Are You the One Who Glorifies the Quran #01
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The concept of the Quran is discussed, including its meaning and impact on people's behavior. It is a source of comfort and guidance for one's life, and it is used to act by and read the Quran. Visiting the Quran is crucial to reflect on its use, as it is the same one used by everyone. Visiting the Quran is key to understanding and practicing the verse "has been there." It is a complex process and difficult to read and write, with avoiding distractions and mistakes being important for daily living.AI Generated Transcript ©
Please excuse the delay. We just had always
there's some technical
difficulties. Allah
always, test us, and this is how I
say. And the best way to respond to
the test of Allah is by.
And you're happy and you're pleased and everything
comes from Allah is always good. Is any
Egyptians in this room?
Show me hands.
I really need to see it. What is
the best words Egyptian says?
Everything comes from Allah is good. This is
actually a statement of
happiness and pleasure. There's a lot of things
needs to change, but this won't keep it.
So I
was asked to talk about the Quran.
And what a better time than Ramadan to
talk about the Quran.
I'm gonna take you through a journey. The
journey is
we all and I'm gonna ask you a
couple of questions, and I want you to
think of the questions
and then see if the presentation,
by Allah grace, will answer your questions. So
the first question I want you all to
ask yourself, and don't answer me, is why
don't the Quran change us?
You just listen some of you probably have
been here. You just listen to the one
of the most beautiful recitations.
Right?
He recites beautifully.
But how many of us really felt it?
And then after
he finished, we took a 2 minutes
or 3 minutes
and said, you know, how many of the
verses he read? Right?
And then when he said,
that's what he wrote today. Why turn your
face
and basically turn your head toward.
Did you feel that we are
literally facing Mecca and Allah responded?
Very unlikely. Why?
That's the first question.
I don't feel it.
Maybe every now and then, but I don't
feel it.
Number 2,
does it change me?
When I read a verse
and I read it and I understand it,
whether it's in English, in Arabic, in any
language,
does it change
me? 3, when I am faced
in a situation
and I don't know what to do,
do I find the answer in the Quran?
Does the Quran come to me? And I'm
not talking about I'm not talking about you
memorize the Quran. I'm talking about the meaning.
I was like, it's there.
That's how I should do.
This is what Allah wants me. Yes or
no?
So silence mean yes?
So the Quran always gives you the answer
all the time?
I don't know, you're not answering me. I
hear yes and then nothing.
So always the answer is in the Quran,
so why we are where we are?
Why we are not
Quran?
Why we are not
his
manners
was the Quran? Or as a sayida Aisha,
that's what she said, or he was a
walking Quran. So let me take you through
some of the presentations. What is the Quran?
I'm gonna start with basics.
Anybody who studied Tajweed know this. And I,
of course, I translated
because the lecture is in
English.
This is all translated here.
The last word I need you to pay
attention.
It is here.
It's an act of worship.
You pick up the Quran,
you know nothing.
You have no idea
what are you reading. And there is people
in this world like that,
many. They don't know what does aliflam mean.
But the fact she picked it up or
he picked it up, opened it,
and looked at it by itself, that's an
act of worship
like you just prayed.
First thing you need to change
is the way you look at that book
when you pick it up. So that's number
1. Number 2, why do we have the
Quran?
Why did Allah send it to us?
Right? Why?
So we can go and say, you know
what, my the holy book, the Quran,
right, and I do the race, the khatma
race. Did you start the khatma race already?
I'm gonna do 5 times or 6 times
or 7 times or 20,
and nothing changed in me. That's why Allah
sent the Quran. And this is actually in
Surat Sal. And He's talking
We have send the Quran to you, and
you is Muhammad
Why? That's the question.
This is the lamb which gives you it's
called the reason for reason, this one.
So they reflect and ponder.
On its verses,
How many people will say I'm smart?
Raise your hand.
And you say, you know what? When someone
says something to me, I understand it,
Especially they say it in my language. How
many? Show me, come on.
Right? Now you're all too scared because you
know my next question.
Because that's what Allah is saying.
Those who are,
those who can comprehend, reflect, understand, in our
language, smart people.
So why the smart people do not reflect?
I'm gonna keep throwing questions to you through
this whole presentation,
and I want you to write down, don't
answer me.
Answer him.
And if you don't have the answer, ask
him to send you the answer. And if
he sends you the answer, then ask him
to make it easy for you.
So here you go.
And this is Sehle Tusturi who is absolutely
a scholar of the hearts we call. And
this is what he said.
The fact that you wanna you can all
read the slide, but what I'm gonna tell
you, if you wanna understand the Quran fully,
there is no way.
There is no way because what he is
saying, the bottom line what he is saying
is basically
the Quran is not a creation.
The Quran is the words of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And no created thing
can understand
the uncreated thing. Did you get it?
It's the words of Allah. So it's a
lot of creation. You all know Fatima al
Ahmad, the biggest test that Imam Ahmad went
through when everyone, almost everyone in his time
said Quran is a creation, and he said
no. It is the words of Allah. So
if it is the words of Allah, you
and me, whatever smart we are, whatever we
know, we still cannot comprehend all,
but that doesn't mean it's all or none.
It is stages
like we learned
any language, any profession. Like, when I when
I became an OBGYN
obstetrician, gynecologist, I was not born an obstetrician.
I had to go through all these stages
including medical school, including training, including including then
I can say,
With the Quran, it's the same thing. Don't
you think you're gonna pick it up and
the next day?
So this is something you all have to
know.
Now look at this. You all know this
verse. I doubt anybody in this room doesn't
know this verse.
Come on. Let's hear it.
Have you seen mountains before?
Right? Where I live, actually, from my room,
from my office, I see the mountain in
front of me. And every time I read
this, I look at the mountain, I said,
the mountain is better than me.
Because if the Quran was revealed to a
mountain,
the mountain will have crumbled.
And what happens to us?
Again, remember, we just finished the tarawih.
All of you, if you are outside or
you are inside, were you without mountain?
Were you without mountain? And you just fasted
today,
We're all so excited.
It's Ramadan, it's the blessed month, it's the
month of the Quran, but I was not
a mountain.
Don't don't show me hands. How many of
you shed a single tear
throughout the whole Tarawee?
Don't show me hands. Ask yourself.
And if the answer is yes, be grateful.
And if the answer is no, then there's
a big question, why not?
Why not?
And this is another verse in Surat al
Zumr,
Same concept. This is actually even more moving
for those of you who know Arabic, and
the Arabic is very moving.
The skin of those
the skin of those who I don't want
to say the word fear, fear and love,
Allah.
Should be when he said
or when he said any of the verses
he read from
today, it should I have goosebumps.
How many of us had goosebumps?
And if no, why not?
That's the question.
Why doesn't the Quran affect me?
This is what I want. This is what
I this is the whole lecture is gonna
be about this.
Why it doesn't? So there is three reasons.
Anything
it's either the Quran itself,
it's either the way it reached me, or
it's either
the receiver.
Are you all with me?
So is the problem in the Quran?
No. I wanna hear that. No. Why not?
Because that's the answer.
What is that?
This is the same ans this is the
same Quran
that made Sayidina Umar
a Muslim.
You all know the story,
right?
It's the same Quran
that's almost made
Muslim,
but his arrogance won at the end. Right?
To another
to.
So the Quran is the same.
That Quran, how old?
What's the clue for the age of the
Quran here?
Who can say it?
There's no dots,
so that's really old.
This is way later on,
and this is what you're gonna read tonight
or tomorrow.
Or Thursday. Right?
And this is probably the most common Quran
you see these days. Right?
Comes from.
It's the same.
I have actually in my house a Quran
from my great grandmother,
and I have a Quran that I bought
last year.
Exactly the same.
So the problem is not in the Quran,
we all agreed?
Yes? No doubt?
So what is the problem?
See, he's really thinking.
So it's not the Quran.
So what is the way?
We'll see.
What is the way?
How did it reach me?
Did it change?
No. You buy a Quran Malaysia, it's the
same Quran you buy in Qatar, it's the
same Koran you buy in
the states.
Okay.
So what is the problem?
That's what you need all to focus. What
is this?
Some of you may never seen this.
What is that?
This is an old something old. What is
that?
I can't hear it.
That's what it means in the Quran. I'm
putting you a lot of pictures because I
want you to think unless you think,
you don't change.
Unless you look at things differently, you don't
change. What is this?
So what is this and this?
So this is not a radio exactly, it's
a receiver, actually.
Yeah, I told you some of you may
have not seen this. I haven't seen it
too, but I just had the picture on
Google.
And this is?
So what is the heart, what is the
receiver?
So when you hear the Quran,
when you read the Quran,
which part of my body needs to change
and needs to focus?
It's my heart.
Okay. I want you all to look at
this picture.
Don't answer me because there's a good number
here. But if I ask 10 people of
you and I'm gonna say, what do you
see?
Some will tell me, I see a tree.
That's probably everybody will see that. Some will
say, I see a beautiful sky.
Some will say, look at the roots. Some
says, look at Jannah Institute
logo.
Some says, look at the sky. Some is
blue.
Some part of it is green. Right?
Yes? Yes. And I'm sure if I have
given you a piece of paper,
I would have got probably 10 answers,
10 different answers.
Why what does this has to do with
the Quran?
You need to change the way you look
at the Quran.
This is extremely important.
And when you want to reflect on something,
you have to look deep down at it.
Look at the picture again.
If I spend 1 minute on this picture,
I'll get 5
responses. If I spend 10 minutes, I probably
will get 20.
If I spend 20 minutes, I could get
one answer, but so deep and moved me.
Did you get the point so far?
Time to change.
And this is
a question.
How should I look at the Quran?
Before I give you the next slide, how
should I look at the Quran? Who can
give me an answer? By the way, it's
all in the Quran.
It's all in the Quran.
Give me one answer. Anybody who's half of
here memorize the Quran?
Probably nobody wants to raise their hand. That's
okay.
How do you look at the Quran? Give
me one it's it's description, so it's one
name.
Yes, Mariam.
A guide. That's 1.
Act of worship. Yeah. Light. Light.
Light. I'm sorry? Healing.
Cure.
Cure. Healing. True?
I can't hear you. I just hear the
My what?
I'll make your life easy. I think I
asked you enough questions.
How many of you look at the Quran
as my blessings?
If I have asked you, and I should
next time I do this, count your blessings,
I doubt if somebody is gonna put the
Quran with it.
I doubt it.
I actually did this with the youth. I
gave a class to the youth,
and I said,
go home, write for me 10 blessings you
have other than being a Muslim, other than
father and mother, other than a home.
Nobody put Quran.
Nobody put a Quran.
We don't look at the Quran
as a Niemah.
One of the duas he actually did if
you listen to the dua of the waiter,
the sheikh.
Right? Ni'amatil Islam, Ni'amatil Iman, Ni'amatil Quran, the
blessing of being a Muslim.
Anybody who's a revert in this room or
a convert? How do you feel with your
family?
Talk about exactly. Talk about
challenges.
Talk about when Christmas time comes in and
they invite you because you have to. This
is your mother. And you go there and
sit there, and everything they are saying and
everything they are celebrating is not me.
And then you look at them and you
love them because I have a good number
of non Muslim friends and reapers, and you
look at them and you say, I wish
they know what I know.
I wish they changed. Ni'emah. It's a blessing.
So let's look at this.
And you see, who said it's a blessing?
It's tomorrow. You're gonna read it again or
maybe tonight.
What is this verse I put?
That's the first verse of?
Today is Thursday today, actually, Friday night. And
Allah says,
When do we say
When there is
blessing.
When you pick the Quran tonight or tomorrow,
don't worry about the khatma, don't worry about
the race.
Start looking at it
as
as valuable,
if not more valuable than anything else you
have in your life.
Like somebody who is not married wants to
get married and make all this dua to
Allah to send them the right person.
That's great. It's
But ask Allah
to make you look at the Quran
as the blessing of your life.
Second1
is completely
different
when you look at the Quran as it's
the words of Allah.
How many of you love someone in their
life?
Anybody.
A spouse, a child, a parents. Right?
So that person you love doesn't matter. I
mean, love,
it's beautiful to love each other. And that
person send you a text message.
Do you really love that person? How many
times you read that text message
before you go to bed? And then when
you wake up in the morning, is it
really? And then let me read it again,
Then you smile.
You're alone.
Am I right?
Do we do this with the Quran?
If you really love Allah
and I'm sure if I have asked you
all of you would have raised your hand,
then it should be, may Allah forgive me,
It should be
way more than when a loved person I
love
send me a text message. When I pick
up the Quran and I read, it should
be way more fading than that.
Look at this. Who said it's the words
of Allah? This is actually the verse in
the Quran,
But all scholars, if you study the
science of the Quran, that's actually the proof
that the Quran is the words of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. So actually that's what the
Imam Ahmed used
when
And I remember some of you may
have heard this because I think they made
a clip of it on Jannah Institute YouTube.
This was my first Hajj
not in my life, but my first Hajj
when I moved to Saudi to study.
And, subhanallah, Allah blessed me not with the
Hajj only,
but who was with me in the Hajj
actually. He was an amazing scholar.
Subhanallah. May Allah reward him.
And and actually we're separate. So the woman
we are in our tent, and he was
in another tent, so we're seeing him through
a screen. And he just said, oh, everybody
in this group, pick up your Quran. I
was like, okay. Pick up your Quran. And
he said open any page. Okay. We opened.
He said, I don't want you to read
a word.
He said, just put your finger,
look at those words,
say to yourself hada kalamrubi.
This is the word of my lord.
These are the words of my lord. What
happens to your heart?
What's happened to the connection?
Keep saying this to yourself in the middle
of tarawih. It is painful,
and I had it yesterday
when the imam is reading so beautifully.
And the person next to me, the phone
is next to her, and the phone keeps
ringing, and she keeps looking at the phone.
And I was like, you Allah,
make your words
more important than the words of the human
being.
What is this?
Did I make you think enough so far?
Alhamdulillah.
What is this?
What is this? Compass.
What does compass do?
If you travel as much as I do,
I
definitely have to have a compass because I
have no idea where is Mecca if I
wanna pray.
Right? Except in the plane is the easiest
way cause it's wherever the plane is going.
Unless you are on certain airlines where they
have a place for prayer and they tell
you where is it. So what does this
has to do with the Quran?
Okay.
You read it
yesterday.
Right? You all know it. What surah is
this?
Al Baqarah.
What verse is this?
2nd,
hamdulillah.
Hudan.
Huda.
Guide. What is the clue
in this verse
that answer the question? This is gonna be
a tough one not to understand, tough one
on you or me.
What is the clue in this verse
that will tell you
the requirement
for the Quran to be a guide for
me?
What is it?
So if I don't understand the Quran, one
of the things I'm gonna go in my
life,
I'm not gonna ask anybody.
I'm gonna say, am I a?
And don't don't
praise yourself, of course.
The
The more I understand the Quran, the more
the Quran moves me, the more I feel
I'm more connected with the Quran than
this verse applies to me. Look at this
one.
It's a beautiful hadith. It's an
so you may have not heard it that
much. Look what Rasul alaihi wasalam told the,
the companion,
about the Quran.
He said
let tiding, be happy, good news is coming
to you.
Don't you say,
don't you witness that there is no God
Bar Allah?
And you witness that I am the Rasool
Alaihi Salatu Wasallam? They said, Yeah,
that's
you and me by the way.
Because he didn't say you're my companion. He
said you bear witness, and we all.
And he said the following about the Quran,
this hadith about the Quran.
Quran. This book.
It's a connection.
Pay attention to this. This is the words
of your Rasul,
It's a connection.
Any connection has 2 ends. 1 goes to
the computer, 1 goes to your phone. What
right? One is in my hand and yours,
the one that we read
and the one we just heard,
and the other end is with Allah, Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And now what he wants you and me,
Hold to it tight.
It's actually a form of hyperbole.
It's emphasis,
not hold.
Tight.
And now he says, why?
So I will get reward. So I do
the khatma raise. No.
You will never go misguided.
And you wonder
these days why we Muslims
we're not what we want to be.
You know why?
Rasul alaihi wa sallam is gonna complain to
Allah.
This is one of the words that really
moves me. It's in Surat Al Furqan.
And Allah the scene is in the hereafter,
and the Rasul alaihi sata was saying talking
to Allah says, You Rabbi, and he said,
You Rabbi, my lord,
my people,
you and me.
They took it at something that is
neglected.
The way it is it says beautiful.
How often
we read the Quran outside Ramadan?
How often I spend an hour
trying to understand a verse from the Quran
outside Ramadan.
Hold on to it, look at it, change
the way you look at the Quran.
This is one of the ways that will
help you to change.
Remember the change?
Why do we read the Quran?
Have you ever asked yourself this question?
If I ask somebody to look at me,
I'm like, why she's asking? It's the Quran?
I was like, I know.
But why?
Come on, answer.
You're too quiet now. I know what happened
to you. I think it's good because you're
thinking.
Why do you read the Quran?
Because it is number 1.
You know, when I ask people, oh, it's
the Quran,
all the kind I know.
Most people will say for the reward,
You know, it's a blessing,
but let's look at it.
Definitely, it's an act of worship. It's number
2 what we really need to work on,
to act by. And look what Al Hassan
al Nani said, the grandchild of Rasulullah.
He said it in Arabic, it's beautiful.
Read the Quran
as long as it is stopping you from
disobedience,
otherwise you didn't read it. Did you get
the point?
What is he saying?
What is he saying?
Can someone explain it to me? What is
he saying?
I said it in Arabic for those of
you.
Meaning
I'll give you an example.
Right?
Allah said to Rasool alaihis salatu waslam, just
this verse came to my mind. This is
Suratul Arof. Khudil Aaf, make pardon as your
character,
and enjoying what is accepted in a community.
Stay away from the ignorant.
Okay?
So here you go, you're in and
you're praying,
and then somebody comes in and pushed you,
and she came and
prayed next to you. All the time you
are praying, this is something in your heart.
How rude she is? How can she do
that? And all this.
And you said,
What are you gonna do?
You said salaam alaikum, you finished your salah.
What are you gonna say to her?
Okay. Now everybody is an angel, but that's
okay.
Right?
If
if I got upset, and I said if
because we are different, I got upset
and I looked at her and I said,
in a nice way,
right,
couldn't you just say excuse me, couldn't you?
There was another space there you could go
that I did not apply
the verse I just shared with you.
When the Quran stop you
from doing what you usually do, then you
are reading. Did you get the point?
And how many of us
know this is with a very good step
to start understanding the Quran for daily use,
pick up the verses
that is about a relationship,
how to interact,
and then pick up every day pick one
verse every day and say I'm gonna practice
this verse today
And wallahi and I said wallahi,
he will send you
something, someone,
an incident
that what you wanted to practice is in
front of your eyes.
And now Iqra'il Quran al Manhaqq.
Now read the Quran as long as it
is
holding you or preventing you.
We said this is too.
So what is the?
Reflect,
beautiful translation.
What does it mean in my life,
what I just shared with you?
Reflect.
For example, he just read here.
Right? And you live in Doha. You see
the the the one of the beauty about
honesty, I really loved it, is wherever you
turn, you see the water. Whatever you
drive, you see it. It's very unlikely, and
correct me if I'm wrong. I haven't been
here long enough. But wherever I drove,
whether they took me from the airport or
coming here, there's always I see the
the sea or the the the gulf is
on one side. Am I right?
Okay.
So how many of you look at the
gulf
every single day?
Every single day.
And a verse from the Quran comes about
the sea.
And he facilitated
for you
the sea so the ships
sail in it.
It's in the Quran.
The what he just read to you just
now, less than an hour ago, and the
creation of the heavens and the earth and
changes of the day and the night and
the
and
the ships that
sail in the sea.
That's the dabboor. You look at it and
you said subhanallah.
You Allah, who are you?
All the sea, everything, the different colors.
SubhanAllah.
That's the dabbur.
Same story here.
What is he doing?
If you see this picture, what is he
doing?
Say it.
What is he doing? Don't worry about the
Quran. What is he doing? He doesn't have
Quran in his hand.
He's what?
I don't know what is he thinking. Right?
Allah only knows. But what does it look
like?
He is thinking.
Yes, exactly. He's reflecting. He's looking probably I
don't know if he is if he's having
a good day as we say, he's probably
looking and says, how beautiful is this?
If he having a bad day, he's probably
says, I am alone in this world.
That's reflection when you look around you.
And this what Allah one of the reasons
the Quran Allah send it to us, to
you and me, is this. That's what
is contemplate,
reflect
on the verses of the Quran to understand.
I will beg each one of you,
humbly ask,
you know what the what the imam will
read tomorrow? We all know, alhamdulillah.
Pick up one verse
before you go to Taraweeh.
Pick up one verse
and read
about it and see what Allah is telling
you
and wait eagerly
as the imam is reading till you get
to that verse and see what will happen
to your heart.
When you know the meaning,
when you know what Allah is saying to
you. And that's how the journey
is the Quran difficult to understand?
It's
it's you're so quiet suddenly.
You were so loud when I was working
on the computer.
Right?
And now suddenly, SubhanAllah,
angels on this earth.
That's the answer.
You should never say
it is difficult. This is one of the
edab, the etiquettes I learned from my Quran
teachers,
and there is very challenging
verses in the Quran. Anyone who memorized the
Quran, you know it is a challenging
process because there's a lot of similarities.
There's a faw, there is a wow, there
and, you know, sometimes, like, you Allah, this
is so difficult. And she looks at me
and says,
And she looks at me and says that's
lack of adab with Allah.
That's lack of etiquette with Allah.
This is how teachers teaches you.
It's all about it's the words of Allah.
He said it's easy, then it's easy. Then
I looked at her and she understood what
I'm saying what I'm thinking.
And she said, yeah. It is not easy.
Look at the word. It is not easy
for everybody.
Ask him to make it easy. So the
first concept of it is difficult, remove it
from your brain.
How do I know
the Quran is affecting me?
What is this?
Yes.
Even if you don't know the meaning.
I have seen people,
especially in the Haram,
I know for sure
they don't speak a single word of Arabic
and they don't understand.
In fact, I had a lady next to
me. She doesn't even know how to read
and write,
sobbing
when the imam is reading.
And I looked at myself and I said,
what did Allah gave her
that he didn't give me?
It's the same heart, it's the same eyes,
same ears, the same haram, the same wisdom,
the same woman. What is the problem?
It's the receiver.
You know what's the problem with the receiver?
We're too busy,
distracted,
shattered,
phones.
And I probably have heard from you and
I'm gonna repeat to everybody, cut down on
your social media during Ramadan.
And this WhatsApp something
it's amazing because it connects you with everybody
in the world.
It has takes a lot of the time.
So the best way is limit.
Put a time in the morning,
put a time in the evening,
and that is it.
You don't have to read every foreword.
Cut down on the foreword in Ramadan.
You don't have to follow everybody in Ramadan.
Just the things that is really
helpful in your relationship with Allah, do it.
But definitely if you don't cry what was
the advice of Rasul alaihis salatu wasala?
Well, I don't cry at all. Nothing happens.
What did
he
say?
Tobacco,
fake it.
He said it.
Fake it. Think of something that makes you
sad
and ask Allah to move your heart, and
it will happen. It will happen.
So it's crying.
This verse is in.
This is about non Muslims.
When they hear what has been revealed to
And what happened to us?
And what happened to us?