord. This thing
which is a miracle in and of itself
in the Quran. And there are many examples
of the of this in the Quran.
So SubhanAllah
when it comes to these things brothers and
sisters and these ayaat of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
There might be some things which we know.
There might be some literary miracles and some
scientific miracles and other such miracles, prophecies
that maybe have come about and maybe haven't
come about yet that we know of. But
there might be some things which we don't
know and there might be certain miracle that
we aren't aware of.
Okay regardless
of whether we know them or not we
believe that this is the word of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And we know that this is something which
is unique
and it's something which SubhanAllah if a person
reads the Quran
just reading the Quran gives a person pamaneena
and it gives him this you know
sakinah in the heart, it gives him this
tranquility in the heart and it makes a
person tranquil.
You know it gives this person happiness.
If a person reads it how it should
be read and even if he has trouble
reading it he'll get double the reward.
As a messenger of Allah SWAWSAW LEHEM he
said that a person reads the Quran and
he struggles and he stutters while reading the
Quran he gets twice the reward.
Why?
Because he's making more effort. You know he's
putting more effort into reading the Quran and
so when he puts more effort in Allah
azzav rewards him because he's not giving up.
He keeps trying.
So he reads more of the Quran
and a person if he reads more of
the Quran it'll give him more and more
you know peace and tranquility.
And this is another one of the miracles
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The fact that, you know, the Quran itself
is something which will give a person tranquility
and true peace.
Verily by the remembrance of Allah azza wa
Jal will a person find true tranquility in
his heart.
So remembrance of Allah azza wa jal and
the Quran in and of itself is something
which would give a person,
you know, true satisfaction and true happiness.
I mean, to go on and on about,
you know, the miracles of the Quran and
the scientific miracles. I mean it comes to,
you know, all the the things that are
mentioned in the Quran.
But I think what's more important
is that a person has this relationship with
the Quran.
And he tries to, you know, have a,
you know, a good connection with the Quran
with the book of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And to understand that when he reads the
Quran
that is the kalam of Allah Azzawajal.
That what he's reading is from Allah Subhanahu
wa
ta'ala. And it's not something which not only
will give him tranquility and peace
but it's something
which you know he's going to be rewarded
for reading it.
You know he's gonna get reward for reading
the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Whoever reads a letter from the book of
Allah azza wa jal then he gets a
reward.
And that reward is 10 fold.
Multiply 10 fold for reading one letter of
the Quran.
Not one word or one eye of the
Quran. One letter of the Quran.
The messenger of the lord said,
I don't say that alif, lam, mim is
a letter.
But rather alif is a letter and lam
is a letter and mim is a letter.
So a person might get 30, you know,
30,
reward
30 times a reward for reading those 3
aya those 3, letters of the Quran. Imagine
if a person read one page of the
Quran every single day. Imagine how much reward
he will get.
So it's very important for us to try
to keep this relationship with the Quran even
if it's something which we do,
you know, 5 minutes a day. One page
a day won't even take 5 minutes. It'll
take 2 or 3 minutes
just to read the the Quran.
Read 1 page of the Quran
and try to be consistent in this before
you go to sleep. Read 1 page of
the Quran. When you're driving to work or
when you're coming to the masjid or wherever
you're going when you're going to relatives or
families or cousins house. Listen to the Quran
in your car
and maybe when death comes to one of
us we'll be in a state where we
hear in the Quran before we die.
Insha'Allah.
That's you know that's something which we all
hope for. We don't wanna be from those
people who have Surah Al Khadem. Those people
who have a bad ending in their life.
And I mentioned this story to my students
all the time about the man who was
driving his car and he was listening to
music and he had the music on full
blast. And he's driving on the motorway and
he's speeding on the motorway. And he has
a car accident and the car is totaled
and there's no way a person was gonna
survive. And he was in a Muslim country
and it's a true story.
And the police who was, you know, the
police officer who was telling this story, he
said we arrived at the scene of the
accident and he said I saw the car
and I knew that nobody would survive this
accident. There was no way that a person
was gonna survive this car accident. The way
the car looked, you could tell that nobody
was gonna survive.
And he said amazingly when I went to
the car and I looked into the car
and I saw the man, he was still
alive.
But he was on, you know, his last
leg if you like. He was on his
way out
and so I said to him and this
man you know Jazahullah Khair may Allah reward
him as someone who was practicing and he
was a practicing Muslim. He said I said
to this person the one who was in
the car I told him to say
because he knew that if a person says
and if it's the last thing that he
says before he dies he'll enter paradise. So
we said to him
and so the man tries to speak
and when he starts to speak the police
officer said what I heard wasn't the shahad,
it wasn't laila illallah but it was the
song and the lyrics that he was listening
to before he had the car accident.
So the last thing he heard was the
thing that he remembered before he passed away
because,
you know, you know, it has an effect
on the person. When a person hear these
hears these things, you know, some people think
that it's harmless. It's just music and singing.
It's not a big deal. Now we can
go home. We can watch X Factor and
American Idol and, you know, it won't have
an effect on us. We can let our
kids watch Hannah Montana and all this rubbish
on TV and it won't have an effect
on them. It's no big deal. But, you
know, it has an effect on the child
and it has has an effect on us.
Never mind our children. How many times have
we, you know, have our children watch something
on TV and they go around saying those
same thing that they heard from the television?
If it's like a street word or a
slang word or you know you know maybe
something worse.
Because they've been watching something and they've heard
it on television and they start saying it.
Even though it might not be something bad
but it's something which you know influences them.
And the same with Quran the scholars of
the past, it's not a hadith but the
scholars of the past they would say that
you know music is the Quran of the
Shaytan.
It's the Quran of the Shaytan because when
a person hears music and he hears singing
okay he never forgets it.
He never forgets the lyrics. He never forgets
those. He might have heard a song 10
years ago
and up to this day you know the
lyrics
even though you've never heard the song again.
SubhanAllah. And that's the power of the, you
know, that's the power of songs and and
music. That's why it's known as the the
Quran of the Shaytan.
So it's very important for us to have
this connection with the book of Allah. The
greatest miracle of the messenger of Allah salaahu
alaihi wa sallam and try to have, you
know, a good relationship with and a good
connection with it. So that maybe if we,
you know, if death ever comes to us,
we're in a position where we're able to
say the shahada and maybe we're able to
recite the book of Allah
instead of reciting, you know,
some lyrics from some song that we were
listening to.
We ask Allah
that his friends in our relationship with the
Quran.
Very beneficial reminder.
Just before going to q and a, just
a quick reminder, Insha'Allah. Next week's lecture,
will be entitled the Rise of Risk and
it'll be delivered by Sheikh Abu Samah.
If any brothers would like to ask any
questions, we'll now put the floor for about
5, 10 minutes.
With regards to having,
them as decoration, it's not it's not something
which is recommended. It's something which should be
avoided.
Yeah. Rather, it's something which a person should
read and he should understand because sometimes, you
know, some a person has, writing up on
the wall and something which he doesn't even
understand what it means. You know, he doesn't
understand what what the what those mean. So
what's more important is a person to read
the Quran and contemplate what he's reading and,
you know,
memorize the Quran. Try to memorize as much
of the Quran as he can.
Allah, Adam. I don't know.
Yeah. I mean, you know, even with if
you look at the the
Arabs of the past,
there were people who were very they had
this,
you know, they had this kind of
tribal tribalism.
And so they were very stubborn when it
came to their tribes. And even the the
the the those people, the Quraysh, they knew
it was the truth but they wouldn't accept
it.
You know, they knew it was the truth
but they said how can we accept one
god? How can we accept?
You know how can we accept
the fact that there's only 1 God? Look
at the Kaaba now there's 360 idols in
there. He wants us to get rid of
all those 360 idols. We get people coming
from all over Arabia
to the Kaaba to worship those idols, over
300 idols.
And so he wants us to get rid
of all those to worship 1 God.
You know and they thought you know financially,
economically it was gonna be something which is
going to be disaster for them. But SubhanAllah
you look now and you see people coming
from all over the world.
So you know they had this sudden stubbornness
to them and you know we ask Allah
Azaraju will keep us firm on his religion.
The the reward is mentioned when, you recite.
Yeah.
Whoever reads
a letter from the book of Allah.
Yeah. When you recite when you recite. Yeah.
And
that
that comes with you know reading more and
more. The more a person reads the more
his, you know, relationship with the Quran
will be better and it will increase. And
also, I think it's mentioned that, I
think it was.
He said that if a person
isn't able to weep, then he should force
himself to weep. You know, he should force
himself to cry.
You know, and if a person can't cry,
he should force himself to cry and eventually
he'll start to cry.
You know it's about having this relationship with
the Quran. Sometimes a person doesn't have this
relationship with the Quran. He might open the
Quran once a week or once a month
or subhanAllah. Last time he opened the Quran
was maybe the end of Ramadan,
you know and he hasn't opened the Quran
since. He hasn't heard the Quran since he
hadn't recited the words of Allah since. So
how can he expect to have this how
does he expect to have this effect on
him? And also when it comes to weeping,
when it comes to reading the Quran
sometimes
it happens at certain recitals when you hear
the Quran, certain recitals have an effect on
a person more than other recitals.
Okay. So, you know, a person might hear
a certain reciter and he might have an
effect on that other reciters won't. So as,
you know, the as a person may be,
you know, weeping when he hears when he
hears the words of Allah
Allah knows best.