Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Divine Gnosis 23 Ramadan 1444 Late Night Majlis
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Recitation of the Quran.
This is one of the
primary
rights of the month of Ramadan.
As the Rasulullah
mentioned,
The person who fasted the month of Ramadan
in faith in Allah to Allah
and believes that this is going to somehow
be beneficial.
You're going to get something out of this.
It's It's not just something you're going through
the motions.
Their sins, whatever sins came before,
will have been forgiven.
The person who stands the entire
Ramadan in prayer.
An allusion
according to the commentators to this very
that we read
that people,
try to run away from and truncate.
In faith in Allah
and
in
good hope and good expectation of reward from
the Lord.
Their sins that came from before will be
forgiven.
And the person who
stands in the laylatul Qadr in prayer,
in faith and in hope from
the Lord for reward,
That person,
their sins will be forgiven
because of this Mubarak act.
Allah
accept it from all of us and Allah
give us tufir
to find the laylatul Qadr if we have
not already done so. Ameen.
The recitation of the Quran in the salatul
Tarawi is increasingly it's fizzling out in front
of us, in front of our eyes.
People are leaving it. They're peep they're leaving
the enjoyment of the recitation, of listening to
the recitation, of understanding the recitation,
of reading with their own eyes, of touching
the muskaf with their own hands in wudu,
of educating their children by it.
This was something that was actually quite a
shock to me,
that probably a majority of the masajid in
the world
don't read a khatam of the Quran
in Ramadan.
And there are many countries in the world
where this was not always the case.
And there are some countries in the world
where this was always the case over there
that they didn't have this nahma, they didn't
have this blessing.
But this Quran and its recitation, this is
not from the adab of this world.
This is from what the sunnah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, how that it comes
in the Sahih hadith that the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam used to
recite the Quran to say the Jibril alayhi
salam
in the month of Ramadan, in the last
year of he his life, he recited it
twice.
So for the person who says this is
for
the person who says this is hulu,
this is a case you can
take up with the saydul ambiya and the
saydul malaikah.
If you think one khatam is too much,
your Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam read 2
in the last year of his life
to saint Nasjibril. That's not counting his
own. That's not counting his own worship.
Distribute it all, my friend. Send it to
women first
and then distribute all of this, walk around
and hand it to people. If someone wants
to help him, please go ahead.
This is the barakat of Ramadan, the barakat
of the Quran.
Even myself, I forbid people from bringing any
of these things into the rebat. And now
look
what happened. We're the ones who laugh at
people who come to these things just to
eat and drink sweets and look
what we've
become. You cannot do anything about it. A
lot of you write a written for somebody.
It's going to get there, right?
This aversion to the worship of Allah
is a sickness of our home.
And one of the reasons why this place
is here and one of the reasons why
it's worth coming to places like this is
what? Is that this is our attempt to
what? Stand the tide and to mitigate and
to push back and to reverse what this,
trend is. Our
half is read
roughly 1 and a half jus, slightly less
than an average of 1 and a half
jus per
per night in order for us to get
to the khatam, and it didn't take longer
than any of the other masajid.
What did it cost us?
No fundraiser.
No sponsorships.
You see the the the meager,
place that we are praying in, but it's
a place to pray.
And a person will know on the day
of judgment how many angels are in which
place and which place is accepted by Allah
and which thing is accepted by Allah
and which wasn't.
We didn't have fundraisers. We don't have a
nice chandelier. We don't have flashy,
things going on. We don't have any of
that.
It's somewhat underbathroomed and underfacilitied,
to be very frank with you. And I'm
at every turn telling people, no. Don't do
this. Don't do that. Come on time,
etcetera. People so many people were standing at
the door the entire month. Why? Because they
didn't know you can
cross the lines as long as you don't
cross the imam.
Or they felt uncomfortable doing so as well.
To what end? What is it that we
get out of it? Is what? Is it
you get to listen to the Quran uninterrupted
by anything and anything else in silence. Allah
says in his book,
stand in front of Allah
in. What does here mean? It doesn't just
mean the dua.
It's not just that. Right? What is?
Means silence and it means stillness.
Don't move and stay
silent.
That that
silence and that stillness, this is the hida.
This is the fruit of the heart.
And what is it that a person is
reading when they hear the Quran when they
recite the Quran, when they read the Quran
from the Mus'haf?
This is a book if a person were
to ask what the topic is. I remember
I did my undergrad in Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations. I have a bachelor's degree in
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University.
It's big puffed up words, and the hapticah
behind it is completely bottled.
And so our professor, who's a nice guy,
I don't have anything bad to say about
the guy.
He never did anything bad by me.
I definitely disagree with some things he said.
He probably disagrees with stuff I say as
well. No problem.
But one of the things that he said
in his introduction to the Quran class, he
says that this Quran, the order makes no
sense. One of the worst things you can
do is open it from the beginning and
read it from the beginning all the way
to the end. You're not gonna understand anything.
To him, this is a factual statement.
What is the topic of the Quran? If
someone were to ask, what is the topic
of the Quran?
Who could answer this question as a non
Muslim or as a Muslim? Someone says it's
the word of God, it's not. But what
is it talking about?
The topic of the Quran is what the
ma'ifa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
so that you can know who Allah ta'ala
is.
Not alm, ma'rifah. What is the difference? Because
it's something that you will never be able
to express on your tongue. If someone asks
you who is Allah ta'ala, you can't express
on your
tongue. You talk about Allah, but you cannot
define him.
This is a book which is what? It
is a spiritual reality that a person connects
with the
eternal uncreated attribute of God's speech.
And Allah chose words for it
that teach you and teach me how the
heart engages with Allah Ta'ala, how the mind
engages with Allah Ta'ala, how the body engages
with Allah Ta'ala,
how you can know who Allah Ta'ala is.
A person asks, what's the topic of the
Quran?
Is it a book of Allah? No. But
all the 5th books are based on the
Quran.
Is it the topic of the Quran, creed,
Aqidah,
the thing that supposedly
unite the Muslims. Right?
Aqidah is in it, but it's not a
book of Aqidah even though the books of
Aqidah are all drawn from the Quran.
Is it a book of?
No. Even though a person's is all drawn
from the
Quran. What is it?
It's organic. It's like real life.
A person wonders, like, you might wonder, what's
what's the point? Tell me what's the point
of
There's, like, old man, old woman. They're gonna
go to the fire for being, like, screwed
up people. Why is this in the why
is this in the Quran? Why is
the Jamil, her her burning in Jahannam
worthy of being mentioned in the, the last
revelation given to the.
Why is it that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam?
He's saying I'm not going to eat a
certain type of honey to make his wives
happy
is the topic of an entire
chapter of the Quran.
Why is it that the hadith of Iq
is
a topic that's discussed in Quran?
Why is it that the prophet
you say this even to a Kafir, even
if you say to Yehudi or Nasani, he's
gonna say, oh, that's beautiful. That's deep.
Even if you say it to an atheist,
say, I don't believe in your Allah or
whatever, but that was beautiful, man.
That was beautiful.
Why is the whole Quran not not like
that? Why is it have all this other
stuff as well in it that seems like
really day to day? Why? Because Allah
is with you in everything.
In the most subtle and the most sublime
of things, He's there with you.
And in the most mundane
of things, he's there with you.
Is he not there with you? Is the
guidance for only for you to sit and
sound deep when you're smoking weed with your
friends?
And then when you go back to the
quote unquote real world, he's not there with
you anymore?
This is a thing now and then all
these people, like, you know, famous podcasters and
whatever. They're all going on acid trips, and
they're like, this is deep and that's deep
and this is they see all sorts of
fun things when they're on LSD and on
mushrooms.
When the mushroom wears off, what? Do you
become a do you become a monkey again?
What what is it?
Is that what it's that's is that to
limit the extent of your guidance?
That's all?
Because the person who says that Allah doesn't
belong in the dunya,
that that person is also a kafir.
Doesn't have relevance. Deen has no relevance to
your dunya. That person is also a kafir.
This book gives you guidance for every step
from the top to the bottom.
The
people who are who are people of Kufar,
they'll see some part of it. They'll recognize
the other part. They'll say, what's the point?
Why does Allah why is he even talking
about this here? If it's really God, why
is he talking about it here?
Allah taught through this book
will send astray many people, and he will
guide many people and he won't send anyone
astray or allow anyone to go astray except
for the people who love deviance.
Why? Because it's guidance for every single thing
and every single thing and every single matter.
He tells you the ma'rifah of who the
lord is, what who the is.
In your piety, in your sin,
in your
happiness, in your sadness,
there's something that will make you cry when
you're happy. There's something that will make you
happy when you're crying. You guys are pious
people, mashaAllah. You're here for the khatam of
Quran. You're the oliya of Allah. You're the
people. You make dua and, like, the fortune
of mankind changes up and down because of
it. But imagine a person imagine a person
who's so distraught.
The person is so distraught and then he
hears
what? And then the the the the the
nasa, they say, god is love. God is
love. And then they built huge mechanical armies
and nuclear weapons and biological weapons and
genocide,
depleted uranium, agent orange, children being born with
birth defects and and and and, malformations
for generations.
And they say, we brought the gospel of
Jesus Christ with
where they brought the gospel to the job.
And they say, look at these people. Look
at these people, these barbarians.
Their religion is of war and of hate.
Don't ever give up hope. Don't ever despair
in the mercy of Allah
He forgives all sins.
Indeed, he was
the most forgiving and he was the most
merciful.
This Quran that carried the only of Allah
Ta'ala through the generations.
Through desolation and through desperation.
This Quran that carried the only of Allah
ta'ala from their comfort into the battlefield and
into shahada and into everlasting life.
This Quran that carried them when they didn't
even have those options available to them. There
are from amongst our ulama, Alhamdulillah. From amongst
the ulama of our brotherhood.
Back when
the Farangi usurper
usurped our lands,
they sentenced them to death after torture. And
then upon seeing on the day of execution
the happiness in their face that these people
are happy
and asking their,
wretched,
slaves why why is this other Suwadhi brown
man happy this day?
So because they're gonna meet a lot of
ta'ala, they're gonna be shohada.
Even a salawat understands
what that means.
Amongst us there are salawats with ayadu billahi.
Allah guide them
but even our salaats understand what what is
that that that fuzz? What does it mean?
They want it but they just can't. For
some reason, there's a barrier in the ghay
between them and touching that thing.
The Falani even was
so evil that when they would see that
they said, no. No. No. This guy, Commuters,
Dustin has put him in life in jail,
exile him somewhere else. We're not gonna give
him what he wants.
The Quran carried him.
Muhammad
Ali. The original
he was from Delhi.
The British exiled him
and they tortured him.
And they when they let him out of
jail from the torture that they put put
it put him through. One of my favorite
stories that you probably heard it from me
before, he cured again. It makes me happy
every single time. One of the weird tortures
they did, they chained him to a block
of ice
until he passed out.
It's really painful. Can you imagine that? They
chained him to a block of ice
and,
removed his clothing and just, like, chained him
to a block of ice just, you know,
just as a form of torture.
And, he passed out. And when they took
him off and he came back,
they said, what do you say now? Will
you legitimate
our rule?
He said,
look,
the body has become very cold,
but the iman has become
much hotter.
He was the one he used to say
He used to say they they exiled me
from the league.
And
let me go after years in Lahore as
an old man.
No one knows who I am. I don't
know who anyone is. They thought this guy
is gonna starve to death in the
streets.
Does he not know?
Does he not know that I carry inside
of my heart the book of Allah to
Allah? Allah will always guide me. He'll always
show me a way out.
The person who fears Allah,
Allah, Allah, will always show him a way
through.
Allah will always show him a way out
of his problems.
Our
brothers and also.
Right?
The Sheikh Yusuf,
Makassar,
say it, prince of,
Makassar, one of the one of the sultanates
of
Nusantara.
It's a place now. It's in Indonesia.
He was a royal prince.
He left home to seek knowledge. His journey
in seeking knowledge made him, at some point
or another, the.
He was living in He
had this huge gang of marines. His students
of knowledge would come from the entire world
and learn ill from him.
And then the foundry overthrew
the kingdom of his father.
And so he said to them, he says,
but but this is the time we have
to go back.
We have to now go and fight for
in the path of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Leave this and we have
fight in the path of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. And they went and they fought and
they were defeated.
And he was captured by the Dutch, and
they were going to execute him.
And Aurangzeb
actually wrote a letter when he heard about
this happening
to the Dutch saying, if you lay a
finger on this guy,
we'll burn your embassy and kill all of
your people and throw you out of our
our our our, imperial grace.
And so they commuted him to a life
sentence. They sent him to Cape Town,
South Africa. Because South Africa, the the Cape
province was like Australia of the Dutch like,
colonial empire. It's a prison colony that they
sent prisoners to.
He was such a dangerous man to them.
They put him in the hole. They kept
him in isolation for years until he became
an old man.
When he finally came out and they just
leave food for him, that's it because they
couldn't kill him.
When as a old man, he came out
of the the
the isolation,
out of the hole, out of literally, there's
a hole in the ground.
They went in and no lights or anything.
They they they they
lit a torch and looked what what is
it, and they saw the Quran written several
times, the correct on the walls all around.
A normal man get goes mad just thinking
about it too much.
Not only did he keep all of his
marbles when he came out, what would he
do? He would just, like, be an old
man. He started
a masjid. Like, he
got the community to dedicate a masjid, which
is aptly called Obel Masjid because the first
mustard in South Africa. It's in the Cape
Town. It's a very Mubarak place, a very
peaceful place to this day.
And he just sings songs to kids.
Right? Just sing, like, songs in Malay to
the kids. What the what the didn't understand
was the songs he was teaching them is
is saying like a lullaby, but it's like
basic, the basic, the basic, basic whatever so
that the workers could sing these songs when
they're working in the field so that they
can preserve their deen.
This Quran will guide a person wherever they
go. In it is everything, the hookum of
everything, the people who came before, the people
who came after, the
said the hadith of,
from
saying this
is
an it's not a joke. It's the thing
that lets you differentiate between
one thing and the other.
In it is the
the news of those who came before you
and the news of those who will come
after you
and the knowledge of what's going on between
you right now.
And it is all of this, and it
is all of this power, and it is
all of this madad.
All of
our love to listen to and sing the
sheets.
It's not haram. I like listening to them
myself. I like singing them myself, although people
don't
don't really like hearing it from
me. Right? This is the thing that the
that are sung are sung about them. They're
sung for them.
So have some weird of the Quran that
you recite every day.
Don't be too cool for school for it.
If all you know is
then you're weird. It's okay. You can read
it 3 times, 10 times every day.
Maybe that can go to 15 one day.
Maybe you can learn a new surah.
You can read from the musak. If you
cannot read a page,
read an ayah.
If you can't read it, just read a
page. If you cannot read a page, read
an ayah of the Quran.
Strive to know what its knowledge is.
Don't chase after the operatic reciters.
Someone is the Muslim equivalent of Luciamo Pavarotti,
except for Pavarotti had a bigger beard than
them.
It's okay if someone has a nice voice.
You know, we all like to hear that.
But that's not what the Quran was revealed
for. You understand what I'm saying?
The people who say his name are sadly,
we're poor representatives of him. But one of
the things someone actually brought him
a cassette player with a recitation
from Qari Abdulbasid
and he's like, look, look, there's this machine
and it can do this and he pressed
play in the madras in Zalmeddin in front
of the Sheikh
and after just like 30 seconds, he's like
incensed. He like shut the thing off himself.
He says, is this what the Quran was
revealed for?
Is this what the Quran was revealed for?
Someone's like, woah. What are you talking about?
Go ahead and listen to your tape. It's
okay.
But is that what the Quran was revealed
for?
That we should marvel and gasp about it
and we should spend
our himma and our
resources in order to idolize that.
Someone's like, why what is he talking about?
Now he's saying, like, you know, I thought
that was an act of piety. You know
what I'm talking about?
Just,
a couple of days ago, someone told me
there's some big body from, like, somewhere in
the shirk
who in a state somewhere in the United
States, they called him to lead the Eid
salat.
And god help us if the man has
ever spoken a word of dahaq intentionally except
for by reading the text of something else.
And the only reason he's reading the text
of the Quran and people listen to him
is because of how wonderful and sing songy
it is. Otherwise, entire life, we have we
have professional armies of Quran reciters who are
corrupt people.
And the Quran is only there to bear
witness against them that they sold this money.
They sold this book of Ta'ala for money.
This is not just me being like a
jerk. Someone's like, man, Hamza, calm down, bro.
Like, you always you always have to be
a hater. Can't you just see the good
in something sometimes? Okay. This may be a
problem I have.
Put me aside for a second though.
The hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, it's a sahih hadith.
Of the first three people who are going
to be thrown into the hellfire, do you
know who number 1 is the first one
is?
It's gonna be the scholar and the reciter
of the Quran
who opened his mouth to give his big
bands and who opened his mouth to recite
the Quran
To show off so people will say, Oh
look how nice you recited and how wonderful
you are.
If a man stands in front of the
people
and sings them a lullabies so that they
go to sleep,
And in the same breath,
praises murderers and praises
scoundrels and praises
people who
are being a Hajjis between people and between
the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, a
Hajjis between them and the sunnah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And do you want to give them the
biggest platform,
that platform, the biggest platform in the year,
the biggest gathering of Muslims in the year
in your locality?
That platform in which forget about Tarawi.
That platform in which who comes? Those people
who don't even pray 5 times a day,
come.
This is your one chance to chance to
invite them back to the remembrance of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and what did you give
them instead? A lullaby.
You put them to sleep.
I told you this, didn't I? I said
you recite whatever dua you want in the
at the khatam. You read the Quran. You
read whatever dua you want, but my humble
request. What was it?
Don't mock and parrot this, sing songy style
of,
you know, show business parties.
His dua was long. I won't I won't,
lie.
Okay? I have enough stew.
I had in my heart this man recited
the entire Quran and Allah Ta'alif, he answers
every one of his duas.
What skin is it off my back? Only
we're the ones who are gonna benefit from
it. There's nothing else that's gonna happen. So
just let him say his du'a.
But don't mimic the lullaby of the,
of those people who are trying to put
the ummah to sleep using this Quran because
the Quran wasn't revealed for that. That's one
of the
at the end.
You have
a Toyota Camry, which is the,
the the the Mercedes Benz of this Ooma,
it seems like. Right?
Or at least of this community over here.
Right? Imagine it's beautiful, has the kit, the
rims, everything, but there's no engine in it.
It's a waste. Right?
Then I say I said, don't reread the
dua. It's just whatever it is simply and
innocently from your heart, whatever it is you
wanna say to Allah to say that thing
to Allah to Allah. May Allah accept from
all of us.
But this sing song you write me,
you know, lullaby thing. This is not what
the Quran was revealed for. What was it
revealed for? It's a book of the Ma'rifah
of Allah
It's the book that's there to tell you
if you want to find a way to
Allah
This is the way to do it.
Whoever wishes to, this is the way you
can take a path to your
You're the drug addict, you're the drunkard, this
is your path to Allah Ta'ala.
You're the person engrossed in the in material
things. This is your path to Allah
You're engrossed in sins.
You're
LGBTQQRSTUV
72xyz.
This is your path to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Your parents died. They don't love you. This
is your path to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
You don't know how to wake up in
the morning. You don't know the adab of
how to go to sleep at night. This
is your path toward Allah
This is your path toward Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. Oh,
human being, who's deluded you with regards to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that you think that
this deen is only for malanas who give,
like, long winded speeches that should have ended,
like, 10 minutes ago?
Like Saidna Ali
who said to his one eyed friend who
he narrated this hadith from the prophet
to.
2. My one eyed friend,
take it. Take this Quran.
Read it. Benefit from it.
Allah give all of us. Allah make us,
his
that he gave to the people who took
from this book. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make
it a blessing and a barakah for for
us in this world and the hereafter and
the testimony,
in our hap and not one after us,
not one against us, in the hereafter.