Ismail Kamdar – Ramadan 2019 #01 – How to approach the Quran

			salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

			hamdulillah. You're below the mean or salatu salam Nabeel Karim Allah Allah He was happy at mine
		

			so Ramadan Mubarak to all of you and welcome to what's going to ensure be the first of many videos
on this topic. I decided to like restart my youtube channel in that
		

			I've made a commitment to try and do YouTube videos.
		

			Almost every day for Ramadan is going to be everyday inshallah, we're going to do tafsir every
single day of the month of Ramadan. But you when Ramadan is over, I plan to continue, I plan to do
more and more videos, I plan to utilize this channel a lot more until I have the resources or have
the time. So I want to really make this a beneficial challenge channel for all of you. And what are
you going to do this Ramadan is inshallah every morning of the selected budget, I will come live
online. And of course you can watch the video throughout the day at whatever time is most convenient
to you. But I'm going to take a verse of the Quran every day. And I'm going to explain a bit of the
		

			Tafseer of that verse. And
		

			I'm going to one verse from each Jews. So today inshallah, we're going to take a look at the first
use of the Quran, right we're going to take a look at the first use of the Quran one of the verses
right at the very beginning. And from there I'm going to explain, inshallah the correct approach
towards the Quran. And that's really going to be the basis upon which the rest of the series will be
built. Whatever we're going to look at from here on in for the rest of Ramadan, will build upon what
I say today regarding this verse, and the verse which I want us to look at today, which is found
right at the very beginning of the Quran, in the very beginning of Surah Baqarah the second verse in
		

			Surah Al Baqarah will illustrate the Hannah with Alice's Zelikow kita boo la ye Buffy who doesn't
live happy. I chose Surah Fatiha Allah subhana wa Taala teaches us the duty to ask for guidance and
the electrical handout that begins to occur by saying this is the book of guidance regarding which
there is no doubt. Right, that radical kita galadari Buffy There is no doubt regarding this book who
doesn't live in. It is a guidance for those who have Taqwa. Now, this is a very important verse in
there's so many different perspectives on which we can discuss this first. The first thing we can
look at in this verse is that Allah Subhana Allah begins the Quran by saying that laroy Buffy, there
		

			is no doubt in this book. And there's many different of seers of no doubt what the fear is that
there's no mistakes in the Quran. Right? There's no mistakes, there's no contradictions. The other
fear is that anyone who seeks the truth, who studies the Quran with the perspective of finding the
truth from God, they will arrive at the position of having no doubt that Islam is the truth. Right?
And so the other perspectives as well. But this one really brings into what I want us to do this
Ramadan, which is to approach the Koran from a perspective of of seeking sincere guidance. We
shouldn't read the Quran, trying to make you agree with our ideas that already in our mind we
		

			popular opinion with what's cool out there nowadays what's, what's the current trends? what we think
is right, that's not the perspective from which we should approach the Quran. Rather, the Quran
should be approached from the perspective that this is a large book, Allah is the one who knows what
is right and wrong. I'm going to read this book, I'm going to follow this book, I'm going to believe
in this book, I'm going to shape my opinions according to this book. Right? Meaning we have to
approach the Quran from a perspective that we are going to learn from it. And he's going to
challenge our ideas is going to challenge our knowledge is going to challenge the thoughts already
		

			in our mind. And we are going to find things in the Quran that are different from what we think that
we may think something is right and the Quran is going to say it wrong. We are going to think
something is wrong and the Quran is going to say it's right. And we have been willing to accept that
perhaps we are wrong, perhaps society is wrong, perhaps modern taught is wrong, rather than rather
than trying to force our ideas in the Quran that the Quran shaped our ideas. So the second half of
the verse, Allah subhanaw taala says that the Quran is houda it is guidance. And this comes twice in
Surah Baqarah in verse 185, a lot smarter says it is good and enough these guidance for humanity for
		

			mankind. And at the very beginning in verse number two electrical hunters who don't live in it is
guidance for those who have Taqwa. So is it is this a contradiction? You're allowed to have a handle
on one hand, the thing is guidance for mankind, on the other hand, is saying it is guidance for
those who have the law. This is not a contradiction because these two things
		

			Types of guidance. The first type of guidance is to show right from wrong. The second type of
guidance is to put the love and practice of Islam into the heart of a person. So from the first
perspective, a book that shows everybody what is right and wrong is the Quran, it is telling us it
is a guidance for mankind, any member of humanity can open the Quran, read it studied, understand
it, and take guidance from it. But who is it at the end of the day that's going to benefit from it?
Who is at the end of the day that's actually going to have the guidance into the heart and change
your life. But those who have Taqwa and this brings us to Why? You know, why do we study the Quran?
		

			And how do we study the Quran? You see, the Quran is for everybody. Right? It is for all of mankind.
But it's only going to benefit the people who approach it from the perspective of taqwa. What is
that one? That one means simply that you are conscious of a washer behind or what are you think
about Allah, right, and each have different levels. It's something that increases and decreases over
time. And we know that the month of Ramadan is the month of taqwa, Allah Subhana Allah says in verse
183, of the same surah that he has made fasting compulsory upon us, Allah come upon, said your taco
may increase. So this is a matter of the Quran. This is the month of taqwa. And the Quran only
		

			benefits those who have Taqwa. So we should approach the Quran from the perspective of taqwa, we
should approach the Quran, from the perspective of trying to increase our taqwa and then using the
taqwa to increase our understanding of the Quran. So what I want you to do this Ramadan, is for
every verse of the Quran that you need every sutra that you read every Tafseer or translation that
you need to approach it from a spiritual perspective. Don't try to look at it from a rational or
logical perspective. Don't try to make it agree with your personal ideas or your personal beliefs,
or what society's already saying, approach it spiritually. approach it as if, as if what it is,
		

			which is that this is the book of Allah. This is the book of guidance, a guide. To have Taqwa. I'm
going to go into it with taqwa, I'm going to go into it, expecting a lot to tell me what's right and
wrong, I'm going to believe it, I'm going to follow it. And if that means changing my ideas, if that
means changing my opinions, then that's what I'm going to do. So that's all for today, inshallah.
And that's really what I wanted us to begin with, that our approach to the Koran should be one of
spirituality. It should be one of taqwa. It should be one of seeking the truth and guidance. It
should be one in which we are an open book and the Quran is reading us and changing us. Right? It
		

			should be one way when we are interacting with the Quran. We are not trying to change the message of
the Quran to suit our ideas, but we are trying to change our ideas to agree with the Quran. So if we
do that inshallah, we will get the full benefit from the Quran, it will shape our life it will guide
us towards a straight path and in this verse will apply to us would have been, it would be a
guidance for the people of taqwa May Allah make us people that taqwa May he make us worthy of that
kind, it may help us to benefit from the guidance, just after hearing. I'll be back online, same
time tomorrow inshallah for the Tafseer of the next verse was the 100 alaminos salaam alaikum
		

			warahmatullahi wabarakatuh