Maryam Amir – Maybe YOU are a person of the Quran
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The transcript describes a taxi driver who recited Qelsah on the blockchain radio channel, but refused to pay and kept on reciting the song until they hit their destination. The driver's actions are considered rude and disrespectful, and the transcript describes a situation where the driver's actions are considered rude and disrespectful.
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When I was studying in Egypt, my parents came to visit, and we got
in a taxi, the driver was chain smoking and playing super loud
music, and we had a really long ride. So after a while, we asked
him if he wouldn't mind if he could stop smoking and if he could
instead play Qur'an. And I know that makes it sound really
demanding, but he was super, super kind, and it's very common in
Egypt for taxi drivers to play Qur'an on Cairo's Quran radio
channel. But that's not what he did. He actually took a CD that he
had and he played it so the Quran reciters voice filled the car, but
a moment later, that taxi driver's voice also started reciting and
SubhanAllah. If you've recited Quran before, you know you can't
do exactly the exact same melody and tone and tune and pitch and
the timing and everything, just from listening to the reciter one
time. This is someone who had listened to practice recited this
surah over and over and over again. The whole car felt like it
was filled with light. And when we got to our destination, and we
tried to pay, and we were like, thank you for this ride. The
driver, he refused the money. And it was a lot of money, because
it's a long ride, he refused it. He had tears in his eyes, and he
kept saying, Thank you for this ride. Thank you. He looked like he
had gone through renewal or redemption. And I don't want you
to think that it was judgment. To say that he was smoking and he was
listening to super loud music, that's not a judgment. It's a
statement of how he got in the car.
I want you to think of that because many times we assume that
people of the Quran are always in the masjid. They are people who
pray and fast and do nothing but worship,
taking care of his family or himself by working as a taxi
driver, is worship. You don't know who is a person of the Quran.
Maybe he had forgotten how much he missed the Quran. Maybe he was in
a state of life where he didn't care. Maybe he did care, but had
just gotten busy. Maybe he just needed that reminder. Maybe he
just needed that taste of what he missed, of being a person of the
Quran,
a person of the Quran can look like you and remember what Allah
says, he says
in the
next verse, he says, go back to him. Wanibu, ILA, Rabbi, Kum.