Hamzah Wald Maqbul – The Nisbah of the Book of Allh Furqn Foundation 2016 Jalsah.mp4
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All praises to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala who
allowed us to come to his Mubarik house
on this Mubarik occasion.
Masha'Allah.
This is a
special
place and a special time that's filled with
blessings
That the people of knowledge, the students of
knowledge,
they have come together,
the patrons of knowledge, the hadith of the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that
be either a student of knowledge or a
teacher of knowledge or a supporter of the
2 of them or the one who loves
the 2 of them. And don't be any
other type of person. That the gathering of
such people
has a very high misbah.
The Quran itself that we recite has a
very high nizba. What does the word nizba
mean?
The word nizba means you're tied from one
thing to another.
You're tied from one thing to another. So
for example,
somebody has a
somebody has a ring.
If the ring was made by a famous
ring maker,
then someone will say it was made in
such and such design house, in such and
such, by such and such jeweler from Italy
or from France or from,
some places known for its,
fashion or for its design
by such and such legendary craftsman
so many centuries ago or so many generations
ago.
It makes that same ring
something that is of more value.
If you say, I saw this ring one
day in a garbage heap. I was in
a garbage dump. And I saw it and
it looked nice, so I pulled it out
of the garbage dump, wiped it off and
started wearing it. What does it do? That
same ring, it brings its value down.
So you should know this Furqan academy that
you study in.
What is the Furqan?
What is the Furqan?
What is Al Furqan? Tell me. Tell me.
What is it? Who knows? Raise your hand.
What is it?
What is it? What is Al Furqan? What
does it mean?
What is it?
Do you know what?
What is al Furqan? Who knows?
Who?
What? The separation between. What? But but that's
fine. That's what it literally means. But the
Furqan academy is not named after the separation,
it's named after something
it's a metaphor for something very tangible. Yes?
Okay. The Quran.
Right? The Quran.
The surah, surah al Furqan
is named after what? The word furqan in
that surah
which in it means not the surah Al
Furqan but it means the Quran itself.
Right?
Right? So that the Tabarakah,
blessed is the one who sent down the
Quran on his slaves so that he may
be a warner for all of the worlds.
Okay. So what is the nizba of your
academy?
I'll tell you what the
academy
is. Because unlike other things in this dunya,
which which in the world of meanings are
equivalent to that thing that you got from
the garbage dump.
How did the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam describe this dunya?
He said this dunya is blessed and take
as much dunya as you can, so you
can be more blessed. No.
What How did he describe this dunya? This
dunya is the jannah of the kafir, it's
the sigil of the movement. It's the the
prison of a movement. It's a prison for
a believer.
So, have you ever seen
we have some of our young,
talented,
people who read their spoken word. Have you
ever heard someone write poetry? Oh, my prison
is so beautiful and how I missed the
iron bars
And the the food was wonderful.
I I actually work I work some of
you may know this already. I work with
the halal industry. I gave a a, like,
a 6 hour presentation in this very masjid
about Halal several years ago. Right? So we
get we get sometimes,
letters from prisoners because they don't serve them
halal food. The prison said, we don't give
anyone good food. They tried to serve like
otters. There's a type of otter or beaver
called
that lives in Louisiana.
At one time the department of prisons, because
they're they're they're endemic, they're rampant to the
swamps, they they tried to save money by
serving people nutrient meat, and the prisoners actually
sued the government and won,
on the basis that serving them this meat
was a cruel and unusual punishment.
Right? What does it does a person have
like a lot of love for the prison
they're in? No.
You stay there. Why? Because if you try
to leave, they're gonna shoot you.
That's what a prison is. If you speak
to a prison guard, that's that's what it
is, the bottom line. You try to leave,
they'll shoot you.
So what is the dunya to the believer?
It's decision. Now imagine Allah ta'ala protect all
of us from ever going to jail, and
ever going to prison, and those of those
of our brothers and sisters who are wrongfully
there, even those who are rightfully there but
they made tawba from their sins, subhanahu wa
ta'ala,
free them as soon as possible, and make
life for them their burden. If a person
is in jail, imagine if a person is
in jail.
What will give them happiness?
Right? The remembrance of their home, the remembrance
of their family, the remembrance of their loved
ones.
This entire dunya, these things that
are,
talented
and artistic
young spoken word reciters
spoke about.
This thing is these things are all just
like jail items. Nobody is going to be
excited because and write poetry because they got
an extra roll of toilet paper where everybody
else, you know, they run out or something
like that. What is it? It's all just
little stuff that you have in your What
is the thing that you look forward to?
You look forward to going back home.
And the nisbah of the book of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the nisbah of the the
the masjid.
All of these things, their nisbah goes back
to Allah ta'ala and it goes to a
sacred presence in Jannah. So you should know
what the nisbah of your of your education
is, your fukaan academy
is. And it's part of your iman. Yes.
If you are Muslim, it's part of your
iman that you should know inside of your
heart, and you should believe inside of your
heart that this is better than what other
people have.
Allah ta'ala mentions indeed,
in his book. Sayyidina Musa alaihis salam that
the Banu Israeel, that sayyidina Musa goes to
meet with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and he
leaves
Sayidna Harun alaihi salaam to watch over Bani
And the Bani Israel go astray and they
start worshiping a calf.
They start worshiping an idol of a calf.
Is this something that's good or bad?
It's not just Is it a little bad
or very bad?
It's extremely bad. When saydna Musa alaihi wasalam
comes back, what does he do? He's so
angry, he grabs his brother, Sayyidina Harun, who
is his older brother and is also a
nabi. But he's so angry about how bad
this is. He grabs him by the beard.
And so his brother says to him, he
say no Harun says to his brother,
Oh, ibn Ummah, son of our mother.
Don't
don't don't grab my beard, don't drag me
toward I didn't do this. It's not my
fault I did. I tried to stop them.
So what did why did you why didn't
you stop them? He said, I was afraid
that if I had been harsh with them
at that point,
that we would have split, they would have
left me, and all of Banu Salahi would
have been gone.
Just in order to keep everyone together, that's
why I wasn't even harsher with them.
Why is what was the argument those people
put forth? They said,
why don't we have a God
like the other people who worship idols have
a god? How come our god we cannot
see him and we don't have an idol
of him? Whereas, if you go into the
church, if you go into the altar, there's
a huge cross and a big fig figure
of somebody. If you go into a temple
of of of of of, you know, Hinduism
or of some paganism, you'll see a big
elaborate statue and it's very artistically
made and decorated with gold and silver and
with flowers and all of these things. So
how come we don't have a god? Give
us a god like they have a god.
Now does everybody not understand the inherent the
inherent, like, flaw in the logic here?
That you're worshiping a a a stone, one
set of people is worshiping a stone or
wood,
or flowers, that can't do anything for them.
Whereas Banu Israeel, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, what
did he do for them? They were the
weakest of people and they had the mightiest
enemy. And Allah
literally drowned them all before before their eyes
miraculously.
Tell me, is there a stone or is
there
a wooden idol that can do that for
you?
Not at all.
Right? This is the flaw in logic.
Why did Allah ta'ala tell us this story
in His book?
So that we can make fun of No.
We're not supposed to make fun of anybody.
We're not supposed to mock anybody. In fact
it's part of our deen that we're not
allowed to mock the the idols and the
false gods of other people. Worship because they're
going to just mock Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And there's no harm in mocking something that's
fake, but there's harm in mocking Allah ta'ala
who is real.
Why did he tell us these stories? So
that we don't follow the same path that
they did.
Brothers and sisters, this fuqan Allah ta'ala gave
you this this the children and the teenagers,
the the the mashaikh,
the people that they're reciting, that they're learning
about.
It's nisbah is toward Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And the nispah of all of these other
things, it's all from the garbage heap of
this dunya.
It's all from the garbage heap of this
dunya. Why do I call it a garbage
heap? Say, well, you drive a car, you
have a house. One day Allah Ta'ala will
gather it all up and destroy it.
You guys are your father. You know, at
least I'm not a Hafiz. These are I
only know these short Surah's. Right?
No indeed you prefer the life of this
dunya.
Even though the akhirah is better than this
dunya and it last forever.
It last how long?
It last forever.
What is the nizbah of this this this
furqan
that Allah Ta'ala gave you? The nabi alaihis
salatu as salam upon whose heart it was
revealed.
The one who never deceived anybody. The one
who never told a lie. The one who
forgave all of his enemies.
Look in the books of history
and see has anyone ever done that before.
Has anyone ever done that before? That he
is tortured and persecuted for 23 years?
And the day Allah ta'ala gives him the
upper hand that him and his armies
enter into
The Quraysh who used to be mighty and
proud and arrogant.
The ones who killed the father and mother
of Sayna,
Amar bin Yasir radiAllahu anhu.
The ones who tortured Saidna Birar radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu. The ones who killed the uncle Sayidna
Hamza radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
Right? The the Shtamur Rasool
The uncle of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, the one who Allah Ta'ala's Messenger sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam called him, The Messenger of
Allah and the Messenger of His Rasool Sallallahu
Alaihi wa sallam. Musa'ad bin Umayr radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu. All of these people, they killed them.
In the ones they didn't kill, they gave
them so much pain and suffering. They tortured
them so much.
Imagine that the Utba and Urzaibah, the 2
sons of Abu Daha.
They divorced the daughters, the 2 daughters of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam out of
spite just because of Itra. Imagine, there's nothing
more personal than someone who does something to
your family. And out of every family member
you have, the most dear to you is,
as a man is what? Your daughters.
It's the most personal thing. Nabi salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, what did he do on the
day that he entered the nafatsh? Did he
take revenge from these people?
No, he forgave them. Why? Because his message
is not from the garbage heap of this
dunya.
This revenge, this anger, this jealousy, so and
so did this to me, so and so
did that to me, so and so took
this thing from from me and that thing
for This is all from the garbage heap
of this dunya.
Dirty things though, they cannot come to a
clean place. When you enter the masjid, is
anyone wearing their shoes?
No. You have to take your shoes outside.
Otherwise, you cannot come in.
Why? Because this is a clean place.
Right? The Quran comes from what? This clean
place. Through the clean heart of the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Who is this this ba from? Because none
of you Did any of you Did any
of you hear the Quran straight from Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala?
No.
Sayyidina Nabi Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam heard it from
Sayyidina Jibrilah Alaihi Salam, an angel.
And then, who heard it directly from the
Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam? Any anyone here?
No? Maybe some of the angels were there,
I don't know, that are present in this
gathering. Allah knows best. None of the human
beings and jinns that are here heard it
from from from the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam. Who heard it from them, alaihis salatu
His Sahaba radiAllahu anhu. Who are the transmitters
of the Quran? You know the Quran is
also transmitted through a chain of narration just
like the Hadith are. If anyone says, I
believe in the Quran but I don't believe
in the hadith, say you believe in nothing.
Why? Because the Quran is transmitted through the
same chain, that the hadith is transmitted through.
Right? So who who who transmits the Quran
from the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam? From the from the
Right?
These people are the transmitters of the Quran
from whom? From the Muhajirun
and from the Ansar. Right?
Right? These are the transmitters of the Quran
from from who? From?
The Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Said
Abdullah bin Mas'ud, who do you who who
knows who he is? He's the one who
used to carry the the the the water
for the wudu of the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. When the Nabi salallahu
alaihi wa sallam would take off his Mubarak
sandals, he's the one who would carry it.
Nabi alaihi salatu as salam said about him,
take half of your deen but from Ibnu
Ummi'Abd. From this Abdul Levin Mas'ud, take half
of your deen from him.
Who knows who who said the Uthman bin
Afan radiAllahu anhu is? The one The Nabi
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he married 1 daughter
of his to him. She she passes away.
He married a second one to him, Radhi
Allahu Anhu. She passes away. He said, if
I had a third one, if I had
a third one, I would have married him
to to Sayna her to Sayna Uthman radiAllahu
anhu as well. Imagine what did we say
when a person The most close and personal,
and the most precious human being to a
man is who? His daughters. Right? Who is
who is Sayna Hudayfa?
Uh-uh, Abu Hudayfa
Right? A master and slave in Jahiliya. Can
you believe that who who Abu Hudayfa is?
You know, Sayidna Hamza, the one who killed
Sayidna Hamza. Rashi, the the Abyssinian slave. Who
paid him to do that?
Hind, the the the wife of Abu Sufyan
Radhiyallahu Anhuma.
Why do we say
Because she accepted Islam later. She killed had
him killed in such a savage way that
afterwards, she mutilated the body, and she cut
his liver out and ate a piece of
it. The ulama says that she hated Islam
so much that maybe it's only because she
ate a part of the body of Sayyidina
hamza that she it changed her and she
became a Muslim later on. Otherwise, she hated
Islam so much.
She hated Islam from the beginning, and then
became Muslim after by Allah's father.
Right? Her brother, Abu Udayfa is her brother.
In the same household, see, what a difference
there is. Her brother, he was one of
the first people to accept Islam. He's the
one who loved the deen so much, and
he was one of the people who memorized
the Quran as the ayat came down.
And he had a freed he had a
slave. Right? Who actually would memorize the Quran
faster than him. He loved his slaves so
much, he freed him and said, from now
on, this is my son. Anybody who anybody
who says anything to him, they said something
to me. Obviously, this practice is then abrogated.
There's It's Mansukh later on in Islam. But
look at how much love he had that
the slave, Allah Ta'ala raised him to the
level of his master.
And he used to learn the Quran from
his slave. Abu Hudayfah used to learn from
Salim because Salim would memorize it faster, and
he did teach it to his former master.
The 2 of them, their tie was so
much, so close that both of them
on the day of Yamama fighting against
fighting against the, the false prophet Musayla Musayla
Matul Kaddab Right? In the Diar of Banu
Hanifa
in the, battle of Yamama very shortly after
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
passed away that they lived together and they
died together. They're shahid
together. Who are these 4 the five names
I mentioned from the Ansar?
Right? Do you know their the Ansar, they
had 2 different,
groups. Right? Tribal groups amongst them. The oath
and the Khazraj. The oath and the Khazraj.
And they used to fight with each other
in Jahiliyyah,
and they still had a little bit of
friendly rivalry after Islam. They didn't fight anymore.
They loved each other, but they used to
compete a little bit. You know? They used
to have a friendly rivalry with one another
in Islam.
So what did Oost said? Right? What did
Oost say? It's a
right? It's a hadith narrated by a belief
Anas ibn Malikar alayhi wa ta'ala Anhu is
mentioned by,
Sayyutin is Ittan. That the 2 great the
2 great tribes of Madinah,
they boasted to each other. And so what
did the oath say? The oath said, from
amongst us is who?
From amongst us is the one who?
The the the one who,
his Shahadah, his,
testimony is worth the testimony of 2 people.
There's a story about that. It's a story
about that. The messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam got into a dispute with a a
a Jewish merchant merchant about about what about
what what was owed or what the contractual
obligation was between the 2 of them. And
so the the the 2 of them they
agreed which is a custom of the Arabs
in the old days that the next person
who Allah sends to us, right, that person
will make them the judge. Whoever he is
between us, and we'll abide by their judgement.
And so, Jose Josema Radiallahu Alaihi wa'am who
comes by,
and so the prophet salallahu alayhi wa'am stops
him and says, we have this dispute.
So here is my side and here is
his side, and then you judge between us
and we'll accept your judgement. He says, I
already decided in your favor, you Rasoolullah.
No. No. No. You have to listen to
our our our our dispute. He says, look,
I already decided in your favor. I don't
even believe it's possible for you to lie.
The prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam was so
It was procedurally perhaps a little frustrated, but
happy about his iman.
What the Look at the iman of this
person. And he declared after this day,
this person, Hussein Matlud Mu'thabit, his his judgement
counts as the judgement of 2 people. His
witness counts is like the witness of 2
people because that's how honest he is. He
he admitted that, there's no way I can
even accept that that you might be wrong.
That Khuzaimatuluthabhat
Radhiallahu Wa Ta'ala Anhu, when they were compiling
after the Prophet Sallallahu Wa Salam passed away,
they're compiling the text of the Quran.
Right? The the Sahaba radiAllahu Han who used
to recite the Quran, so they knew all
of it by recitation.
But they wanted to be sure about the
way it's written, when they compile it into
written form. So, Sayed al Zayd bin Thabit
radiAllahu anhu who is also one of the
4
from the Ansar that were the teachers of
the Quran. What did he say?
He said that,
bring not just we know the Surahs, but
bring a written testimony. Anyone who has written
this,
Surah, or an ayah or a fraction a
fragment of the Surah, bring written testimony, and
we we need at least 2 written, attestations
to every ayah of the Quran,
that was shown to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, or during his life sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. And so they had a written
attestation to the entire Quran except for to
the last 2 aya's of Surah Tawba,
So they all knew this is part of
the Quran. They all recite it. They all
knew it was part of the Quran, but
they couldn't find a a a written attestation.
So who's the only one who came with
the written attestation of
it? Sayna?
This
This is one of the miracles of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam as well. That
he said that this person is witnesses equal
to the witness of 2 people. Right? So
here's one of them. Who's another one?
Right? The one
Right? The one when he died, the Nabi
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that in the heavens,
his death is such a, a tragedy. Not
tragedy in the sense that, you know, something
bad is going to happen, but tragedy in
the sense that even Allah ta'ala and the
hadith puts it, it's shown that he
he accepts the fact that dying is difficult
for everybody. Even if a person is going
to Jannah, just that small amount of time
is difficult for everyone.
So, in sympathy and sadness for that, the
Arsh, the throne of Allah ta'ala. Right? The
throne is not a chair that Allah ta'ala
sits on in in in the sky. Because
Allah doesn't have a body like you and
I.
The throne is a big
monument in in the heavens, over the heavens
and surrounding the heavens made out of light.
And it's given the name, Arish. It's given
the the name of a throne.
Why? So that even the great angels in
the heavens
that are bigger than you and I, more
powerful than you and I,
those angels know whoever made this arsh, that
one is incomprehensible
in his
greatness. That this thing is greater than anything
we we know, and the one who made
it must be greater than anything we can
know.
So even that Arshuka Arab, sympathy for the
passing of Sayyidina
So, the that's 2 pretty big deals they
have. Who's who's who's another one? A third
one. Right?
That from amongst them there was one Sahabi
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu who did what? That he
got married the night before the Muslim army
was leaving Madinah.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, you
just got married, you can spend the night
with your wife,
your wedding night, and then in the morning,
come catch up with us because one person
can travel faster than the entire army can.
So he spent the night with his wife,
he made a hussul in the morning to
leave,
and then he then, like, 2 people who
are in love when they first get married,
inshallah, all of you guys will
have this wonderful opportunity, guys and gals that
are not married yet, inshallah.
They came they, you know, they they they
wanted to they wanted to make love one
more time. And they did so, and then
this say, young
man, pious man, he said, what am I
doing? I have to catch catch the army.
I can't just leave them behind. So he
left the house in a rush out of
fear that wouldn't be able to catch up
with them without having made hussul.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
was shaheed in that battle. The prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam bore witness and testify that
this young man I see the angels are
giving him hussul. Right? It's not like he
said, You Rasul, I don't have hussul.
Right? No. This is one of the miracles
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He
knew why is this, young man, the angels
are giving him ghusl right now.
And then he's you know, then the people
found out from his,
his his his bride, his new wife, what
had happened.
This is pretty big deal, Somebody the angels
give for for for such a person. Many
of us as for Allah, maybe some hours
of the day the angels turn away and
like leave the room out of the strange
habits that we have. Right? Who's the the
4th 4th one? Man Manhamat Duba Duba.
Right? The one, said Nasim
He he was a a,
a person of oaths who killed the noblemen
of Quraysh in battle.
The mother of that that Qureshi, Mushireq,
she swore an oath that I will I
will not rest until I drink wine from
the skull of this man who killed my
son.
He was shahid
some mushrikeen
outside of Madina. Some of the mushrikeen, they
saw his body. They knew that the Quraysh
are very religious in fulfilling their vows. So
if we decapitate him right now and take
his head to her,
that that mother, the the woman whose son
was killed and swore this oath, she would
pay us any amount of money for this
head. We can make a quick buck.
Right? So what happened? They tried to come
near the the body,
and hornets come and attack them, so they
have to back off.
They try again the next day, same thing
happened. 3rd day they come by, the body
is gone. It's not they can't they can't
find it. It's as if the earth had
swallowed it up.
Right? Allah protected him from from from this,
you know, disgraceful plot on behalf of these
unscrupulous,
Qureshi people.
That's pretty impressive. Right? Which one of us
has something we can say we did something
like any of those 4?
So this is a Most of the hadith
is is what? It says that, Al O's
they they they boasted about these are these
are this is how awesome our tribe is.
That these people we have in our tribe
that they have such a high status with
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. What did the Khazraj
say?
Just something very sim very simple. It said,
there are 4 people who memorized the Quran
during the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, and nobody memorized it like they
did, and they just named four names.
What does that mean? From the way the
hadith is narrated, it's like what? Game, set,
match. The the Khazraj win.
The one who's, like, the one who laughs,
laughs, laughs, laughs best.
What? That greater than all of these things
is what? That the the the Khazraj could
say we have Zayd bin Thabit. We have,
we have,
Ubayd Nukab. We have,
Sin Abu Darda alaihiallahu anhu. We have Abu
Zayd. We have these people, they memorized the
book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and nobody
else. They're the authorized teachers of this, this
book during the lifetime of the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam, and that's even greater than
all the other things that were mentioned.
Who's the one who passed the the the
book of Allah Ta'ala from the Saabah radiAllahu
anhu? Right? This is your nisba. This is
not the nisba of anybody else. When you
memorized the Quran, you didn't memorize it from
the book.
You didn't memorize it from the Internet, quran.com.
You didn't memorize from any of these things.
It came from the heart of your teacher
to you,
And from his teacher, and from his teacher,
and from his teacher. Who is your nisbah
from? Right? One of the chief transmitters of
the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, say
the Sa'id Musayeeb Rahamalullahu wa ta'ala.
He was the one during the when
the army of Yazid sacked Madinah.
All of the people of Madinah had to
run for cover and abandon the city. He
was the only one, he stayed in the
masjid of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
out of dislike of the sills of the
5 times daily prayer, and the Prophet
masjid being broken.
He stayed in that masjid, and for for
40 days, he led the prayer himself, and
he testified that he heard the sound of
the adhan coming from the grave of the
Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam at the prayer
times.
Who is the one that you transmit this
Quran from? So many people, so many amazing
people, you see in every single generation. The
Tabaa'at of the Quran
preserved in the books.
You learn the Quran already, you may as
well learn Arabic right now and understand it,
and then you can also read the books
of Tabqaat that tell you every generation, the
sacrifices, and the amazing things that the people
went through in order to teach and learn
this Quran.
From amongst your your chain of transmission for
this Quran,
Abu Bakr he was a he was a
blind man. Imagine you have difficulty memorizing the
Quran, you can at least read the mushaf.
Right? He was a blind man, and his
he's a transmitter of the Quran from the
shortest
asani dub, the transmission of the Quran.
And he not only learned what you guys
did. Right? Because over here in Chicago when
someone says, I'm a hafid, what does it
mean? It means like, if I prepare a
whole lot, I can meet Taraweeb with like
4 or 5 different mistakes. When we say
that people like Abu Bakr Shafiq were hafaa
of the Quran,
it means that they didn't make mistakes. It
means that they could entirely write the rest
of the Quran from beginning to end from
memory. Right? How do you write maliki, midin?
You don't write it You
write it
and you put the the Alif Khanjari, right?
With what they see people call it on
the meem. Right? All of those things, he
memorized them. He could reproduce the writing of
the Quran, not just in 1
but in in 7
2 rewires for each He was acknowledged master
for those things, and he knew even more
than that.
That's what we call a pafil of the
Quran.
Such people You know there are people still
in living memory. They had to memorize the
Quran hiding from from from repressive authorities.
You know, in the former Soviet,
Republics.
Right? The Soviet Union was the the the
nation that used to the state that used
to rule over Russia
in the near past.
They were communist. They were very avid,
atheists.
They hated they hated any religion. And if
you hate any religion, then you're gonna especially
hate the true religion. You gonna hate the
deen of Allah the most. You hate Allah
and you hate religion, who are you going
to Who are you gonna hate the most?
You're going to hate who? Islam and you're
gonna hate the Muslims. Do you know there
are people memorizing the Quran doing what?
They had to hide in secret rooms in
their houses.
And what did they do? The secret rooms
are, like, they would literally break the wall
and put up bricks where the wall is
and seal it in with enough
food and with enough,
provisions, in order to last for a month
inside. Why? Because if one of the government
inspectors comes and sees, it's not that they'll
give you a fine or that you'll go
to jail. They'll kill you. They will live
There are people who transmit the Quran like
that. Right? There are people who transmit from
Turkey. Right? From Turkey, Turkey went through a
secularist phase.
I was once in the city of Konya,
somebody looked at me and saw me and
said, you know what? Our people used to
dress like you as well. They used to
wear turbans and have beards. There was a
time in my living memory where if a
person walked outside, the police would shoot you
on-site.
No court case. Nothing. They just fill out
a form.
Beard, check. Turban, check. Hijab, check. That's it.
Right? This is a gift Allah gave us.
Imagine those people are the heroes of Islam,
the ones who who who brought the Quran
to us with that much sacrifice.
Who's the hero of Islam? The one who
drives the Benz?
Maybe, but it's not because he drives a
Benz. Maybe if his heart is something special
that's different. Benz is completely incidental. Who are
the heroes of Islam? The people who make
this much money?
Who are the heroes of Islam?
Right? The the the person who, you know,
has
a certain job or a certain degree.
The heroes of Islam are the ones who
Allah Ta'ala chose from all of His creation.
He chose some people to have
And from all of them He chose certain
people to have the, have the gift of
being able to obey him. And from all
of them he chose a certain number of
people to be the ullama of this ummah.
And from all of them, he chose a
certain number of people to be the ones
who preserve his book.
Allah ta'ala says we're the ones who sent
down this remembrance and we're the ones who
preserve
it. Meaning what? This divine function he chooses
only a certain set of people for for
that. Those people the ahlul Quran, they are
the ahlulah. They are the people of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
You should know. I thought you should know.
I'm getting like signals that you should you're
going too long. You should,
wrap it up. So inshallah, we'll go ahead
and and and and do that. But that
idea is what? You should know what the
nizba of this this book that you have
in your heart and that you carry in
your hands that you read in. Even if
you're not a hafid, maybe someone doesn't memorize
more than just Amma. But the fact that
you even know how to read, the fact
that you read it everyday, the fact that
you carry it. This is a big deal.
And this nizba is not from the garbage
heap of this world. Rather, it's nizba starts
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from above
the and above the and it will end
there as well. So whatever happens or doesn't
happen in your life, always remember that. That
the thing that comes from such a high
and pure and beautiful place, it's superior to
everything else that comes from this jail and
from this prison. And the one who stays
with it in this world inshallah, it will
be a source of salvation from them or
for them over there. May Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala give all of us so much