Haifaa Younis – Who Will You Be as You Leave Ramadan
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The Quran is used as a guide to life and is essential for understanding the meaning of "stress" and "light." It is also a source of guidance for those living in a way that is not their own and avoiding "we" and "weholder aspects of life." The title of "the culture of death" is not just a habit but also a living habit, and it is crucial to not overthinking recognized facts and actions.
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The Quran is my life and it's my
living.
How many of you really know what this
means
or absolutely it's true? Where did this come
from that Quran is my life?
The last two verses of Surat Ashura.
Last two verses. And Allah is talking to
us radiya salatu wa sallam. Anything in the
Quran
is talking to me.
When Allah says,
yeah, you and me. But when Allah says,
yeah,
it's also me.
Meaning don't be like them.
So don't say I'm not a kafar, I
have nothing to do with it. No.
So Allah says
And this is how we have revealed
to you,
inspired to you.
What is it? He didn't say Quran. It's
a
soul
from our matter. What's a soul?
This is what tada purr is when you
look at the word and says why did
he say oh hayna and you're not questioning
the wisdom of Allah. You're rather saying, you
Allah, what do you what are you teaching
me?
When you said Rohan,
you said Saul, and you didn't say a
book. Why?
It's the other name of the Quran. There's
about more than 30 names of the Quran
in the Quran. One of the names is
Saul. Ruweh. What is Ruweh?
Answer me. What is soul?
When someone die, what do we say? What
do we say?
The Ruhe,
the soul, left the body.
So I am alive.
I have a soul.
I am dead. I don't have a soul.
So what did Allah says? Why the Quran
is a soul?
It's my living. It's my life.
My life.
The question is how many of us look
at this beautiful book that you all see
and everyone has it in the home
that it is your life.
You
know when we, many of us, especially the
youth these days, right?
Somebody just before I came texted me, very
good friend of mine, she says, we have
a gift for you. And I was like,
okay, Hamdulillah, that's nice in the morning, right?
And she says, we're getting you a mokka.
And I said, no. She said, no, no,
it's a gift from us. And I was
like, let's not tasquia. I'm coming to talk
about Quran, you bring me mokha because what
do you say?
Especially the youth, I can't study
without,
right? I need my brain to focus,
which is fine. It's caffeine, well known.
It's the Quran that's for you.
That's what he told the Rasool alaihi salatu
was salam.
It's your soul.
Now he referred to it as kitab, as
book. He didn't refer to it as Quran.
You had no idea.
What is Quran?
What is faith?
3rd name. Hadid verse is the three names
of the Quran so far.
We made it light.
Now tell me what is light.
Anyone, think. This is how tatadabbarin
al Quran. This is how you reflect and
contemplate. What is light?
Something that?
Something that guide. Now you're saying guide because
it's the Quran, but usually we don't say
this word right away.
Usually something I see through.
With it I see. If you go outside
in the night and there is no electricity,
you're gonna turn this and you're going to
put the light and you're going to do
like that. It's going to
guide me
to my
path
where I need to go, to my car,
to the parking lot, to the masjid, to
the door. That's what Allah said.
That Quran.
That book here. How many of you look
at that books here, those books and say
this is my light.
Noorah.
So why I don't? Why it's not a
noor for me?
Why it's not a light for me? Because
that's what he said Allah. It's still on
the same verse.
We guide by it whom Allah
wills. That's why if I decide, if you,
all of you I'm going to say
pick up the Quran, open Surah Al Fatiha.
Not everybody
will have the same effect.
Although it's the same eyes,
it's the same heart,
But what is the difference?
It's not
the source. It's the receiver.
The receiver.
The heart you talked about.
The receiver.
I'm busy.
I have more things to do.
I know it. Can't tell you how many
people tell me this.
Oh, I know it. I said, really? Okay,
tell me.
Just give me how many numbers of surahs
in the Quran. And they start stumbling.
And you know it.
Noorrah.
3 things.
One verse. I just shared 1 verse.
More than 6,000 verses in the Quran.
If every verse in the Quran,
I study it this way,
What's our life will be?
We guide whom we we will
Because how many of us argue?
We're so good in arguing.
I'm not convinced.
Where is it?
Why? It's amazing.
Amazing. I was saying this yesterday to somebody.
SubhanAllah.
And this is about medicine. And I am
the physician,
right?
And she insists on and finalize like you
know, I arrest my case.
I'm gonna say what Allah taught me to
say.
The servants of Allah walk on Earth with
humbleness and when they're ignorant to speak to
them they say peace, don't argue, there's no
point.
And he's telling him.
You guide,
mister Suraswari, Asai al Asai, to our straight
path. By what?
You need to answer me. If you understood
what I said you have to answer.
Guide by what?
I wanna hear
it. Exactly,
this is one of the things, the beauty
of the Quran, the beginning of the ayah
and the end of the ayah is connected.
And same as the beginning of the surah
and the end of the surah,
absolutely connected, sometimes very clear or sometimes
and the last Surah
like the Surah before connected with the Surah
after. I can give you a lot of
examples,
we'll need more time.
So four things this Quran for me. Should
be, I want you to write should be.
And on the other
side, where am I? Is it my life?
How many of you can go 2 3
days continuously
without water?
Nobody.
Why? Because
we made
from every or we made every living thing
from the water.
So why do I go a week
or a 2
or a month
or a year
without reading it?
When was the last time you opened the
Quran? Not Quran Khani.
Nobody died.
Your child doesn't have tomorrow class.
Right?
You
picked up the Quran
and said, I wanna read
the words of Allah.
Is it really a light for you? Is
it my living?
Is it my living?
I'll give you an example.
Everything
we have in our life, the answer is
in the Quran.
It's one of the Sahaba, I don't remember
his name. I think it's said, Nabla ibn
Mas'ud,
who he said I've never had a problem.
Didn't find the answer in the Quran.
Really?
And this actually a question was asked to
a scholar on TV. I watched that.
And he said is this statement is true?
And he said yes. So the interviewer
trying to be smart.
Honestly.
So he said really?
So now if I tell you how to
bake,
how to make a bread, you tell me
the answer is in the Quran.
That's when you know your Quran. And he
said absolutely the answer in the Quran.
It is.
The interviewer, I was like, what? And he
said, didn't Allah says
what?
Ask the people of knowledge if you don't
know. I am gonna go and ask the
bread maker.
It's not my word.
Did you get the point?
When I don't find the answer
in the Quran,
the problem is not in the Quran.
The problem is in the
receiver,
in me.
When you sit and you open,
and you say why it is not my
life?
Why it is not a light for me?
So let's take another exercise.
So So what the law says to me
when I come to Al Masjid?
Did he teach me what, how do I
come to Al Masjid?
Now sometimes
the answer is not straightforward.
So for example straightforward
answer, right? Pray 5 times.
Right? Make sure
you preserve or you take care of your
salah in the middle one. Clear.
Perform salah and give your zakah. These are
clear.
What about the masjid?
Me as a woman, as a man,
as a believer.
Is it by donation? Just give money?
What did Allah said about the masjid? So
when I come
and I open the door, whether I'm going
upstairs or I'm going here, what did he
say?
Am I?
It's what he told me.
You come to the masjid. You really love
the masjid. You wanna flourish the masjid. You
wanna build the masjid. You wanna be the
person who supports the masjid.
It's not about money.
Money is one of them for sure, but
it's not. What about the people who doesn't
have money?
Who are
they? You believe in Allah.
And the
day of judgment.
Does not fear
and not fear. Khashiya is not fear.
Khashiya is fear and love,
combine them. You know when I love you
so much and I don't want you to
get upset with me and I'm so worried
I'm not gonna say a word that will
upset you, Hadikashia.
Versus I am afraid,
so if you are there I'm gonna act
very well. And if you're not there I'm
not gonna, who cares?
And Allah says that, when you come in
this masjid and you open the door,
do you really have that in your heart?
That this is his house.
This is not my house.
This is he has his rules.
He can easily not invite me
and he did it for 2 years. And
we learned Allah knows how much.
That's the Quran. That's the nur.
That's the light.
When I walk,
how should I greet you? Who do I
start with?
You or you? Where do I sit?
It's all in the Quran. That's my life.
What happened to us?
This is what I say to myself. Every
time I go to Makkah,
especially in the busy seasons, and I see
these millions, if you go to Ramadan, in
Ramadan may Allah invite you all,
millions,
millions day and night.
Honestly,
you reach point where you can't walk. I
mean, tawaf is like
barely is your,
exactly barely you can walk.
But while we are not
people
of influence. Why?
Says Allah,
by this Quran will elevate people.
What did we choose?
It's not my life.
And correct me if I'm wrong.
It's not my light.
I go and look everywhere
and then I come to the Quran. You
know how you know that? When someone brings
you an ayah, a verse from the Quran.
What happens to your
heart?
If we have sinned, if you see this
Quran, every time you see mountain,
think of this verse. This is the.
It's how you live the Quran. So you
look at the mountain and you say, wow.
If I wasn't this Quran to this mountain,
the mountain will be shaking.
And I am the imam who's reading the
Quran,
and I am on my phone.
What happened to my heart? What happened to
my skin?
Same thing.
You put it on your screen.
Now he called it Kitab.
If you spend daily,
5 minutes, just look at the names of
the Quran in the Quran and pick one
verse.
And Allah called it Kitab.
Allahu Nasirah and he didn't call it Kitab
first.
The best of words,
the best of dialogue.
That's why scholars tells you, you never say
2 things. Never say I'm gonna tell you
the best story,
because there's only one best story.
It's the story of Sayyid Niyousaf.
We're gonna re
recite to you the best of the stories.
And ahsanal hadith, the best words is the
words of Allah.
Allahu Nasralla.
I want you when you look at the
Quran,
even if you like on your phone, think
of it this way.
And you look at us, we speak for
hours.
Where is the Quran in here? Whether the
words itself or the meaning of it.
This is one of the miracles of the
Quran that it is repeated
and sometimes exactly the same. Those of you
who memorize the Quran you know the problem.
Because it is exactly the same sometimes and
you don't know where did you go, which
which chapter you were. And what happens?
The the the skins of the believers.
You know, goosebumps,
literally, that's the word.
When do you have goosebumps?
When do you have goosebumps? Tell me.
When?
When it's cold.
Right? When something I hear,
right? Oh, you're giving me goosebumps, that's how
we say it. Do you get goosebumps when
you read the Quran?
No. Exactly.
Why not?
The receiver.
The receiver.
And I always remember or I remind myself,
Sayidna Umar has
a famous statement.
Everybody knows way better than you.
He he used to say to himself.
And and when I read the Quran and
I look I see other people like everybody
love the Quran more than you. Everybody understand
the Quran better than you. Why?
He didn't give them 5 eyes and he
give me only 2.
First is you have to feel it,
then your heart will surrender.
How do we read the Quran? As my
life? What is the usual?
You all know
the the khatma race of Quran,
I call it.
You know what's the khatma race? How many
times you finished? Oh, I did 5.
And if you, if I will ask one
question
from the 5 times you read, you don't
know. That's not a life,
and that's not a living.
That's not a life, that's not a living.
Each one of you,
practical, as they call it, take home message.
What do I wanna do for within this
Ramadan?
In my relationship with the Quran?
What is your plan?
We all plan. Right? Did you plan? Went
travel, you're gonna plan, you're gonna book a
ticket, you're gonna do this. What is your
plan for Ramadan?
Your relationship with the Quran in Ramadan, I'm
referring. Not how many people you will invite
to where you gonna go, what's majes did
I'm gonna go for.
And we go to
and leave, nothing changed.
Nothing.
After 8,
everybody becomes sunnah follower.
And everybody leaves and they are outside there
talking.
And the Imam is reading.
And they looked at me and says, it's
your Rasool alaihi wasallam
prayed only 8.
And I said yeah,
He prayed 8 for 2 hours. He didn't
go out. The Quran is being read and
I'm talking.
It's not my life.
Because when something is my life,
I want it, I hold it.
I cherish it, because I know I'm gonna
die without it.
That's how it is and you live by
it.
You live by it. How many of you,
you lived something happened in your daily life,
an incident,
and then you remembered something from the Quran
and you acted.
Less than
3%.
How many of you have read the Quran
at least once?
Don't be scared.
Right?
How many of you,
you are saying something, doing something, an incident,
and somebody come and remind you of the
Quran?
Don't say it this way because that's not
pleasing to Allah. And immediately you stop.
And he said, oh Jazakila Huqair.
Versus,
no, no, no, Basinti you didn't know what
I meant.
But,
so Sayyidina Umar,
this is a famous story if you read
the commentary of the last
subversive, Surat Al Aarraf.
So Sayidna Umar is in Sayidna Umar ibn
Al Khattab in his majlis, in his company,
and he is the leader and he is
who is he,
right? And one of the companions brought his
uncle with him.
And the uncle entered in front of everybody,
and imagine if this is me or you,
and he start attacking Sayidna Umar in everything
that's not true. If anything about Sayyidina Omar
enough that he is, or as well as
Saddam said, if there was a prophet it
would have been, after me it would have
been Sayyidina Omar.
And the man, you are unjust, you do
this, you do that. And they say, when
you read it in the Tafsir, they say
his face changes.
And you imagine saying no more. So
the the Sahabi, who was, this is his
uncle, stood up,
Turned to him and says You Amir al
Mu'mineen,
leader of the believers.
Allah,
look how the reminder.
Allah,
that should stop you number 1. Because you
are now reminded of Allah. Said to his
messenger,
now the second,
now he recited the verse from the Quran.
Leader of the believer.
Allah taught his messenger
to say the following, that's a verse from
the Quran.
Make pardon and forgiveness as your character.
And enjoin what is accepted.
And then
stay away from the ignorant, he is ignorant.
And you read this in the Tafsir, it
says did
not even
blink an eye. Immediately he stopped.
That's when I live the Quran.
That's when the Quran is my life. When
it's my living.
When everything,
in every decision, should I do this?
Should I do that? Should I eat this?
Should I eat that? Do I eat healthy?
Why do you eat healthy?
Because it's the book. Because everybody is doing
it. No, because Allah told me
which food, every healthy food they talk about
is in?
In the Quran.
SubhanAllah
life
has to be, we need to change
and let's say adults
before the youth. If you do this in
your home, then everybody else in your house
will do it. And not memorize like like
I call it like a birdie.
I don't know what I am saying. It's
hayr by the way.
And the last verse I wanna finish with
is in Suratul Anam.
And Allah talks about life and dead.
The living and the dead in reference to
the Quran. And he said
Allah says,
are they the same?
Ask yourself this.
Are they the same?
Who are they, Arupee?
A woman can have me to. This person
was dead.
He's now talking about spiritual death.
You know what's spiritual death?
When the adan goes in and nothing happens
to
me. When the Quran is being recited and
I said,
anyway, do we have to listen to Quran
everyday?
Spiritually dead when I disobey Allah and nothing
happens.
I don't feel bad.
Everyone else is doing it. Allah is
all forgiving.
Then I'm spiritually dead.
Allah called dead and sick.
So Allah says, we
all were dead spiritually before Rasool, alaihis salatu.
If there's any rebirth in this rule, they
know this better than anybody else.
We give them life.
Not the same word, nuran.
Light.
This one is for Bulma.
That light,
he or she walks in darkness. You know
what's darkness?
When you are in public
at my work and everybody is gossiping,
which is very normal. Anybody works knows this.
And I am gonna say, no I am
not.
Not because I'm different,
or I'm special,
or I want people to praise me, but
because that's what he taught me. In
the Quran,
you wanna eat the dead body of your
brother.
It's
Do you wanna eat the dead flesh
of your brother? You hated it.
Did you see my
point?
Is it the same as the person who
is
absolutely living in darkness?
And it is sad when we Muslim women,
I'm speaking to women today,
The woman
living in darkness.
We need to wake up.
We need to change the way we look
at the Quran.
Deal with the Quran,
treat the Quran,
expectation
from the Quran, and
what the Quran expect from me.
And let alone what Allah expect from me.
It's his words, it's not mine.
It's his words.
He's talking to me. Who am I?
And how do I respond?
And may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us
of those people who when we read the
Quran, look at the Quran as the words
of Allah.