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Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah. Wa alaykum wa salam when I heard the low Baraka hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah Bismillah. Chef Abu Bakr Assad welcome.
It is a pleasure for me to meet with you and to interview you, somebody of your caliber, and your special qualifications and background.
Shuffle because I've known you for a very long time now your family, your father, Chef, Abdur Selim, Zod. And so this is a very intimate moment machine which is special to me. Insha Allah. Likewise, likewise, Disha Annie, this is a honor for me to be with you here and share some of this knowledge that we have with you and to learn us all from you, the Valetta IRA, and to educate our Muslim Ummah, around more wherever they may be. So ask Allah azza wa jal to make it a blessing and takes it just like Alafaya shuffle bucket. But let's begin by asking about you. Crusher will tell us about your background, your ethnicity, and your studies. And what are you studying at the moment? My
Shama? So, I was born in Australia, our background is from Lebanon. So we live in these, and just like yourself, anyone, and I had an upbringing in Australia, specifically in Sydney, all the way until I reached 18 years of age. Then after that, but Hamdulillah, I was blessed with the opportunity to go abroad, and to study in the Islamic University in Medina, in Saudi Arabia, and humbly Hamdulillah, I was encouraged and excited for this opportunity says My father was a preacher and a chef, and he always had us on that path.
So I didn't hesitate to take this acceptance and, and go there. And I went there. And I studied the first two years, strengthening the Arabic language, they call it ma had the law, you strengthen your Arabic language. And then afterwards, I did the four years in the Faculty of Quranic studies. And in way we specialized in Al Quran, and the deceit, the explanation in the understanding of the Quran. And then afterwards, I came back to Australia. I spent a few years then I went to Egypt, to do my Masters there in Nova Tilos, hot, very renowned and famous university. But then
the political situation in Egypt wasn't the best in 2012. So we were forced to come back, came back to Australia. And then a few years later,
I got accepted at the University of charger in the Emirates, what hamdulillah I've been there ever since. And I've been studying at the university, the masters and shall the tie that going towards the PhD sort of in a wonderful experience. And I'm always grateful for loss aversion, to give me that ability and that strength to continue to study Humber in the Baroque Allah Mashallah. Galego
How old were you when you
graduated from the degree in Sharia? So I was 2420 So out of that 1860s Later 24 I was had finished the university the studies in in Medina mashallah and I do remember once with a friend of mine we're taking some students on ombre and we met you in Medina Do you remember that time? So Pamela, many, many Australia has gone through and we see them and they can sometimes they there are things you remember you don't remember but it's always good to say don't remember me time I live very quickly so I do remember mashallah your beard was just growing was still a bit short. As of Hello, very young, I think you will probably sign off in 20 days or something like that. So hello, I have maybe
I could mention Nina Medina, I had one thing that this always stands out for me and I always like to mention it.
And that is that when I came to Medina, first I had a dream. I saw a dream that I was sitting inside that Mr. The nubbly and it was raining. So we had a chef is named Michelle Obama that were highly on laissez faire. And he was known for dream interpretation. And I asked him Sure. This is the dream I saw.
What do you think its explanation would be? He said, he said in Arabic engagement. Allahu Leca been a higher end. He said Allah Azza. Origen will grant and give you two type of goodnesses because it must be the Naboo is a goodness and rain is a mercy it's a goodness. I never understood what that is. And we're just days moves by. In my last year of studying, I ended up reciting reading the entire Quran from beginning to end. Upon the Imam of mustard, that number was shallot of he and at the same time I read it on an expert in the Quran. The shift the meme is zody or SubhanAllah. I sat afterwards and I reflected and I said perhaps this is the to goodness that Allah azza wa jal would
give me while I was in in Medina, Fatah
When he shows up from an expert a mobile Hello minimal they expose padlocks and humbly Alaska blazor shell to accept Subhan Allah
that's something that's philosophy. And we say that we can no jealousy or envy is not good except in a few Madelon Allah that he won him Allah Subhana Allah has got it someone like that in Quran and we look up to your chakra, local
habibi. So you mentioned that now you're doing a PhD study that. What are you specializing in? Or what is your research topic about? Just in summary, so I'm focusing on the fetal pole in
the understanding of the Quran, which is the reason and the purpose five, this plan was revealed. And
the topic that I chose was organic solutions to old problems. And we divided world issues and old problems into four categories, individual problems, family problems, community problems, and global problems. And I mentioned about three to four of the biggest problems that I see and I've heard of, and I've come to know from others, and how does the Quran offer the best solution to all of these problems? That was the research. Now, that's amazing kale humbly Laird was very practical, very practical. And every part of this thesis had relevance to our society, to someone in the community. It discusses or cles, adult about a global situation, for example, we spoke about climate change,
we'll discuss don't have to say that climate change that's a global problem about the economical situation around the world with rubber and so on. What is the Quranic solution for a global problem, you'll find Subhanallah every single issue outfit, whether it's your own self, a spiritual issue, a financial issue, a psychological issue, if it's a family issue, or a community issue or global issue, l n, will give the only and best solution to that problem. That was a research Allah. That's a very interesting because it brings up two questions now, for me, as an educator, I think about the young people and the questions that go through some of the comments that people mentioned. So two
questions I've got about that. Some people say well, the Quran is an ancient book. yet here you are bringing this ancient book
and applying it to the modern world as if the Quran is ahead of its time.
So what can you say to people who say well, you people are following an ancient book? Yes, still problems. Evan muscle little the Allahu Anhu would say Holly Conville amarilla to commit to the ancient Metis yearnings outlook is ancient. Our deen is ancient. Every time we speak something about the religion. People have this thing in their heads. This mindset that we want to hear something new, when listen to something new, give us something new. And we'll call an with Dean is an ancient matter. Allah has already revealed that Allah azza wa jal is Al Creighton, He is our Lord, I'll provide that our Sustainer he calls this life he calls this death, He decrees all our affairs and
matters, no one will know us better than our Lord. So the importance of the Quran in the life of these youth,
I like to explain it from from this perspective, perspective, I give an example. I see you know, anything that you purchase of products, when it breaks down, you rushed to the troubleshooting manual.
And you read through it to see, okay, I've purchased the microwave, it's not turning on troubleshooting. It'll tell me make sure the cord is plugged in. Make sure this makes sure if not call the service number. And we'll go and repair it for you see the human being Allah azza wa jal creativity, and he also breaks down, we break down as well. spiritually, mentally, we can break down physically, emotionally, psychologically, we break down in all aspects of life. And so this human being also has a troubleshooting manual. And that is the word of the one who made Him who created the and that is Allah azza wa jal. This is the importance of this ancient Quran in the life of not
only Muslims, but all of mankind. There is your solution you when you're troubled in something in life, you open up the Quran, you find guidance, if you're troubled with an addiction problem,
or half an acre will give you a solution and a remedy and a healing to that problem. You know, you go through suffering and grief and mashallah, there's one thing that I I really, really enjoyed and I benefited, listening from you specifically. And that was when you went on the European Institute, and you're on a podcast with almost today met my law surgeon preserve in Britain.
argument except from assault me. And you were then sharing how solid yourself, give you immense comfort, during the time of grieving that you are going through, when you lost your son and your brother in law, social history has mercy upon that there are conventions and I had never ever heard.
So saw the tools of and how it relates to a person that is going through a calamity in Greece in the way I heard it from. So that yeah, they once again proves the point that if we go to the Quran, this ancient book that we're seeing, you're going to find immense healing in it. And it is absolutely irrelevant in every sense of the word. Subhanallah Jehovah, to be honest, that's exactly how I felt with the Quran. And
it depends on what happens to you in your life. And suddenly you find that when you recite the Quran, it talks to you in a different way that you have never really seen before. It's as if it's really reading me and now I was repeat that when you recite the Quran, especially that hardship that
you mentioned, I went through, even if you say it now got a little ball here in my throat and it's getting devotional. But it's true that the Quran does come to pick you up men. And
so a lot of people think that well you know, we've got psychology now what's psychology got to do with religion yet? We find that the Quran is like that counseling that psychologist is coming from the heavens to really read and know exactly what you're going through Subhanallah
which have you had an experience with a verse of the Quran or a passage in the same way as shuffle bucket which it became memorable for you that you found an attachment the Quran very special, unique way? Let's have a lot. Yes, I think it neither the one that is always in my mind. And it was the reason for why I memorize the plan. Why I even went overseas and wanted to learn and study. I was sitting on my bed. And I was reading from Surah Nisa, where Allah azza wa jal, he says, and during mine, I didn't have like really good Arabic. I knew how to read the ad and listen and follow the words and that some words I knew to do that how old were you roughly that time was about that was at
about the age of 14 plus the age of 14.
I read this a lot. So as Julie said, I can still remember nagging at Laci Horner filet mignon with me know, you may know that we met on Zillow, Alico, Melton, Zillow mill, public animal pimiento, Salah will not tuna circa one may not have been there he will yami Elliot Bula aka Santa T him as you're on our Vemma The only thing I can remember is the beginning and the end of the year. The beginning was across the whole of Vilain, those that were anchored in knowledge, and sought knowledge and learned and mastered and perfected it. That was the first call at the end of the I said, such people, we're going to give them an immense reward. Allah hiya chef that I read it. And
it was the first probably a novel and that I can remember at that age, that I understood the beginning and the end of it, I said is incredible. He This is a path that Allah azza wa jal has promised immense reward. So I took upon myself, I want to dive into Islamic Studies, and I want to learn and I want to master it, and I want to learn as much as I can from it. Well, Subhan Allah, I didn't, I asked him I was always going to accept and keep a Cincy. But I believe that at the time I read it, ask them observation, that I read it and I can feel that
there was something that was just bestowed upon me some kind of ability and strength, that that's what I want to do, and nothing else. And that it just lingered in my mind in my heart and every day that would go by from that day that I didn't learn something I felt something missing.
And that feeling is been with me from that day. Until this very that song on a lot almost like they say an epiphany a lot longer. I learned a guidance ally on and what and this is why Annie and I want to give advice to our young brothers and our young sisters.
Read the Quran and be serious when reading the Quran. Read, read, read, read with your heart before you read with your own tongues.
come across something that is moving that is motivation on the entire Quran is inspiring. Connect with something
and they'll be sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was described as a Quran that walks if you cannot be an entire Quran that walks be an area that walks be a soldier that walks reads have something of the Quran in your heart. That that becomes your goal and your mission and your purpose in life just work towards in our Subhan Allah subhana man, it's interesting because sometimes I see students they ask, Where should I go? What should I do? And we say well, first
it'll make sure that where you're going to choose is Helen and pleasing to Allah Spanner data. And secondly, not everybody has to follow my son and just the Quran. You mentioned that in your when I mean by just the Quran as in Quranic knowledge and be an expert in that everybody Allah puts them in some place. You mentioned that in your thesis, for example, the PhD, you mentioned that how to apply the Quran practically to all different areas of life. And so let's say a student wants to pursue learning about these areas of life, and then see how it can apply
through your work for example, people like yourself and their advice. Do you advise people if they have a passion to go through other areas of life to learn about them? Can they turn that into a religious thing? Can I turn that into a knowledge that is pleasing to Allah save not everybody's for the Quran, not everybody is like who mashallah who got that epiphany. So the main thing is the intention. The main theme here is intention. You need to you need to be sincere you need to be sincere in everything that you do in life. Danny, our chef, once he mentioned, the AYA Colita, either or Mahato journal insert allele Abu Allah azza wa jal said,
I did not create jinn and mankind except that they worship Me.
And he even the wording Allah azza wa jal didn't say hello to general in silly Abu, Allah did not say I created mankind and Jin Chi to worship me. Because if it was worded in this way, it would have also meant to worship men to do other things. But Allah Azza wa Shin worded it in such a way that he's telling us the only reason you were created is that you worship. So from that, we're going to see, if we were created for worship, that means every second our life, every second of our life must be in worship on like, for example, a screw, you know, a screw or a nail. And nail is a nail all its life. And its purpose is to bring two things together. And that's what it's supposed to do all it's
like every second of its life.
We are created to worship, every second of our life has to be worshipped. How is that? See, this is where the problem is. A lot of youth think that worship is only when you're standing praying, when you're fasting Ramadan when you're saying Subhanallah and then the rest of the time has nothing to do with worship. This is how you're limiting your opportunity of good deeds. The idea of worship is
it's with the intention. So now when I eat, when I eat, I will see that I'm eating in order to strengthen my body in order to continue to perform the obligations that Allah wants me to do. My eating now has become a worship and I'm being rewarded for it. Even when you get up in the morning and you dress I dress because Allah azza wa jal has commanded us to cover and conceal our privates. So I'm doing it a being Allah's command. And keeping away from the prohibition Allah azza wa jal doesn't want me to walk out and expose my holdup now, so when I'm wearing dressing, and all that code, as long as it's on me, throughout the day, in the night, I am being rewarded, because I wore
it with an intention of worshipping Allah. So widget. So this is the ID. When you find passion, to do something, do it and see that this matter that I'm doing, I'm going to work in this field, what do they it is a little electrician, a carpenter, a plumber, a researcher,
and I'm doing this job, this job is going to earn me an income, it's going to be the source of my provision. And this is what Allah commanded us in the Quran.
For Kulu, Kulu, me risky, Allah azza wa jal, he says FEM show female keybie, our Kurumi lispy walk in the edges of the earth and seek its provision, seek its provision. So when I go out to work, I am applying the commandment of Allah in where he said, Go and seek your provision. So if I have this intention from the beginning of the day, all of my work, believe it or not, is being rewarded for now, I am living the purpose or I was created locally. So the idea is you have a passion for something, pursue it, have the right intention. And if you're going out to seek your provision, you need to make sure it's Hallett can't be in hollow because then that becomes a disobedience to Allah
associate. Low shallow, but it is interesting some, some students asked me that if let's say I want to go into business or medicine or
paramedics or nursing for example, or engineering or any other walks of life, they come back to me and say, How can I tailor what I've learned to please Allah subhanaw taala. Sometimes I say if you can avoid learn what is haram in this business and stay away from it and the fact that you do that, then your work becomes an act of worship. Is that correct advice or what can you say about that? Help?
When people use for example, what advice do you have for people who have chosen those areas? When you say, let's say, for example, business? What advice would you give a Muslim who is gone and graduated from business wants to work into business? For example, how would you apply the Quran in his life or her life. So it is incumbent upon any person who's going into a set or a specific field, that he study what Islam has brought down of guidance concerning that field. And so if a person wants to go into that field of business, it is worship incumbent upon him to study the chapter of business and transaction and trade that is in Islam and found in the books of worship, just like if
a person is single of his life, he doesn't have to study the jurisprudence of marriage, that thing he could that he intends to marry. And he pursues that path and he marries. It is worship, worship, obligatory upon that person to learn the jurisprudence of marriage and what Allah azza wa jal wants from us. A lot of these problems that we find among the youth in their field and in their work, and they come and they complain, and I don't own it, is that halal? This haram? He should have been, you should have studied this already. This is your field, you should study it. That's the ID. Look, we, when we reached the age of puberty, it's worship upon us that we established five daily prayers. How
can you do that if you do not study how to pray the five daily prayers. So when something becomes obligatory upon you, you have to study the laws and the rules and the regulations concerning this matter. So the advice here for these young boys and sisters of asthma loss aversion to protect them and bless them all in their businesses and their filth. But if you're pursuing that part,
it is absolutely incumbent upon you to put the bricks up and say I need to learn what Islam has to see. You know, for every knowledge, there are the compulsory medicine to learn and then there's the supplementary matters. You need to learn the basics. You need to learn what is a halal transaction. For in transaction, we say that everything is permissible, and there are things that are impermissible, you need to learn what's impermissible, that's it. It will take it one course three, four hours, and you've got the knowledge that you need for that course. And for that field and for that for claim that you want to okay yeah, Chicago back results. So you mentioned that you've been
from a young age learning the Quran, you saw your dream you had an epiphany you you were guided with it shall So can I ask you Have you memorized the whole Quran of humbling the modes by Yanni Allah's grace and blessing that he allowed me to memorize the plan? And I was I finished the pool and at about the age of 15, I had finished the boy 15 years old 15 years up to about a cola 15 years old not there's a story. There's a story about you putting me to shame a little bit there, but I'm going to hold on inshallah Dieter, as they tell us the story behind it SubhanAllah. So
Fridays and Saturdays, I used to sleep at my grandparents house, just like we always just did. And a lot of people know this kind of culture that existed. I know if exist among the youth today at your grandparents house. But like easier to Yeah, we used to go the Friday afternoon which is school. We go to my grandparents house and we sleep overnight. One of these times I was there. And there was the old, you know, the cassette player? Yeah, brothers and sister probably got no clue what we're talking about. But there was a cassette player and there was a cassette. You put it into the cassette player, and you press play and it recites it reads, so my grandparents, they had the most
half recorded in cassette, with the voices of a chef, a Showtime was chef so this, the two famous events of the huddle, and the Harlem and Gan McKee
I put the cassette in randomly. I had no interest in memorizing Quran I had memorized before it sort of the Bacala, sort of Delia Milan, but my father was always honored. I had forgotten, you know, it's just, there was a connection really. I put the cassette then press play, I began to listen, a Subhanallah share how to know what happened that night. I was absolutely inspired by the voices of the chefs. And by the idea that these are normal human beings that had memorized the Quran and reciting it so beautifully. I said, why can I do the same thing?
That was the seed and how everything started afterwards. The next day, I got a paper and a pen. And I drew a plan for myself. I said that I was up to sort of out of by then put a plan, how much I'm going to memorize every day, half a page. And I said by the end of that II, I would have finished up to sort of that Hush, spirit excited to see my dad the next day and tell him what my new goal a new plan is.
The day before I had no interest that night.
And after, I do not know where this complete interest in the Quran came from, from Allah, no doubt and on what what?
And so I told him, that's the plan. He said to me, my son, if you finish to Sultan Haji by the end of the, I'm going to take it to Haji with me mahyco Nee the end of the year had come. And I had finished the entire Quran. And there are another line 1213 How long? I finished the empire in one year, six months, in six months, it was all been in six months. I began with half a page, what we're up to before the lotto, sorry, you were up to sort of era at that age and before you committed to memorize everything before that. So without all the faders or are you talking from just amateurs to to out off that way or from the Lakota desert? We're speaking from sort of our roughly about that
mind? Is it sort of our off nights usually their houses about nine times 20 is 180 pages. Yes. From there all the way till us at about a seminar when you are but like, you don't even consider it you know, because I had forgotten you had to memorize. Of course we always have to get redo actually, you're right that memorizing is easier than revising this theater was awkward and you had to revise so technically it did take six months, six months memorized the entire was finished and my dad Subhanallah he fulfilled his promise and it wasn't like that well off. But Subhan Allah had happened. My grandfather, Allah humble passed away from a poor man and his inheritance some of it
came to my mother, sort of my journey, my grandfather from my mother's side, and I remember on Hajj back then was 5000 Australian Ireland, but I was back in she doesn't know more inheritance money. And she paid for my for my house. And I ended up going how to pump I ended up meeting a chef Shalom was shipped Sundays and 100 it was it was it was an experience for me that I'll never forget. And it was the start of going down that path God Allah just opened more doors for you. While whitework Allah opens doors upon dua eusocial but what's interesting is that a lot of people sit down and think oh Allah bring it to me Oh Allah guide me Oh Allah make me do this and do that. But with you
the story is a little bit different. Yes, you sought Allah smart as hell but you did an effort you planned. You made a goal for yourself. Do you plan ahead you organize yourself and you committed? Then the help of Allah Cain blocks is that how it works? Of course, always the effort is required. Allah azza wa jal, he says, is an area that explains this really well tell us with Allah azza wa jal, he says, when it took them a note MEF above Allah Hopi Baba Kumada don't wish for what Allah azza wa jal he gives others more than what he gives you. Don't wish for it. The deen and acquiring matters and receiving blessings from Allah is not about wishing and desires and wishful hopes and
thoughts. Allah azza wa jal he says it literally shared in our Cebu, Mactan, Cebu, while in Nisa, in Cebu mimic the seven men will get what they need effortful, that's accessible, and for women, they will get what they put effortful, and then at the end, the law said was a law humming public and then ask Allah azza wa jal from his virtue from his blessings from his mercy. So the idea is that Cebu actor Serbian, put the effort, then ask Allah azza wa jal and keep away from wishful thoughts. Because a bow literally means to put the effort and it gets to see play. That's exactly what do they seek seek it? And Allah azza wa jal would specifically say, You men need to go and seek and the
woman as well. You want something, you seek it. Then at the end, you raise all these efforts of yours to Allah azza wa jal, and what's up Allah humming probably, because at the end, the effort is from a human human being is weak. So if you relied on your efforts, you're relying on something that is weak, therefore it needs to be fortified, and we had to make your effort. And you have to make dua at the end. Like you know, oh my god, we put our efforts with us. And at the end, it's so important to ask Allah to accept Sahaba Muhammad, six months after Ramadan, they asked Allah to accept you make the effort, then you have to ask Allah to accept, then only wait to see what Allah
azza wa jal has prepared for her to come.
circle back around, I'm interviewing you to interviewing you but when you were telling the story about how you were guided to learn the Quran, and how you looked up to those Musharraf and how your father said to give you housing and other doors open, it's Want to share something very similar quickly, just to emphasize that it's true, you're not alone. And that does give you guidance like that and you have to seek something similar. I actually my father used to buy us, VCR, VHS video cassettes in the old and I used to watch the Messiah reciting Quran and I got very intrigued by that and I said I
I look up to them in his one on one more hug. So I kept I made a plan like yourself and I started reciting then one day I think I was 10 years old on a Saturday evening, morning, I just started reciting and found that it started to come and end and my father sat down with me says, masha Allah, you've also got a nice voice and it's gone and it was like a party and a celebration that morning. And that Subhanallah with with the Father support and parents support and bringing those role models to you. Subhanallah it's absolutely important now, l Allah allows him Subhanallah Yasha humbuckers Nisha Allah that's that's extremely inspirational. Michelle mo Tottenville youth? What advice can
you give to people who want to memorize the Quran? I know you've already mentioned some examples. So humbler no people will understand this. What advice can you give to people want to memorize the Quran? And what advice can you give to parents who want their children to memorize the Quran acts, but just some strategies on who so, of course, you know, we spoke something of our stories and 20 years ago, the distractions were a lot less than what is today. So I want to give practical advice that caters and includes and understands that the youth are completely distracted with many distractions today, the phones to smartphones, the social media, whatever you can think of of
distractions of today we didn't have so there was that chance to connect with the poor and to read and certainly think he really had and out though field sports and so on. So the idea is considering the distractions of today
I believe that the majority of the Ummah haven't memorized the Quran yet because they haven't decided to start with one a or the Uh huh. And you know, this thing of one ad Subhan Allah is actually found in the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa as simple as that there's a hadith beautiful Hadith and the recent Allahu alayhi wa salam once he came to the masjid, the nubbly to the back of the masjid the people of a sofa the people of an in Maharaja in that had resided in the back of the Masjid. These are poor people, poor people, homeless, homeless, waiting for someone to give them food to give them some wealth, some shelter, some clothing, maybe some Allah Allah, you'll send
them into pomson now. And he says to them, would any one of you like to go to Japan, which is a valley that's outside of and Medina? Would any one of you like to go there and come back with two fat camels full of meat? You know, if you own the camel, at that time, you are considered someone that's wealthy, just like having a Ferrari. This is a camel that's going to provide milk and it will give birth, then it's got immense benefits for you ride on it. Okay, maybe so I said let me sing this to poor people. So the city male Rasul Allah, Who among us doesn't will not take this off, of course, we'll all take it. These are poor people, this is what they need food. Liquid in the visa
law while they are selling did he shifted the attention, he said to them, Shall I tell you of something greater than that? He said to them, whoever was to go to the masjid. To learn an acre or two, it would be better for him then a camel or to Allah and if you went to the masjid to learn three, eight, it would be better than three camels for a better than four camels, Allahu Akbar. So the ideas and the visa Lombardi who are sending them told his company he introduced him to the idea of one or two at one or two a at the date. So if the people stuck the wishful thoughts about one day I want to become a memorizer of the Quran, stop that. Start from today with an A, an area Edie Allah
He you will find that if you do that, at the end of a month, you've got 38 down your sleeve, for example, l cardio out bus mellow cardio while you're at one A is enough one a alladia one anger is enough. And I recommend I recommend go to a sauna that you haven't done before somewhere in the middle of the pool, I get to sort of muddy up by stop this sort of money, you know, stop this sort of bias sort of that how should these important slot there's a lot of meaning. A lot of value hasn't even seen that part of the Quran in the middle. You know, a lot of times, we're really right at the beginning or really right at the entered and, you know, it's just these repetitive things, and we
know them and we move on. Challenge yourself with something completely new, something you have never even come across in your life. Start in the middle of the most have a little bit before sort of Toulouse school of thought. I think people don't even know what's in that soul. One ad you will be finished in about 100 These third three months, there's just over three months you'd finish an entire sunblock. If you just began with one ad nothing more. There's even other sodas if this wants to
When in Nigeria for example, in Nigeria, either hoe and beautiful Two words, three words, your one shouldn't be finished about 4040 These should be finished advise them in their salad to recite from the other sources even if I know because most people go for love or I had another nickel Goethe Subhanallah you have to Danny our chef used to say that the only way the Quran could be solidified in your heart is to recite it in the end part of the night where there is no chance in distraction and complete focus is found in a solid and then you read the Word of Allah so isn't in the best position of reading the word of Allah and we're standing standard PRI as the best position you can
be in with reading the format. For example with a limited what is Tulika Tura cancela kucha daddy Subhan Allah Allah azza wa jal he said,
When Levina be tuned, a little beam Sujit and OPN Allah azza wa jal priest, people that spend some of the night in sujood and standing some of the night praying, they've been our best hope the Allahu Anhu he said, in order to be included in this area, you will just have to pray to like at at night, and you're included from those He told Walkman, the special selected sleeves of Allah, just by praying to look at that's the minimum. And then an abuse of Allah as salam said In another Hadith, he said, Whoever prayed at night and read 10 As he will not be counted from among the heedless in to look at 10 a 10. A at the total it is 10 out from the new eight that you're memorizing, who will not
be counted from among the hatless meaning he's counted as one as one of the ones who remember on Oahu as a decade. They're kidding the ones least considered from those who remember, and they are aware of a Maha Sasha, how beautiful and then sleep the rest of the La Palma eVouchers Jota Cosmo and short sorters Wallahi the path to Paradise is easy and all along sometimes we make it harder than is not correct. I can now hear this sometimes we think oh for sobre make will do as I've got to get up and down. I mean, when work if you really counted five, six minutes, that's that's all it is. And all that is put it in the back so that they should probably have even shared you're getting
labelling amazing advice today. In my day, let me ask you something for some use, say to me, Well, in my position as a teacher for many years, you hear young people say, Well, I've been told that if I memorize the Quran, It's haram, it's a big sin for me To forget any part of it. So I'm getting I'm afraid of memorizing it, because if I forget any of it, I'll be in big sin, I'd rather just stick to 10 sorters. And I'm safe like that. What advice can you give to that? Okay. So from a football perspective, the majority of our Matt mentioned and said that if he posts him had memorized the Quran, or a surah of the Quran, and forgot it out of his own neglect and carelessness, then that is
a major sin. And, and if you had memory if you had forgotten, due to old age, and your memory started to deplete, and it's going backwards, and you had a lot of effort in memorizing and revising, but these are natural causes out of your heads, then this would not be considered a major sin, that is fine and be at Villa on the Day of Judgment, you'll meet the law. So isn't having memorize those eight, then I see something, don't have that cheat.
You see, we all want to die upon the law in the law.
And that requires a lot of work and dedication.
And if you want to achieve that,
if you take upon yourself to memorize the Quran, that believe me luck is going to keep you on that straight path until the day you die. You'll see I'll be burdened by always revising, so be it so be it be burdened, that's gonna keep you on the path, revise and keep reading. The only reason so Pablo from the reasons for why Allah azza wa jal created the human being forgetful
that, that in itself, forgetfulness is a blessing because it keeps us in relationship with the Quran to read it. Imagine human beings had a brain that never forgets. I think if I memorize the Quran once oliverie did it, because why should I read it and I went trigger encouraged her to come back to her giving you see now when I revise the Quran and you sick so I have different relationships with the Quran, like sometimes I read it, just to revise. But in the end, I don't give a lot of time to thinking about its meaning that I just read just to retain it in memory. And at other times I have different relationships with the Quran where I read it, but with actual deep focus and pondering in
different relationships with so in my reading, to retain it in memory that I've got the bookmark somewhere. When I'm reading to implement a dish we then slowly that I have a different Bookmark.
Sometimes and there's a third reading I do to ponder over the call I read a a by Aya and that I have a third bookmark for it. Right. So, this one here
the idea that we forget. And I continuously revise, revise, revise, that keeps me in relationship with the Quran reading all ad, every letter 10 hazard ad and so on.
So patola that's the ID that ID is the problems be burdened, protecting what the die upon later Hazleton had he had it. What have you done? What are your efforts? Now in terms of you showing Mr. Sargent, they will keep you on this path. So he providing that if shuffle because
that's I've Is there a different view among the fuqaha? or interfere that the meaning of forgetting can also mean something else? Or is it just literally about forgetting the memorization? Can it mean for example, forgetting the implementation and the message of what you've memorized? Rather than the actual word this can? Is there a difference here or the word the word NESEA? There's a word necie. It has an it's so multi dimensional, it'll have some more meanings. Common meaning of Nessie, is to forget now, right about Adam alayhis salam for the seer while it measured level asthma. He forgot about Allah's origins prohibition, do not come me that treat any a trumpet and he fell into that
sin. Nessie also means a duck, Phantom Menace. Sumith kill will be. Let's see here meaning our Komodo kill be abandoned and neglected. When Allah azza wa jal, he says, Nussle, Allah. So Allah, they forgot Allah, meaning they neglected their relationship with Allah azza wa jal. So,
the CIN and plan the sin and Quran, if we're going to hold it on these meanings, one of them would mean to forget the letters themselves, so that you're not able to read them off by heart anymore.
And the greeter type of mission, and the more intense and severe type of mission is to abandon the laws that are found in that is what we will to keep away from right upon now. Jehovah God, what's the reward for a person who the difference between just reciting the Quran and reciting it with memorization? Have a lot. Kenny, we see all of this has a purpose. You see, firstly, we need to understand that reading the Quran and memorizing the Quran is the Quran wasn't intended for that. It wasn't intended for you to just read. And to just memorize not
reading, and memorizing are two important tools that help understand I give you an example.
You know, when you memorize something, you have to read it over and over again. Correct. You can't this. It's very rare. They say there's a there's like a disorder in the brain that only about 70 people on Earth have heard. And that is as soon as they look at something, they'll forget it and they'll memorize it and never forget it. I forgot put the photographic memory Yeah, like that. The idea is, when you when you want to memorize something, you have to repeat it over and over again, when you repeat something over and over again. What does that help do? It helps you understand by let's say, you took a news article. And there was some information on it. You read it once you read
it again, you read it a third time. I said, why you're reading the news article this many times. So I want to understand it. When you read something, a lot of times you only read the understanding of what's the point of reading a paragraph. So you're there studying medicine or whatever it is, you've read a paragraph in the textbook repeat. You see you literally did again. Why are you reading it again, just to understand. So now the idea is when we come to the Quran, the point of memorization, which is to repeat the idea is for you to understand and this is why I see and this is a fact I heard on one law he it is an absolutely shocking fact that the the one book on earth that is read
the most
and it is the most book that's not understood this
are a calamity and a disaster hit is a calamity. So hey, so we need to understand that repeating the Quran is for the sake of understand he did reflect on it as isn't at the essence of what the Quran tells us to do sit in pious and so fella to the bone and Quran for example, that verse, the Kitab ins had never really come about leave the bottle air he had the burden. What does that mean? Loss aversion. He said the only reason for why he revealed this book, he revealed that as a blessed book, Lea the bottle a tea he said that the ponder over it's a at
every single area deserves our pondering even if learned even as short as one visual the
Since aim at deserves a lot of your time to ponder pondering is very simple issue
hasn't busted over him Oh ALLAH he said, no matter the brutal Aya T elaborative energy, the highest level of pondering over the Quran is to implement what you read. So when I read what Hakim was solid, establish a solid, then I get up and I pre solid, solid philosophy. I am literally now engaging in this action of pondering over the Quran, when I read an AR dot Allah's greatness, and it increases love for love in my heart. I've just pondered over the Quran when I read an idea about the hellfire,
and it keeps me a step away from the sin. I've pondered over the Quran.
When I read an idea about charity and giving, and I gave up an idea of a small amount. Right now I am engaging in the process of pondering. This is what pondering the Quran is to be moved by in a way that increased your love for Allah increased your fear of Allah has solution brought you a step closer to doing a good thing, a step away from doing a sin. That is what this is pondering. Interesting, we have an education, a statement for teachers and students we say, as if a student's talking tell me and I will remember 5% of it. Show me an hour remember 50% of it. Engage me and let me do it. And I'll remember 90% of awkward period of period the person wants to learn about footy or
anything in life, they want to learn about leadership or they want to learn about even as simple as making a cup of coffee for example, implementing it makes you learn different ways and it is actually remembered something isn't true that Ahmad in the hopper will be along on said I'm not sure if it's authenticity, but you can correct us that he said it took me a very long time, maybe a year or two to memorize certain baccata you memorize within six months, he memorized that sort of bug or within a year or two and asked him why he said because I fear to move from the to the next day until I knew I was implementing it in my life is this. So Sherry, what can expound upon that shift? So the
idea is we know of generations that are Sahaba generally as a as early as
Sahaba, all of them would say that every 10 A it would memorize, we would not move on to the next 10 Until we understood them and implemented that. Then they would move on with our mobile the Aloha gnome and I think it was abnormal for the Aloha from urbanistic. He's the one who it was narrated that he memorized sword and buckler in tinnies.
Or it could be wrong probably Allah hot. But when I thought of this hadith, I bought it this sort of than Bacala itself. It actually took tenis to be revealed from beginning to end because the very beginning of it was revealed as soon as indivisible Allahu alayhi wa sallam into the Medina and the last idea in the Quran is in sort of than buckle the coil and towards your honor fee llama and a few months later Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam died and he lived in Medina 10 years so how can you memorize it before 10 years anyway?
The Omaha nothing could be wrong but maybe that's that's that they've been general message that it when you recite and you have to look into the pot and implemented that's the most that's boring thing but shape or memorize like a parrot? Yeah. But there's no implementation or anything or any questions about what there is nothing. I point to the grand isn't it? Yeah, Clemente shuffler. They see the thing what I want to add, like, even if you just zoomed out a little bit and pondered over the fact that the Quran was revealed over 23 years on the best of creation and the be some Allahu Allah healer said that that was the next question I was gonna ask you actually, go ahead. See now
was the Quran revealed? Yeah. So there is some humble we're seeing over 23 years.
Why ye Allah azza wa jal, he says, lithoco Hawala, nurse, yada, interesting now so that he can read it bit by bit upon the people so that they can absorb and understand and implement, because this is a book of a lifetime. It's not a book that the entire library, you borrow, you have in your home for one week, then the next week, you're putting it back into the where they call it the tree, and you're returning it to the library 23 years, so that every single day of these 23 years, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the companions are connected with every single day, they're looking forward to something new. And that's what you got to develop within yourself as well. In it every
single need, you need the relationship. That's why I say that. I say to my brothers and my sisters, if it took you 23 years to understand what you're doing really well, because it's the same timeframe as the best of generation. I think in our time it takes it takes for the Allahu Akbar. It'll take out
Lifetime, sick, there's always always a reason to engage with the law every single reason to continue to engage with this provider never to disconnect. The moment in disconnect.
In essence, you've disconnected from your Creator. It's like you say, I don't want to hear what to take. I don't want to hear Oh Allah, what do you have to say to me today?
If you think of it like that, who would dare to do this? Yeah, Subhan Allah, this is the most important relationship on earth. Now, it's between you and Allah. So what and what is this relationship without proper, it's not a
good thing that you mentioned the that verse that the Quran came down in stages, according to a story behind it, or a reason that it had occurred. And so
some people may recite the Quran read it, and the way that it's organized at the moment, you may have a verse that's at the start of the Quran, another one at the middle, none one at the end, that will perhaps revealed within the same timeframe because of a reason.
And they explain each other.
So when people approach the Quran, one confusing things that they may read it out outside of context, they may take one verse and say, Oh, this means that, but then
there are other verses which would explain it. Yes. How do you advise people to approach the Quran when trying to understand it? Excellent. Taking into account what you just said, The reason or how the Quran was revealed, was revealed in context and reason, like so Now, any advice the bucket?
Yes, own was revealed in a certain order.
And that is based on what we see. However, the full record the events in the incidents that happened in the lifetime of an abuse of Allahu Allah He has an even simpler NORTHCOM would give instruction to that certain thing. Someone would come ask a question and the resource and then doesn't have an answer. Or I would come down the next day and address that issue. Half the Quran, there are reasons for why the eighth came down and another half of the Quran, there is absolutely no reason for it came down. It just came down to increase the believers knowledge about the law, increase them in worship, explain to them some more about the afterlife for them to prepare for and so like,
then just before Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam died, and this was a great of course calamity upon the Roomba.
He gathered the companions
and he told them to arrange the Quran in the same order that we have it today in the mosque.
So he said was the Prophet sallallahu Sallam yesterday directed them? Yes. So that verses in the order that we have them? Yes, this is revolution. The order of the Quran, in this current time is from Allah. So it needs some love for other humans, even though it wasn't revealed in that order. Yes, of course, in the end, I never saw Salam arranges it in this way, says to them, sort of said they had the beginning not like that, but the idea is, he arranged that the lady had said to the bow a together to Solotica that put this area in this sort of put this one this sort of after these this after that, until we have a massage that starts with salt and Fatiha. And it ends with salt and
Ness, sand, if this was made, and placed and agreed upon. Hollis, mindarie Salallahu Alaihe Salam, by the Companions by the scholars of an ummah until this very day, and no one goes against the
what's interesting is this.
You said about people taking eight out of context. Taking an example can I give you an example shuttle bucket? A classic example since we live in the West, I get this all the time. People who want to show vulnerable Muslim youth at their core and his bed, though, take that verse and ignore the other an example of that is where Allah says, fight them, fight them wherever you find them or fight the disbelievers. But then you have another verse which says, God does not forbid you from dealing kindly and justly look at those among them, who did not fight you because of religion to drive you out of your home. So now we understand in a different context, this bucket so go ahead. So
Allah azza wa jal actually warns in the Quran, not to take parts or to take paths and to leave other paths. Allah azza wa jal, he said, A Lavina Zsa will add area when but does that mention one of the qualities of the disbelievers, the portion? The Quran shoudl Coolatta Ileen meaning they took so and believed in and rejected others and neglected other parts of the planet? And that if we did that show, approach the Quran, the Quran is going to be the greatest source of your misguidance Allah azza wa jal he says you will be Looby he cathedra Allah and guidance he misguides through the sport Mini, a misguides through this quarter and many, many at the same party just clear that we're not
going to explain at the same point where the bigger field He guides me through the power
As a person become misguided through the Quran, when he wants to approach it without the understanding of the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wasallam and the companion, that's how you become misguided when I come to the Quran, and I say, Okay, I'm going to take this area. I'm going to interpret it the way I want.
So he ignores the sunnova Nabi SallAllahu sallam, he ignores the first three generations of Islam, the companions that understood the Quran better than anyone else. And he says, That's all it's all ancient. I want to understand it according to how I won't understand things that your approach to this portal and is going to be the source of your misguidance when Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, one of the signs of the hour. He said the HELOC or Mati Bill Kitab 11.
He said, My nation, their destruction is going to be through this book. And through a liberal milk. Allah Kuma T bill kitab. Through the book, what is understood by this is when they approach this Quran, they want to understand that according to their own whims and desires, now I put their own twist on it their own interpretation, their own interpretation, the world we live in terrible in these times now held those just appalling law. And then he mentioned the second part, and Leben, the milk, the milk. What is meant by this is that people would abandon the Islamic community and go out to the farms, and go and milk sheep and cows and goats, abandoning the Joomla abandoning the Islamic
lessons abandoning the Islamic environment will even that person will destroy himself. So long as there is a Muslim environment, Muslims are encouraged to be right in the middle of it and surrounding it. But if, if eaten, obviously intensify, and everyone is all over the place. You cannot worship alone in one specific place, then only a net Kade run away to the mountains and for the top of the hills and whatever it is of worship Allah so some of us say I don't want to go to the mosque because this person or that person always complains or I don't want to see them. Is that just the Bible?
Well, glossa they said was y'all know Baba can live up in fitna hospital.
The idea is, is that one another, we are a fitna to one another.
I owe you certain rights as a Muslim and you owed me certain rights as a Muslim. A father owes his children certain rights and their children owe him certain rights. Mr. Social said you're all the fit that they each have. Everyone's attests to each other. Then he said that they're at hospital, he could be patient with one another be patient with respect to one another and then give each other their rights statistic wise one another, the people who are too much avoid them. Remember, the Masjid is the house of Allah for everybody don't make the pin and a very clean problem. Having said this chef Abubaker we have obviously living in
non Arabic speaking countries, myself living in Australia, you were born here, of course in Australia, and obviously you're studying overseas at the moment. So we get the question by people who don't know Arabic. A lot of people when they say Muslim, they think the entire world is Arab, but Subhanallah Muslim population who speak Arabic are actually the minority. This creates a challenge at the moment, since the Quran is in Arabic, and it was sent upon in the language of the Arabs, yet it says that, that Allah says it is for all of mankind.
Two questions. How is it that it's in Arabic it is for all of mankind and majority don't speak Arabic?
Why is it in Arabic? Number two, for those who don't speak Arabic? How are they going to preach the Quran and understand that what advice can you give Subhanallah brought to see that, firstly, why was the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam an Arab, sent to the Arabs and as a result, the Quran will come down in the Arabic language. At the same time, there was the Roman civilization. There was the Persian civilization as well.
The Romans in the Persians had a belief already. They had a religion, they had corrupted beliefs. They had *, idol worshipping and so on.
And they did not have the same loyalty to one another as the Arabs.
In the Arabian Peninsula. People had no religion
except the few of those who had inherited the heat and the religion of Ibrahim Alayhi Salat but the vast majority, their hearts were clean. Their minds were three, it wasn't corrupted with any belief, some of that stuff. So they were fresh, they were pure, they were clean and the Arabs by nature they were loyals.
So maybe someone Maha do you send them is being sent to them.
Meaning he sent to people that are fresh, starting at a clean slate, as opposed to being sent among the robins and among the Persians. These people already beliefs are corrupted, distorted, there are lots of work to be done it and then and he was alone
At the very beginning, it's by himself. So Allahu Allah, some of the scholars mentioned that this was the wisdom for why he came to these people. These are people that were fishing clean in the desert. They have no relationship with any book. The Arabs had never received the Scripture in a book before. In contrast to the others, the others I had the chance of course they hadn't. And so now, he was among these Arabs, and the Quran was revealed in the Arabic language. And it was revealed in the Arabic language for the sake of understanding is it because the Arabic language itself is so detailed and descriptive, and there is no language on earth? No language on earth that
could match the Arabic language in its eloquence and proficiency nothing at all. Some people argue that but then when you do study the Arabic Subhanallah and the children will take up the challenge anyone who wants to challenge and I know of professors who are non Muslim who teach the Arabic languages professed to the Arabic language, especially the Quranic language as being absolutely profound but people who don't know it will probably say that so hold on what I believe you Of course salutely Incredible so the we've got two things that these areas were fresh they hadn't received the message yet it was starting from rock bottom. And number two, the Arabic language itself gives the
best explanations and detailed
instruction, nothing down other language most definitely. And with the people who don't speak English show her show. How do you advise them to approach the Quran they want to memorize but they can't they want to recite, but it's very difficult. They want to understand it, but they don't know the Arabic liquor.
So what firstly, we're going to see Allah assertion, the one who revealed the Quran in the Arabic language said, well look at the assault multiple Analyt, vicar. We've made the code easy to memorize, to understand to implement to read, this is all LiveChat and he said this almost five times in that same sort of sort of them come on ma Allah emphasizing the fact how easy this Quran is going to be.
So that's the word of Allah make concrete. There's a lot of words of mine, is Allah encouraging us, Allah azza wa jal news, Allah azza wa jal knows that there will be millions and millions of non Arabs, that this plan will also be a part of their life. So to these brothers and sisters, we say, brothers and sisters, put the effort to learn the Arabic language, make an effort, some effort, it is a worship from the highest forms of worship, or it is in the Arabic language, you learning the Arabic language is just not some other language you're learning. This is a bed or a worship. So that's the approach you need to happen. Remember what we said before, about if you're going to go
into a certain show, but you need to learn the football on the slammer coolrooms on that sort of thing. You're coming from a non Arabic background, it's upon you now to make some effort to learn something of the Arabic language if you're unable to. But what's the issue? Doesn't mean you don't have to master it. You don't have to finish it Arabs. I'm still learning Arabic language until this day, the Arabic language doesn't finish every day, we're learning something new and always do what you can even if it's shift, even if sorry if I ask you because I don't want to forget it. So what if someone can't do it really, truly and tell us their circumstance? Very hard. What about for example,
they learn at least how to read the Arabic letters. Is that a good start? Excellent, that's an excellent start. You'll start somewhere learn and doesn't matter the ages won't and they'll be some of the harder you're setting up the first letter you review, he was given us the Quran, he was that age of 40 some companions were 50 some were 53 some like will accompany an orphan. He heard some parts of the polarity that died a few few days few weeks later, but it is the age doesn't matter. The level doesn't matter. Start somewhere the idea is not to reach the end of the road is to be on that road and die on that road. You have total peace read that peace cheetah peace doesn't matter.
The ID is be on the path just do something when there is Hala to hurry wanted to get Colin's character as a quantity somehow
I know some online courses and books that have been set up for people to take them step by step but 100 in there so what those are see can take bit by bit in order to lower down and Allah Samantha preserve them and bless them yes Sheikh Abu Bakr something as he was saying popped into my head. Some people want to recite the Quran says in again modern modern type of arguments and questions that come up that didn't exist really before as much. Maybe they did you know, in the history of the Quran better than me. So they say when we recite the Quran, we feel it's patriarchal, patriarchal, it's always addressed as the men, the men, the men, well, what about the women? Most of the verses,
they're spoken in the masculine term, so Subhanallah
When you see this Christian that the US is the very same Christian that a female companion asked him to be somewhat more or Eleison tell I think her name was, um Sam, I think it was the wife of the Prophet sallallaahu send them on salah. I believe it was almost, she said the cattle sold a lot. Why is Allah continuously addressing them in time and time again.
In response to that, it was ALLAH who responded to that, not Nabi SallAllahu, it has an Allah responded to what she had brought up. Subhan Allah has a issue for herself which shows us that Allah responds to the Muslims of women, Allah who doesn't know Subhan Allah and the A that was revealed is a salt. Allah has a nozzle he said in Al Muslimeen I will mostly Matic will mean you know a minute on quantity don't get a lot of masculine, feminine had a lot of Zoysia lists a group of people and the actions.
The female believers and the male believers, female Muslims and the male Muslims, the female ones that obedient top one, the males that obedient to Allah all the way until they are below normal, Filipino Asian our V mat for all of them for all of them. Allah's version has prepared for them a forgiveness of their sins and a huge reward, which is the Paradise and the other thing is that all about him on a lot our scholars explained to us that any area that addresses the men specifically then that and this is in the Sunnah as well, then that also includes females, unless there is a specific mention that this is only for males, and no one else is intended. And so any time you read,
men are instructed to do this. Men are instructed to do that automatically by default and includes women as all except if there is a teaching in the Quran or a sunnah, that says this is exclusive
for men only. Then it's for the men. For example, also God says, You have never you either poloxamer Nyssa when Allah azza wa jal addresses the issue of a bollock we know the old one who is the divorce, we know that the one who initiates the divorce, fundamentally, in the men that missing these n, so this addressing them in all men can initiate a divorce. That's known as a holla that's addressed elsewhere in another versus night and saw like this, that it can we think the other way around as well, if Allah addressed the women?
Can it be taken that it's by default, addressing the men unless there is? Yes, basically, the idea is, once again, we're going into court example. Sure, sorry for
those who accused a chaste women woman of adultery or fornication, and they don't bring the four witnesses then whip them at lashes. So that's talking about those who accuse a chaste woman. Yes. Can that mean also the other way around those women who accuse or chase men? Yes. Excellent. That's right. So if a man accused a woman, or a woman accused a man, then the same ruling applies, but it was worded
in the feminine, because a lot of accusation happens from men against women.
So that's why it was worded in the feminine, because that always happens. But even in the Hadith, that went into this ISIL encountered the seven major sins, he said, more comfortable and more Sonetel offie let him Minette.
So it was mentioned in the feminine those who slander and accuse the chaste female woman, because that's the majority. That's the majority. And that's why it was mentioned to us on Malone Noda Sheikh Abu Bakr. How do we know that the Quran is authentic? And it is truly from Allah Subhana Allah Subhan Allah
there is no doubt that the one who reads the Quran over and over again, his certainty that this book is from Allah continues to increase. People that have this type of doubt.
I am most certain that they don't read the Quran, nor do they ponder over the Quran.
If you come across passages in the Quran, for example, just get to think a little bit deeper here.
When Allah has Origen mentions to us about Hadith and if the situation in the incident in where the wife of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he shall be alone one that was accused of a Zina on a overborne net.
You know, this is a Nabi SallAllahu Sallam is a prophet site, the president you know,
of in Medina, everyone's looking at him and his wife. There's a rumor going around that she's involved in a scandal.
And if the Quran was from the Prophet sallallahu ala your sins, wouldn't you have thought that he would come up the next minute or the next hour? We
It's something to clear it all up.
He didn't do that. And the eight that clean up by a shuttle, the hola Juan took one month to come down. One month. You know, today a president a president of any country, if his wife is accused of something with not the next morning this same night, there is the press. There's the conference, that is the papers in front of him and his condemning, and he's disassociating his family from these matters and sort of precedent does he need to you need to protect your reputation. And they'll be subulata Who are they who are Sydenham, if indeed the CO and was from him.
Most, no doubt he would have rushed to clean his family up the very same day. But why didn't he do that? That in and of itself is proof that the Quran has come from Allah has so he should he waited an entire month. His wife got sick to the point where she couldn't eat.
He is somebody who has seemed to be seeking advice of companions and going from one person to another not knowing what to do waiting waiting for some, let's say waiting for or I'm keen from Allah has solution. You know, in another instance, for example, Salah daba, Allah azza wa jal, he says about Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa salam, ibis, what the one let he found the bulging of the head and he turned away when the blind men came to hit Allah so it should reveals these at reprimanding in Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and elevating his already high character to the next level. If this Quran was written by individual alojado here's the thing kit include this about
himself with someone write about himself in a book. This is how this is the attitude I had with someone that approached me you would have no doubt this from Omaha so he said can we look at chef for examples of one of the verses says, when it makes a challenge says well, if you don't believe is from Allah, bring on like it. Another challenge bring 10 chapters like another challenge, bring one chapter, the shortest chapter is what? Allahu Akbar and until this day, anyone who tries to bring a sword or like it becomes laughingstock, people off with his attempt, because it's just funny. And it's not original, don't copy the, the Yoni the Weaver has brought and people have tried and tried
throughout the ages, but they never lost it. Subhan Allah Allah azza wa jal, he said when Okay, and I'm in India, right in Asia do 50 left and Kafeel if it was from other than Allah, they would have found a lot of contradiction in it. So there's a challenge. Find one contradiction that is in the people will say that chef, they'll say you go on YouTube, so and so and how challenging a finds contradictions or she finds contradictions. But the thing is that if truly they were contradictions, and they did make sense 1400 years is long enough for these contradictions to be manifested, and to be completely dismantled. And you know, the things that they say about the Quran shows what I've
seen that and living along non Muslims is, well, this Quran is so laughable this Quran is so whatever stuff for Allah and I think, okay, if it's an it's just violent, and it's just really bad and breakfast. Well, if this all was true, something so terrible like that will not last the ages in such perfection, right? Yes. Do you does that is that a good argument? Did you see that as a, as something that supports that the Quran is surely not from human beings? Definitely. There isn't really, as we said, the one who reads and ponders will find this a uniqueness to the Quran. That is unlike any other scripture on earth. And the idea the other thing is, you know, when
every language
at the very beginning of its time, it's the most strongest. And as time advances, it gets weaker and weaker and weaker and weaker, like you're not in English, you have Shakespeare English, and that is true, you need schools to understand what he wrote, as time goes by language is dropping. If the Quraysh the Quran was revealed upon it, then they themselves that masters of the Arabic language couldn't criticize the Quran in a letter, it gives no one a chance afterwards. So anyone that comes out with something now it's a misconception, bring it to the table will address it, doubt is gone. And he won't have any claim afterwards. And there is one more thing to probably observe he is all
that the Quran was revealed over 23 years orally, orally or not in writing wasn't written. And it was a bit and it wasn't like this is the draft, then this is the final copy.
And that is who can do that. Who if I if I gave you a task, and I said to you, Chef Bill, can you write for us 100 lines of poetry. Everyday write one line, just one line everyday. So you take up this challenge? You write a line every day. At the end of 100 days, I say to the chef below, can you mix it all around and put it in good order? Allah it's impossible. How know when I wrote it from day one, I wrote it in order. Now you're telling me to unjumble and put it in order. Look at the Quran.
In 23 years, it comes down different parts and addressing different scenarios and situations. And at the end of 23, it's consistent. What was revealed in The First Tee doesn't contradict what was revealed 23 years later, even though people change their minds in a few months, in a few years, and then at the end, it is all mix and match and all put into proper order, until we have this beautiful final miraculous Mazel Tov, and that is between our heads. That is true on my thing I thought we're going to talk about some people say hold on a minute, you do have different versions of the Quran. You can't say you have one unique book. Some people recite this word differently to the other word,
excellent. This is correct. This is not this is part of Quranic study and Quranic scripture that the Quran was revealed to be recited in seven modes. Initially, it was one, then Gibreel would continuously increase in the visa Mala ohada Your salam until he reached seven is an authentic hadith and this is known as a pillar at 100 Allah Allah subharti I have seven different modes. And what that means is that the maximum a word could have of different citations is seven ways like Jubilee. Jubilee, Jubilee, Shabbat, Shabbat Isla, right, all these up to seven you have in terms of how you can recite it. Other words have two ways of reciting In other words, you have three ways but
the maximum you will have is seven. And there are 10 recitals. 10 Recite as are those events that reveal that took the Quran from those above them until they reach into the psalm Allahu alayhi wa sallam. But the pillar itself the word itself can have up to seven different ways of it being reciting it right but it doesn't change the meaning the pillar add the complement one another. Yes, that's all they do. They do complement one another. They could actually explain that it makes it more unsolvable that's all they did. Hater hater. That's it doesn't go against then it doesn't go to get like yeah, Maliki and Maliki Milliken. Melek means the owner Melek means the king. You know why
because not every king is an owner. And not everyone is a king so clarifies the meaning of so now this is telling Allah is the king at the same point he is the owner and in case you understood it this way is another way to recite it so can make a quick news accident. It's actually a miracle in itself now Subhanallah so talking about what an NGO people who want to learn the Quran, people want to teach the Quran, but they also have their livelihood to look after. So what's the Islamic holding on a person was to teach the Quran taking money from people to teach the Koran or to teach religious studies. So generally fundamentally, it's fine, it's permissible when the the salah long or legal
send themselves the scholars will call it this hadith.
Hakuna tamale here Jellicle Kitab amok in the most rightful Hallelu of you will ever consume and take is for the book of Allah. So I had teaching this book and explaining it to people and so on and making little peer through or an insult.
But the idea is the intention is always important. Or any other word about him I have a lot, either excellent few words or principle that we are supposed to deal with this matter. They said a font couldn't be them and ahava liwan Lim Aman Allah Maria. And there's a difference between someone who takes money from the people to teach them and a difference between someone who teach us to take what was his teaching in order to take that insincerity. And that
is a problem as problematic. But the one who is taking in order to free up his time to teach the people the dean of law, and he knows that this is only a source of income. So he does it for that intention. What if it's not his only source of income is he allowed to steal charge per missile? I try because the point is that the end goal is not the money this okay, the money is just a process. What if somebody is teaching say Koran and religion but is mixing with their own expertise in life such as, let's say they know about psychology, they know about science and medicine. And let's say they they know about communication skills. And so they bring their expertise with that and create a
critical amount of it. And then they charge, you know, for a mix of those.
That's also permissible, that's fine. That's mine. The end of the day, there are efforts that go behind the scenes not to produce all this type of material and to put it all together. So Pamela had he been chef you notice that paid courses are taken a lot more serious than courses that are offered for free that is truly and I have seen people do neglect and and
to answer it, and so if a for, you know, a teacher that is put on a lot of his effort into something, and comes and produces it to the world, at a fee, or even an institution in order for it to run and to remain in any sustainable, there's a lot of work being put in this. So you're paying for that type of effort for it, to put something productive, something good. And these seem teachers and say, Michelle, they'll have 100 of other things they'll do during the day in the light that's for free anyway, are there certain things you know, that's the ID some people just think that in fact, this would motivate and this will help them and free them and let them live a life of dignity,
and be able to help more people. Whereas if, if it's restricted then his mind or her mind or be on the money after the says, Man, I have to live I have to provide what it is. I lay back as quickly as you can fit Jehovah code. It's been a pleasure. But we want a verse from you. Which of your choice that you would like to conclude this session with Scotland and Chicago? I think what is very relevant in a day and age that we're living in, in with is a lot of self righteousness. People see themselves religious people see themselves above others. They see the community, the sinners, and those who are still far away from Allah azza wa jal, and somehow the Shere Khan tricks them and they
believe that they have become more superior and better than others. Think there's an A in the Quran, there is absolute medicine for this disaster in our time. In Saud, Muhammad, Allah azza wa jal, he says farlam anomala Ilaha illa Allah was still fiddly them because it will mean you know, I mean, Glaswegian, he says to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam knows and be aware that there is no load of work worthy of worship except for not know that Oh, heat, you know, it's amazing. This area is a sort of Muhammad SAW with Muhammad is a Medini sorta. It was revealed after the visual. The Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam spent the last 13 years of his life in Makkah, mastering a Tauheed
and perfecting and learning the Oneness of Allah so we should, and the first thing Allah tells him when he gets to the Medina, learn let Ilaha illa Allah
incredible that knowledge have led you to love the knowledge of Allah solution should always be the central focus in your life. How do I know that I've become a proper Mohammed? How do I know? What is the fruit? What is the effect of proper to heat in my heart and proper Islam and email in my heart? It results in a loss it was Stafford limbic, and seek forgiveness of Allah has origin from your sins. The equation is the more I know Allah, the more righteous I become. The more frequent I am supposed to seek Allah's forgiveness. And if I'm seeking Allah's forgiveness, that means I am acknowledging that I have a lot of shortcomings. I have a lot of flaws. And I need to mend this
relationship with Allah with an abundance of his still far. So the more I know Allah, the more I become humble, asking and begging for his forgiveness. And not only that, the rest of the A Allah azza wa jal says, when he will meet me, Nina Minette. And seek Allah's forgiveness for the believing men and believing women include them in your diet. So now, instead of looking at society, shaming everyone, for helping everyone, putting everyone down, ridiculing people for their sins, and for whatever it is, you're being taught in this area, that if you truly had proper proper connection and relationship with Allah, you will feel sorry for others, you will feel pity for others. And as a
result, we will be included in your diet of Allah so we shouldn't forgives them. Because the idea is that last, they're away from Allah solution. If they knew what Allah solution is, they'll be on the same path of seeking His forgiveness and so on. So you learn from this a lot, a lot of human addition, one more a lot of humility. You know, when I read this is a slight Wallahi I don't do I don't dare to go out and ever see myself better than anyone. No matter how many sins he has in his life, I don't do I come to us like Islamically when I see a Muslim, I have to think he's better than me. But
I hope I'm better than him in the sight of a mouse so he should and I keep that in my heart. When there is some Allahu Allah has said his calf had been Middle Eastern, and a calf had been more efficient, and you haven't
come across a lot. I've said it's enough of a sin to belittle almost as arrogance. People that know Allah are far away from arrogance, and humility is to seek forgiveness Wilson
seeing your shortcoming
things, and including these will slips, that are sinners in your eyes, include them in your still fault, or Maha. What about non Muslims shakable non Muslims, we all make dua for them as well. And we all want the best for them in the hereafter as well. I don't know exactly what's powerful, who's at that level. And there'd be something more highly said, who was the center. He was a center of mercy to mankind to all of mankind, we want to include them all. We believe 100% that Islam is the solution to all mankind's problems. And if one of them accepts Islam, look at the celebration among us. We're happy. It's like a family member that has been lost his comeback. We're so happy when they
accept this lap. And we're so distraught and heartbroken when we hear that a disbeliever has died upon other than the slap. Yeah, it is. For the sake we love the goodness for all of us. As Jehovah workers, it was a pleasure to sit with you. You are a friend and Erica, Emily. I think that just on a lighter note, we mentioned your father earlier, Chef, Chef Abdus Salam zodra Allah He abetik for you. One of the I'll say at the end, I know you probably feel uncomfortable because your father but I find him one of the most sincere and genuine and sometimes hilarious meaning he is he the way he approaches makes you loving his model. miasha is cute in the way that he or she throws in a lot of
youth to love him and like him I personally do. And can I mention something about your father once that stuck with me and taught me about how to live among people?
In the West, people are non Muslim and so on. I really found that interesting coming from your father himself. Because when you look at him, you think Oh, my God, is Almighty Allah. Okay. He's hopped out of the desert. He doesn't that is probably one of those strict
rules. Yeah, very hardcore type of people who've done who don't have any avenues to sort of breathe. But when you listen to anything on his, it's actually quite open minded. Mashallah. So one time we had an open day
here in Melbourne, and he was among the people who presented and there was some non Muslims over there, of course, and he was having a nice discussion with someone. And he gives him a story. Obviously, in his accent, he says, I was once on the airplane. And next to me was non Muslim men. He sees me dressed like this the way you're dressed. And I had a bottle of water and the man is kind of is moving away from him and then sort of uncomfortable putting himself sort of in the corner is that I felt he's afraid or something. So I wanted to break the ice and I just go, would you like to have some water? And he said, suddenly, he just took a breath and real handy and he was easy. We had a
nice beautiful discussion and he made it in very important quote, he said, even those penalizing which is not the best, he made a profound statement. He said, Because what breaks the barrier?
What breaks the barrier and makes us understand each other? When you get closer? You get closer to me I get closer to you span and he's talking to a non Muslim Kumar Subhanallah sometimes simple profound things like that if your net is L purpose insha Allah guy and Allah may Allah protect you in particular and preserve us all NVB and Allah Subhana Allah preserve him bless your chef and bliss our Alma bliss, destitute among us, and to help them and relieve them from over the struggles and pain medicine and data help all our brothers sisters around the world who are going through oppression and and hardship and to relieve them and bring peace to all the people I mean, out of
bed. I mean, it was a pleasure *hole work result and thank you for your time and I think this will be very benefit because I'm not going to share everyone I bet at fig Milazzo except for Seoul. So they're like, why are they gonna like an hour because it's a lot of work.