Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 28 1440 Ramadn Late Night Khatm alQurn 06012019
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Allah
describes this month of Ramadan as shahru Ramadan
ladiunzilafihir
Quran.
The month of Ramadan in which the Quran
was sent down in which the Quran was
sent down. Literally
means to send something down from above to
below.
And
this Quran
is
the Mubarak word of Allah
This Quran is something that
is first manifested in its
physical form with its letters and its sounds
from the Arabic language,
in the first of creation,
which is written on Allah al Mahfud, on
the protected tablet, which was mentioned in the
Surat of Buruj, which we,
heard tonight.
But it's more than just the letters, and
it's more than just the words.
Rather, it is the divine speech of Allah
which
is not
contained in time and it's not contained in
space.
Rather, it is from the sifat of Allah
Ta'ala
and the connection between the
attribute of Allah Ta'ala, which is eternal and
uncreated,
and those letters and those words that are
written in the, which
are created and which are in time and
in space.
It's such that the one one who reads
those words, the one who writes those words,
the one who speaks those words, and the
one who hears those words.
The sifa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
makes tajalli, it manifests itself in that person.
Just like the one who calls on Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala for his mercy, he receives
from Allah's mercy. The one who obeys Allah,
he receives from Allah
mercy. The one who oppresses another, Allah
his vengeance,
is manifested in that person in this world
and in the hereafter, and all sorts of
different ways. Just like that, the one who
reads these words,
who speaks these words, who listens to these
words, who writes these words, there's a manifestation
of Allah
sifaat on that person, on that person's heart,
on that person physically, on that person spiritually,
on that person mentally.
This is why the Quran is so many
things.
It is a book of Allah, it is
a book that will help a person
treat themselves,
from illnesses that they have. It's Shifaal in
Nas. It's a it's a cure. There's a
cure in it for people physically, mentally, and
all sorts of different ways.
The Quran is a source of barakah. The
Quran is a source of understanding. The Quran
is protection. The person who recites the words
of the Quran
gives that person protection.
The last just couple of surahs that we
read.
Right?
You you say to the we don't worship
what you worship, and you don't worship what
we don't what we worship.
You have your way and we have our
way. And then Allah tells what
It's a portrait of the of
a person who who who who leaves this
world and their lord is pleased with them.
It says the who of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
Right? When when the help of Allah comes
and victory comes and you see the people
entering into Islam in droves, then glorify the
praises of your lord and seek forgiveness for
him because he always was the one who
accepted repentance.
Now everybody heard it. It sounds very nice.
Sounds like a very nice thing to say.
Everybody heard it and they said, oh, this
is so nice.
Said that Bubbaqir Siddiqui heard it and he
started to weep. Why? Because he's the one
who understood what it meant.
There's actually, in the in the in
the chapter regarding the virtue of knowledge.
The narration is mentioned that said when
someone asks, why do you let Abdullah bin
Abbas sit in the with the elder Sahaba
and the privy council?
The other the other Sahaba said we have
sons too that are like him. He says,
no, your sons are not like him. I
said, what do you mean? He says, okay.
This sort of
what what does it mean? Tell your sons
to come and explain it to me. You
yourselves tell me what does it mean. So
they all said, oh, it means this, it
means that, it means this. It's it's it's
he was called this Abdullah in Abbas. He
called them, said this is Allah to Allah
telling the rest
of his about
to leave this world.
And,
say
the
this is the same thing Abu Bakr Siddiq,
he was the only one who understood from
amongst the What did it what did it
mean when it came down?
So it's a portrait of the passing of
what?
A person who's who who who made it
with Allah
And then what's the next Surah?
It's the portrait because a person wonders about
this. I see this, like, you know, weird,
like, ex Muslim and they're like, why why
is it the Quran is, like, you know,
if it's from Allah to Allah, why is
it just mocking like this, like, dead Catherine
and his wife? His
for our wife.
What? It's showing. This is this is one
way you can leave. This is another way
you can leave.
And then at the end of all
of it, right? This happens in the Quran
so many times, right?
And then after both of them are mentioned,
When good is done and bad is done.
This duality only exists in the creation.
Allah ta'ala is the hap. After all is
said and done, before, during, and after, it's
only Allah ta'ala.
That's it.
Someone actually asked me this question, and I
wonder why people, like, on the 27th of
Ramadan, is this, like, the only thing people
have to do is argue about these things?
But, you know, can't blame that. At least
they're not playing video games or watching Netflix
or whatever. So, like, is it true is
it true that that that that some people
didn't consider
to be part of the Quran? I go,
no.
But it is true that there it's included
in the in the Musa. They say
it's included in the Musa
and the end, without this.
And so some of the people, you know,
said, like, it's written as if it's a
dua rather than than a surah.
But nobody ever said that it's not a
surah. It's by a consensus of the Sahaba
and every generation afterward is part of the
Quran. But it is a dua. Why? Because
now you know the hap, and now people
are gonna come after you. Everyone's gonna come
after you. The democrats are gonna come after
you. The republicans are gonna come out. It's
one of the things they can they agree
on. The British and French hate each other,
but they agree on this. They'll come after
you.
The communist and the capitalist,
they they fought they fought cold wars and
hot war on everything. Lukewarm wars in the
middle.
But the one thing they agree upon, whoever
says
come after them. Everybody.
Forget about forget about, like, the USSR,
you know, forget about all of that. Right?
Your own your own your own mother-in-law is
gonna come after you. Your own mother and
father are gonna come after you. Your brothers
and sisters are gonna come after you.
People are gonna come after you with this.
So what?
Right? I seek refuge in the lord of
people.
The king of people and the god of
people.
From the evil that whispers inside the person's
heart.
It's so much evil that whispers inside of
people's hearts. Forget about other people. There's so
many so much evil that's whispered inside our
own hearts.
Allah, forgive us. Allah, protect us from it.
The prophet had no shadow in his nuts
and he had no say in his armal.
But it's for it's for us that, oh,
Allah, I seek refuge in in you from
the evil of my
nafs
and from the, the bad effects of the
evil effects of my bad deeds.
So here, you have this Quran with you,
you're gonna need help.
Here, here's here's here's to
the movement. Here's 22 weapons you can keep
with you to protect you because they're all
gonna come after you in the dunya.
They're all gonna come after you in the
dunya if you carry this with you. But
the the fact of the matter is is
what? Whoever has this book with them, Allah
puts them on top.
Allah puts them on top. The people will
starve to death. That person will eat when
everybody else goes hungry. The people will be
forgotten about those people will be remembered, the
one who carried us the the this book
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We have it
so easy, Wala. We have it so easy.
We have proliferation of access to knowledge
in the sense that in the few modern
times, people couldn't even get books. You know,
the musakah was like a family heirloom. There
are people imagine how many people passed would
love to even just read the Quran, but
they couldn't afford a musakah because there's no
kata who can write it for them.
We have, you know, much less the other
ulemm,
much less the other ulemm that people lived
in a place where you couldn't see, you
couldn't find an Arab, but someone who spoke
any any part of
Arabic for 100 if not 1000 of miles
around. Now Alhamdulillah everything is online, not everything
is made easy, not everything is free,
Everything
is, like free not just cost wise, but
free also in the sense that that nobody
will, you know, we live in at least
in a place where nobody's gonna punish you
for for for for learning how to read
the Quran.
Their attack is different that make Netflix so
entertaining and load YouTube with so many kitty
cat videos
that, you know, people will just waste their
time saying that I have an intention to
read this Quran, I have intention intention to
read this Quran, their life will pass.
Allah forgive us. I saw from my I
saw multiple people
who make khatam of the Quran every other
day, who make khatam of the Quran every
day. I've seen those people before.
And you know, not with Takaluf
just by reading it, making it their habit.
You know, the, you know, in Mauritania, they
ask about, you know, who's the, you know,
someone one one of the one of the
our Desi brothers asked one of the Mauritanians
about, like, you know, who's the how do
you do this? He said, we take our
a 1000 times. He goes, when you read
any a 1000 times, he he says that
the entire Quran becomes like.
You can't forget it. You know, you don't
you just can't that's how they used to
that's how they used to memorize it, commit
it to memory in the old days. Now
who am I to tongue lash somebody? I
myself didn't do it.
Allah forgive us. I myself didn't do it.
But the fact of the matter, it's there
and it's
it's
it's possible for us to read it, it's
possible for us to learn it. It's knowledge
is something that's inexhaustible.
It's not only just a fancy thing to
say, say Muhammad alaikas to Islam, if the
ocean was ink with which to write the
words of, my lord, the ocean would have
been
exhausted,
and the words of my lord wouldn't finish.
And even if we brought another ocean like
it, it doesn't mean that, like, okay, a
third ocean will get the job done.
What does it mean? So many things. You
do the hifs of the Quran, you can
always review.
You can always recite it again. Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam described it in the hadith
who
said from from Al Hadith and Awar, it's
the court to be it mentions it in
the his Muqaddima and the Fabad of Quran.
Quran. It doesn't become old
by repeating it over and over again.
Rather this is something, you know, this is
something maybe the others you can ask them,
you know, just in case you think I'm
making it up or something. There are certain
parts of the Quran the first time you
read it and you're like, what is this?
And then sometime you read it so many
times later and later and it just strikes
you. This is something so beautiful.
This is one of the things between, you
know, like, something that's actually a work of
art, something that's really a classic
is that so many, you know, like, buildings
they built in the seventies,
and they probably thought it looked cool at
the time. And now you look at it
and it's like a eyesore. It looks like,
you know, it's got it's become outdated.
And then there are certain things you look
at it every time you see it again
and again, it becomes more beautiful. You notice
its perfections more. You haven't seen it for
long enough in order to notice the the
the perfections that are in
it. Even if you're not a Hafiz or
even if you are Hafiz, you can always
read the qara'at, you can always read the
the the knowledge that's that's that's tied to
it. You can read the tafsir of the
Quran. Every one of us can learn Arabic,
and this is one of the things was
like, you don't have to be an Arab
in order to be Muslim. You don't have
to.
But but if you're able to, you should.
If you want to traverse this path toward
Allah
If you're cut off from certain means, then
Allah suffices you. If the means are there
for you to do certain things,
then then that's the thing that you should
do. You need to learn some Arabic.
If you want to learn, you know, make
saluk toward Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you need
to know what's inside of this Quran. This
Quran is the greatest of the it's the
greatest of the that's been given to,
to to any of the prophets
Someone might say, well, even greater than,
I read the Quran, how many times does
come in the Quran itself?
You'll see repeated over and over again. How
many times does it come in the Quran
itself? It's a hadith qudsi of the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
The one who,
has been engaged
by reciting a Quran
from from or
by making my dhikr by my remembrance from
making dua. That person, don't worry about it.
You're automatically getting the best that you could
have asked for.
This is something that's being written for you
in the background while you're reading the book
of Allah Ta'ala. Who's the one who decided
the best that you could have asked for
in this case? The hadith could say Allah
Ta'ala is the one who's making the promise.
Is your choice for yourself better? Is Allah
Allah Allah's choice for you better?
Otherwise,
our choice for ourselves will make us like
drug addicts and diabetes and other diseases that
we don't wanna mention in front of our
elders and our you'll you'll kill us. They
are choice for your not to kill yourself.
You'll destroy yourself. You'll destroy yourself in this
world. You'll destroy yourself in the hereafter. You
haven't even seen the place. How how are
how are we supposed to know how how
things are gonna work on that day?
That one who recites the Quran, the one
who's occupied through the recitation of the Quran.
From my for and and in my remembrance,
in my dhikr from asking me, I'll give
them. Don't worry about it. I'll automatically give
you the best thing that you could have
asked for. In this world and in the
hereafter,
there's an attributed
to the prophet
that the recitation of children, specifically children, masha'Allah,
you're the kids with us too, masha'Allah.
Right? The recitation of the Quran of children,
it is where's Abdullah?
Where is he? Are we sleeping?
Okay.
The recitation of children, what does it do?
It extinguishes the the anger of Allah
It extinguishes the anger of Allah This is
this is something that
our our elders from from from from the
time of Aslaf until now they understand this,
they knew this.
Which we teach in
that's the whole the whole premise of the
book being written is what? Is that you
teach them the Quran and you teach them
these basic things that go with it as
well.
Why? Because when you teach these things to
the children, Allah
will validate your your your your lineage in
its existence. And if you wanna be the
last generation of people that says
before your home is destroyed, then don't worry
about these things.
So many so many examples. The earthquake that
happened in
in in Kashmir,
in 2,005,
I think. Right? This is devastating earthquake. We
mentioned it before a couple of days ago
in the Majlis.
Entire villages were literally swallowed by the earth.
There was it was Ramadan time. I was
sitting in in the Hanpa, of our
Sheikh, in which nobody checked their text messages
in the masjid
or a phone. That that that
that that which was a very orderly in
a way that people, I think, nowadays, if
we were to show something like that to
people, they think I'm, like, rough and kind
of, you know, hardcore.
People would, like, call, like, whatever child protective
services for, like,
abuse if they were to see that. Right?
That
in which in which
I read more Quran than I ever did
in my life, and I heard more Quran
than I ever did in my life. When
the earthquake happened, it was in Lahore. I
heard we felt earthquake all the way from
from from Lahore
from Kashmir to Lahore. It's 100 of miles.
And so I grew up in Southern California.
You're used to earthquakes. I just went outside
and and whatever, you know. I stood in
actually actually stood in a a doorway. Everybody
else ran outside,
because maybe they don't have as many earthquake
drills over there. I don't know. But the
the the I guess several days later because
nobody has any Internet communication whatever. Several days
later, what ended up happening, we found out
that this was actually a very large earthquake.
Earthquake. It wasn't what we just what we
felt over there. The epicenter was very far
away and it was catastrophic.
It was a catastrophic earthquake.
What happened was a couple of days before
someone had called the Sheikh
and,
told them a dream
that I saw in a dream that 2
angels were passing through this valley,
in Kashmir.
And they said, should we not destroy these
people because of their sins? And the second
angel says, no, the children are reciting Quran.
And so the sheikh told them the sheikh
told them you should give some as
as as sugar to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. You should give some sugar to Allah
ta'ala that Allah save saved you. And this
is what happens at the Madars day. Many
of them, they take when is their one
yearly break?
Ramadan.
In Pakistan,
madras doesn't take the day off on Pakistani.
Because the dean doesn't take the day off
1947 notwithstanding.
They they many of them take it as
a matter of pride. They don't take the
day off even they don't take a holiday
off except for for Eid and Ramadan.
So what happens?
The the the earthquake just happened in the
1st couple of days of Ramadan.
This is this is this is a haditha,
it's a reality. We ourselves have to
worry about this.
We ourselves have to think about this. What
are we going to do with our own
children?
Okay? You don't have you know what I
mean? Like, I can get the fact that
there are people who cannot afford to take
their kids to Islamic school.
Right? Running a school is not easy. There
are some people who are much that I
have experience in that. It's like a function
of government. Just to have a couple of
people get together and fund something that's like
a institution that usually runs on, like, the
tax base of, like, you know,
you know, 100 of or tens of 1,000,000
of dollars at the at the at the
bare minimum. It's not easy.
If you can do it, if you can't
do it, you can at least find a
place where you hire some ahlulullah person who
has some knowledge of the deen.
Somebody you think that this person from what
I can see or what I know about
them that inshallah they'll always go to Jannah
even if they don't, you know, drive a
nice car or whatever, and have them sit
with them for 2 hours every day.
If you can't afford the tuition in the
Islamic school $700 a month or or whatever,
you can at least afford the 50, 60,
75, a $100, $125 a month to have
someone like that sit with your kids. If
you can't afford it and they don't give
you a break, then you teach them.
Can you imagine people think about you? People
nowadays, they think that the only khutbah I
can do is that I'm gonna go give
a khutbah and become like a viral YouTube
star and talk at a conference or become
the president of the masjid or God knows
what, and they exert ridiculous amounts of effort
into these things. It's all It's
just it's it's nothing. It's all vanity.
I'm I'm telling you this. I tell myself
this. Whenever I do anything in public, like,
I'm speaking to you guys. I'll be very
surprised if this counts as anything
for me. It's just something someone has to
do it, so we do it.
Otherwise, these things that, you know, whoever's heart
is so pure that, you know, they're not
impressed by other people or whatever, then maybe
for them it's, you know, good news. You
should make dua for me as well. The
rest of us, Allah knows best what's gonna
be accepted, what's not gonna be accepted.
But imagine teaching
a person, a little person, or a big
person for that matter, teaching them.
How many times are they gonna read it
in their life?
Imagine teaching Alif to a kid. How many
times does Alif come in the in the
Quran?
Imagine, you know, every time they see all
they see this written and inside their heart
comes what Allah.
And you taught them what alif is and
so you get reward every single time.
This is a figure that we have to
have, we have
to
invest in these things, invest our time, our
money, our support. We have to stop talking
garbage about these things.
Wallahi, many of our aqwam,
the the the the subject of the spite
and the poison in the bile of people's
speech is what it's first the Quran teachers.
All these people, they did this, they yelled
at someone, they killed, killed, kick someone, they
beat somebody, they ruined Islam because there's nobody.
Okay. Somebody messed
up. Right? Because of that, you're going to
not poison the well from which the barakah
of our, of our future generations is gonna
come from which the the job that we
have is going to come. I'll tell you
this is what all of our masha'i said.
This is what all of our masha'i said.
We heard from them and it's
from the and we saw them practice it.
The pure
he was a and he was a
one of the one of the, direct students
of Muhammad Ali Saharan Puri who wrote the
on
the Mishkaq,
who himself was a
direct student of,
Shah,
Abdul Khani al Mujaddidi, one of the transmitters
of hadith,
a great he was a direct student of
a a great alim,
And he was a person he was the
one he challenged Mirza, Hulam Ahmed Qadiani to
a debate.
And so Mirza Mirza accepted
and then backed out at the last minute
because he know he's gonna get tranced.
And,
then,
Mirza said to him, no, no, no. I'll
I'll debate with you, but like in writing,
you know, not like live, you know. So
he's like, okay. And then he caught out
of that too.
And then finally, you know what said? What
did he say? He's not like the fake
beard. He's like the real the real beard.
You know?
He's he's saying it from
the prophet
as a person of zikr, a person of,
a person that that that had the love
of Allah inside of him.
What did he say? He said, I'll challenge
you to a debate of miracles. I'll try
to challenge you to to a of Karamat.
I said, wait. What is that? He says,
you're you're take your and have them put
you in a bag and take you to
the top of one of the in the
Badshahi Masjid.
And then one of my, I'll take have
them put me in a bag and take
me to the top of the of the
Batshahi Masjid. And then at that point in
time, they can drop us. And whoever's telling
the truth, Allah will save him. Mirza backed
out of that as well. One of the
maritza,
that's amazing. You know, did you have, like,
some karama or some that you would have
survived that through? He says, no. But at
least this Khabiz would have died too.
That's the heart of the people who have
concern for the deen. That's how they think
about things. You know what I mean? That's
why he maybe he would have survived because
he had that inside of him. His was
and you can go see his you can
go see his Mazar to this day.
His wasia was what? Wherever you bury me,
put the class of the children reading the
Quran next to it. So that it's within
your shot that they the the the sound
of their recitation,
it should be it should be, heard heard
by us.
I've taught children before. Has
taught children before. I don't know anyone else,
but, you know, you guys have both both,
have,
taught to kids before. And, you know, kids
are crazy. You know, they're not easy to
deal with. This is not like a picturesque,
scenario where, like, everything goes wonderful and you
just, like, you know, they read and you
tell them to read and then everything is
wonderful. Like, just stuff happens, you know?
Maybe one of the people who taught kids
before once told me that they used to
scare the children that they
taught. They would show them my picture and
say that, you know, you don't behave. I'm
gonna send you to this Moana stuff and
apparently worked. I didn't you know? Uh-uh.
It's not easy. It's not easy to and
that kid will probably grow up and, you
know, write write an article against all of
us. Right? So the it's not easy to
do it's not easy to do.
It's not easy to teach the kids. You
know, that's why most parents even though if
you tell them, is it would you like
your kid to learn to read Quran? They'd
be like, yeah. But they're not even willing
to do it for their own children.
They're not.
This is a reality. Many many times in
many places, the had to go door to
door literally begging people, give us your children
so that we can teach them.
Imam Nawi
his father took him out of class and
said, no. He has to run the family
business.
Kadi Abu Yusuf, his father took him out
of classes. He has to run the family
business. He has to work with me, work
the fields with
me. Abu Hanifa says, look. How much would
it cost for for for to hire a
laborer to do his work for him?
And he says he he says x whatever
x amount. He says get that get that
from me every week. I'll I'll pay I'll
pay it. Don't worry about it.
Get that from me every week. I'll pay
for it.
This is this is this is this is
how these these people then they did great
service for
for the dean. It's not easy getting the
people to do that. And then after you
hear all the complaints and this and that
and the other thing. But what is it?
What why is it worth it? Because what
as long as those little kids, you know,
they're they're they're, you know, they may be
troublemakers, some of them some of us may
have been troublemakers too, but
like as long as their little tongues are
moving with the
and it's doing something good inside of their
little hearts, Allah
his anger will be still held at bay.
And if that's the case in this world,
imagine that's the case in the year after.
You know, I didn't do anything. Marsha, you
guys are the ones who read the read
the, the Tarawi, and I've already made too
long of a a a band. But, like,
you know, to have, like, a little, like,
a misappropriated
academy award moment, I wanna thank
the parents of the that are here.
Grandparents
as well.
Why?
Uncle, is it easy? You know, afterwards, when
the band is happening, everybody's like, oh,
so much. People come and say that to
my father, oh, you're gonna go straight to
Dunnan blah blah blah. And I would all
listen to this person, this monastic. If his
own son wanted to become a alim, he'd
beat him.
He spit in his face and call him
names that he's never called anyone before. Don't
listen to this guy. He's not he's not
he's not sincere when he said that to
you. Is it easy?
Was it
easy?
Going every day, going, dropping, picking up, dropping
off. Right? And, like, you know, some of
these are some pious kids, you know? So
it's not it's, you know, they probably did
it easily. You know? Sometimes it's hard. Like
in the middle, I wanna quit. My teacher
is mean.
Everybody, the same thing. Everybody. My teacher's mean
no stuff for that. I say haram looks
bad. Like, my teacher this, my teacher that.
And then after the is done, oh, my
teacher is such a great value of Allah.
I mean, I go after my teacher every
time. This and that. Uh-uh. Everybody,
you know, it but it's real. You know,
in the middle of it in the middle
of it, when you're when you just got
beat or you just got dogged out by
your teacher or you just got, you know,
whatever,
you know, failed embarrassingly some exam and or
get held back or had to repeat something
or whatever. Everybody is like, oh, this is
this stuff for us. This is the flock
of the prophet.
The teacher makes a mistake too.
Maybe the teacher was being unreasonable at that
time.
But that's, you know,
when your car when your car, like, you
know, you have a problem in the car,
what do you do? You go get to
change the battery. You don't you don't like
to load the car in the garbage because
it happens, nobody's perfect. It's really hard to
go through all of these things. So that's
why I would like to thank the parents
of the harfalf, the family members of the
harfalf, and, you know, the the that that
have to put up with this and deal
with all of these, all of these things
that all of us can enjoy, like, to
show up like
guests and enjoy this, enjoy this moment and
moments like these that are precious few moments
in in our lives. And I would like
to thank them also the difficulty that they
have to put up with. The the the
stress of, of of reciting, the stress of
making mistakes, the stress of all of these
things. This is difficult. It's not easy.
It's not easy at all. The amount of
times, the number of times that the thing
that you heard in 45 minutes or in
an hour, the amount of times it had
to be repeated in order for that to
be? Possible. There are places in this in
this city, there are places people don't,
appreciate this. This whatever Chicago land area we're
in, you cannot close your eyes and, like,
wave your arms around except for you'll hit
3 or 4 of us. Still, there are
massages in this in this city. I've seen
it to myself
that the the the has read from from
a phone.
I've seen it.
At the end of the day, nobody values
it.
The only one who values it the only
one who values it is the one who
will say what? Who will say, you know,
tell the angels to say to you that
keep reciting the the Quran
and keep
raising and rank. Recite the Quran like you
used to recite it in a slow tone
in the dunya and keep reciting and keep
raising in rank and where the last of
your recitation is, that's what your rank will
be in in in Jannah forever.
That's the one who's gonna nobody else is
gonna appreciate it. Nobody else is gonna appreciate
it. But the ones who their hearts are
what? In training with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's
rida, with his pleasure, they'll appreciate it.
So my, humble request for all of us
is what? If you don't, you know, if
you could work on your Arabic, try again.
You know, if you try to give up
70 times, then try 70 70 first time.
If you know, go crack the books open.
You know, memorize another Surah that you didn't
know from before.
Crack up if you don't know what
means and you don't know what is
and if you don't know what, you know,
you know, you don't know what's these Quranic
expressions are because, you know, you know how,
like, you know, when you got that part
down, but like the rest of it. Go
look it up.
You know? Go go encourage some some someone
in your family,
to to go and and put their kids
in the when it's time time to do
so. If you have the financial means, then
put that help help them out with it.
You know, have you met in Dar es
Salaam, the Sheikh
Haqbal, his great grand great grandfather was the,
was the Hanafi Mufti of Halib in Ottoman
times. And
he's
many of the many of the great
the elders that are like like like white
beards right now. They actually were his students.
His great grandfather students. He says my father
because they're the family of geniuses. So my
father,
he got out of Syria and he got
a full ride scholarship for medical school in
the Sorbonne,
which is like a very elite institution in
Paris.
And so he, like, went, he made, like,
a killing, made a bunch of money, and
then he came back to Syria
and, built their house in, like, in in
Halab. He said that all of our relatives,
all he would do, he would take all
of our relatives, he would go and visit
them 1 by 1, and he would say
to them, is it's ending, it's perishing. It's
it's about to you know, so says that
you're like, yeah, whatever. You know, you don't
have anything in the first place. Of course,
he would say that. Right?
He said what? He said that it's it's
it's funny. It's it's gone. It's finished. It's
finishing. It's diminishing. It's it's evaporating. It's melting
right in front of your eyes.
Go put your kids go put your kids
make them sit in the in the halakazulullah.
Him and his brother his brother memorized like
more than 10,000 lines of poetry in Arabic.
He's a party of the. Both of them
are wonderfully learned people. Said our father said
go study whatever you whatever you want. Don't
worry about what job you're gonna do afterward
and don't worry who's gonna pay for it.
Allah will take care of you. And that's
why we have these we have these type
of people. He said that we used to
go to our relatives and he used to
encourage them. He you know, I mean, he
talked the talk too. He didn't he was
like, he walked the walk too. He talked
the he also walked the walk. His 2
sons, both of them, he he he he,
facilitated their education like that. He said that
he would go and plead with plead with
our relatives, put your kids in, you know,
just at least have them learn something. At
least have them sit in
of the. A day will come when it's
not gonna seem as bad of an idea
as it may seem right now.
You know? So go encourage other people and
don't just be like, oh, look. I said
my good deed. I said, actually facilitate it
because they're gonna come back at you and
say, well, I need a ride. I need,
you know, I can't afford it. I can't
this, I can't that. Act as a facilitator
in the middle. If you can't do it
yourself, have somebody else do it in your
place, there's say to that as well. Right?
Not everyone can do everything in life. They
say that the,
the the the the the Mudawin of the
the
the the Maliki school. Right? The Mudawin of
the Kubra is like the master collection of
the fataw of Malik. He he collected it
from Malik's top students in.
He when he became,
he, had a,
an olive orchard,
in which he would pay from the proceeds
of the olive orchard, somebody to go out
in the path of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
constantly because he was unable to go out.
He had to teach and he had to
judge cases, but he didn't wanna lose the
the the ajir of it. This is the
way that our masha'ik and our elders used
to used to think. So if you cannot
do it yourself,
then go and and try to facilitate it.
If nothing else,
next time people
speak about the the teachers of the Quran
with a crooked tongue.
I'm not excusing if some some someone is
a Quran teacher, they did something wrong. They
savagely beat some child or they did that's
wrong. It's wrong. That one deed is a
wrong deed.
Very few people, like, you know, as a
kid, they're like, I wanna grow up and,
like, you know, break some kid's bones while
teaching.
Even then, it's often times it's a mistake.
Even if that person shouldn't be teaching. Right?
It's often a mistake that they make they
regret those things, you know? And they're very
few far and far between. There are so
many people who learn, know how to read
Quran and so few people who have a
crooked broken legs, you know.
Most people can walk, who can read the
Quran.
Right? They're very few and far between and
even those people they make mistakes. Next time
you hear someone
mention one of the one of the,
of Quran.
Do say say say say something to in
their defense. Why? Because the Rasul himself
chastified
The best of you is the one who,
who learns the Quran and then teaches it
to others. You know? Say something say something
that will make the people feel good about
this again. You You know, say something that
will make the people love it again.
Make a culture that the people love it
again. It's wallah. It's bigger. It's better than
getting a a a 100000 friends on Facebook
and getting a 100,000 hits on YouTube and
having a 100,000 likes on Instagram. It's better
than all of these things. It's better than
than than the money we paid. It's better
than any of these things, both in the
dunya and in the hereafter. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala give all of us tawfiq Allah ta'ala
except from our kafas
that they, that they they read the of
what was said to the messenger of Allah
salallahu alayhi wa sallam from saying that Jibibah.
Al Amin who transcribed it from the
to the prophet
and the prophet and read it to his
companions
and every generation from them until now with
an unbroken chain. We also, you know, in
Lombard, we got a chance to hear Allah
reward them, Allah accept from them. They're reading
us from us, our our our hearing of
it, whatever part of it that we heard.
And Allah
give us the also
of participating actively
in that in that culture of its preservation
and propagation that we can also have our
names out of Allah's mercy and be appended
with their names as well.