Hamza Yusuf – The Generous Qur’an A Clear Guidance for the People of Taqwa

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Salam O Allah. Allah Allah Sadie and what have you been Rasulullah
		

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Taqwa Allah He has cerebral Ania in a taco Allah. Alright, so color share the hamdulillah Allah
subhanho wa Taala says in his book, shahada Ramadan, Allah the NZD fear Quran who dealt in se will
begin at him in at who they were forbidden from and show him in coma Ashara Furioso Allah subhanaw
taala says that the month of Ramadan was sent down as a guidance
		

			for humanity and also as a clarification the unit in Minnesota in other words, not only the
guidance, but also the clarification of what the guidance is. So the purpose of Ramadan
		

			really, there are many reasons for Ramadan, but the two fundamental purposes are clear. In the
Quran, Allah subhana wa cerasus quotevalet camassia mocha Kamakoti Valentina min publikum radical
Takane that fasting was prescribed for you. It was made obligatory for you, just as it was made
obligatory for the people before you that perhaps you might or happily you might become people of
Taqwa. So that's the primary reason because if you look at the beginning of the Quran, the very
first command in the Quran is the Yohannes. It's to all of humanity. A Topo Rob McComb, like have
Taqwa of your Lord. That's the first command in the Quran. If you take it from the sequence from Al
		

			Fatiha to NAS, the very first command is to humanity not just to the Muslims. Yeah, you have NAS
Takotsubo come, Allah the ACARA calm, He created you so that's a reason why you should be
conscientious of him aware of him and then also want to please Him like the son wants to please the
source of his material existence, which is the parent. The child wants to please the parents.
		

			The created beings should want to please his or her Creator. So Allah subhanaw taala says to have
Taqwa of Allah subhanho wa taala. But then we ask what is Taqwa? And that's where the bayonet comes,
because Allah subhanaw taala begins his book.
		

			Or if mean Valley can Kitab larive He who de Lille Mata pin. So in it is guidance for the people of
Taqwa. So, the book begins by telling you, it has Hooda but for whom the hookah is for the people of
Taqwa. So the Quran is very very self explanatory. The best Tafseer is tafsir or Quran banal Quran
because the Quran will explain itself it doesn't leave you in the dark it's it's Kitab muy bien.
It's a clear manifest Book. So though that is the primary reason why we have been given fat but the
second reason is a reminder of this Hooda which is in the book of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada and
obviously in the Sunnah of the Prophet Elijah said, and but the Prophet sunnah, is being at 10
		

			minute Huda it's just a clarification of the essential meaning of the Quran. This is what the
prophets Eliza was come he was He came as the nor that you read the book with because there's come
to you a light and a clear book, the light is the is what enables you to read the book, you can be
in pitch black, dark, and if you have a book, you can't read it, you have to have light. So the
light that enables us to read the book is the Prophet sallallahu sallam. He is the light that
enables us to read the book. But what is the book the book is the lens that you put on to see the
world clearly. Because without the Quran, the world is a blurry place. And that's why there's so
		

			much confusion, people are in confusion. They're in hierarchy, you know, hierarchy.
		

			They're in confusion about where they came from, what they should be doing while they're here, and
where they're going after they leave this place. They're in confusion.
		

			I'm Maya to sat alone, and then up LLVM. What are they asking about? Never allow theme. What is this
place? is a really an afterlife. Are these things true? Those are the people that are thinking even
atheists have to think about this. And some of the atheists are the most obsessed people with this
question because they spent a great deal of time and effort on this question. But the prophet
		

			Who came, they came to give the Houda to the people to give Taqwa to the people. And so that primary
reason of Taqwa and then Houda and clarification of that Houda is to take us back to the book of
Allah Subhana Allah to Anna because the prophets Allah Allah it is said he was the Quran walking.
The Prophet SAW Isom was the embodiment of the book of Allah Cana Hueco Al Quran. They asked the
prophets Allah s&m, who are the closest people to Allah. And he said, the people that are have the
most taqwa and the people that have the best character, the people that have the best character, so
what is character character is an awareness of how you should be human in the world. Character is
		

			doing the right thing in the right circumstances. Sometimes it's to be kind other times it's to be
cruel. You know, they have this slogan here in the Arpita of Halle, Berkeley, they put these Arpita
on their front doors, and they say kindness is everything. Kindness is not everything. Sometimes the
best thing that you can do is be harsh in a situation. And that's why there are things in the
shadows that are actually harsh, because that's the best thing in that situation. hikma is
distinguishing between that situation, and when you should be kind when you should be harsh, because
there's a time that prophesy Sam was a gentle person, but there are times when he executed very
		

			severe orders.
		

			Because it was necessary. Allah Subhana Allah says Allah comfortably saucy HYAH you have in the lex
talionis. In the law of retribution, you have life because you can't live in a world where criminals
run free and do what they want and don't have any fear of authority. They have to have fear of
authority and Allah has that oh, the Sorbonne. My layers are over Quran. Allah will prevent with
political authority, what he will not prevent with the Quran itself. And that's why Mary when the
angel came and she didn't know who the angel was, she said, I wouldn't be coming around in Quinta
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			This is Carl in the Tafseer. But I to me, it's very clear.
		

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			she's reminding that person. Are you a person of Taqwa because this is what people of Taqwa do. She
didn't know it was an angel. She thought it was a strange man and she became frightened of the
situation. In Quinta, Pia Taqwa people of Taqwa so that what is taqwa? Taqwa is clarified throughout
the Quran. tapa is what has to do Taco is still empty. Third, Filipino have often been behind to.
		

			The like, even as your says that Taqwa the meaning of Taqwa is to obey Allah as commandments, and to
avoid his prohibitions, God's prohibitions inwardly and outwardly. Because there's a prohibition
against Cuba. Cuba is an inward state, it's not an outward act. There's a prohibition of Cuba.
There's a prohibition of hazard, la Hasakah Illa. Fifth and attain, you shouldn't have a hazard in
your heart. So how do you get rid of these things? Well, there's the outward path, which is called
the Shediac. And then there's the inward path was traditionally they called the Vita, the inward
path to God, you have the outward path, which is the Sharia, that is going to take care of all your
		

			outward problems. If you obey the Sharia, you will not get into trouble if you're not with the
opposite * alone with somebody that you do not have any Mamiya or any rights over you're not gonna
get into trouble you get the elevator there's somebody in there from the opposite * you just wait
for the next elevator with as two people or three people
		

			that's Sharia. So that will protect you
		

			the Sharia is basically if you reduce it down to the fundamental it's it's it's the Baghdad which
are basically doing those our things the five pillars, the prophets, Allah I sent him said Salah
Hamza Khan, was so Moshe Hara calm What does a cat unwary come he didn't mention hygiene this hadith
but in another Hadith he mentions it. What what?
		

			We're up to that I'm an admin come and obey political authority over you.
		

			To total gender Tara become right you will enter the paradise of your Lord. If you do those things.
That's the outward thing. Like the Bedouin, who came to the Prophet saw so many he said, let me let
me do if I heard I only have to pray on fast Ramadan. Paisa cod, make the Hajj, you know, say
Shahada. Is that all I have to do? He said, that's all you have to do. He said, Well, I won't do
anything else except that and he left the process of color, but have the wherewithal inside up.
He'll be successful. If he if he's truthful in what he said. He'll be
		

			Be successful low him, but it'll get you through. Right woman Zazie Heartland know what kind of
agenda pocket fairs all it is, is to just be removed from the hellfire. So the Prophet SAW I sent
him, let people do a very minimum amount.
		

			And that's the path of just salvation. But then there's a higher path which is the path of
sanctification people that want to get close to Allah, to want to know Allah to have Madiba of Allah
subhanaw taala in this world, that inward path is an arduous path. It's a difficult path. It's a
path filled with pitfalls, but if you follow it, you will get the results because all science has to
be reputable, replicable. All science has to be falsifiable. You if you do it, you and keep doing
it, you get the same result if if not if you falsify that result one time. First, you have to check
your instruments and everything but if you get more than 123, you realize that's not accurate. The
		

			spiritual path is the same.
		

			We have centuries of people Imam Al Ghazali. Is Hutchison Islam, why he proved Islam himself in his
own self. He's a proof. People who knew him as the arrogant, brilliant scholar that could win every
debate. And then they saw his spiritual transformation, ending ending up being somebody who was
completely humbled.
		

			People went to see him they couldn't believe that he changed.
		

			But he took the path and he took it seriously. He couldn't talk he went into a spiritual crisis. He
couldn't even talk. He was so worried because he saw all the faults in himself. The prophets Elijah
said um, said that you had to be Muhammad, Al Muhammad Al, an awesome member, Muhammad, Al, you're
rasool Allah. He said, a tepee and Knuckey
		

			attacchi and Knuckey lab over the lb Willa Hasakah. It's a pure it's a Tukey it's a person of Taqwa.
So outwardly he's most happy, but inwardly his Knuckey so it's Tukey when Naki he's done the outward
work and he's done the inward work. Moom the Arabs, they say, Come to El beit knesset to elbaite I
swept the house out Muhammad Carl Bismack gnosall palp the heart has been swept one of them he said
that we Nick nice will unfortunately be Ottawa Hina we sweep ourselves with our souls.
		

			Because you have the higher self and you have the lower self and Ramadan is a time to do this work.
Because what are the two fundamental things in the Muhammad at the two biggest problems you have
outwardly? Not inwardly the two big problems you have outwardly what are the two biggest problems
you have outwardly? The Prophet sallallahu sallam said
		

			manhwa isn't isn't attained its name the halal Walla Walla, JAL, Jana, whoever protects himself from
two things, one Wella JAL Jana, he will enter Paradise will Lodz hide on moulage when you come into
your bed, you ask for her moulage. So he said, Well edge, he will enter paradise. And then they
asked him what were those two things and he was silent.
		

			And then he they asked him again, he was silent.
		

			And he waited a time, because this is this is a way that a teacher will
		

			put into the hearts of desire to find something it's like a you know that it's like these, these
these things they write to get you to read the article.
		

			Right?
		

			What is it? What are those two things?
		

			You get even more curious if they're if they're gonna tell you right away? What are those two things
they want? What are they asked him again? What are those two things and then he said, Whoever
protects what's between his two jobs for K, what is Les while a little Jana, whoever protects his
tongue and his * he will enter paradise. What is what is fasting? Let him sack the sack in
the Quran. That Zecharia that he swore was to not speak. That was his song.
		

			We don't have that song in our tradition.
		

			But the point of that is that is him sack him sack on and muharram the Prophet SAW I sent him says
who whoever fast and doesn't leave, telling lies and backbiting Allah has no need of his fast. Allah
has no need of his fans. So what's the point of the fast guarding the tongue?
		

			And that's why it's very easy because most people don't back bite in Ramadan unless they're really
pathetic.
		

			Yeah, but most most
		

			And they suddenly get aware they're fasting and they stop. Right? And there's a there's spiritual
age chiffons. The Masada are locked up. So there's spiritual aid in that. But why is that today?
What is the madrasa? What's the school that we're in in Ramadan? It's the school of learning to
control yourself. And then what is the shower? The shower comes from food without food, there's no
shadow. Starving, people aren't thinking about, you know, they're not thinking about appetites.
They're thinking about food. That's all they want. starving people are thinking about food. They're
not thinking about anything else.
		

			The prophets Allah is sent said that Allah subhanaw taala says a CR mo li y, z b. Allah is the only
one that doesn't need food. He's Samad he has no need.
		

			We need food. So breaking the nafs it's called Kusha Kasota shall attain a hammer that Azadi has a
whole book in the Yeah, about breaking the two desires.
		

			The button and the forge.
		

			So the tongue, the button and the forge, this is Ramadan. It's learning to discipline your soul. But
the other thing is returning back to the book of ALLAH SubhanA wa Donna, because the guidance is in
the book and one of the things that's very clear in the Muslim OMA for anybody that looks at our
conditions now, in Palmetto hada Khurana Majora My people have abandoned this book, the practice of
the book of Allah, the spiritual insights that the book gives you the understanding of the book of
Allah, the our community has lost it because they become divorced from the Quranic worldview. And
the Quranic worldview is in the Quran, but it takes time it takes work to actually learn it. It's
		

			learned in the copy that the prophets Allah Assam said to Abiathar Lian, Lian, Tong dua for tal nama
I attend Minkee tabula, to wake up in the morning and learn one idea from the book of Allah, how you
will look him in Muti raka it's better than 100 rocket
		

			because your devotion without knowledge is not it's just not it doesn't have a lot of traction. He
said to learn one idea is better than to learn to pray 1000 100 records and then he said Leon talked
to a Fatah lemma Babban min a Weber in your a little Viola, your movie highroller comin Elfi raka to
wake up and learn one section of knowledge is better for you than to pray 1000 rockets, whether that
knowledge is theoretical, or whether it's practical, in other words, what like our P, the you, you
practice our P than your understanding, but it's not it's it's not my movie, it's not something you
do. So you learn fic you learn how to pray properly, you learn how to worship Allah properly, you
		

			learn how to understand what Allah subhanaw taala is asking of us. And then you learn to understand
how to perceive the world. So the Quran is the lens with which you look at the world through without
it, your blind, or your your, your it's all opaque. It's your blurry read.
		

			So they're spectacles that you have to put on and see the world through the Quranic worldview. And
this is what the Prophet SAW ISON was teaching us. He said, it can be tabula.
		

			Take this book of Allah COVID kitab Jacoba. Take this book seriously. It needs study, that you have
to study it, the Muslims, they keep it on the top shelf, almost out of reach.
		

			But take it down, open it read it, that's what the Quran it's coming back to the book of Allah,
coming back to the book of Allah, and then wondering why you left it during the rest of the year.
		

			Because people experience the difference, the qualitative difference between this month and the rest
of the 11 month. If you don't, then you that you have to work on your email, because it's very
evident. It's very evident for any serious Muslim. The qualitative difference between the day before
Ramadan and the day of Ramadan is very striking. Time even the dilation of time the experience of of
time dilation, you're getting more done, you need less sleep, things are different. Experience is
different. So this is really really,
		

			you know, a month to get back to Allah Subhana Allah and get closer to Allah subhanaw taala to bring
us also the hearts you know, Muhammad CALB you know, a swept heart, because there's just a lot of
hepat in our community. There's a lot of has said, you know, the end people won't admit has said
they'll never admit hesed just human nature, they will not admit hazard. But there's a lot of
hazards in our community. There's hazard for people
		

			that are successful. There's hesed for
		

			people that have things that you don't have that you want. I mean Imams, they told me that when he
lived in one of the Muslim countries, he said people used to sneak new furniture into their house
after midnight, because they were so worried about the aim.
		

			I'm not making that up.
		

			I had a there was a brother from Syria, he worked at one of the
		

			internet company, and he did something which was huge. He, he invented something, he got a patent.
And he said, he said, what struck him he told me this, he said, What really struck him was he said,
all the people that were here, you know, they were all like high fiving him and saying where to go
and they were really, he said, the Muslims in the group. He said none of that. He said the he could
see the envy in their faces. That's a disease hazard and the prophesy, Sam said that, that he said
the disease of Omen will creep up on you.
		

			It will creep up on you that will omen that by Ed condyloma.
		

			Allah has to do with Barack Obama, like envy and just animosity towards other people. Because the
believer has a pure heart. He goes out to people with a pure heart. He doesn't have those diseases
in his heart. And if he does, he works on them. He struggles with them. There's a Matata club that's
why he wrote that book. Yeah, oh no, Medina is filled with these meanings in my metaphors. It filled
his book with how to work on yourself, how to purify yourself. We have a whole tradition, but you
have to practice it. You can read all day long. You can become a great scholar, quote, all these
other scholars. You can do that. But if you don't work on your heart,
		

			on yomo piano what is what is the benefit elimin Atala your Calvin Celene that's the Calvin mama.
The sound heart. Yo, Madame Farrell, madam. Whatever, Nona. Illuminata lucha de Calvin, Sally.
		

			And that's what this month is about. It's about reorient ourselves. Getting back to our orientation.
We're facing Mecca.
		

			The House of Allah. That's the the physical house that you make a journey to but there's a spiritual
house. It's called Donald Ashira is the abode of the afterlife, or that little motor pin. It was
made for the people of Taqwa
		

			because amatola was had color che but he said, October Hala Lavinia Tarpon. In the people of Taqwa
the people who pray the people fast, the people who pay those icon, the people that make the
pilgrimage if they're able to, these are the people that they get close to Allah put Oconee How do I
stop for Allah Libra come when he sat in a must mean to stop futile, you know before Rahim.
		

			Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala see then what have you been our Rasulullah wanna
early he was happy he Woman Well Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah for this blessed month, May Allah
subhanaw taala make it a month of openings for us, in our inner worlds and in our outer worlds May
Allah subhanaw taala give us a piece of this month.
		

			Allah subhanaw taala says that the hearts are only made tranquil with the vicar of Allah subhanaw
taala Anna, this is a month when we should increase our dhikr but hopefully try to maintain it after
the month closes. But the Quran Allah is what's necessary to be aligned with Allah subhanaw taala
Syria Iraq says that if the true believer is content with whatever Allah sends him or her, and we're
living in a very strange time, a lot of disruptions, a lot of instability,
		

			a lot of also distraction, immense amount of distraction. And, and so it's very important that
people just align with their Lord, be aligned with Allah subhanaw taala and then come what may, that
you'll be prepared for whatever comes because we don't know what's coming. But there are very
ominous clouds. They're very ominous clouds and we don't have wise people running the world. They're
not they're not wise people. They're venal people, they're very corrupt people.
		

			And they don't really have a lot of concern for the vast majority of people. But we have nobody to
blame and not individually but as our own MA We have nobody to blame but ourselves because the
prophesy Sam said there's the ship of humanity is is we're all on it. And he said that the people
who who are people of Shetty out who they should be on top, governing the ship and Muslims once were
they were and it was it was a much better situation. But the prophesy said the people below there
will want instead of having water given to them by the people above
		

			So, let's just drill a hole in the hole so we can get water for ourselves. We don't have to have
them give us the water right? And so they drill the hole and then the Prophet said they all drown.
		

			So so this is the crisis we don't we don't have sovereignty as people of God as people have Allah
subhanaw taala. And, and in that case, we're just most of that theme, you know where people that are
weak, but there's a strength in weakness because when you're weak, you know that how lower upper
what I love Allah when you're powerful, you can become deluded thinking that the power is yours, but
when you're weak, you know that however appointed a biller, and that's a great power, so that's how
Allah subhanaw taala and you will feel the MOU we are the winners and how the Shahar Mo Farah
Telenor where it phenomena nor the salah has 100 and you have animosity mean you have a fun headed
		

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